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[mclay <michael.j.mclay@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had the same problem as Brian Murrell in post #74. I have fixed the
bug for the past two releases by commenting out the broken code in
terminal.c. The test for gconf using gconf_ping_daemon() failed if the
program was being called over an ssh connection. When I tried to compile
the 2.29.6 source from the Ubuntu source the make command failed didn't
compile. The error message was:

    gnome-terminal-2.29.6/src/terminal-window.c:3330: undefined reference to `GTK_WIDGET_REALIZED'
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I am puzzled about the failure to build. It appears that the binaries
for gnome-terminal in 10.4 may have been built against a different
release.

The solution was to download the 2.29.92 release,and build it. The
comment at line 451 of src/terminal.c describes the fix that was made in
this release. Here are the steps required to build and install this
release:

Download the gnome-terminal-2.29.92.tar.gz from https://launchpad.net
/gnome-terminal/main/2.29.92:

    wget http://launchpad.net/gnome-terminal/main/2.29.92/+download
/gnome-terminal-2.29.92.tar.gz

Get tools for building deb packages:

    sudo apt-get install autotools-dev fakeroot dh-make build-essential
checkinstall

unpack tarball and enter the source directory:

    tar -xzf gnome-terminal-2.29.92.tar.gz 
    cd gnome-terminal-2.29.92/

 build, and install the deb:

    ./configure
    make
    sudo checkinstall

The new gnome-terminal will be installed in /usr/local/bin.

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[gnome-terminal SRU] Cannot start gnome-terminal (or x-terminal-emulator) because of gconf error
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