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 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Bug#819510: gnome-terminal: gnome terminal does not open, no error message Local Time: October 23, 2016 11:20 PM UTC Time: October 23, 2016 10:20 PM From: s...@debian.org To: Matthew <matt11...@protonmail.ch>, 819...@bugs.debian.org On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 at 13:35:06 -0400, Matthew wrote: > I have the same issue, running the following command fixes the issue until the > next reboot: > > dbus-update-activation-environment --all Please give some context (like a subject line) when replying to bugs - I nearly deleted this message unread on the assumption that "(No Subject)" was probably phishing or spam, and without going back to the BTS web interface I can't tell which issue you have experienced. For other maintainers, the original bug report in its entirety is: > Subject: gnome-terminal: gnome terminal does not open , there is no > error message when i try to open gnome-terminal Matthew, I suspect that you might have a different bug that happens to have the same symptoms: "the terminal doesn't open" is quite a non-specific symptom that would appear if the terminal was crashing on startup for any reason, so it might be seen as a result of multiple bugs. To help to debug this, please could you send this information to the bug? * Which version of Debian you are running? (wheezy/7, jessie/8, stretch/testing, sid/unstable) * What versions of packages related to gnome-terminal do you have? (Please install reportbug and use "reportbug --template gnome-terminal" to gather this information automatically) * In particular, which versions of gnome-terminal, dbus, dbus-x11 and dbus-user-session do you have? (It's OK if you don't have dbus-x11 or if you don't have dbus-user-session, but if that's the case please say so) * Which desktop environment or window manager are you using? * If you install and run a non-GNOME terminal like xterm, then run "gnome-terminal" from there, does it work? If not, what error messages do you get? * If you run the command "locale" from an xterm or other non-GNOME terminal, what does it output? * After trying to run gnome-terminal, are there any messages related to gnome-terminal, dbus or systemd near the end of /var/log/syslog? Regards, S
