From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 19 14:43:58 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 784A2643 for ; Tue, 19 May 2015 14:43:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 423E315CA for ; Tue, 19 May 2015 14:43:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-19-51.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.51]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t4JEhnNU020649 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 19 May 2015 09:43:50 -0500 Message-ID: <555B4C25.4050208@hiwaay.net> Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 09:50:04 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome-terminal failing to start References: <20150518134500.c63e0719.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 14:43:58 -0000 On 05/19/15 09:26, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Polytropon wrote: > >> In this case, install the regular xterm or rxvt (or their >> -unicode version, if you need) and use those for further >> testing. Start "xterm" using Gnome's "Run..." dialog and >> then start the "gnome-terminal" (I think that's the binary's >> name) from within xterm. You should then be able to see >> an error message. > I completely forgot about xterm! When I tried gnome-terminal from > xterm it produced an error message as: "Error constructing proxy for > org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling > StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process > org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 8" > > After searching on the web a bit regarding the above error it turned > out to be system locale issue (which is C and not UTF-8 by default). > > But then I found out other gnome apps were crashing at random and I > personally found GNOME3 to be very unstable so I deinstalled gnome3 > and installed xfce4 which is my current setup. I hereby 2nd the motion on both GNOME3 & especially XFCE4, which is what I am using as I write this. It flats works for me & has a very modest RAM footprint, as well as good compatibility w/ various X11 apps/programs/utilities. YMMV & all that rot .... >> You're probably using a recent FreeBSD 10 system, so you're >> affected by the switch from sc to vt. This should help: >> >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons > I am sorry but I couldn't get what I should do to access virtual > terminals. From the given link it seems Newcons is a work in progress > and may be in the next few months devs will patch the vt issue. Am I > wrong in assuming this or should I take any explicit steps to access > virtual terminals? Sorry, no help there, I am on 9.3R-p13 .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.