Hi Matthew, I'd try to go to a virtual console (usually Ctrl+Alt+FN, N = 1..12, F1 is probably your desktop environment) and use journalctl[1] to find some logs related to gnome-terminal. Also having access to a command line you can install some other terminal emulator[2] to be able debug issues from your graphical environment. Running gnome-terminal from a terminal emulator (not from virtual console) should give you a pretty good idea what is going wrong. [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Journal [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications#Terminal_emulators --- Andrew