[solved]Re: gnome-terminal fails to load

[Scott Webster]

By the way, I believe that any notes will be automatically displayed
when the package is installed.  You probably just missed them when
dbus was initially installed.  The notes option to the port command
just gives you an easy way to read them again.  Glad it's working!

Scott

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Tim Johnson <tim at akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> * Tim Johnson <tim at akwebsoft.com> [111006 09:57]:
>> * Scott Webster <sewebster at gmail.com> [111006 07:56]:
>> > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Tim Johnson <tim at akwebsoft.com> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> And is dbus-session loaded?
>> > >  No. `ps' shows nothing. How do I load? How do I confirm that it is
>> > >  then loaded on reboot?
>> > >
>> >
>> > The commands, which can also be seen with "port notes dbus" are:
>> >
>> > sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
>> > launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
>>  OK. Done. And thanks for the clue about `port notes'
>>  Unfortunately, I still have problems. When I start gnome-terminal,
>>  I get the following
>> Last login: Thu Oct  6 09:50:24 on ttys003
>> linus:~ tim$ /opt/local/bin/gnome-terminal ; exit;
>> **
>> ERROR:terminal-app.c:1451:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app->system_font_desc != NULL)
>> Abort trap: 6
>  I did some googling using segments from the error string above.
>  Found this: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/27235
>  (undeclared dependency)
>  ran
>  sudo port install libgnome
>  and :)
>  sudo port notes libgnome
>  - no notes, but using the 'notes' option is a good idea -
>  and I now have gnome-terminal.
>
>  This is a very handsome and usable terminal emulator.  It has many
>  fonts to choose from and multiple tabs which gets `termophiles'
>  like me all goose-pimply. In fact gnome-terminal on mac is
>  better-looking than gnome-terminal on ubuntu, in my opinion.
>
>  mc is now mouse-enabled.
>
>  FYI: for those who follow, the installation process in toto was
>  lengthy. For me, with a 5M download speed, it took over 45 minutes
>  total, but worth it.
>
>  Good job folks.
>
> --
> Tim
> tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
> http://www.akwebsoft.com
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