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

-------- Original Message --------

Subject: Re: Bug#819510: gnome-terminal: gnome terminal does not open, no error message
Local Time: October 23, 2016 11:20 PM
UTC Time: October 23, 2016 10:20 PM
From: smcv at debian.org
To: Matthew <matt11235 at protonmail.ch>, 819510 at bugs.debian.org

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
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