Having trouble starting gnome-terminal on Mavericks

[jsg72 at mac.com]

Thanks for your help.  The plist file exists and it looks like it’s running, but I still get the same error.

$ ls /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist

$ sudo launchctl list | grep -i dbus
103	-	org.freedesktop.dbus-system

$ 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

It seems the error is in StartServiceByName.  I know very little about launchctl and nothing about dbus, but does there need to be some kind of name mapping registered for “org.gnome.Terminal"?

When I start gnome-teriminal, XQuartz starts up if it’s not already running, so it looks like some part of the initialization is working correctly.




On Jun 2, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 11:34 PM, <jsg72 at mac.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> dbus has changed a bit since then. You may need to reboot to activate the system part now, or manually load and verify it.
> 
> job name org.freedesktop.dbus-system
> plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
> 
> `sudo launchctl list | grep -i dbus` should show org.freedesktop.dbus-system running; if not; try `sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist` (and you will need to at least log out and back in).
> 
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