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

[raphael truc]

Indeed, I had something called "vte-ng" used by termite in /usr/local.
I uninstalled it, and gnome-terminal works again.
Sorry for the noise and thanks again.

Raphaël


2016-04-04 11:33 GMT+02:00 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>:

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> Control: retitle 819823 gnome-terminal-server: undefined symbol:
> vte_terminal_set_color_cursor_foreground
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> On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 at 11:20:59 +0200, raphael truc wrote:
> > On the first term, the one with terminal-server, I get
> "/usr/lib/gnome-terminal
> > /gnome-terminal-server: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/
> > gnome-terminal-server: undefined symbol:
> > vte_terminal_set_color_cursor_foreground"
>
> Thanks, that points us to the real bug here.
>
> According to the packaging metadata, that symbol was new in vte 0.44:
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>  vte_terminal_set_color_cursor_foreground at Base 0.44.0
>
> and you correctly have vte 0.44 installed:
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> ii  libvte-2.91-0                                0.44.0-1
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> If you run "ldd /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server" in the
> same terminal, what do you get?
>
> Do you perhaps have an older version of vte somewhere like /usr/local/lib?
>
> Thanks,
>     S
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