gnome 3.8 hits sid / Feedback wanted

[musca]

Hello dear gnome friends!
A fresh installed vbox-VM of siduction-13.1.0-firestarter-gnome-amd64 was successfully dist-upgraded. The process involves about 590 packages with a downloadvolume of aprox. 480 MB.

My short test was successful for network, vbox grafics, sound, iceweasel, xchat, but the standard rootshell can only be used once per session.

The second start atempt gives this error:

$ gksu gnome-terminal
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 /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server exited with status 1

cheers!
musca

[convbsd]

First of all....
Thank you musca.
Due to this issue I have put on hold gnome-terminal and gnome-terminal-data before doing dist upgrade.
Hope that this issue will be fixed soon because a debian  bug report already exists.
Greetings
ConvBSD

[michaaa62]

There once was a rule of thumb to not start gui applications as root, if not essential like synaptic package manager or gparted partitioning tool.

You could easily 'su' from any gnome-terminal.
For convenience's sake you could have guake installed to be able to access a quick terminal application with a separate tab for root and user.

[musca]

Hello!
Providing a rootshell as a gui application is a standard procedure in gnome, xfce and lxde.
You can omit its use, of course.

cheers!
musca