From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 19 14:20:08 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 67652B48 for ; Tue, 19 May 2015 14:20:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x231.google.com (mail-ig0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 33B8411C4 for ; Tue, 19 May 2015 14:20:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by igbhj9 with SMTP id hj9so34509677igb.1 for ; Tue, 19 May 2015 07:20:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=ueQNxDuv0Ubb0xOwSePrptaXlUxCs+NzbOnCvTz8AQ4=; b=PjAeBM4qou+9RGaF/WpGlNsB7KeXyr8ZWGKbeYl38a0/ByJ1wzQfVBXDI8z4LI1K3S UfgaspObTvEDe5uyddeUV2Pkb+g4mT7b2k6W/QtPSIGet6eX0+zhaRDoyg3J89xYa4FC oUojLcdBbylB0xXWwnfUmHMrFEr8wtZM3yHYnNqGOmOO77X8aAkKE9e2KJg/Kb379z7g pIrUc83WqmhvWyvXRKywQ/CbvT5v7sEPMVukeexO6PbmY58L1u58cJ25dahpKxj5ij2o ZvTc7Rg2rn2Zx1mwlQ6K0p00RgCxIwgm1QWndbv8DUt/oH8mJkYM8/F6BLrpR6btfq/O qXPQ== X-Received: by 10.107.153.8 with SMTP id b8mr37475410ioe.3.1432045207631; Tue, 19 May 2015 07:20:07 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.36.121.1 with HTTP; Tue, 19 May 2015 07:19:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150518134500.c63e0719.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20150518134500.c63e0719.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Avinash Sonawane Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 19:49:47 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: gnome-terminal failing to start To: Polytropon Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 14:20:08 -0000 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. > 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