Factory refuses to spawn new terminals

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical)]

After a while, on a couple of different machines, I've noticed that the running gnome-terminal factory will suddenly stop spawning new terminals when asked.

Running "gnome-terminal" produces no output and returns to the prompt, no new terminal is opened.

I'll attached an strace of doing that in case it's useful, also I'll attach one from the factory during that time.

Running "gnome-terminal --disable-factory" opens a new terminal as expected.

Closing all the running terminals, and running gnome-terminal causes a new terminal (and factory) to be started and things work as expected from then on.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Attached is the output of "strace gnome-terminal" when run -- it should be contacting the factory and asking that to spawn a new terminal.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Here's an strace made by attaching to the running factory and then running "gnome-terminal" -- it should be connecting to this running factory, which should spawn a new terminal window, but nothing happens.

Note that this'll probably include me moving my mouse to the other terminal and typing "gnome-terminal" into that <g>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Do you still get that issue?

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I've never seen this either...

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

I haven't had it in a little while, no; so I'll assume this got magically fixed upstream.