Bug#712104: "gksu gnome-terminal" won't run a second time.

[Jonathan McDowell]

I'm seeing what sounds like exactly the same thing as Ovidiu.

Run "Root Terminal" from the GNOME Shell menu. It pops up a box asking
for my password, then launches GNOME Terminal fine.

If I then exit this terminal subsequent attempts pop up the password
dialog then once that's entered seem to do nothing.

"su"ing to root from a terminal and running "gnome-terminal" manually I
get:

root at mixian:~# 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 1

An xterm fires up fine.

If I manually run gnome-terminal-server then it works:

root at mixian:~# /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server &
[1] 16893
root at mixian:~# gnome-terminal
root at mixian:~#

The discussions about D-BUS made me take a closer look at that. It
turned out in ~root/.dbus/session-bus/ I had 2 files; one which was a
few months old and one of which was created yesterday. Both had the same
hex basename but the older ended -1 and the newer -0. I killed the
"dbus-launch --autolaunch=<hexbase>" daemon running as root and cleaned
out both those files and tried to launch the terminal from GNOME Shell
again. That worked fine. Additionally quitting the terminal and trying
again also worked fine.

As a result I'm currently led to believe the issue was caused by crud
lying around from an old root DBUS session. I will follow up to this bus
if I see the issue again having done this cleanup.

J.

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