Comment 14 for bug 146399

I am having the same 'gnome-terminal' problem, except my computer is far away in a server room, so I am using NX client to log into it.

So today my gnome-terminal stopped working and I found out there is no way to start any other terminal (e.g. xterm) or any other command whatsoever anywhere in the gnome GUI. Even windows provide a 'Run...' option in the Start menu so one can access the command line.

Ugh, I haven't had any problems with ubuntu in the last 2 years, but lately I get bitten almost daily (broken parted, ldconfig, now this, ...).

Anyways, thanks to everyone for everything and good luck.