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#1 2017-04-04 03:56:37

amzshow
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[Solved] Terminator not launching

So I reinstalled Arch because I wanted a fresh start. I did everything correctly using the Wiki (this is not my first time installing Arch). So I am used to the Terminator terminal, I downloaded it using pacman and I cant run it. If I type terminator in the terminal, I get this error

ConfigBase::load: Unable to open /home/amzshow/.config/terminator/config ([Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/amzshow/.config/terminator/config')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/terminator", line 83, in <module>
    from terminatorlib import ipc
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/terminatorlib/ipc.py", line 31, in <module>
    class DBusService(Borg, dbus.service.Object):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/terminatorlib/ipc.py", line 62, in DBusService
    @dbus.service.method(BUS_NAME, in_signature='a{ss}')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/decorators.py", line 155, in method
    validate_interface_name(dbus_interface)
ValueError: Invalid interface or error name 'net.tenshu.Terminator2-0x21012a2c': contains invalid character '-'

Last edited by amzshow (2017-04-10 11:23:44)

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#2 2017-04-04 10:57:15

hcjl
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Re: [Solved] Terminator not launching

does /home/amzshow/.config exist? and if so, make sure that the privileges are correct.

full system update and reboot could also solve your problem.

Last edited by hcjl (2017-04-04 11:06:07)

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#3 2017-04-04 12:16:11

amzshow
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Re: [Solved] Terminator not launching

The .config file does not exist 

 ConfigBase::load: Unable to open /home/amzshow/.config/terminator/config ([Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/amzshow/.config/terminator/config')

I just reinstalled Arch so everything should be up to date.

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#4 2017-04-04 14:00:36

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Re: [Solved] Terminator not launching

/home/amzshow/.config is a directory.

Last edited by hcjl (2017-04-04 14:00:50)

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#5 2017-04-09 08:59:54

amzshow
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Re: [Solved] Terminator not launching

Well the directory doesn't exist and a fresh reinstall doesnt help

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#6 2017-04-09 09:34:13

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Re: [Solved] Terminator not launching

Then the first logical step is to create the ~/.config folder. Maybe that will do..!?

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#7 2017-04-09 09:41:03

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Re: [Solved] Terminator not launching

amzshow wrote:

Well the directory doesn't exist and a fresh reinstall doesnt help

~/.config is created by pretty much every GUI program when it is started so that sounds extremely unlikely.

Please post the output of:

ls -la ~

Are you infected with Wetiko?

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#8 2017-04-09 10:30:22

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Re: [Solved] Terminator not launching

[amzshow@g62 Desktop]$ ls -la ~
total 104
drwx------ 16 amzshow amzshow 4096 Apr  9 15:28 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root    root    4096 Apr  3 02:13 ..
drwx------  3 amzshow amzshow 4096 Apr  9 15:28 .adobe
-rw-------  1 amzshow amzshow 5010 Apr  9 15:26 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 amzshow amzshow   21 Feb 14 18:20 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--  1 amzshow amzshow   57 Feb 14 18:20 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--  1 amzshow amzshow  141 Feb 14 18:20 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--  1 amzshow amzshow 8951 Apr  3 18:21 .bzr.log
drwx------ 13 amzshow amzshow 4096 Apr  3 18:14 .cache
drwx------ 17 amzshow amzshow 4096 Apr  9 14:02 .config
drwxr-xr-x  2 amzshow amzshow 4096 Apr  9 15:24 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x  3 amzshow amzshow 4096 Apr  9 14:25 Documents
drwxr-xr-x  2 amzshow amzshow 4096 Apr  4 09:04 Downloads
-rw-------  1 amzshow amzshow   16 Apr  3 02:16 .esd_auth
drwxr-xr-x  3 amzshow amzshow 4096 Apr  4 08:37 .gnome2
-rw-------  1 amzshow amzshow 2122 Apr  9 14:23 .ICEauthority
drwx------  3 amzshow amzshow 4096 Apr  3 02:16 .local
drwx------  4 amzshow amzshow 4096 Apr  3 18:14 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x  2 amzshow amzshow 4096 Apr  3 02:16 Music
drwxr-xr-x  3 amzshow amzshow 4096 Apr  4 13:16 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x  2 amzshow amzshow 4096 Apr  3 02:16 Public

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#9 2017-04-09 10:45:17

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Re: [Solved] Terminator not launching

The missing config message is a red herring.  That's just normal output when there is no user config.  The problem is the dbus interface name.

Unfortunately, I'm crap at debugging dbus.  But to start, how do you startx?

Is this error output from just running "terminator" or did you pass some flags?  What is the exact command used?

"UNIX is simple and coherent..." - Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" -  Richard Stallman

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#10 2017-04-09 19:02:11

amzshow
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Re: [Solved] Terminator not launching

Firstly about startx, gdm.services is enabled so Gnome starts automatically.

Second, Terminator does not start, this message appears when I run this command to launch terminator which I have used before in my old Arch builds and has worked fine.

terminator

Edit: I am not going to double post.

I have created a config file and loaded the data I found on "man terminator_config". The error about the config file is resolved but the ones about dbus still remain

man terminator_config

Last edited by amzshow (2017-04-09 19:05:02)

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#11 2017-04-10 07:19:36

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Re: [Solved] Terminator not launching

Can we see the output of:

loginctl session-status
systemctl get-default

Are you infected with Wetiko?

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#12 2017-04-10 09:23:34

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Re: [Solved] Terminator not launching

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/decorators.py", line 155, in method
    validate_interface_name(dbus_interface)
ValueError: Invalid interface or error name 'net.tenshu.Terminator2-0x21012a2c': contains invalid character '-'

I did a search in the decorators.py file for 'validate_interface_name' and see this:

from dbus import validate_interface_name, Signature, validate_member_name

I'm just curious, but have you tried installing the terminator-bzr package from the AUR, just to compile, test and see what happens?

Last edited by t3kk3n (2017-04-10 09:23:59)

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#13 2017-04-10 11:22:29

amzshow
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Re: [Solved] Terminator not launching

Ok Weird thing just happened...

@t3kk3n I had installed terminator-bzr before and it had the same issue. BUT I still need a terminal besides the default one so I downloaded guake a few days ago. Then today, I proceeded to do a system update and update all my packages because its been a week since I installed Arch. I just reinstalled terminator-bzr and it started working.

I have no idea why, either it was cause of Guake, the kernel was updated to linux-4.10.8-1-i686 or some other update fixed it.

BUT its fixed.


Here's a list of the packages that were updated.

 libpcap-1.8.1-2-i686                                             222.8 KiB   211K/s 00:01 [####################################################] 100%
 iptables-1.6.1-1-i686                                            338.0 KiB   380K/s 00:01 [####################################################] 100%
 gdbm-1.13-1-i686                                                 155.4 KiB   432K/s 00:00 [####################################################] 100%
 device-mapper-2.02.169-1-i686                                    278.9 KiB   418K/s 00:01 [####################################################] 100%
 sqlite-3.18.0-1-i686                                            1449.9 KiB   446K/s 00:03 [####################################################] 100%
 gnupg-2.1.20-1-i686                                                2.0 MiB   380K/s 00:05 [####################################################] 100%
 iproute2-4.10.0-3-i686                                           654.6 KiB   452K/s 00:01 [####################################################] 100%
 linux-4.10.8-1-i686                                               58.8 MiB   421K/s 02:23 [####################################################] 100%
 lvm2-2.02.169-1-i686                                            1310.6 KiB   410K/s 00:03 [####################################################] 100%
 nano-2.8.0-1-i686                                                417.7 KiB   390K/s 00:01 [####################################################] 100%
 libpciaccess-0.13.5-1-i686                                        22.6 KiB   514K/s 00:00 [####################################################] 100%
 libdrm-2.4.78-1-i686                                             237.3 KiB   450K/s 00:01 [####################################################] 100%
 mesa-17.0.3-1-i686                                                 9.6 MiB   451K/s 00:22 [####################################################] 100%
 chromaprint-1.4.2-1-i686                                          50.6 KiB   491K/s 00:00 [####################################################] 100%
 fftw-3.3.6-2-i686                                               1472.4 KiB   428K/s 00:03 [####################################################] 100%
 libmtp-1.1.13-1-i686                                             180.5 KiB   255K/s 00:01 [####################################################] 100%
 libmwaw-0.3.11-1-i686                                              5.2 MiB   462K/s 00:11 [####################################################] 100%
 libnice-0.1.14-1-i686                                            340.0 KiB   347K/s 00:01 [####################################################] 100%
 libreoffice-fresh-5.3.2-1-i686                                    95.9 MiB   444K/s 03:42 [####################################################] 100%
 libwbclient-4.5.8-1-i686                                          35.5 KiB   508K/s 00:00 [####################################################] 100%
 smbclient-4.5.8-1-i686                                             5.9 MiB   472K/s 00:13 [####################################################] 100%
 xorg-server-common-1.19.3-2-i686                                  26.8 KiB   495K/s 00:00 [####################################################] 100%
 xorg-server-1.19.3-2-i686                                       1371.5 KiB   440K/s 00:03 [####################################################] 100%
 xorg-server-xwayland-1.19.3-2-i686                               870.9 KiB   325K/s 00:03 [####################################################] 100%
 zeromq-4.2.1-1-i686                                              527.7 KiB   417K/s 00:01 [####################################################] 100%

ANYWAYS, it's fixed but not entirely sure how.

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