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Bug#819823: gnome-terminal: Fails to start with "message bus" warning

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raphael

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Apr 2, 2016, 3:30:03 PM4/2/16
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Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.20.0-1
Severity: important

Hi,

Since last update, gnome-terminal (on non-gnome session ie awesome and lightdm) fails to lauchn with error : "Error creating terminal: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying"
It was working perfectly well before.
Thanks

Raphaël



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.24.0-2
ii gconf-service 3.2.6-3
ii gnome-terminal-data 3.20.0-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.18.1-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.18.0-1
ii libc6 2.22-4
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.6-1
ii libcairo2 1.14.6-1
ii libdconf1 0.24.0-2
ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-3
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.32.3-1.2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.48.0-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.18.9-1
ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.18.5-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.38.1-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.38.1-1
ii libuuid1 2.27.1-6
ii libvte-2.91-0 0.44.0-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii dbus-x11 1.10.8-1
ii gvfs 1.26.2-1+b1
ii yelp 3.16.1-1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Simon McVittie

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Apr 4, 2016, 4:20:03 AM4/4/16
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Control: tags 819823 + moreinfo

On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 at 21:16:58 +0200, raphael wrote:
> Since last update, gnome-terminal (on non-gnome session ie awesome and lightdm) fails to lauchn with error : "Error creating terminal: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying"

I see you aren't using systemd, so I can't ask you to look for warnings
in the Journal. I assume you don't have dbus-user-session installed either.

Please try running

/usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server

in some other X terminal (an xterm or something); then try to start
gnome-terminal from a second xterm. If that fails with similar symptoms,
report any warning or error messages that come from gnome-terminal-server.

If that *doesn't* fail with similar symptoms, the next thing to try is
editing /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Terminal.service so that the
Exec line reads

Exec=/bin/sh -c '/usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server | logger -t gnome-terminal-server'

Again, try starting gnome-terminal from an xterm, but this time please look in
/var/log/syslog for messages tagged "gnome-terminal-server", and report those.

Regards,
S

raphael truc

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Apr 4, 2016, 5:30:03 AM4/4/16
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Hi,

Thanks for your reply.
Indeed, I do not use systemd (though it is installed, but not used as primary init) nor dbus-user-session
I launched /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server on one term and try to launch gnome-terminal with another, it fails.
On the first term, the one with terminal-server, I get "/usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server: undefined symbol: vte_terminal_set_color_cursor_foreground"
and on the second "Error creating terminal: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying"

Regards

Raphaël

Simon McVittie

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Apr 4, 2016, 5:40:03 AM4/4/16
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Control: retitle 819823 gnome-terminal-server: undefined symbol: vte_terminal_set_color_cursor_foreground

On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 at 11:20:59 +0200, raphael truc wrote:
> On the first term, the one with terminal-server, I get "/usr/lib/gnome-terminal
> /gnome-terminal-server: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/
> gnome-terminal-server: undefined symbol:
> vte_terminal_set_color_cursor_foreground"

Thanks, that points us to the real bug here.

According to the packaging metadata, that symbol was new in vte 0.44:

vte_terminal_set_color_cursor_foreground@Base 0.44.0

and you correctly have vte 0.44 installed:

ii libvte-2.91-0 0.44.0-1

If you run "ldd /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server" in the
same terminal, what do you get?

Do you perhaps have an older version of vte somewhere like /usr/local/lib?

Thanks,
S
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raphael truc

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Apr 4, 2016, 6:10:06 AM4/4/16
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Indeed, I had something called "vte-ng" used by termite in /usr/local.
I uninstalled it, and gnome-terminal works again.
Sorry for the noise and thanks again.

Raphaël

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