Am 13.06.2013 03:30, schrieb Ovidiu Angelescu: > Package: gnome-terminal > Version: 3.8.3-1 > Severity: important > > Hello, > I have done a dist-upgrade against sid in a virtual machine. > Previous gnome-terminal was 3.4.2-1 and it worked ok. > Now in sid we have 3.8.3 and when launch it from gnome menus as Root Terminal > it starts. > If closing launched gnome-terminal window and trying to restart ... no gnome- > terminal window is started. > If I logout and login again gnome-terminal starts as root using gksu but it's > the same as before logout. > It's not a gksu bug because in LXDE when gksu starts lxterminal all is ok. > Also I have removed gnome-terminal 3.8.3-1 and reinstalling old 3.4.2-1 all > was > ok. > If starting gksu gnome-terminal from a regular user terminal the following > error messagge is there when gnome-terminal doesn't start: > (gksu:791): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion `str != NULL' failed > Also if launching gksu xterm all is ok. > If launching gksu gnome-terminal from an rgular user xterm console .. same > error message. > (gksu:791): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion `str != NULL' failed
This sounds like a bug in gksu, not clearing the environment properly, so the root gnome-terminal is (re)using the users session bus, where org.gnome.Terminal is already taken. If you try # unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS # gksu gnome-terminal does it run correctly? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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