Terminator won't load. Config file missing. How to re-create?

[Thrower]

root@kali:~# terminator
ConfigBase::load: Unable to open /root/.config/terminator/config ([Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/root/.config/terminator/config')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/terminator", line 83, in <module>
    from terminatorlib import ipc
  File "/usr/share/terminator/terminatorlib/ipc.py", line 31, in <module>
    class DBusService(Borg, dbus.service.Object):
  File "/usr/share/terminator/terminatorlib/ipc.py", line 62, in DBusService
    @dbus.service.method(BUS_NAME, in_signature='a{ss}')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-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 '-'
root@kali:~#

It appears as if my config file has either moved or is missing. How to re-create?

[LivingCyborg (livingcyborg)]

I have the same problem.

As a new Terminator user I read man and then tried
terminator -H
because I wanted to see if that would be a good command to start terminator at startup.
It said I had no terminator config file.
I found this https://linux.die.net/man/5/terminator_config
It has only a copy paste for the most base file. Not the one which should be auto generated.

I tried to uninstall terminator.
Then ran
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-terminator
because I read here https://gnometerminator.blogspot.com/p/introduction.html

That is giving error because there is a missing auth file or something.
Every time I run
sudo apt-get update
I get the same error that I got from the repository install. I previously had a clean update process with no issues whatsoever. I tried to install from Ubuntu store and it also didn't create config file in .config folder. I ran
sudo apt-get remove terminator
and the repository error is still there from the other command every update. I'm new to linux so go ez on me!

[Andrew Meadows (andasm)]

The config error is a red herring. The error stopping terminator from running is the D-Bus error. Until this is fixed terminator can be started with the -u option like so:

terminator -u

This disables D-Bus and allows it to run.