konsole trouble

[Gerhard Magnus]

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 11:09 -0600, Robert Singleton wrote:
> I'm running Fedora 10 under the Gnome desktop on a Toshiba laptop. Last 
> night I seem to have messed up the konsole application (not sure how, 
> but I think it turned dark, wouldn't respond, so I killed the app), and 
> now it will not launch (although Terminal will launch, but I don't 
> really like Terminal). The problem is also present with other user 
> accounts, so it doesn't seem like it's a local profile setting. The 
> Microsoft fix of rebooting does not solve the problem either. Any 
> suggestions? Thanks very much in advance if you can help me.
> 
> Robert Singleton

This also happened to me this morning -- konsole just won't launch for
no apparent reason. I've switched to Terminal for the time being....