<div>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:<br></div><div><br></div><div>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<br></div><div><br></div><div>Here is the output of reportbug --template gnome-terminal on my system:<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- System Information:<br></div><div>Debian Release: stretch/sid<br></div><div> APT prefers testing<br></div><div> APT policy: (500, 'testing')<br></div><div>Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)<br></div><div>Foreign Architectures: i386<br></div><div><br></div><div>Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)<br></div><div>Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)<br></div><div>Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash<br></div><div>Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:<br></div><div>ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.26.0-2<br></div><div>ii gconf-service 3.2.6-4<br></div><div>ii gnome-terminal-data 3.22.0-3<br></div><div>ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.22.0-1<br></div><div>ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1<br></div><div>ii libc6 2.24-3<br></div><div>ii libdconf1 0.26.0-2<br></div><div>ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-4<br></div><div>ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.1-1<br></div><div>ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.1-1<br></div><div>ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.22.1-2<br></div><div>ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.3-2<br></div><div>ii libuuid1 2.28.2-1<br></div><div>ii libvte-2.91-0 0.46.0-1<br></div><div>ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1<br></div><div><br></div><div>Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:<br></div><div>ii dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus] 1.10.12-1<br></div><div>ii dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.10.12-1<br></div><div>ii gvfs 1.30.1-1<br></div><div>ii yelp 3.22.0-1<br></div><div><br></div><div>gnome-terminal suggests no packages.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- no debconf information<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm using GNOME 3. The versions of dbus, dbus-x11 and dbus-user-session are all 10.10.12-1<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again</div><div><br></div><div>-------- Original Message --------<br></div><blockquote type="cite" class="protonmail_quote"><div>Subject: Re: Bug#819510: gnome-terminal: gnome terminal does not open, no error message<br></div><div>Local Time: October 23, 2016 11:20 PM<br></div><div>UTC Time: October 23, 2016 10:20 PM<br></div><div>From: smcv@debian.org<br></div><div>To: Matthew <matt11235@protonmail.ch>, 819510@bugs.debian.org<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 at 13:35:06 -0400, Matthew wrote:<br></div><div>
> I have the same issue, running the following command fixes the issue until the<br></div><div>
> next reboot:<br></div><div>
> <br></div><div>
> dbus-update-activation-environment --all<br></div><div>
<br></div><div>
Please give some context (like a subject line) when replying to bugs -<br></div><div>
I nearly deleted this message unread on the assumption that "(No Subject)"<br></div><div>
was probably phishing or spam, and without going back to the BTS web<br></div><div>
interface I can't tell which issue you have experienced.<br></div><div>
<br></div><div>
For other maintainers, the original bug report in its entirety is:<br></div><div>
<br></div><div>
> Subject: gnome-terminal: gnome terminal does not open , there is no<br></div><div>
> error message when i try to open gnome-terminal<br></div><div>
<br></div><div>
Matthew, I suspect that you might have a different bug that happens to<br></div><div>
have the same symptoms: "the terminal doesn't open" is quite a non-specific<br></div><div>
symptom that would appear if the terminal was crashing on startup for any<br></div><div>
reason, so it might be seen as a result of multiple bugs. To help to debug<br></div><div>
this, please could you send this information to the bug?<br></div><div>
<br></div><div>
* Which version of Debian you are running? (wheezy/7, jessie/8,<br></div><div>
stretch/testing, sid/unstable)<br></div><div>
<br></div><div>
* What versions of packages related to gnome-terminal do you have?<br></div><div>
(Please install reportbug and use "reportbug --template gnome-terminal"<br></div><div>
to gather this information automatically)<br></div><div>
<br></div><div>
* In particular, which versions of gnome-terminal, dbus, dbus-x11<br></div><div>
and dbus-user-session do you have? (It's OK if you don't have<br></div><div>
dbus-x11 or if you don't have dbus-user-session, but if that's the<br></div><div>
case please say so)<br></div><div>
<br></div><div>
* Which desktop environment or window manager are you using?<br></div><div>
<br></div><div>
* If you install and run a non-GNOME terminal like xterm, then run<br></div><div>
"gnome-terminal" from there, does it work? If not, what error<br></div><div>
messages do you get?<br></div><div>
<br></div><div>
* If you run the command "locale" from an xterm or other non-GNOME<br></div><div>
terminal, what does it output?<br></div><div>
<br></div><div>
* After trying to run gnome-terminal, are there any messages related<br></div><div>
to gnome-terminal, dbus or systemd near the end of /var/log/syslog?<br></div><div>
<br></div><div>
Regards,<br></div><div>
S<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>