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Hamed Kamrava
Asked: 2015-04-13 02:49:19 +0800 CST

Problem with "gnome-terminal" on Gnome 3.12.2

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I have Ubuntu-Gnome 14.04 (Gnome 3.12.2).

When I try to run gnome-terminal by following command :

$ gnome-terminal
Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal: /org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: 
Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: 
Process /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server exited with status 8
gnome

10 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You have to add LANG=en_US.UTF-8 to /etc/default/locale and reboot your system. (Solution from this Arch Linux forum post.)

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  2. Here is the list of commands which helps me:

    sudo apt install dconf-cli

# Reinstalling terminal
dconf reset -f /org/gnome/terminal
sudo apt-get remove gnome-terminal
sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal

# Reconfiguring locale
sudo locale-gen --purge
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

reboot

    As you can see I just reconfigured the locale and reinstall gnome-terminal

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  3. This is a winner for me:

    /usr/bin/dbus-launch /usr/bin/gnome-terminal &

    as learned here

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  4. This might be an issue with your locales. Either add LANG=en_US.UTF-8 to /etc/locale.conf and reboot or delete that file altogether (sudo rm /etc/locale.conf && sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 && sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales) and reboot.

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  5. I had this problem when I created a new Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS Desktop. The fix was to edit the /etc/default/locale file by adding the following line to the end of the file:

    LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

    Then reboot and the problem was gone.

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  6. Execute sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales in an alternative terminal emulator and select en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 , choose it as the default locale. gnome-terminal should work.

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  7. Another cause of the problem is that new preferences have been activated at the start of the session, check "Applications at startup" Preferences

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  8. I had to combine answers from @TomH and @BarryPye. To get a gnome-terminal window:

    LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/dbus-launch gnome-terminal

    In my case, the issue was occuring in a VNC session. I fixed it in my ~/.vnc/xstartup by changing the window manager invocation to:

    LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/dbus-launch /bin/gnome-session

    Then gnome-terminal starts directly from command or the gnome graphical launcher, without the need to extra dbus-launch commands.

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  9. If anyone hits this error using waypipe, the answer above by BarryPye shows the way.

    e.g. waypipe --compress lz4 ssh user@host "/usr/bin/dbus-launch /usr/bin/gnome-terminal &"

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  10. I was at work today and desperate to get things moving. I found this

    dbus-launch gnome-terminal
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