Bug#918149: terminator: Unstated Dependency On `dbus-x11`

[Ben Whitney]

Package: terminator
Version: 1.90+bzr-1705-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I am installing Debian on a new system and found that terminator did not start. Running 'terminator' with no arguments on a command line resulted in the following being printed to standard error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/terminator", line 105, in <module>
    ipc.new_window_cmdline(optionslist)
  File "/usr/share/terminator/terminatorlib/ipc.py", line 177, in _exec
    bus = dbus.SessionBus()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 211, in __new__
    mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 100, in __new__
    bus = BusConnection.__new__(subclass, bus_type, mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 122, in __new__
    bus = cls._new_for_bus(address_or_type, mainloop=mainloop)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message

I believe I already had `dbus` installed. I did not have `dbus-x11` installed, and installing that fixed the problem.

Here is the content of `/etc/apt/sources.list`:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

Please let me know if you need any more information.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-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 terminator depends on:
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0   1.50.0-1+b1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0    3.22.11-1
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0  1.40.5-1
ii  gir1.2-vte-2.91   0.46.1-1
ii  python            2.7.13-2
ii  python-cairo      1.8.8-2.2
ii  python-dbus       1.2.4-1+b1
ii  python-gi         3.22.0-2
ii  python-gi-cairo   3.22.0-2
ii  python-psutil     5.0.1-1

Versions of packages terminator recommends:
ii  gir1.2-keybinder-3.0  0.3.1-1
ii  gir1.2-notify-0.7     0.7.7-2
ii  xdg-utils             1.1.1-1+deb9u1

terminator suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Ben Whitney

[Julián Moreno Patiño]

Hello Markus,

This package is team maintained, you are welcome at board.

At the moment I am a little bit busy. Just go ahead with your NMU to
fix the RC bug.

Kind regards,

El dom., 27 ene. 2019 a las 7:00, Markus Frosch
(<lazyf...@debian.org>) escribió:
>
> Hey all,
> is anyone taking care about the RC bug [2] in terminator[1] for upcoming
> buster?
>
> I plan to do an NMU over the next days, if no one says stop.
>
> I've seen that Emilio did some Python 3 work in experimental, is that
> ready for unstable? What's the upstream work on this?
>
> Maybe I'm going to adopt the package as well, since I'm using
> terminator. Anyone opposes that?
>
> Cheers
> Markus Frosch
>
> [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/terminator
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/918149
>
> --
> mar...@lazyfrosch.de / lazyf...@debian.org
> https://lazyfrosch.de
>


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