[anystupidname]

when I launch the gnome-terminal window via shortcut or command line in gnome or kde, it comes up blank with a grey bar where the menu bar usually would be and not responding. Once I've launched it and killed it, other applications won't run either. (some, not all) This is really strange so I could really use some help

I've been thinking really hard trying to determine what I might have done to break gnome-terminal and I can't think of what could have done it. It functioned great for the last couple weeks. This is an Ubuntu feisty install which originally just had gnome but I've installed kde since this problem started partly as a troubleshoot step. I already tried uninstalling and reinstalling the gnome-terminal package without success. xterm and other terminals do not cause any problems.

[infoshirish]

Originally Posted by anystupidname

when I launch the gnome-terminal window via shortcut or command line in gnome or kde, it comes up blank with a grey bar where the menu bar usually would be and not responding. Once I've launched it and killed it, other applications won't run either. (some, not all) This is really strange so I could really use some help

I've been thinking really hard trying to determine what I might have done to break gnome-terminal and I can't think of what could have done it. It functioned great for the last couple weeks. This is an Ubuntu feisty install which originally just had gnome but I've installed kde since this problem started partly as a troubleshoot step. I already tried uninstalling and reinstalling the gnome-terminal package without success. xterm and other terminals do not cause any problems.

Hey,
Just when you tried to open terminal after it fails,
Go to text console mode by pressing Cntrl+Atl+F1 and login
Post the outputs of below
Code:

# tail -f /var/log/messages
#vi /etc/securetty

Also check your

[artiomix]

Try to disable Beryl/Compiz and try again.

[anystupidname]

Thanks for the help guys.
Slight change in behaviour of problem: This morning gnome-terminal actually ran for me once and appeared to be working for a single command and then it locked up the entire window mangler again. I had to switch to another console and killall gnome-terminal at which point the desktop started responding again. Again, xterm and konsole work fine, I'm just really puzzled why gnome-terminal suddenly broke...

@infoshirish: Here is the information you requested
(I'm afraid it doesn't look too helpful)
You appear to have not finished your post by accident. Was there supposed to be more after "Also check your..."?

Sep  5 06:29:26 hostname censored gconfd (root-6766): starting (version 2.18.0.1), pid 6766 user 'root'
Sep  5 06:29:26 censored gconfd (root-6766): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Sep  5 06:29:26 censored gconfd (root-6766): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Sep  5 06:29:26 censored gconfd (root-6766): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Sep  5 06:29:26 censored gconfd (root-6766): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 3
Sep  5 06:29:26 censored gconfd (root-6766): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 4
Sep  5 06:30:26 censored gconfd (root-6766): GConf server is not in use, shutting down.
Sep  5 06:30:26 censored gconfd (root-6766): Exiting

# /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login.
# See securetty(5) and login(1).
console

# for people with serial port consoles
ttyS0

# for devfs
tts/0

# Standard consoles
tty1
tty2
tty3
tty4
tty5
tty6
tty7
tty8
tty9
tty10
tty11
tty12
tty13
tty14
tty15
tty16
tty17
tty18
tty19
tty20
tty21
tty22
tty23
tty24
tty25
tty26
tty27
tty28
tty29
tty30
tty31
tty32
tty33
tty34
tty35
tty36
tty37
tty38
tty39
tty40
tty41
tty42
tty43
tty44
tty45
tty46
tty47
tty48
tty49
tty50
tty51
tty52
tty53
tty54
tty55
tty56
tty57
tty58
tty59
tty60
tty61
tty62
tty63

# Same as above, but these only occur with devfs devices
vc/1
vc/2
vc/3
vc/4
vc/5
vc/6
vc/7
vc/8
vc/9
vc/10
vc/11
vc/12
vc/13
vc/14
vc/15
vc/16
vc/17
vc/18
vc/19
vc/20
vc/21
vc/22
vc/23
vc/24
vc/25
vc/26
vc/27
vc/28
vc/29
vc/30
vc/31
vc/32
vc/33
vc/34
vc/35
vc/36
vc/37
vc/38
vc/39
vc/40
vc/41
vc/42
vc/43
vc/44
vc/45
vc/46
vc/47
vc/48
vc/49
vc/50
vc/51
vc/52
vc/53
vc/54
vc/55
vc/56
vc/57
vc/58
vc/59
vc/60
vc/61
vc/62
vc/63

@artiomix: thanks but none of that eye candy is currently installed.

[anystupidname]

I'm giving up on trying to figure out the problem. whatever underlying problem there is, it doesn't seem to be affecting anything else so I've just uninstalled gnome-terminal and am using konsole instead...