2.24.2-r1 is just fine, but I can't start the 2.26.1. With a little google, it's not only a gentoo problem but seems to be present on other distro aswell. A simple downgrade to 2.24.2-r1 fix it. I have reinstalled gconf, started dbus, tried /usr/libexec/gconf-sanity-check-2 and /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 with no change at all, still got the : gnome-terminal (from normal user and root) : Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting. Before a solution could be found I think it would be best to mask it. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.2_rc31 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r2-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 06 May 2009 14:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2, 2.6.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -ftree-vectorize" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/4.1/env /usr/kde/4.1/share/config /usr/kde/4.1/shutdown /usr/kde/4.2/env /usr/kde/4.2/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -ftree-vectorize" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/gechi /usr/portage/local/layman/berkano /usr/portage/local/layman/kde-testing /usr/portage/local/layman/qting-edge /usr/portage/local/layman/devnull /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.ch.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnowext 64bit 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi additions aften aim aio alsa amd amd64 amr amrnb amrwb ansi aotuv apm ass async atm auctex audacious audiofile avahi bash-completion berkdb bidi binary-drivers bl blas buffysize buttons bzip2 bzlib cairo caps cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr chm chroot cli clisp console consolekit context cracklib crypt cryptoworks cscope css csv ctype cups curl curlwrappers cxx daap dar64 dga dirac divx djbfft djvu dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi ecc encode exif expat extra fam fame fasttrack fat fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox firefox3 flac fltk fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fping fpx freetext g15 gadu games gcj gd gdal gdbm general ggi gif gimp gimpprint ginac glibc-omitfp glitz glsa glut glx gmedia gmp gmtfull gmthigh gmtsuppl gmttria gnutella gnutls gopher gpgme gpm grammar graphics graphviz grass gs gtalk gtk gtk2 guile h323 hardcoded-tables hdf5 howl-compat httpd humanities iconv icq id3 id3tag idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib inquisitio ipv6 irc isdnlog ithreads jabber jack jack-tmpfs java javascript jbig jikes jpeg jpeg2k kdeprefix kerberos kig-scripting kpathsea kqemu lame laptop latex lcd lcms libcaca libedit libnotify libsamplerate libtommath libvisual libwww live lj lm_sensors lnbsharing logitech-mouse logrotate lzo lzw mad matroska mbox midi mikmod mime mimencode mjpeg mmx mmxext mng mod mono motif moznocompose moznoirc moznomail moznoroaming mozsvg mozxmlterm mp2 mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer msn msnextras mudflap multilib musepack music mysql mythtv nautilus ncurses nethack netpbm network networking nfs nls nntp normalizemime nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia nvtv offensive ogg oggvorbis ole omega on-the-fly-crypt openexr opengl openmp openssl oscar otr pam pcre pdf perl player plotutils png posix pppd preview-latex pstricks psyrdo psytrellis publishers python pyzor qa qhull qt3 qt4 quicktime rar readline realmedia recode reflection regex reiser4 reiserfs rss rtc rtsp sasl schroedinger science screen sdl session shl shout sid silc slang slp smime sms sndfile soundtouch sox speex spell spl sqlite srt sse sse-filters sse2 ssl ssse3 stream subtitles svg svgz sysfs szip tcl tcltk tcpd tetex theora thesaurus threads threadsafe tiff tk tomsfastmath tools transcode truetype tv_check tv_combiner twolame type1 uk_bleb uk_rt unicode usb userlocales utf8 uudeview v4l v4l2 vamp vcd vcdimager vdpau vdr vim vim-pager vim-syntax vim-with-x visibility vlm vorbis wavpack webdav wma wma123 wmf wmp wordperfect wv wxgtk1 wxwindows x264 xanim xattr xcb xetex xext xfs xine xinerama xinetd xml xml2 xmlrpc xorg xpm xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias apache2_modules_proxy apache2_modules_proxy_ajp apache2_modules_proxy_balancer apache2_modules_proxy_connect apache2_modules_proxy_ftp apache2_modules_proxy_http auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="canon" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="g15" LINGUAS="en en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia v4l" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
could you fill an upstream bug (unless there is already one) and paste the URL here ? I remember you told me you don't have a full gnome desktop so I'd like to know what is really missing to make this work out of the gnome desktop rather than mask it. After all it works for everyone else afaics.
It fails for me too. The only gnome package I've got installed is gnome-terminal (plus its dependencies). Portage 2.2_rc33 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r3-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6420_@_2.13GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 07 May 2009 17:30:05 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p17-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/data/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--sort-common" LINGUAS="en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/jokey /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl alsa amr bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cddb cdr cdrw cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdnav dvdread encode ffmpeg flac fontconfig fortran gd gdbm gif gimp glib gmp gpm gstreamer gtk hal htmlhandbook iconv inotify ipv6 isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k kdehiddenvisibility kdeprefix midi mmx mp2 mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oss pcre pdf perl png pppd python readline reflection scanner sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg symlink sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb vcd vorbis wavpack win32codecs wma wmf x264 x86 xcomposite xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard evdev mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia none" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Well, I emerged gnome, if that's not enough, could you tell me which packages are needed ? http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-April/msg00451.html has a patch to fix it. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570588 I hope it's enough, but if not I'll be happy to give more details :-)
great another failure from upstream who's postponed fixing to eventually 2.28. Did you test the patch from the mailing list, it seems this check was added to prevent some crashes.
Sorry I wasn't clear, yes with the patch it works for me.
I am experimenting this bug too, in ~amd64 with full gnome installed, but running another window manager (IceWM).
I don't think that patch is the way to go. As the comment noted, it can simply crash at some point if it doesn't contact the gconf daemon so having it remove the check just lets you wait to possibly crash at an unknown time.
same issue with 2.26.2
(In reply to comment #7) > I don't think that patch is the way to go. > > As the comment noted, it can simply crash at some point if it doesn't contact > the gconf daemon so having it remove the check just lets you wait to possibly > crash at an unknown time. > Well, but the gconf_ping_daemon() func is marked as not to be used by apps in the gconf sources. Actually, with that patch, g-t works. The only other way to have it working without patching was (for me) to launch another app using the gconf daemon (kazehakase worked for me) and only then launch g-t. Anyway, AFAIK when an app needs a gconf daemon, this one is automatically launched and only die when no other client needs it. Then, I just don't understand the check.
I also think that would be better revert that until a proper fix is really found by upstream (or anybody else of course). What are the advantages of gnome-terminal-2.26 way of handling gconf failures over 2.24 way?
*** Bug 281849 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A partial fix for this has been backported from gnome-terminal 2.27.x[1] and added to 2.26.3-r2. As upstream has stated on the bug, they're not interested in a complete fix for now. 1. http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-terminal/commit/?id=f41c3d14bdfd533109d7d75bdbb2e2a0ab59b60c
