Bug#683744: gnome-terminal: startup broken - the terminal is not usable afterwards (in awesome)

[Toni Mueller]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.4.1.1-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I wanted to use gnome-terminal, but failed to get a shell. How to repeat:

$ gnome-terminal &

( a window which has the gnome-terminal menu pops up )
... nothing happens.

I expected so see a shell prompt within that window, but even after
waiting for a long time (like 10 minutes on a mostly idle machine),
nothing happens. Using ps, I can see this:

$ ps auwwx|grep gnome
toni      7635  0.8  0.2  38600 20740 pts/4    S+   15:43   0:01 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/reportbug -b gnome-terminal
toni      7853  0.0  0.0   2312   760 pts/5    S+   15:45   0:00 grep gnome
toni     10546  0.0  0.0   2056   700 tty1     S    10:42   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
toni     10696  0.0  0.0  52692  5408 ?        Sl   10:44   0:00 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
$

I'm using the awesome window manager. On a different machine that I
have, with amd64 and under fvwm, gnome-terminal (same version) starts
without any problem, but I am mostly tied to this machine (i386).

What gives?


Kind regards,
--Toni++


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-trunk-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gconf-service              3.2.5-1
ii  gnome-terminal-data        3.4.1.1-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.4.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                      2.13-33
ii  libgconf-2-4               3.2.5-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.4.2-2
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.8-2
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.30.0-1
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.1-2
ii  libvte-2.90-9              1:0.32.2-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.5.0-1

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs  1.12.3-1+b1
ii  yelp  3.4.2-1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information