Bug#901254: gnome-terminal: unable to init server, failed with result 'signal', segfault at 8

[Ernesto Alfonso]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.22.2-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I'm suddenly unable to start gnome terminal after an unexpected shutdown due to a hard-disk being
removed while the system was running.

Looking at the logs, I see the following:

>    Jun 10 09:26:21 debian-x1 systemd[1008]: Starting GNOME Terminal Server...
>    Jun 10 09:26:21 debian-x1 gnome-terminal-server[20909]: Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
>    Jun 10 09:26:21 debian-x1 systemd[1008]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV
>    Jun 10 09:26:21 debian-x1 systemd[1008]: Failed to start GNOME Terminal Server.
>    Jun 10 09:26:21 debian-x1 systemd[1008]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
>    Jun 10 09:26:21 debian-x1 systemd[1008]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
>    Jun 10 09:26:21 debian-x1 kernel: [ 1380.245111] gnome-terminal-[20909]: segfault at 8 ip 000055ec9b9bccb7 sp 00007ffc9dedb030 error 4 in gnome-terminal-server[55ec9b9a8000+4c000]
>    

I checked the dbus service, which seems to be running:


>    sudo service dbus status -l
>    ● dbus.service - D-Bus System Message Bus
>       Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dbus.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
>       Active: active (running) since Sun 2018-06-10 01:13:31 PDT; 12min ago
>         Docs: man:dbus-daemon(1)
>     Main PID: 644 (dbus-daemon)
>        Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
>       CGroup: /system.slice/dbus.service
>               └─644 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --…on
>    
>    Jun 10 01:13:31 debian-x1 systemd[1]: Started D-Bus System Message Bus.
>    Jun 10 01:13:31 debian-x1 dbus[644]: [system] Activating via systemd: servi…ice'
>    Jun 10 01:13:32 debian-x1 dbus[644]: [system] Successfully activated servic…me1'
>    Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
>    

I'm not sure what else to check.

Other X applications (browser, xterm) work normally.

I see 'Connection refused'... to which service is gnome terminal trying to connect?
What does "Failed with result 'signal'" mean?
What does "segfault at 8 ip 000055ec9b9bccb7 sp 00007ffc9dedb030 error 4 in gnome-terminal-server[55ec9b9a8000+4c000]" mean?

Thanks,

Ernesto

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE='' (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
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+b1
ii  gnome-terminal-data                          3.22.2-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.22.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.22.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libdconf1                                    0.26.0-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.50.3-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.22.11-1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a                      3.22.3-1+deb9u1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.40.5-1
ii  libuuid1                                     2.29.2-1+deb9u1
ii  libvte-2.91-0                                0.46.1-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.4-3

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.10.26-0+deb9u1
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.10.26-0+deb9u1
ii  gvfs                                          1.30.4-1
ii  yelp                                          3.22.0-1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information