errors...

[Coplan <coplan thunder ocis temple edu>]

I'm getting these two messages when I start Gnome:

Gdk-Message: Got event for unknown window: 0
  and
subshell.c: couldn't get terminal settings: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Are these gnome-related problems?  How do I fix them?

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