[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
Maxim Levitsky wrote: QUOTE: @Jim, this isn't what makes it fail. The problem is that if I launch nautilus as root, I can't open terminal from it. Do'nt understand that, opening a terminal from within nautilus? But OK, I do understand that the real problem must be some bug in the gconf deamon so we will wait for the solution of that I suppose. Gr, Jim -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
I did some brief look, and discovered a workaround, or maybe even a fix:
The message you see comes from gnome-terminal, but it can work fine
without gconf, or maybe check for it is broken:
in terminal.c:
/* If the gconf daemon isn't available (e.g. because there's no dbus
* session bus running), we'd crash later on. Tell the user about it
* now, and exit. See bug #561663.
*/
if (!gconf_ping_daemon ())
{
g_printerr ("Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.\n");
exit (1);
}
If I comment out this condition block, then it works just fine
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[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
@Jim, this isn't what makes it fail. The problem is that if I launch nautilus as root, I can't open terminal from it. I strongly suspect this bug prevents above from working -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
Copy of my posting in "Bug #326158 in Ubuntu: As far as I 'm concerned it's not a big issue, a (temporary?) solution is simple. Add a starter to the taskbar (or your menu) with: gnome-terminal -e "sudo -i" and the terminal starts immediately asking for your password. As long as you keep that terminal open you will have root-permissions in it. Gr, Jim -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
gnome-settings-daemon doesn't help: I do: # sudo -i $ gnome-settings-daemon & $ gnome-terminal and it still fails with same message It did work fine in 8.10 Now I can't open it nether from root nautilus or from remote share and can't open like I said above -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
Thanks to everyone for confirming that this happens under normal circumstances. No further confirmation is required. Just subscribe to the bug without making a post, unless you have anything new to add. (Correct me if I'm overstepping here, Ubuntu maintainers.) Further posts on this thread should be about what to do about this, or ideas for how the relevant programs and libraries should behave so gnome-terminal can start when gnome-settings-daemon isn't already running. I've always found it kind of messy the way KDE programs start daemons that clutter your terminal with log messages even after the first KDE program (that started them) has exitted. If it wasn't for the messages on stdout or stderr, it wouldn't be so bad. Obviously, you don't want to hide the messages either, so I don't really see any good solution. I guess it's something you get used to as a user, though. I start most of my long-lived GUI stuff from one screen(1) window, so only one window will get clogged with messages if any of them feel like spewing. So it would probably work to start any required daemons when they're needed. I don't see any obvious solution, if there's no way around requiring a daemon. Hmm, possibly if there's no daemon, read settings from a file yourself? Using the same code (in a library) that the daemon uses to get the settings? This might have to be read-only to avoid danger in case the daemon does start while gnome-terminal is running... -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
I'm having the same error. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 final. $ sudo gnome-terminal Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting. -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
Hello Folks, I just encountered this problem during LiveCD Building with Ubuntu Customization Kit. I used Xubuntu CD image as base so far, always worked well - now with 9.04 rc / Ubuntu Edition this problem comes when selecting 'run console'. If unsolved, LiveCD building with UCK is jeopardized, unless the scripts get patched with a workaround as mentioned above. Will dive deeper now, just fyi. Regards, Daniel -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
Can put somebody this bug as medium-importance? It's a very nerving bug! Thx -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
Jaunty beta. affects me too, both if I run it with sudo and if I run it remotely with ssh: $ sudo gnome-terminal [sudo] password for paolo: Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting. $ ssh -Yf paolo gnome-terminal pa...@paolo's password: pa...@parroco:~$ Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting. Notably the issue is only with gnome-terminal. All other applications run well in both situations. Also when local pc = intrepid, remote = jaunty : running gnome-terminal with ssh => the same error -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
Affects me too. Jaunty with all updates -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
forgot to say that this is maybe not gconf2's bug, but rather a bug in things that use it. (esp. if the fix is a more useful error message.) -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
I noticed this problem because my .fluxbox/startup wasn't starting my gnome-terminal anymore. (that's a shell script run by startfluxbox that runs some X clients then execs /usr/bin/fluxbox. I put some of my startup stuff in it.) If I run /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon & before gnome-terminal, then it works. If I leave that commented out, gnome-terminal refuses to start, with the "Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting." error message everyone's reporting. Obviously when gnome-terminal is run as root, there's no root-owned gconf daemon for it to talk to. (BTW, why would you want to do that? sudo -s not good enough?) I already had /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon in my fluxbox startup, but I used to run it as gnome-terminal --geometry=132x30 --tab-with-profile=default --tab-with-profile=default --tab-with-profile=default & (sleep 1 && setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps && xset r rate 195 60 && /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon ) & I use sleep to spread out the disk I/O load of starting X a bit. gnome-terminal used to load, then after gnome-settings-daemon loaded, the font would switch to my configured font. But now my desktop was coming up with no terminal. gnome-terminal would work later, since by then gnome-settings-daemon would be started. So now I do /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon & (sleep 1 && gnome-terminal --geometry=132x30 --tab-with-profile=default --tab-with-profile=default --tab-with-profile=default & ) (sleep 1 && setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps && xset r rate 195 60 )& and my X startup script should start everything nicely. If gnome stuff is going to require daemons, they should start them automatically if they're not running. KDE stuff does that. If GNOME can come up with a convincing reason why this is a bad idea, then this is not a bug. Although it had better be documented, and the error message should suggest starting gnome-settings-daemon. So IMHO something has to change before this bug can be closed. -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
I confirm this bug with todays updates. It affects probably most of other GNOME programs. I tried epiphany, gnome-terminal, and update- manager and all of them fail, which makes them unusable over ssh. Is there some way to start the gconf manually? -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
Have this issue also - anyone has an idea how to resolve it? Obviously gnome-terminal needs "something" from gconf, or expects it to run (in a special manner perhaps?)...hmm -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
Hi! Same for me on jaunty beta, can't open gnome terminal as root error message: "Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting." -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
** Changed in: gconf Status: Unknown => New -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #555745 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555745 ** Changed in: gconf Status: New => Unknown ** Changed in: gconf Bugwatch: GNOME Bug Tracker #576346 => GNOME Bug Tracker #555745 -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
** Changed in: gconf Status: Unknown => New -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576346 ** Changed in: gconf2 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Triaged ** Also affects: gconf via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576346 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
I also have this bug.UbuntuJauty,all last updates Temporary solution $ gnome-terminal -e "sudo -i" -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
does not work for me too # gksudo gnome-terminal Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting. # gksudo synaptic or # gksudo nautilus working. wanna have the root-terminal menu-entry enabled, but does'n work any solution? -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
It still doesn't work for me. -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
I am no longer seeing this issue. Afaict this is fixed. -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
I haven't been able to use the root terminal since my upgrade to jaunty bi...@kasimir:~$ sudo gnome-terminal Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting. -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
The problem occurs just as sudo, without sudo it works well. johan...@johannes-pc:~$ sudo gnome-terminal [sudo] password for johannes: Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting. In the attachment you find my ~/.xsession-errors. Jaunty with last updates ** Attachment added: ".xsession-errors" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22883258/.xsession-errors -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
is this still an issue? could you attach your ~/.xsession-errors file to the report? do you get the same with another new user created on your system? thanks you. ** Changed in: gconf2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) Status: New => Incomplete -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error
** Changed in: gconf2 (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None => gconf2 -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gconf2 in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
