I suddenly have a problem on my fedora 8 system at home, running gnome-terminal doesn't work, it just hangs.
This started happening after I rebooted the system when trying to diagnose something else. I have an fvwm configuration that automatically starts up about six gnome-terminals on different pages. It now doesn't start up all of the gnome-terminals, only two or three appear (it's not even consistent) and I can't start up any more gnome-terminals, if I enter "gnome-terminal" on the command line it just hangs, no message or anything.
Some other gnome applications seem to be affected too, I can't start gnome-panel for example.
Other terminal applications work fine, e.g. xterm and others.
Any ideas what may be wrong anyone? ... and/or how can I can diagnose it?