Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 19:49:47 +0530 From: Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome-terminal failing to start Message-ID: <CAJ9BSW-mxm%2B1ZBMd7UUcGeOb4ZSQKCxcOmYLudtXQcXO1ZwHsw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150518134500.c63e0719.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAJ9BSW-C2ppwGuUR9-3aBhW=pmq89tabLA38hdioGQN1s=Qh8Q@mail.gmail.com> <20150518134500.c63e0719.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> 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. > 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? -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com
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