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davidbryant

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From: Canyon Lake, Texas

Registered: 2022-06-29

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Problems with GNOME Terminal

Fresh installation of arch Linux on a Dell XPS8930. Installed Gnome packages and enabled gdm. Terminal application will not launch.

22:37:08 gnome-terminal: # Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached
22:36:43 systemd: Failed to start GNOME Terminal Server.
22:36:43 systemd: Failed to start GNOME Terminal Server.
22:36:43 systemd: gnome-terminal-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
22:36:43 systemd: gnome-terminal-server.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=9/n/a
22:36:43 gnome-terminal-: Locale not supported.
22:36:43 systemd: Starting GNOME Terminal Server...
22:36:43 systemd: Starting GNOME Terminal Server...
22:36:43 systemd: Created slice Slice /app/org.gnome.Terminal.
22:36:43 dbus-daemon: [session uid=1000 pid=769] Activating via systemd: service name='org.gnome.Terminal' unit='gnome-terminal-server.service' requested by ':1.88' (uid=1000 pid=3263 comm="gnome-terminal --window")
22:36:43 gnome-terminal: # 	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
22:36:43 systemd: Started Application launched by gnome-shell.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I have installed xterm, so I can get by. But the Gnome terminal ought to work. I set my locale.conf by following instructions in the wiki. Did I miss a step, somehow?

[davidb@localhost ~]$ nano locale.conf
# English
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Thanks!

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jasonwryan

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From: .nz

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Re: Problems with GNOME Terminal

You need to set a proper hostname, and then paste the output of `locale`.

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robson75

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From: Poland

Registered: 2020-06-28

Posts: 144

Re: Problems with GNOME Terminal

Run

systemctl --user enable gnome-terminal-server.service

systemctl --user start gnome-terminal-server.service

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schard

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From: Hannover

Registered: 2016-05-06

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Re: Problems with GNOME Terminal

Locale not supported.

I bet you did not uncomment "en_US.UTF-8" in /etc/locale.gen and/or ran locale-gen.

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