Having trouble starting gnome-terminal on Mavericks

[David Evans]

BTW, this is not a Mavericks specific issue.  Does the same thing on the
other OS versions as well.

On 6/2/14 1:19 PM, David Evans wrote:
> On 6/2/14 12:57 PM, jsg72 at mac.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’ve been told that I should send mail here to help diagnose a
>> problem with gnome-terminal.  I’m running OSX 10.9.3, XQuartz 2.7.6,
>> and Xcode 5.1.1, which should be the latest version of everything.
>>  When I run gnome-terminal, it starts XQuartz if it’s not already
>> running, but then it dies with the error shown below.  I’ve been
>> through instructions on `port notes dbus`, but it didn’t help.  It
>> seems that dbus is running, but it’s having trouble with gnome-terminal.
>>
>> Do you have any advice?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>>
>>
> As Brandon has said,  gnome-terminal's backend factory is failing on
> startup when started via dbus.  However, it appears to work fine when
> started manually.  I think this is an upstream problem but I haven't
> been able to nail it down as yet.
>
> The work-around is to execute these commands in sequence to start the
> initial gnome-terminal:
>
> $ /opt/local/libexec/gnome-terminal-server &
> $ gnome-terminal
>
> You need to execute the second command before the
> gnome-terminal-server times out (a few seconds) so it's probably best
> to put these
> in a starter script.
>
> Please do me a favor and submit a ticket for this problem so we can
> track the solution process.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>> On Jun 2, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com
>> <mailto:allbery.b at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:42 AM, <jsg72 at mac.com
>>> <mailto:jsg72 at mac.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     $ gnome-terminal 
>>>     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 1
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, that would not be the usual dbus problem. It is running but
>>> can't start gnome-terminal's backend factory for some reason. You'll
>>> need to find the maintainer for gnome-terminal and ask for help
>>> diagnosing it.
>>>
>>>     pyanfar:20022 Z$ port info --maintainer gnome-terminal
>>>     maintainer: devans[@]macports[.]org, openmaintainer[@]macports[.]org
>>>
>>> (the brackets are to defeat spam address harvesters...)
>>>
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