Having trouble starting gnome-terminal on Mavericks

[jsg72 at mac.com]

I saw that thread, but it looks like solution was to run the launchctl commands in `port notes dbus`.  I tried that, and it didn’t work for me (and I logged out and in again after issuing the commands).  It looked like there was discussion about the various versions of Xcode - I’m running Xcode 5.1.1 and OSX 10.9.3.

Is there anything else I can try?

Thanks.


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> On 31 May 2014, at 3:00 am, macports-users-request at lists.macosforge.org wrote:
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>> I just installed gnome-terminal on Mavericks, but I can't start it:
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> I'm using XQuartz 2.7.6 as my X server.  The error is the same in both
>> Terminal and xterm.  I've tried starting dbus stuff manually as per the
>> instructions in "port notes dbus", but that hasn't helped.
> 
> A while ago (this year) Brandon helped me lots when I had the same problem. I don’t exactly recall what fixed it peek in the archives.
> I’m using iTerm now which does all I wanted from gnome-terminal with only minor irritants.
>