Bug#457846: gnome-terminal.wrapper: problem with a particular command

[Jon Dowland]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.18.3-1
Severity: normal

works:
    jon at qusp:~$ xterm -e  'whiptail --msgbox "foo" 10 60'
    jon at qusp:~$ gnome-terminal -e  'whiptail --msgbox "foo" 10 60'

doesn't:
    jon at qusp:~$ x-terminal-emulator -e 'whiptail --msgbox "foo" 10 60'
    $ readlink -f $(which x-terminal-emulator)
    /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper

This results in a dialogue "There was an error creating the
child process for this terminal".

I suspect that this is a quoting/escaping issue with the
parameter passing inside the .wrapper program, but I haven't
had a look yet.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-control-center        1:2.20.1-2   utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-terminal-data         2.18.3-1     Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.20.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.20.2-1     Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                       2.7-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.20.1-2     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.6.2-1    library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.14.4-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.20.1.1-1   The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.20.1.1-1   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              1:2.20.1-1   GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.12.3-2     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.14.7-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.18.3-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.10-3       lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libstartup-notification0    0.9-1        library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                     1:0.16.11-1  Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.0.3-7    X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1                 1:0.9.4-1    X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper                0.3.14-16    A free electronic cataloging syste

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  yelp                          2.20.0-1   Help browser for GNOME 2

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