Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.22.2-1 Severity: important Tried to install gnome-terminal by itself on a system without the tasksel window system tasks run. It wouldn't launch until I manually installed the dbus-x11 package. Looks like the control file needs this dependency.
hedges@bar:~$ gnome-terminal Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Failed to execute child process "dbus-launch" (No such file or directory) hedges@bar:~$ su - Password: root@bar:~# apt-file search dbus-launch | grep -E 'bin.*dbus-launch$' dbus-1-dbg: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/debug-build/bin/dbus-launch dbus-x11: /usr/bin/dbus-launch root@bar:~# apt install dbus-x11 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: dbus-x11 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 88.4 kB of archives. After this operation, 138 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://mirrors.linode.com/debian stretch/main amd64 dbus-x11 amd64 1.10.18-1 [88.4 kB] Fetched 88.4 kB in 0s (0 B/s) Selecting previously unselected package dbus-x11. (Reading database ... 74387 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../dbus-x11_1.10.18-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking dbus-x11 (1.10.18-1) ... Setting up dbus-x11 (1.10.18-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... root@bar:~# logout hedges@bar:~$ logout hedges@foo:~$ ssh bar hedges@bar:~$ gnome-terminal [launches successfully] Thanks. Mark -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.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+b1 ii gnome-terminal-data 3.22.2-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.22.0-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libdconf1 0.26.0-2+b1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.11-1 ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.22.3-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.5-1 ii libuuid1 2.29.2-1 ii libvte-2.91-0 0.46.1-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends: ii dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus] 1.10.18-1 ii dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.10.18-1 ii gvfs 1.30.4-1 ii yelp 3.22.0-1 gnome-terminal suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
