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coffeeguy

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[SOLVED] Gnome Terminal doesn't start despite UTF-8 locales, times out

Hi, I've been having trouble with the gnome terminal. At first it threw an exit status 8, but now after regenerating the UTF-8 locales and restarting, the server proxy simply times out saying:

"Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached". I cannot figure out what my problem is. Please help!

Last edited by coffeeguy (2017-01-29 04:59:36)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Terminal doesn't start despite UTF-8 locales, times out

locale
locale -a

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coffeeguy

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Terminal doesn't start despite UTF-8 locales, times out

The outputs are as follows:

locale  

LANG=C
LC_CTYPE=C
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL= 

locale -a 

C
en_US.utf8
POSIX 

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Terminal doesn't start despite UTF-8 locales, times out

The only thing set to en_US.UTF-8 is LC_COLLATE - i'm not sure whether that should be sufficient for GT, but it's an extremely odd configuration (usually reverse, because some CLI tools like mc -did?- render ASCII)

cat /etc/locale.conf

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coffeeguy

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Terminal doesn't start despite UTF-8 locales, times out

Don't really have tools like mc. But I did have screenfetch which I read had an issue with GT. So I promptly removed it and then I read here that it was some bug with the gnome-session. So I did what was told in the comments and patched gnome-session using the PKGBUILD, but still nothing. Anyway, the cat output is as follows:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Terminal doesn't start despite UTF-8 locales, times out

You're apparently facing bug https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50069, but *if* you applied that patch, it didn't resolve anything.
You locale.conf is correct, but the locale is *still* effectively set to C (by screenfetch?), thus the problems.

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coffeeguy

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Terminal doesn't start despite UTF-8 locales, times out

Ok can you tell me what it should be and how can I go about tinkering stuff and change it to the values it's supposed to be. As I said earlier, I uninstalled screenfetch.

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Terminal doesn't start despite UTF-8 locales, times out

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

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coffeeguy

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Terminal doesn't start despite UTF-8 locales, times out

Thanks a lot, seth. That did it it for me. Problem solved.

My

locale

now reads

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"