[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#884897: dbus-x11: .xinitrc requires "dbus-update-activation-environment --all"

[Carlos Eduardo M. Santos]

Package: dbus-x11
Version: 1.12.2-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The following problems started after dist-upgrading from jessie to buster:
1. startx takes a lot of time to launch X;
2. gnome-terminal doesn't start.

The problems happen with a ~/.xinitrc as short as just "exec i3". In
journalctl, I found 2 famous messages:
- gnome-terminal-server[18005]: Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
- Failed to activate service 'org.gnome.Terminal': timed out (service_start_timeout=120000ms)

After reading many search results, the best I could do was to add
"dbus-update-activation-environment --all" in the first line of
~/.xinitrc.  But it seems to be just a workaround. I also ran "sudo
dpkg-reconfigure locales" and rebooted as the first attempt. As to
problem #1, I have no clue.

Note: the workaround also made it possible to start redshift and dunst services
without changing their service files.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dbus-x11 depends on:
ii  dbus         1.12.2-1
ii  libc6        2.25-3
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.12.2-1
ii  libx11-6     2:1.6.4-3

dbus-x11 recommends no packages.

dbus-x11 suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/95dbus_update-activation-env changed [not included]
Note: I just added some "echo"s for debugging.

-- no debconf information