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Tetrix

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Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 17

[SOLVED] Terminal, Gedit and File Manager won't open

Hello!
    I am new on Arch and I got this problem. Since few days ago my file manager stopped working. Whenever I click the icon, the cursor just becomes a spinning wheel and nothing happens. I can only open it if I type "nautilus". The same thing happens when I try to open gedit. Also my terminal doesn't work. .When I type "gnome-terminal" I get the following output: "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 1" .

I have read that the problem might be in /etc/locale.conf . That file looks like this:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8   
LANG=mk_MK.UTF-8
which I guess is normal.

Last edited by Tetrix (2015-09-30 18:35:05)

esa

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Registered: 2011-12-29

Posts: 143

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Re: [SOLVED] Terminal, Gedit and File Manager won't open

Hi

Only the last entry is read.
This means, your LANG settings refers to mk_MK.UTF-8.
I have no idea what language that is, but you might have better luck to comment that line out, by adding a # at the start of the line:

hth

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Tetrix

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Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] Terminal, Gedit and File Manager won't open

Actually it was only LANG=en_US.UTF-8 till yesterday, then I tried to add  LANG=mk_MK.UTF-8 thinking that would fix the problem. Anyway, I deleted that line and the behavior is still the same.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,550

Re: [SOLVED] Terminal, Gedit and File Manager won't open

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46374

Tetrix

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Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] Terminal, Gedit and File Manager won't open

Ok, I found the answer in the link posted by Scimmia. What I did was edited the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file and added at the bottom:

includes=/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d
if [ -d "$includes" ]
then
for f in "$includes/"*
do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
unset includes

This fixed the problem for me. Thank you guys for the help

brumby

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Registered: 2013-10-27

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Terminal, Gedit and File Manager won't open

The above didn't work for me. This happened to me because I forgot to update my .xinitrc file to include loading dbus-daemon with gnome.

dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session

phle

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Registered: 2015-11-17

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Terminal, Gedit and File Manager won't open

I solved this issue that I had with gnome 3.18.

I never used any dm, only ~/.xinitrc

At the biginning  this last line in ~/.xinitrc was working fine

exec gnome-session

but after some update, it didn't work any more for launching gnome-terminal.
I got an exited with status 10 which is a dbus issue as explained here https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal/FAQ

I found this workaround

-1- Launch lxterminal
-2- Issue this command
    exec sudo su xxx -c gnome-termina

Now, thanks to this post, I have actually solved this issue.

In my ~/.xinitrc I am using now

dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session

and everthing is working again.

trishnendu

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Registered: 2016-05-07

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Terminal, Gedit and File Manager won't open

Add the following line at the bottom of ~/.bashrc
dbus-update-activation-environment --all

and reboot your machine. This fixed the problem for me

Last edited by trishnendu (2016-05-07 06:51:13)

beakie

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Registered: 2013-04-26

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] Terminal, Gedit and File Manager won't open

I solved this issue that I had with gnome 3.18.

I never used any dm, only ~/.xinitrc

At the biginning  this last line in ~/.xinitrc was working fine

exec gnome-session

but after some update, it didn't work any more for launching gnome-terminal.
I got an exited with status 10 which is a dbus issue as explained here https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal/FAQ

I found this workaround

-1- Launch lxterminal
-2- Issue this command
    exec sudo su xxx -c gnome-termina

Now, thanks to this post, I have actually solved this issue.

In my ~/.xinitrc I am using now

dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session

and everthing is working again.

This solved it for me

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,784

Re: [SOLVED] Terminal, Gedit and File Manager won't open

Taking this opportunity to close this solved thread.

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