Comment 3 for bug 45122

Oooh, interesting.

In the hung state, gnome-terminal launched from a panel icon or the gnome menu fails to appear.

But gnome-terminal run from the command line (from an xterm launched from a text console login) actually works.

The non-working gnome-terminal hasn't got as far as running gnome-pty-helper.

In fact, here's the end of a strace of a hung gnome-terminal:

munmap(0xb6ded000, 4096) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0
time(NULL) = 1147818268
mkdir("/home/brian/.gnome2", 0700) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
mkdir("/home/brian/.gnome2_private", 0700) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
chmod("/home/brian/.gnome2_private/", 0700) = 0
mkdir("/home/brian/.gnome2/accels", 0700) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 14
uname({sys="Linux", node="ecthelion", ...}) = 0
connect(14, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/.ICE-unix/9262"}, 21) = 0
fcntl64(14, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
write(14, "\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8
read(14,

root@ecthelion:/usr/bin# ps 9262
  PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
 9262 ? Ss 0:01 /usr/bin/gnome-session

So its trying to talk to gnome-sessions and getting no reply...