Bug#752105: Bug still happening in 2025 with gnome-terminal 3.54.3-1

[Luc Maisonobe]

The bug still happens with version 3.54.3-1.
It did not happen to me up to now, but started happening yesterday
(February 17) despite nothing was changed on the system. Version
3.54.3-1 of gnome-terminal was installed on January 26th and did work
properly before. IT suddenly stopped working yesterady.

The behaviour is that when trying to launch gnome-terminal from the
dash just does nothing, and trying to launche it from a shell buffer in
emacs or from an xterm does nothing for about 10 secondes, and then
stops with the dreaded message :

 # Error constructing proxy for
org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Erreur lors de l’appel
de StartServiceByName pour org.gnome.Terminal : Le délai d’attente est
dépassé

I tried launching it using dbus-launch or using a LANG=C as the locale,
as I have seenb reports about this, but this did not help.

You will find attached a partial output of journalctl when the problem
occurs.

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Feb 18 10:37:09 lehrin dbus-daemon[3030]: [session uid=1000 pid=3030 pidfd=5] Activating via systemd: service name='org.gnome.Terminal' unit='gnome-terminal-server.service' requested by ':1.138' (uid=1000 pid=9382 comm="gnome-terminal")
Feb 18 10:37:09 lehrin systemd[3001]: Starting gnome-terminal-server.service - GNOME Terminal Server...
Feb 18 10:37:09 lehrin dbus-daemon[3030]: [session uid=1000 pid=3030 pidfd=5] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop' unit='xdg-desktop-portal.service' requested by ':1.139' (uid=1000 pid=9386 comm="/usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server")
Feb 18 10:37:09 lehrin systemd[3001]: Starting xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service...
Feb 18 10:37:09 lehrin dbus-daemon[3030]: [session uid=1000 pid=3030 pidfd=5] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gnome' unit='xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service' requested by ':1.140' (uid=1000 pid=9391 comm="/usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal")
Feb 18 10:37:09 lehrin systemd[3001]: Starting xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service - Portal service (GNOME implementation)...
Feb 18 10:37:09 lehrin xdg-desktop-por[9396]: gdk_display_open() was called before gtk_init()
Feb 18 10:37:09 lehrin systemd[3001]: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=5/TRAP
Feb 18 10:37:09 lehrin systemd[3001]: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Feb 18 10:37:09 lehrin systemd[3001]: Failed to start xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service - Portal service (GNOME implementation).
Feb 18 10:37:34 lehrin dbus-daemon[3030]: [session uid=1000 pid=3030 pidfd=5] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Terminal'
Feb 18 10:37:34 lehrin systemd[3001]: Started gnome-terminal-server.service - GNOME Terminal Server.