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#1 2015-04-18 09:30:49

adam777
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Registered: 2012-05-28
Posts: 161

[Solved] Gnome Terminal Won't Start

Hello all,
All of a sudden, gnome terminal refuses to launch.
I did a system update this morning but nothing seems to be related to gnome-terminal.
The relevant part of pacman.log:

[2015-04-18 10:20] [kalu] synchronized database testing
[2015-04-18 10:20] [kalu] synchronized database extra
[2015-04-18 10:20] [kalu] synchronized database community-testing
[2015-04-18 10:20] [kalu] synchronized database community
[2015-04-18 10:20] [kalu] synchronized database multilib-testing
[2015-04-18 10:20] [kalu] synchronized database multilib
[2015-04-18 10:20] [kalu] starting sysupgrade...
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded nettle (2.7.1-1 -> 3.1-1)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded gnutls (3.3.14-2 -> 3.4.0-1)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded aria2 (1.18.10-1 -> 1.18.10-2)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded libsystemd (219-4 -> 219-5)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded systemd (219-4 -> 219-5)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] installed perl-ipc-system-simple (1.25-1)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] installed perl-file-basedir (0.06-1)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded libcups (2.0.2-3 -> 2.0.2-4)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] warning: /etc/chromium/default saved as /etc/chromium/default.pacsave
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded chromium (41.0.2272.118-2 -> 42.0.2311.90-1)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] :: This Chromium package no longer supports custom flags passed via the
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]    /etc/chromium/default file (or any other files under /etc/chromium/).
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]    The new /usr/bin/chromium launcher script will automatically detect
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]    Pepper Flash (if installed) and pass the correct flags to Chromium.
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]    If you need to pass extra command-line arguments to Chromium, you
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]    can put them in a "chromium-flags.conf" file under $HOME/.config/
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]    (or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME). Arguments are split on whitespace and shell
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]    quoting rules apply but no further parsing is performed.
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded cups (2.0.2-3 -> 2.0.2-4)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded ffmpeg (1:2.6.1-2 -> 1:2.6.1-3)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded gst-plugins-bad (1.4.5-1 -> 1.4.5-2)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded glib-networking (2.44.0-1 -> 2.44.0-2)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded webkit2gtk (2.8.0-2 -> 2.8.1-1)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded empathy (3.12.8-1 -> 3.12.9-1)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded libwbclient (4.2.0-1 -> 4.2.0-2)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded smbclient (4.2.0-1 -> 4.2.0-2)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] (gconftool-2:2467): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded gnome-vfs (2.24.4-8 -> 2.24.4-9)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] (gconftool-2:2474): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded gnupg (2.1.3-1 -> 2.1.3-2)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded mutter (3.16.1-2 -> 3.16.1.1-1)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded ntfs-3g (2014.2.15-1 -> 2015.3.14-1)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded systemd-sysvcompat (219-4 -> 219-5)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] upgraded vino (3.16.0-1 -> 3.16.0-2)
[2015-04-18 10:20] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2015-04-18 10:20] [kalu] sysupgrade completed

The error is:

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 127

A quick search came up with lots of info of it relating to locale, but re-generating locale, rebooting and all other suggestions failed.
locale reads:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Any ideas?

Last edited by adam777 (2015-04-18 10:46:11)

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#2 2015-04-18 09:55:14

tlobys
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Registered: 2015-03-20
Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Gnome Terminal Won't Start

Some packages depending on gnutls need to be rebuilt. Downgrade 'gnutls' and 'nettle' for the moment.

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#3 2015-04-18 10:45:19

adam777
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Registered: 2012-05-28
Posts: 161

Re: [Solved] Gnome Terminal Won't Start

tlobys wrote:

Some packages depending on gnutls need to be rebuilt. Downgrade 'gnutls' and 'nettle' for the moment.

Thanks for the pointer, it indeed works.
The downgrade, however, prevents chromium from working, I'll keep an eye for a rebuild.

* EDIT *
vte 0.40.0-2 solve the issue,

Last edited by adam777 (2015-04-18 14:11:26)

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