Having trouble starting gnome-terminal on Mavericks

[jsg72 at mac.com]

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 <devans at macports.org> wrote:

> On 6/2/14 12:57 PM, jsg72 at mac.com 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 <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:42 AM, <jsg72 at mac.com> 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
>>> allbery.b at gmail.com                                  ballbery at sinenomine.net
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>> 
> 

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