gnome-terminal starts, closes immediatly
I installed gnome2.2 today, after having used kde3 for the last few months. Everything eas working fine until I rebooted to get sound compiled in to my kernel. Now, gnome-terminal will start up, and immediatly close down again. You can see a black background in window before it closes, so I don't think it's actually starting a shell. If I run it as root, it starts up fine, just normal users have the problem. I've checked the usual places for info, and the closest I found was a newsgroup thread wondering if the permissions were set correctly on the bash shell, etc, and that was about it. And yes, my permissions seem to be set correctly.
An 'strace gnome-terminal' ends with the following lines:
open("/usr/openwin/lib/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
writev(15, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\0\214\1\0\0", 12}, {"\260\370\377\277\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\34\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\365\220"..., 396}], 2) = 408
writev(15, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\0\\\0\0\0", 12}, {" \372\377\277\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\34\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\365\220"..., 92}], 2) = 104
poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI, revents=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=15, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI, revents=POLLIN}], 5, -1) = 2
xÎcept(12, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, path="
I did an strace as root as well, and it had the same last few lines. I haven't seem any error messages in any logs, or from an xterm when I run it or anything. Any ideas?
Compaq Presario 2105us, X 4.3, Gnome 2.2, kernel 2.6.0-test7
Thanks
Matt
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