Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.22.1-1 Severity: normal Using AwesomeWM on top of Debian testing, can't open gnome-terminal. Issuing gnome-terminal from urxvt I get:
** (gnome-terminal:7852): WARNING **: Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached The first error line shouldn't be related. The locale looks ok: $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= Doing the same as root didn't show the problem. Checking in /var/log/syslog I can find these lines: dbus-daemon[888]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.gnome.Terminal' unit='gnome-terminal-server.service' systemd[793]: Starting GNOME Terminal Server... gnome-terminal-server[1715]: Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused systemd[793]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV systemd[793]: Failed to start GNOME Terminal Server. systemd[793]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Unit entered failed state. systemd[793]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Failed with result 'signal'. kernel: [ 499.413022] gnome-terminal-[1715]: segfault at 8 ip 800bc68d sp bfc21ab8 error 4 in gnome-terminal-server[800af000+52000] Surprisingly trying what suggested in a similar bug report, #819510, managed to solve the problem until next reboot: $ dbus-update-activation-environment --all -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (980, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on: ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.26.0-2 ii gconf-service 3.2.6-4 ii gnome-terminal-data 3.22.1-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.22.0-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1 ii libc6 2.24-7 ii libdconf1 0.26.0-2 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-4 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.2-2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.4-1 ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.22.1-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.3-3 ii libuuid1 2.29-1 ii libvte-2.91-0 0.46.1-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends: ii dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus] 1.10.14-1 ii dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.10.14-1 ii gvfs 1.30.2-2 ii yelp 3.22.0-1 gnome-terminal suggests no packages.