Suggestion for gnome-terminal

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
>>
>>
>> Your entire X session should be a child of a login shell (that is,
>> .bash_profile should be run by gdm when you first log in).
>> It's only one login session for the whole X session, not one per
>> terminal opened.
>>
>> If your whole session isn't a login session then there's some other
>> problem, but not a gnome-terminal problem.
>>
> Maybe it's due to the fact that gdm in the latest update is not working
> properly, and starts a failsafe session. Maybe it works with a new update.
> 
> Sorry about the fuzz
> 
> Jaap

It's indeed a problem with gdm. I downgraded it to the version before 
the update and now everything works fine