BTW, this is not a Mavericks specific issue. Does the same thing on the other OS versions as well.
On 6/2/14 1:19 PM, David Evans wrote: > On 6/2/14 12:57 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I’ve been told that I should send mail here to help diagnose a >> problem with gnome-terminal. I’m running OSX 10.9.3, XQuartz 2.7.6, >> and Xcode 5.1.1, which should be the latest version of everything. >> When I run gnome-terminal, it starts XQuartz if it’s not already >> running, but then it dies with the error shown below. I’ve been >> through instructions on `port notes dbus`, but it didn’t help. It >> seems that dbus is running, but it’s having trouble with gnome-terminal. >> >> Do you have any advice? >> >> Thanks, >> Jeff >> >> > As Brandon has said, gnome-terminal's backend factory is failing on > startup when started via dbus. However, it appears to work fine when > started manually. I think this is an upstream problem but I haven't > been able to nail it down as yet. > > The work-around is to execute these commands in sequence to start the > initial gnome-terminal: > > $ /opt/local/libexec/gnome-terminal-server & > $ gnome-terminal > > You need to execute the second command before the > gnome-terminal-server times out (a few seconds) so it's probably best > to put these > in a starter script. > > Please do me a favor and submit a ticket for this problem so we can > track the solution process. > > Thanks, > > Dave > > > >> On Jun 2, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:42 AM, <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> $ gnome-terminal >>> Error constructing proxy for >>> org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling >>> StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: >>> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: >>> Process org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 1 >>> >>> >>> Ok, that would not be the usual dbus problem. It is running but >>> can't start gnome-terminal's backend factory for some reason. You'll >>> need to find the maintainer for gnome-terminal and ask for help >>> diagnosing it. >>> >>> pyanfar:20022 Z$ port info --maintainer gnome-terminal >>> maintainer: devans[@]macports[.]org, openmaintainer[@]macports[.]org >>> >>> (the brackets are to defeat spam address harvesters...) >>> >>> -- >>> brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine >>> associates >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad >>> http://sinenomine.net <http://sinenomine.net/> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
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