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

[Matthew]

Sorry, I have the same problem as the OP. When opening the terminal from a tty or another terminal emulator it waits for a minute and then gives me this error:

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 8

Here is the output of reportbug --template gnome-terminal on my system:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.26.0-2
ii gconf-service 3.2.6-4
ii gnome-terminal-data 3.22.0-3
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.22.0-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1
ii libc6 2.24-3
ii libdconf1 0.26.0-2
ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-4
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.1-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.1-1
ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.22.1-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.3-2
ii libuuid1 2.28.2-1
ii libvte-2.91-0 0.46.0-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus] 1.10.12-1
ii dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.10.12-1
ii gvfs 1.30.1-1
ii yelp 3.22.0-1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

I'm using GNOME 3. The versions of dbus, dbus-x11 and dbus-user-session are all 10.10.12-1

Thanks again
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