VirtualBox

Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

#19627 new defect

Gnome Terminal does not open on Linux guest after installing 6.1.8 GA

Reported by: qdev Owned by:
Component: guest additions Version: VirtualBox 6.1.8
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Windows

Description

This seems to be related to the other x.11 issues reported with 6.1.8.

If I uninstall GA, I can open a gnome-terminal just fine.

However once I install GA, the terminal fails to launch (the mouse pointer turns to animated wait icon but ultimately no terminal window is opened).

I'm running Windows Host on Windows 10, Centos 8 (up-to-date) guest.

My Centos installation has both Wayland and xorg X.11 display servers installed for some reason (not sure if that's standard on Centos) but it's possible to select which one to use at logon.

When selecting Wayland I get the "Parent seems to be non-X.11" error message popup, but that error doesn't come up when I select the xorg server, so that's just the x.11 detection that's new in this release.

The problem is that gnome-terminal doesn't launch at all regardless of which x.11 server I select.

If I connect to the Linux guest from a Windows ssh client, that's fine, but running gnome-terminal from that bash shell doesn't work. Other x.11 programs (eg firefox) work fine from both the guest desktop and a remote ssh shell.

This should be easy to replicate.

Let me know if I can help diagnose further.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by qdev, 4 years ago

A bit more info, running gnome-terminal from an ssh session displays the following error:

# Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached

A search reveals that has something to do with the locale and suggests setting LANG="en_US.UTF-8" in /etc/locale.conf.

I tried that (it was "en_GB.UTF-8") but it made no difference.

No idea why this should fail due to GA.

Other gnome X.11 apps (eg gnome-calculator) work fine.

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