I have just logged into gnome 2.0.3 for the first time after emerging gnome on a system I have previously only used fluxbox on. I used gdm to login to gnome as a egular user. gnome-terminal will not launch from the icon on the taskbar the terminal appears with the message "cannot execute command no such file or directory" pauses for a couple of seconds the dies. by using alt-f2 i can start aterms so im not totally lost, by logging into gnome as root the root user can start a gnome-terminal. I have straced the gnome-terminal binary but cannot spot the error. When logged in as a normal user and executing gnome-terminal from the commanline the same error appears Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge gnome gdm 2.log into gnome 3.launch gnome-termial Actual Results: gnome terminal appears with error message "cannot execute command no such file or directory" The terminal pauses here for a couple of seconds then dies Expected Results: gnome terminal should present a shell prompt i am running 1.4 and all packages are uptoo date via the emerge command. There is no software installed that is not from the portage tree. The strace output is below, this is the ouput from running : strace -o outfile gnome-terminal as a normal user.
You do not have a valid shell specified. make sure the users "shell" line contains a complete and working shell, that means not only "bash" or "sh" but "/bin/bash" or "/bin/sh" or other. please return a note if this doesn't work.
