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oneeyedhobbit

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Registered: 2015-08-05

Posts: 2

Terminal won't open under Gnome3?

Hello everyone,

A few months ago I decided to give ArchLinux shot.  I've been really happy with it so far, mostly because its increased my general Linux knowledge by a metric ton.  However, recently I had to reformat/reinstall arch.  In both cases I stuck pretty close to the beginner's guide (I'm happy to list any deviations if that would help).  Unfortunately, I'm unable to launch the terminal app after logging into gnome3.  It shows up in the status bar and I get a progress spinner, but the terminal never launches. 

I've installed another terminal (guake) as a workaround, but I'd love to sort this out for the learning experience (and because I like the stock terminal fine).  I'm not really sure where to begin looking for log files or what have you to find the problem here, so would anyone be able to give me some starting points to investigate?  The only thing that seems out of the ordinary was the message I got after installing guake: "Gconf-WARNING: **: Client failed to connect to the DBUS daemon: unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11."  Has anyone seen this before?

circleface

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Registered: 2012-05-26

Posts: 639

Re: Terminal won't open under Gnome3?

Try running the gnome terminal from guake and see if it shows any helpful errors.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,721

Re: Terminal won't open under Gnome3?

Well, we welcome you and your 1000kg of new knowledge to the Arch Forums

In addition to circleface's good suggestion, verify that you are not running as root.  Verify that you are running Gnome, and tell us how you are starting your Gnome session.
Also, what are the output of loginctl -a show-session   ?

Last edited by ewaller (2015-08-05 03:31:42)

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oneeyedhobbit

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Registered: 2015-08-05

Posts: 2

Re: Terminal won't open under Gnome3?

Hey guys, thanks for your responses.  I overthought things, but circleface's suggestion was right on the money.  I was able to google the error and resolve my issue.  I had set my locale during Arch installation, and I believe I set it correctly but as another poster here said for some reason selecting my language in the gnome settings gui resolved things for me.