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

[Jason Crain]

On 2018-06-10, Ernesto Alfonso <erjoalgo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
...

Are you using broadway? I looked for the source of that error message.
The most likely place I found is in GTK when it is trying to initialize
the broadway backend.