Gnome Terminal not opening
When I try and open the gnome terminal, by clicking the 'terminal' icon in apps, I get a loading and then nothing happens. Is there some way of seeing the background output of trying to open it to try an ddebug it?
UPDATE 1:
So I was able to open xterminal and tried starting the gnome terminal like this: gnome-terminal
This resulted in this output, sorry if it is slightly wrong I had to manually copy it since I couldn't work out how to copy and paste in xterminal:
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 org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 8
UPDATE 2:
So I got it working again by using google fu to find this thread which got me to enter: locale-gen and reboot which seemed to fix it.
debian gnome gnome-terminal desktop-shortcuts
edited Dec 15 at 22:20
Rui F Ribeiro
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asked Sep 21 '16 at 9:29
Cjen1
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When I try and open the gnome terminal, by clicking the 'terminal' icon in apps, I get a loading and then nothing happens. Is there some way of seeing the background output of trying to open it to try an ddebug it?
UPDATE 1:
So I was able to open xterminal and tried starting the gnome terminal like this: gnome-terminal
This resulted in this output, sorry if it is slightly wrong I had to manually copy it since I couldn't work out how to copy and paste in xterminal:
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 org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 8
UPDATE 2:
So I got it working again by using google fu to find this thread which got me to enter: locale-gen and reboot which seemed to fix it.
debian gnome gnome-terminal desktop-shortcuts
edited Dec 15 at 22:20
Rui F Ribeiro
38.9k1479129
asked Sep 21 '16 at 9:29
Cjen1
12316
3
open another terminal (xterm, rxvt, ...) , and try to run gnome-terminal from there
– Ipor Sircer
Sep 21 '16 at 9:32
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When I try and open the gnome terminal, by clicking the 'terminal' icon in apps, I get a loading and then nothing happens. Is there some way of seeing the background output of trying to open it to try an ddebug it?
UPDATE 1:
So I was able to open xterminal and tried starting the gnome terminal like this: gnome-terminal
This resulted in this output, sorry if it is slightly wrong I had to manually copy it since I couldn't work out how to copy and paste in xterminal:
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 org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 8
UPDATE 2:
So I got it working again by using google fu to find this thread which got me to enter: locale-gen and reboot which seemed to fix it.
debian gnome gnome-terminal desktop-shortcuts
edited Dec 15 at 22:20
Rui F Ribeiro
38.9k1479129
asked Sep 21 '16 at 9:29
Cjen1
12316
When I try and open the gnome terminal, by clicking the 'terminal' icon in apps, I get a loading and then nothing happens. Is there some way of seeing the background output of trying to open it to try an ddebug it?
UPDATE 1:
So I was able to open xterminal and tried starting the gnome terminal like this: gnome-terminal
This resulted in this output, sorry if it is slightly wrong I had to manually copy it since I couldn't work out how to copy and paste in xterminal:
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 org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 8
UPDATE 2:
So I got it working again by using google fu to find this thread which got me to enter: locale-gen and reboot which seemed to fix it.
debian gnome gnome-terminal desktop-shortcuts
debian gnome gnome-terminal desktop-shortcuts
edited Dec 15 at 22:20
Rui F Ribeiro
38.9k1479129
asked Sep 21 '16 at 9:29
Cjen1
12316
edited Dec 15 at 22:20
Rui F Ribeiro
38.9k1479129
asked Sep 21 '16 at 9:29
Cjen1
12316
edited Dec 15 at 22:20
Rui F Ribeiro
38.9k1479129
edited Dec 15 at 22:20
Rui F Ribeiro
38.9k1479129
edited Dec 15 at 22:20
Rui F Ribeiro
38.9k1479129
38.9k1479129
asked Sep 21 '16 at 9:29
Cjen1
12316
asked Sep 21 '16 at 9:29
Cjen1
12316
asked Sep 21 '16 at 9:29
Cjen1
12316
12316
3
open another terminal (xterm, rxvt, ...) , and try to run gnome-terminal from there
– Ipor Sircer
Sep 21 '16 at 9:32
add a comment |
3
open another terminal (xterm, rxvt, ...) , and try to run gnome-terminal from there
– Ipor Sircer
Sep 21 '16 at 9:32
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open another terminal (xterm, rxvt, ...) , and try to run gnome-terminal from there
– Ipor Sircer
Sep 21 '16 at 9:32
open another terminal (xterm, rxvt, ...) , and try to run gnome-terminal from there
– Ipor Sircer
Sep 21 '16 at 9:32
add a comment |
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As Ipor Sircer suggests, if you can open another terminal, you can run gnome-terminal from there.
Alternatively, you can dump gnome-terminal's output to a file: assuming you're running GNOME, press AltF2 and enter
sh -c "gnome-terminal > ~/gnome-terminal.log 2>&1"
Then you'll find all the output in ~/gnome-terminal.log.
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36
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answered Sep 21 '16 at 9:42
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Thanks this got me on the right path, because I was able to search the internet for the answer, since I had the error message
– Cjen1
Sep 21 '16 at 9:56
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As Ipor Sircer suggests, if you can open another terminal, you can run gnome-terminal from there.
Alternatively, you can dump gnome-terminal's output to a file: assuming you're running GNOME, press AltF2 and enter
sh -c "gnome-terminal > ~/gnome-terminal.log 2>&1"
Then you'll find all the output in ~/gnome-terminal.log.
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36
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answered Sep 21 '16 at 9:42
Stephen Kitt
163k24365444
Thanks this got me on the right path, because I was able to search the internet for the answer, since I had the error message
– Cjen1
Sep 21 '16 at 9:56
add a comment |
As Ipor Sircer suggests, if you can open another terminal, you can run gnome-terminal from there.
Alternatively, you can dump gnome-terminal's output to a file: assuming you're running GNOME, press AltF2 and enter
sh -c "gnome-terminal > ~/gnome-terminal.log 2>&1"
Then you'll find all the output in ~/gnome-terminal.log.
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36
Community♦
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answered Sep 21 '16 at 9:42
Stephen Kitt
163k24365444
Thanks this got me on the right path, because I was able to search the internet for the answer, since I had the error message
– Cjen1
Sep 21 '16 at 9:56
add a comment |
As Ipor Sircer suggests, if you can open another terminal, you can run gnome-terminal from there.
Alternatively, you can dump gnome-terminal's output to a file: assuming you're running GNOME, press AltF2 and enter
sh -c "gnome-terminal > ~/gnome-terminal.log 2>&1"
Then you'll find all the output in ~/gnome-terminal.log.
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36
Community♦
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answered Sep 21 '16 at 9:42
Stephen Kitt
163k24365444
As Ipor Sircer suggests, if you can open another terminal, you can run gnome-terminal from there.
Alternatively, you can dump gnome-terminal's output to a file: assuming you're running GNOME, press AltF2 and enter
sh -c "gnome-terminal > ~/gnome-terminal.log 2>&1"
Then you'll find all the output in ~/gnome-terminal.log.
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Thanks this got me on the right path, because I was able to search the internet for the answer, since I had the error message
– Cjen1
Sep 21 '16 at 9:56
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Thanks this got me on the right path, because I was able to search the internet for the answer, since I had the error message
– Cjen1
Sep 21 '16 at 9:56
Thanks this got me on the right path, because I was able to search the internet for the answer, since I had the error message
– Cjen1
Sep 21 '16 at 9:56
Thanks this got me on the right path, because I was able to search the internet for the answer, since I had the error message
– Cjen1
Sep 21 '16 at 9:56
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open another terminal (xterm, rxvt, ...) , and try to run gnome-terminal from there
– Ipor Sircer
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