Bug#841740: systemd periodically kills gnome-terminal session

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 at 16:30:29 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 23.10.2016 um 01:18 schrieb luke:
> > Oct 22 23:41:42 donbot systemd[1087]: Starting GNOME Terminal Server...
> > Oct 22 23:41:42 donbot dbus-daemon[20090]: Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Terminal'
> > Oct 22 23:43:12 donbot systemd[1087]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
> 
> Those programs are all started via D-Bus activation and use the systemd
> --user instance. They all ship a systemd user service with Type=dbus.
> 
> I suspect, for some reason those processes fail to grab a name on the
> bus, thus are marked as not properly started and are killed after a 90s
> timeout (the default systemd timeout).

"Successfully activated service 'whatever'" is saying that the process
*successfully* claimed its name on the bus, so I don't know why systemd
would think it failed. Possibly something went wrong with systemd's
D-Bus name monitoring?

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