crash when gconf is inaccessible or configuation gets fail

[Nix]

When GConf is present but inaccessible (running as a different user, on a different machine sharing the same $HOME over NFS, etc), or indeed if other errors happen when acquiring gconf info, we get a crash at startup as terminator tries to acquire defaults:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./terminator", line 120, in <module>
    TERMINATOR.create_layout(OPTIONS.layout)
  File "/usr/src/terminator/terminator/terminatorlib/terminator.py", line 283, in create_layout
    window, terminal = self.new_window()
  File "/usr/src/terminator/terminator/terminatorlib/terminator.py", line 208, in new_window
    terminal = maker.make('Terminal')
  File "/usr/src/terminator/terminator/terminatorlib/factory.py", line 94, in make
    output = func(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/src/terminator/terminator/terminatorlib/factory.py", line 106, in make_terminal
    return(terminal.Terminal())
  File "/usr/src/terminator/terminator/terminatorlib/terminal.py", line 173, in __init__
    self.reconfigure()
  File "/usr/src/terminator/terminator/terminatorlib/terminal.py", line 778, in reconfigure
    self.titlebar.update()
  File "/usr/src/terminator/terminator/terminatorlib/titlebar.py", line 116, in update
    title_font = Pango.FontDescription(self.config.get_system_prop_font())
  File "/usr/src/terminator/terminator/terminatorlib/config.py", line 373, in get_system_prop_font
    '/desktop/gnome/interface/font_name')
GLib.Error: gconf-error-quark: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details — 1: Failed to get connection to session: Could not connect: Connection refused) (2)

It is clearly better to silently drop said defaults than to crash.

Patch to do that attached.

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

Hi Nix, thanks for the patch, but it turns out I "fixed" this already when making a change to move away from old gtk2 GConfig to new gtk3 DConfig, fixing: https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1655446

You can see the change: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator/terminator/gtk3/revision/1697

I'm going to mark this as invalid, as it no longer applies.