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gnome-terminal package

gnome-terminal doesn't start

Bug #403186 reported by Nikola Yanev on 2009-07-22

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #436188: gnome-terminal assert failure: ERROR:terminal-app.c:1444:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app->default_profile_id != NULL). Edit Remove

This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

actually now i am using xterm, since from the last update gnome-terminal couldn't be started. The error is:

**
ERROR:terminal-app.c:1432:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app->default_profile_id != NULL)
Aborted

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

GNOME version: 2.27.4
Linux kernel: 2.6.31-3-generic

non-free: nvidia (w & w/o compiz)

Nikola Yanev (gericom) on 2009-07-22

Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2009-07-23:

thanks for the report, does it works fine with another new user created on your system? could you get a backtrace by reading https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash ? Thanks in advance.

Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Incomplete

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Nikola Yanev (gericom) wrote on 2009-07-24:

.xsession-errors Edit (9.6 KiB, text/plain)

no, i've created another user to test it, but the situation is the same, also removed the terminal's gconf keys, but it's the same. i think it's gtk= problem. i am attaching my xsession-errors.

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c7d2f5c8667d26fffd5e7772d632c76d (c7d2f5c8667d26fffd5e7772d632c76d-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2009-07-24:

There is no need to ask the bug reporter for these, or any, details. Just do a bit of research!

This bug is
(a) known upstream,
(b) fixed upstream since 2.24.1, but
(c) the fix is reverted by a patch in the ubuntu package.

So this is entirely ubuntu's fault.

c7d2f5c8667d26fffd5e7772d632c76d (c7d2f5c8667d26fffd5e7772d632c76d-deactivatedaccount) on 2009-07-24

Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Confirmed

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2009-07-28:

The change is coming from Debian in this case: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531734 ; changelog entry:

"gnome-terminal (2.26.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * 02_let_gconf_autostart.patch: Don’t exit if there is no GConf daemon
    running. Instead, let dbus-daemon and gconfd be autostarted as they
    should be if this is needed. Thanks to Sean Finney for the
    suggestion. Closes: #531734 and some duplicates.

-- Josselin Mouette <email address hidden> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:53:33 +0200
"