On Sep 8, 2014, at 7:22 PM, Bzzzz <lazyvi...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 18:42:27 -0700 > Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> rbthomas@debian:/usr/bin$ gnome-terminal >> 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 > > From what I read (I'm not an expert, so I may be wrong), > gnome-terminal called gdbus that called dbus, asking it to > spawn a child of itself but this child (?) exited with a status of 8. > > From this error, I found what you should have found with a bit > of personal research: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746415 > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=180103
Thank you very much for the pointers to the bug reports. Thank goodness there was someone like you available who could decipher the error messages. I’m not even sure where I might begin… Looking at the bug report (746415) in some detail it appears that this bug is already known to be present in gnome-terminal/3.12.3-2, which is the one I have here. So no action is required on my part. For what it’s worth, I use the “C” locale almost exclusively, for historical reasons, so anything that makes that not work is a terrible problem for me. Enjoy! Rick PS: Now, one remaining question — how do I tell Gnome to use a different terminal program, since gnome-terminal is broken in my environment? Is there a dpkg-reconfig option I can use for that? Or a magical GUI for such things? And, I guess, that then begs the further question: I love to RTFM, but what FM should I read for questions like these? Is there a FM for configuring Gnome? Again, Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/8d78b0f5-fb3c-44be-bf2f-d7fd27e4b...@pobox.com
