Terminal crashes upon launch [SOLVED]

[Byron Campbell]

 >FreeBSD 8.1 RC-1 AMD64, FreeBSD 8 stable AMD64

 >Gnome 2.30.0, Gnome Terminal 2.30.1

 >Applications, Accessories, Terminal

 >Terminal has intermittent buggy behavior where it begins to open and 
 >immediately crashes. If FireFox is running w/ multiple tabs open, 
 >sometimes closing all but one tab and Terminal will launch OK. At 
 >other times Terminal won't launch even with no other apps. running on 
 >the workspace. But after a few tries Terminal will eventually launch 
 >and run OK.


This appears to be a problem only when the user's default shell is set 
to sh. Setting the user's default shell to something else, i.e. csh and 
I also tested bash, and the Terminal crash issue is no more.

Cheers,
Byron