I run systemd if that is relevant. All commands below were run as ordinary user "gottlieb" (I know the sudo runs the stated command as root)
On one machine (named E6430) running gnome-terminal is problematic. If I log via the gnome graphical login screen I cannot start a gnome terminal either by Selecting it from the favorites menu Using my own keyboard shortcut (which has worked for years) Invoking M-x shell in emacs and typing gnome-terminal The first two produce nothing on the screen, third produces Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 9 However the following both work 1. in the same emacs shell as above typing sudo gnome-terminal 2. from another machine where gnome-terminal works as normal ssh -Y e6430 gnome-terminal Any suggestions would be appreciated thanks, allan