diagnosing problem with terminal emulator startup in openbox

[Mike Marchywka]

Nevermind it looks like it is working after reboot. I may have messed up something with the
runlevel - I can get it to work after "systemctl isolate runlevel[23]" going back and forth when I do that
from root.  Issuing the systemctl command from ubuntu gives "PolicyKit daemon disconnected from the bus"
and then the openbox terminal emulator fails but it looks like a different problem than previously reported.

 I did change /usr/lib/systemd/usr/gnome-terminal-server.service
to add "--display="0"  to ExecStart=/usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server 
but not sure if that is expected to do anything.

Curious though if someone knows offhand where I should look to better solve the problem.

Thanks. 

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From: ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com> on behalf of Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 5:36 PM
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Subject: diagnosing problem with terminal emulator startup in openbox

I've been having pretty good luck running bionic beaver from my USB stick and wanted to
clean up the first hacked version so I reformated the stick and reloaded everything trying to
make a script of everything I did.  Generally it worked but I'm getting an odd problem
with the openbox terminal emulator probably because I don';t know how systemd works.

>From root everything is fine, startx opens openbox and the menu choice for emulator acts as expected.
>From user ubuntu, the terminal emulator fails with a message in syslog saying gnome-terminal-server failed.
If I open another tty and type " /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server --display=:0"
then the openbox terminal emulator comes up as expected.

Typing "/usr/bin/gnome-terminal.real -v --display=:0" in the other tty did not appear to work.
nor did playing with the service file .

None of the permissions seemed specific to root and I was not sure how to proceed, I can
write a script to open the terminal server myself as a terrible hack but curious on easiest approach
to fix the problem.

And nouveaiu.nomodeset on command line did seem to fix earlier flicker but the console dimensions
are awful...

Thanks.


note new address
 Mike Marchywka 306 Charles Cox Drive Canton, GA 30115
 2295 Collinworth  Drive Marietta GA 30062.  formerly 487 Salem Woods Drive Marietta GA 30067 404-788-1216 (C)<- leave message 989-348-4796 (P)<- emergency

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