dino99: I ran deborphan and bleachbit. Nothing major there. The most recent change to this system was the setup of XFCE and XRDP for remote login. If I restart the machine, I can launch the GNOME apps like normal. To replicate the issue, I first have to remote login to XFCE (do something, then log out). Then I physically go to the PC and try to use a GNOME app in the GNOME DE. The XFCE and GNOME sessions use the same username. So it appears the GNOME apps may be getting confused as to which DE to use. But why just the GNOME apps and not everything else?
In order to set up the remote desktop, I modified the .xsession file to be this: #!/bin/bash xfce4-session This allows me to log in as the same user on the local and remote sessions. Perhaps this is a bad practice, but it allows me to use my tower PC (in the basement) on my laptop (upstairs). Perhaps this would all work better if I set up a separate user (e.g., in the original username group to access the same files) for remote access instead of using the same username. Still, I imagine if I log out of GNOME, log in remotely with XFCE, log out of XFCE, then log in to GNOME, the issue may still persist. I will try that now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1694454 Title: Can't open gnome terminal Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Selecting gnome terminal after search(winkey->type "term"->select Terminal), results in loading terminal for a few seconds and simply disappearing of the loading indication from the title bar. Nothing else happens. No error and no terminal shown. This behavior appeared after upgrade to 17.04 I don't have such a problem when opening MATE Terminal. Also when I run "gnome-terminal" in the mate terminal it outputs this: "Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached" >> lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 17.04 Release: 17.04 >> apt-cache policy gnome-terminal gnome-terminal: Installed: 3.20.2-1ubuntu8 Candidate: 3.20.2-1ubuntu8 Version table: *** 3.20.2-1ubuntu8 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04 Package: gnome-terminal 3.20.2-1ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-21.23-generic 4.10.11 Uname: Linux 4.10.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Tue May 30 17:15:09 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-17 (713 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422) SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-04-17 (42 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1694454/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
