Bug#819823: gnome-terminal: Fails to start with "message bus" warning

[Simon McVittie]

Control: tags 819823 + moreinfo

On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 at 21:16:58 +0200, raphael wrote:
> Since last update, gnome-terminal (on non-gnome session ie awesome and lightdm) fails to lauchn with error : "Error creating terminal: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying"

I see you aren't using systemd, so I can't ask you to look for warnings
in the Journal. I assume you don't have dbus-user-session installed either.

Please try running

/usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server

in some other X terminal (an xterm or something); then try to start
gnome-terminal from a second xterm. If that fails with similar symptoms,
report any warning or error messages that come from gnome-terminal-server.

If that *doesn't* fail with similar symptoms, the next thing to try is
editing /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Terminal.service so that the
Exec line reads

Exec=/bin/sh -c '/usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server | logger -t gnome-terminal-server'

Again, try starting gnome-terminal from an xterm, but this time please look in
/var/log/syslog for messages tagged "gnome-terminal-server", and report those.

Regards,
    S