Getting errors when launching gnome-terminal over VNC in RHEL6.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • On connecting unix machines using VNC, gnome-terminal command , gives below error:
"Failed to get the session bus: /bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message
Falling back to non-factory mode.
Failed to summon the GConf demon; exiting.  Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: /bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message)"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
  • gnome-terminal-2.31.3-8.el6.x86_64
  • dbus-1.2.24-7.el6_3.x86_64

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