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EmyrB

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From: Wales, UK

Registered: 2006-09-04

Posts: 122

gksu gnome-terminal crashes after gnome-terminal upgrade to 2.24.0

Hi All,

I have a little problem that I would like to share with you all

I updated my Arch install the other day and a few gnome 2.24.0 packages game down through 'testing' (I know if I play with fire I expect to get burned ), but here is the weirdest thing. If i choose Root Terminal through the menu, it crashes, if I press alt+f2 and then type in gksu gnome terminal it too crashes.

Yet if i just run gnome-terminal it works fine and I can then select Root Terminal through the menu and if I run gksu gnome-terminal (through alt+f2) they work.

This really isn't an "oh my gosh, I can't work anymore" type event as I can use su in normal gnome-terminal, just weird. Any ideas?

Cheers

EmyrB

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Proud Arch Linux User

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: gksu gnome-terminal crashes after gnome-terminal upgrade to 2.24.0

Works fine here, though I won't get a root terminal at all. As root is allowed to connect to a users session bus, the root-launched gnome-terminal will just contact the dbus session bus and tell existing gnome-terminals to spawn a new window.

EmyrB

Member

From: Wales, UK

Registered: 2006-09-04

Posts: 122

Re: gksu gnome-terminal crashes after gnome-terminal upgrade to 2.24.0

Hey thanks for coming back to me JGC, but when I run Root Terminal from the menu or from alt+f2 it actually generates a bug buddy report: -

Distribution: Unknown
Gnome Release: 2.22.3 2008-07-02 (Archlinux)
BugBuddy Version: 2.22.0

System: Linux 2.6.26-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 9 10:15:21 UTC 2008 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10501000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: (null)
Icon Theme: (null)

Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0

Is this peculiar to Arch as there are a few Gnome 2.24 packages coming through or is this a Gnome bug?

Cheers

EmyrB

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orblivion

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Registered: 2008-11-12

Posts: 3

Re: gksu gnome-terminal crashes after gnome-terminal upgrade to 2.24.0

I have what I think is the same problem. I just did a very big update, so I don't know when this came up. But here's what I know. Here's the command I run:

gksu -u otheruser "gnome-terminal --working-directory=/home/otheruser"

With the latest version (gnome-terminal-2.24.1.1-1-i686), I get a dialog with:

An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome-terminal. Some of your configuration settings may not work.

Then I get the bug reporting tool. On the terminal, I get the following debug output:

** (gnome-terminal:2316): WARNING **: Owner of /tmp/orbit-mainuser is not the current user

(gnome-terminal:2316): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
None of the authentication protocols specified are supported.
**
ERROR:terminal-app.c:1525:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app->default_profile_id != NULL)

I tried logging in as the other user, and I could run gnome-terminal. From there, I tried running the same command to run the gnome-terminal as my main user, and I got the same error.

I downgraded to gnome-terminal-2.22.3-1-i686, and I get the same dialog, but the terminal starts. I also get the warning about orbit-mainuser, but not the default_profile_id error. However, there's no menu bar, and the background color is yellow for some reason. I can't do tabs or anything.

Last edited by orblivion (2008-11-12 23:19:30)

Jickel

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 47

Re: gksu gnome-terminal crashes after gnome-terminal upgrade to 2.24.0

When introducing Archlinux to a friend this weekend and installing gnome, I think we ran into this very same bug. Time for a bug report maybe? Sadly I don't have access to the system any longer so I can't check out the details.