Gnome terminal not opening

Hi
I have a problem with the gnome terminal not opening at all on Solaris 8/07 (Sun Ultra 24). No error message is output, the terminal simply fails to open.
Help appreciated
Lance

Incidentally, the problem started after I tried to install a wireless network driver (Ralink). (see description for installation at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ral/)
./gnome-terminal yields:
>>>
ld.so.1: gnome-terminal: fatal: libvte.so.4: open failed: No such file or directory
Killed
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truss ./gnome-terminal is more elaborate:
>>>
execve("gnome-terminal", 0x08047F10, 0x08087F18) argc = 1
resolvepath("/usr/lib/ld.so.1", "/lib/ld.so.1", 1023) = 12
mmap(0x00000000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON, -1, 0) = 0xCE7C0000
getcwd("/a/usr/bin", 1008)
resolvepath("/a/usr/bin/gnome-terminal", "/a/usr/bin/gnome-terminal", 1023) = 25
xstat(2, "/a/usr/bin/gnome-terminal", 0x08047CE8) = 0
open("/var/ld/ld.config", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT
sysconfig(_CONFIG_PAGESIZE) = 4096
xstat(2, "/usr/sfw/lib/libvte.so.4", 0x08047530) Err#2 ENOENT
xstat(2, "/usr/openwin/lib/libvte.so.4", 0x08047530) Err#2 ENOENT
xstat(2, "/usr/openwin/lib/libvte.so.4", 0x08047530) Err#2 ENOENT
xstat(2, "/usr/openwin/sfw/lib/libvte.so.4", 0x08047530) Err#2 ENOENT
xstat(2, "/lib/libvte.so.4", 0x08047530) Err#2 ENOENT
xstat(2, "/usr/lib/libvte.so.4", 0x08047530) Err#2 ENOENT
ld.so.1: gnome-terminal: fatal: libvte.so.4: open failed: No such file or directory
write(2, " ld . so . 1 : g n o".., 84) = 84
lwp_self() = 1
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