Easier steps to reproduce: 1. Make sure you are using scim. If you are not already, type "im-switch -s scim-pinyin" in a gnome terminal. Log out Gnome and then log back in.
2. Open a gnome-terminal. 3. Press Ctrl-Shift-T for 5 times in very short intervals, to have 6 tabs open in all. 4. If the gnome-terminal is still "alive" at this time. Type "exit" to close tabs one by one. You'll probably get a dead gnome-terminal when closing the second or third tab. -- gnome-terminal locks up occasionally https://launchpad.net/bugs/65489 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs