Terminal does not work on a fresh install of Fedora 11

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

prodpedia <no-reply-gw at fcp.surfsite.org> writes in one run-on line:
> I managed to install Fedora 11 on a Dell optiplex 260. On the first
> boot - I can't launch the terminal in the graphical environment. On
> clicking system tools->terminal it brings up a window with title
> Starting terminal. It then disappears in a few seconds. Everything
> else works. I can get to a terminal using Ctrl-alt-f2. But cannot
> start the terminal within graphical environment.  Can I reinstall
> it. What is the program called? I understand that Gnome terminal is
> different. I am a newbie so thanks for bearing with me.

[ you know, you are allowed to hit <cr> every 70 chars or so. -wsr ]

Did you see this in a freshly made user account or did you reinstall
your home directory from backup or something?

I'd guess some dot-file is screwed up (.bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile,
etc).  Check .xsession-errors to see if the shell printed anything
before it died.

-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht              Android 1.5 (Cupcake) and Fedora-11