Need help with broken gnome-terminal

[PJandDD]

Confirmations

• I searched for similar bug reports in https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps/issues and found none were relevant.
• I tried updating Pi-Apps and the issue is still not fixed. How to update Pi-Apps?
• IMPORTANT: I promise to respond to comments on this issue and write a good bug report https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/how-to-write-good-bug-report/

What happened?

Pi-Apps won't update Apps

Description

The error is:
"Unable to open a terminal.
Debug output below.
Default x-terminal-emulator: gnome-terminal.wrapper
Using gnome-terminal.wrapper
�[91mterminal-run: No terminal detected as it never created the pid file within 10 seconds.�[39m

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

What are your system specs (run the following command in your terminal)?

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
OS architecture: 64-bit
Last updated Pi-Apps on: 02/03/2025
Latest Pi-Apps version: 02/03/2025
Kernel: aarch64 6.6.74+rpt-rpi-2712
Device model: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0
SOC identifier: bcm2712
Machine-id (hashed): 837ef83216031416c8905d22eca5a4f96ce193d8
Serial-number (hashed): e6fcb43b83213136173915c736b9ee163c42de3d
Cpu name: Cortex-A76
Ram size: 8.06 GB
Raspberry Pi OS image version: 2024-11-19
Language: en_US.UTF-8

(Recommended) Error log? Terminal output? Debug messages?

Unable to open a terminal.
Debug output below.
Default x-terminal-emulator: gnome-terminal.wrapper
Using gnome-terminal.wrapper
�[91mterminal-run: No terminal detected as it never created the pid file within 10 seconds.�[39m
# Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached

[github-actions]

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[Botspot]

This has been reported by a handful of people.
Please run these commands to help us get an idea of why this problem is happening.

readlink -f /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
dpkg -S gnome-terminal.wrapper
apt purge --simulate gnome-terminal

Please post the full output from those commands here, in a comment.

[theofficialgman]

likely duplicate. See #2707 (comment) for fixes and directions to please post the issue upstream.

[PJandDD]

This has been reported by a handful of people. Please run these commands to help us get an idea of why this problem is happening.

readlink -f /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
dpkg -S gnome-terminal.wrapper
apt purge --simulate gnome-terminal

Please post the full output from those commands here, in a comment.

readlink -f /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
dpkg -S gnome-terminal.wrapper
apt purge --simulate gnome-terminal
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper
gnome-terminal: /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-terminal.wrapper.1.gz
gnome-terminal: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
apt needs root privileges for real execution.
Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gnome-terminal-data libnautilus-extension4 rapidjson-dev
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-terminal* nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Purg nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal [3.46.8-1]
Purg gnome-terminal [3.46.8-1]