On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 14:36 -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 15:11 -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote: --snip-- > Tried the failsafe Gnome-Terminal, Terminal is fine when I login as > alternate-user, but when I login as myself it continues to fail...8-( > > Tried the strace procedure the Jurriaan suggested. and the diff > returned a null output. so it seems that starting gnome-terminal does > not give a traceable error.. unless I screwed up again...8-) > I hope I'm not interfering with your day... Thanks for your efforts and > guidance.... Ok, let's do a quick refresher so I can make sure we're both on the same page here: 1) Launching gnome-terminal through a failsafe xterm session works fine 2) Launching it as a different user in a regular gnome session works fine 3) Launching it as yourself in a regular gnome session or even a failsafe gnome session causes it to fail? 4) Using xterm or any other terminal emulator works fine And of the following, which have you/haven't you done already: 1) Removed all the gnome-terminal gconf settings 2) Done a purge of gnome-terminal followed by a reinstall (apt-get remove --purge gnome-terminal) Now, come to think of it, can you give some more details on what exactly is happening with the window? I know you said you can't close it, but does the terminal work ok otherwise? After you open the terminal, can you actually type commands, get output, etc? Do the drop-down menus at the top work if you click on them? If you click the close button at the top of the window does Gnome give you the "force quit" dialog? If you can provide a screenshot of the terminal in the hung state that would also be helpful. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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