I was about to report a bug towards terminal, as several other people
have, but after trying to start terminal as a fresh test user without
problems, I'm uncertain about this being a bug in terminal or not.
Problem: gnome terminal crashes every time I try to start it, with abrt
reporting it killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT).
The install is about a fortnight old, so it's odd that such a vital part
should fail so soon.
Could anyone please help me decide if this is a bug to be filed against
gnome-terminal, or otherwise help me find out what has happened to the
'chain' that starts the program?
Thanks in advance!
Frode Petersen
Here is what I wrote before changing my mind:
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1. Click on the gnome-terminal icon
2. Wait for the terminal window to open. The left hand side of the panel
indicates that terminal is starting
3. Nothing happens and the gnome-terminal starting indication on the
panel disappears.
(4. Abrt shows the crash info)
Going through the crash report I found these oddities:
In /var/log/messages (through abrt):
Jul 3 01:42:15 fprdl dbus-daemon[896]: (packagekitd:10797):
PkPlugin-WARNING **: could not load desktop file
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/gnome-terminal.desktop
Jul 5 12:42:28 fprdl abrt[8434]: Sav...
---- I don't understand why a xfce4 file is involved in starting
gnome-terminal on gnome3. The file comes from the package
exo-0.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64, and exists:
$ ls -alF /usr/share/xfce4/helpers/gnome-terminal.desktop
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1599 jan. 13 13:10
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/gnome-terminal.desktop
I have not installed xfce, only thunar, which probably brought the file in.
Starting gnome-terminal from konsole in gnome3 gives this result:
$ gnome-terminal
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error:
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error:
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error:
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error:
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error:
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error:
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
**
ERROR:terminal-app.c:1449:terminal_app_init: assertion failed:
(app->default_profile_id != NULL)
Aborted (core dumped)
$
[The D-BUS error translates (approximately?) to "The GConf-server is
about to shut down")
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