[PLUG] Jaunty upgrade

[Joe Pruett]

>> give up on gnome-terminal and use xterm.  it's not as fancy, but doesnt
>> rely on all the rest of gnome running.  obviously you have some startup
>> problem, so you might want to check your x logs (not sure exactly where
>> ubuntu puts them).
>
> probably /var/log/Xorg.0.log, unless it changed between hardy and jaunty...

there is usually a per-user log as well.  under redhat it is 
.xession-errors.