Bug#677126: Subject: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal: No shell is started inside gnome-terminal

[Ray Dillinger]

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Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.4.1.1-1
Severity: grave
File: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

After recent upgrades (in the last 3-4 weeks I think), when I click
on the gnome-terminal shortcut in the shortcut bar at the top of my
screen, or type 'gnome-terminal' at a shell prompt (in a shell
running in, for example, konsole or xterm) gnome-terminal starts
- - but there is no shell prompt inside it.  Inspecting the table of
running processes, I cannot find any instance of a command shell
corresponding to the new gnome-terminal window.

Obvious workarounds like 'gnome-terminal -x bash' and 'gnome-terminal
- -x /bin/bash' do not work either.  There is no output at all in the
gnome-terminal window nor at the prompt where I type the command.

'gnome-terminal -x /nonexistent/file' gets the expected error bar at
the top of the new terminal offering buttons to edit the profile or
relaunch, so it's apparently getting as far as at least *finding*
the file for the shell it's supposed to execute.

It's clear to me that most people are not seeing this bug; if
they were, there would be a furor over it by now because the
package in the presence of this bug is completely unusable
('grave'). I am experiencing it as a 'grave' bug, but since
it apparently affects relatively few users,maybe it should be
'normal'  instead.

Ray Dillinger
11 June 2012



- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (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                 3.4.2-1
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              1:0.32.1-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.4.99.901-2

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

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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