Bug#631968: aborts on start (GNU/kFreeBSD)

[Simon McVittie]

retitle 631968 gnome-terminal: fails to start on kFreeBSD
clone 631968 -1 -2
retitle -1 gnome-terminal: should recommend dbus-x11
severity -1 important
retitle -2 gnome-terminal: no error message when unable to join D-Bus session
severity -2 important
thanks

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 at 10:13:35 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > On 05/07/12 01:05, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > > You don't need all of GNOME, but you do need a D-Bus session.

... which will automatically be started (either from Xsession.d or on-demand)
if you have dbus-x11. Since gnome-terminal needs a D-Bus session, it ought
to have at least a Recommends: on dbus-x11 - this is clone -1 of this bug.

In a previous mail, I wrote:
> [having no error message] is an unhelpful implementation, though - it
> should complain to stderr with g_printerr() before dying, or fall back
> to non-single-instance.

This is clone -2.

> I wonder whether this is to do with GDBus not supporting credentials-passing
> for authentication on kFreeBSD. It does support credentials-passing on
> FreeBSD, and it's the same kernel, so the same code ought to work; please
> try the attached patch for src:glib2.0? If successful, this can be tagged
> 'patch' and reassigned to libglib2.0-0.

This is the original bug 631968. Sorry, I didn't attach the patch as I'd
intended: here it is.

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