Confirmed that the workaround works for me. The one funny part is that the default colors tab has “Use colors from system theme” checked, which appears to be black on black - I need to uncheck that before I see anything.
How do I fill out a ticket? I’m new to macports. Thanks, Jeff On Jun 2, 2014, at 4:19 PM, David Evans <[email protected]> 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]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:42 AM, <[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] [email protected] >>> unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net >> >
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