Sorry, I have the same problem as the OP. When opening the terminal from a tty or another terminal emulator it waits for a minute and then gives me this error:
Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 8 Here is the output of reportbug --template gnome-terminal on my system: -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on: ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.26.0-2 ii gconf-service 3.2.6-4 ii gnome-terminal-data 3.22.0-3 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.22.0-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1 ii libc6 2.24-3 ii libdconf1 0.26.0-2 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-4 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.1-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.1-1 ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.22.1-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.3-2 ii libuuid1 2.28.2-1 ii libvte-2.91-0 0.46.0-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends: ii dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus] 1.10.12-1 ii dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.10.12-1 ii gvfs 1.30.1-1 ii yelp 3.22.0-1 gnome-terminal suggests no packages. -- no debconf information I'm using GNOME 3. The versions of dbus, dbus-x11 and dbus-user-session are all 10.10.12-1 Thanks again
