I installed nautilus-open-terminal-0.8. I get a new entry 'Open Terminal' in the desktop right-click menu, as expected. However, when selecting this entry a new terminal doesn't open. Reproducible: Always Actual Results: Desktop right-click menu entry 'Open Terminal' doesn't open a new terminal. Expected Results: Desktop right-click menu entry 'Open Terminal' should open a new terminal. Every time I try opening a terminal I get this error in ~/.xsession-errors (nautilus:6002): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_spawn_async: assertion `argv != NULL' failed I tried re-emerging nautilus, glib and gnome-terminal. Also tried emerging nautilus-open-terminal-0.7 and I get the same results. Here's my emerge --info: Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Timestamp of tree: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:00:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi aiglx alsa amd64 asf audiofile avahi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo caps cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus divx divx4linux djvu dlloader dri dvd dvdread dvi emacs emboss encode esd evo fam ffmpeg fftw flac fontconfig fortran gdbm gif gimpprint glitz glut gmedia gmp gnome gnutls gpm gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl iconv idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kerberos lcms ldap libnotify logrotate lzo mad md5sum midi mmx mng mono mozcalendar moznocompose moznoirc moznomail moznoroaming mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg mpi msn mudflap nautilus ncurses network new-login nls nntp nomotif nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3support quicktime readline realmedia reflection rtc samba sdl session sndfile speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg symlink t1lib tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts ucs2 unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wma wmp x264 xattr xcb xine xinetd xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx usb-audio" 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 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 mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nvidia v4l" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Under System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications, on the system tab, what do you have your terminal set to?
Yes, that was it. I had terminal set to custom with command empty. Weird. I set it to gnome-terminal and now it works fine. Thanks a lot.
