Bug#819510: gnome-terminal: gnome terminal does not open, no error message

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 at 13:35:06 -0400, Matthew wrote:
> I have the same issue, running the following command fixes the issue until the
> next reboot:
> 
>     dbus-update-activation-environment --all

Please give some context (like a subject line) when replying to bugs -
I nearly deleted this message unread on the assumption that "(No Subject)"
was probably phishing or spam, and without going back to the BTS web
interface I can't tell which issue you have experienced.

For other maintainers, the original bug report in its entirety is:

> Subject: gnome-terminal: gnome terminal does not open , there is no
> error message when i try to open gnome-terminal

Matthew, I suspect that you might have a different bug that happens to
have the same symptoms: "the terminal doesn't open" is quite a non-specific
symptom that would appear if the terminal was crashing on startup for any
reason, so it might be seen as a result of multiple bugs. To help to debug
this, please could you send this information to the bug?

* Which version of Debian you are running? (wheezy/7, jessie/8,
  stretch/testing, sid/unstable)

* What versions of packages related to gnome-terminal do you have?
  (Please install reportbug and use "reportbug --template gnome-terminal"
  to gather this information automatically)

* In particular, which versions of gnome-terminal, dbus, dbus-x11
  and dbus-user-session do you have? (It's OK if you don't have
  dbus-x11 or if you don't have dbus-user-session, but if that's the
  case please say so)

* Which desktop environment or window manager are you using?

* If you install and run a non-GNOME terminal like xterm, then run
  "gnome-terminal" from there, does it work? If not, what error
  messages do you get?

* If you run the command "locale" from an xterm or other non-GNOME
  terminal, what does it output?

* After trying to run gnome-terminal, are there any messages related
  to gnome-terminal, dbus or systemd near the end of /var/log/syslog?

Regards,
    S