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GNOME terminal fails to start on GNOME 3.22 after locale update

Hello everyone,

Recently installed Antergos with the GNOME desktop environment. I chose the wrong locale during installation and so i had to reconfigure it manually. Now that I have everything as I want it, the following error shows up when I try start gnome-terminal:

Quote:

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

I checked these threads

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=180103
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1403166

but to no no avail.

These are the outputs of locale and localectl, respectively:

Code:

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"

LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"

LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"

LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"

LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"

LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"

LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"

LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"

LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"

LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"

LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"

LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"

LC_ALL=

Code:

 System Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

                  LC_NUMERIC=pt_PT.UTF-8

                  LC_TIME=pt_PT.UTF-8

      VC Keymap: pt-latin1

      X11 Layout: pt,us

    X11 Variant: ,

Any ideas?

i assume you want to get read of the portuguese stuff?

running localectl, i get less output:

Code:

localectl

  System Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8

                  LC_COLLATE=C

      VC Keymap: fi

      X11 Layout: n/a

so i assume that all the extra lines you have are to be purged.

the threads you linked seem to suggest some good things; what have you tried and what are the results? show us. real & complete output.

also please read "man localectl"

and the archwiki. i'm sure there have an entry for locale.

I do not wish to get rid of the portuguese stuff. I just gave the outputs of the commands since I supposed they would be useful for this thread.

My objective is to get the GNOME terminal to work; the locale settings are OK.

I'm not sure if gnome-terminal has the same debug option as terminator but what you might try is open up another terminal e.g. xterm and then it that terminal try

Code:

gnome-terminal -d

and see if you get any better information about what's going on

I have followed the indications on this page:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal/Debugging

in order to try to debug the terminal. First, from terminator, I was able to start gnome-terminal by executing the command

Code:

dbus-launch gnome-terminal

From there, I ran the commands

Code:

gdb --args /usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server --app-id my.foo.Terminal

and

Code:

(gdb) run

after which I got the following output:

Code:

Starting program: /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server --app-id my.foo.Terminal

[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

[New Thread 0x7fffea584700 (LWP 3170)]

[New Thread 0x7fffe9d83700 (LWP 3171)]

[New Thread 0x7fffe3fff700 (LWP 3172)]



(gnome-terminal-server:3166): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to get the GNOME session proxy: The name org.gnome.SessionManager is not owned



(gnome-terminal-server:3166): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to get the Xfce session proxy: The name org.xfce.SessionManager is not owned



(gnome-terminal-server:3166): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to get an inhibit portal proxy: The name org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop is not owned

[New Thread 0x7fffe37fe700 (LWP 3173)]

[Thread 0x7fffe37fe700 (LWP 3173) exited]

[Thread 0x7fffe3fff700 (LWP 3172) exited]

[Thread 0x7fffe9d83700 (LWP 3171) exited]

[Thread 0x7ffff7f1b640 (LWP 3166) exited]

[Inferior 1 (process 3166) exited normally]

On the link that I posted it is written: "Now you have 10 seconds to use the client to create a terminal inside this new server", but I do not understand how I can do that.

That's strange. Did you happen to try a simple

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-terminal

I'd try that before chasing down other solutions

Sorry for the late reply. It now happens that this is an issue I can no longer test, so I will mark this thread as solver. Thanks for the help.