Problem launching Terminal

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

John Ellson wrote:
> Mike Chambers wrote:
>> On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 22:30 +0000, Willem Riede wrote:
>>  
>>> After update from today's rawhide I don't seem to be able to launch 
>>> additional  terminals from the gnome menu. "Starting terminal" 
>>> appears in the panel for  several seconds, then disappears. I had two 
>>> terminals at login after boot from  the previously saved session, and 
>>> those became as dead as a doornail after I  had the above experience 
>>> trying to get a third. Eventually the panel became  non-responsive 
>>> and I had to kill X with ctrl-alt-bs. After logging in again,  no 
>>> more terminals, though the panel problem was not reproducible.
>>>
>>> After reboot I have my default terminals again...
>>>     
>>
>> Yep, saw and experiencing the same thing.
>>
>>   
> I'm seeing gnome-terminal problems too.
> 
> I think this has been reported in bug# 176029
> 
> John
> 
> 
Try running gnome-terminal from another terminal (xterm or similar) to 
perhaps get an idea of what's going on?

/Thomas