Q: My terminal crashes upon opening Right when I open terminal, it closes without me seeing anything. I have searched endlessly and still haven't found a solution. I am using Ubuntu 13.04. When I open xterm, login as root, and type "gnome-terminal" a terminal pops up, but it won't open with the dash.

A: have you tried synaptic package manager ?
remove konsole ( resp. terminal ) completely - then re-install it again.
