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hjk

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From: Wastelands

Registered: 2009-04-27

Posts: 8

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Gnome terminal suddenly fails to start

My laptop died because the battery failed, as a result, after rebooting, gnome-terminal fails to start with:

(process:3967): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(gnome-terminal:3967): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:2:19: Theming engine 'adwaita' not found

(gnome-terminal:3967): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-main.css:168:30: Failed to import: Error opening file: No such file or directory

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 8

I couldn't find anything on status 8..:-/

Rhubarb

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Registered: 2009-08-01

Posts: 33

Re: Gnome terminal suddenly fails to start

Make sure your locale is set correctly, and that you have uncommented your relevant UTF-8 language.

See here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … ide#Locale

Then try rebooting.
gnome-terminal 3.14.x requires a unicode locale to work, with some luck the other warnings should also disappear.

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brittyazel

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From: Davis, CA

Registered: 2013-05-11

Posts: 165

Re: Gnome terminal suddenly fails to start

Mine did the same thing. I solved it by setting my language settings back to English US in gnome control center. I just re-clicked the proper English setting, and it promoted me to reboot. I guess somewhere along the way my language settings in gnome came unstuck

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