gnome-terminal - Failed to execute child process "dbus-launch" (No such file or directory)

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When starting gnome-terminal may get following error message about missing dbus-launch binary provided by the dbus-x11 RPM.

** (gnome-terminal:10968): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-krlTjkXEuY: Connection refused
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Failed to execute child process "dbus-launch" (No such file or directory)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    • gnome-terminal-3.8.4-8.el7

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