[SOLVED] GNOME terminal not starting

adr77 · 2024-11-04 20:00:07

Good day, I have this issue, just installed Arch to my ThinkPad, and the terminal I chose isn't starting, I use Cinnamon for my desktop environment, and I have the base system installed plus Firefox for my browser of choice.

Something I could do about it? The cursor thinks for a moment then stops. Everything else but the terminal starts, so far I had to resort to using the tty. Thanks in advance!

note: also open to terminal suggestions if needed

update: ended up installing the kitty terminal and tried using it to launch the GNOME terminal, and this happens now:

[andaro@olympus ~]$ gnome-terminal
# Locale not supported by C library.
# 	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
# Error creating terminal: Could not activate remote peer 'org.gnome.Terminal': startup job failed

my system locale on both of my computers is Israeli English (en_IL.UTF-8), but yet it still starts fine on the monolith, which has the same desktop environment and the same terminal... and just to check, I installed kitty on the monolith, and used kitty to launch the GNOME terminal, and it didn't have any issues what so ever. What could it be?

I feel bad for wasting everyone's time here, my sincerest apologies, I forgot to run '# locale-gen' during installation, and I learned my lesson.

People, read the installation manual properly.

Last edited by adr77 (2024-11-05 19:03:04)

V1del · 2024-11-05 08:07:55

What outputs do you get from

locale
locale -a
localectl

seth · 2024-11-05 08:31:55

en_IL.UTF-8 would be a custom locale, did you add it on both systems?

adr77 · 2024-11-05 18:59:44

for V1del, the command outputs:

[andaro@olympus ~]$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_IL.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_IL.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_IL.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_IL.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_IL.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_IL.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_IL.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_IL.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_IL.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_IL.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_IL.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_IL.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
[andaro@olympus ~]$ locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
C.utf8
POSIX
[andaro@olympus ~]$ localectl
System Locale: LANG=en_IL.UTF-8
    VC Keymap: (unset)         
   X11 Layout: (unset)

and seth, en_IL.UTF-8 is a locale found in '/etc/locale.gen', and is recognized on the monolith as Israeli English, with the first day of the week being Sunday, it uses a 24hr format by default, and the currency is the New Israeli Shekel (NIS). You can open it up yourself on your own personal machine.

Also, I had realized I had missed an important step during the installation, that being:

 # locale-gen

That may have been the only issue, and I feel stupid for this.

And yes it was... it's all fixed now...

Last edited by adr77 (2024-11-05 19:03:39)

seth · 2024-11-05 20:38:36

You can open it up yourself on your own personal machine.

No, can't - I've most locales in NoExtract and just delete the pacnew (because I don't want to add any locales either) - but you're right: the locale was indeed added at some point.
My bad, sorry for the misinformation.

adr77 · 2024-11-05 20:43:35

It's alright, you can also check it on an ArchISO if you're interested, but it's mostly as I said; Sunday, 24hr format, and the NIS being the default currency.

V1del · 2024-11-06 12:23:56

FWIW that's what the query for "locale -a" was for, it shows the generated locales

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[SOLVED] GNOME terminal not starting

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