Bug 834347

Summary:	gnome-terminal through ssh session fails because of stale X server property
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Eric Hopper <eric-bugs2>
Component:	gnome-terminal	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	alanh, mclasen
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Description Eric Hopper 2012-06-21 15:26:50 UTC

Description of problem:
Running gnome-terminal through ssh causes gnome-terminal to exit immediately.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-terminal-3.4.1.1-1.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ssh -Yf foohost gnome-terminal

Actual results:
Exits and no window ever appears

Expected results:
A gnome-terminal window showing up on my X display.

Additional info:
So, I figured out what the actual problem is. A stale property on my X server.

Basically, I updated the software on foohost, and then rebooted it. After the reboot gnome-terminal would refuse to start. If I logged in with 'ssh -Y foohost' and ran 'gnome-terminal' it would simply exit silently. If I did 'gnome-terminal --disable-factory' I got this message:

$ gnome-terminal --disable-factory

(gnome-terminal:2941): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-griNv12JwP: Connection refused
Failed to summon the GConf demon; exiting. No D-BUS daemon running

I logged into the console X session on foohost and started a gnome-terminal there and it worked just fine. I then copied out the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable and set the same value in the ssh session. gnome-terminal again began to work.

I started filling out this bug report.

Then I had an epiphany and exited the X server (it's on an OS X laptop) and tried 'ssh -Yf foohost gnome-terminal' again. The X server auto-started like it's supposed to and a gnome-terminal window magically appeared.

From this I conclude that gnome-terminal was trying to get the DBUS session information from a property on the X server, but that information was stale.

This behavior is still sub-optimal, and it should be fixed. If that information appears to be invalid for whatever reason, a new dbus session should be created or some other similar measure.

Comment 1 Alan Hamilton 2013-06-22 03:49:26 UTC

Although I haven't been able to reproduce the issue reliably, this seems to resolve it when it occurs. 

dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-terminal

This starts a new DBUS environment for gnome-terminal.

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