F17 gnome-terminal crashes

[Frode Petersen]

I was about to report a bug towards terminal, as several other people 
have, but after trying to start terminal as a fresh test user without 
problems, I'm uncertain about this being a bug in terminal or not.

Problem: gnome terminal crashes every time I try to start it, with abrt 
reporting it killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT).

The install is about a fortnight old, so it's odd that such a vital part 
should fail so soon.

Could anyone please help me decide if this is a bug to be filed against 
gnome-terminal, or otherwise help me find out what has happened to the 
'chain' that starts the program?

Thanks in advance!

Frode Petersen


Here is what I wrote before changing my mind:

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1. Click on the gnome-terminal icon
2. Wait for the terminal window to open. The left hand side of the panel 
indicates that terminal is starting
3. Nothing happens and the gnome-terminal starting indication on the 
panel disappears.
(4. Abrt shows the crash info)

Going through the crash report I found these oddities:

In /var/log/messages (through abrt):
Jul  3 01:42:15 fprdl dbus-daemon[896]: (packagekitd:10797): 
PkPlugin-WARNING **: could not load desktop file 
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/gnome-terminal.desktop
Jul  5 12:42:28 fprdl abrt[8434]: Sav...

---- I don't understand why a xfce4 file is involved in starting 
gnome-terminal on gnome3. The file comes from the package 
exo-0.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64, and exists:
$ ls -alF /usr/share/xfce4/helpers/gnome-terminal.desktop
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1599 jan.  13 13:10 
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/gnome-terminal.desktop

I have not installed xfce, only thunar, which probably brought the file in.

Starting gnome-terminal from konsole in gnome3 gives this result:
$ gnome-terminal
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error: 
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error: 
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error: 
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error: 
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error: 
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error: 
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
**
ERROR:terminal-app.c:1449:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: 
(app->default_profile_id != NULL)
Aborted (core dumped)
$

   [The D-BUS error translates (approximately?) to "The GConf-server is 
about to shut down")