Comment 10 for bug 65489

Could you get a backtrace when it hangs? Open an another terminal emulator and run "gdb -p $(pidof gnome-terminal)" then "thread apply all bt". You might want to install the dbgsym packages (apt source: "deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/ddebs edgy main") for gnome-terminal libvte9 and scim