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low00

Member

Registered: 2017-07-27

Posts: 1

gnome-terminal won't open

Hi,

The problem

I just installed a fresh Arch Linux with Gnome, and everything seems to be working, except for gnome-terminal that won’t open.

I tried launching it with xterm to see the output, and I got:

[paul@paul-arch ~]$ gnome-terminal
Warning: DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID not set and no fallback available.
Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached

The Warning appears instantly, where the Error constructing proxy appears after a few seconds.

What I tried

I've seen on the Internet that it was probably a locale problem. So I tried setting it right. Here is the output of locale -a:

[paul@paul-arch ~]$ locale -a
C
POSIX
en_US.utf8

and localectl:

[paul@paul-arch ~]$ localectl
   System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: us-acentos
      X11 Layout: us
     X11 Variant: intl

And my Region & Language settings:

http://i.imgur.com/7ltrkXI.png

What did I do wrong?

PS: first post here, I hope I set the text right!

Mod note: Converted image to url. Please see the CoC regarding acceptable image sizes. -- WorMzy

Last edited by WorMzy (2017-07-27 09:57:09)

Pednick

Member

Registered: 2014-04-09

Posts: 38

Re: gnome-terminal won't open

Not appearing for me either, also did, well first time I did a manual install of Arch.

Hi,

The problem

I just installed a fresh Arch Linux with Gnome, and everything seems to be working, except for gnome-terminal that won’t open.

I tried launching it with xterm to see the output, and I got:

[paul@paul-arch ~]$ gnome-terminal
Warning: DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID not set and no fallback available.
Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached

The Warning appears instantly, where the Error constructing proxy appears after a few seconds.

What I tried

I've seen on the Internet that it was probably a locale problem. So I tried setting it right. Here is the output of locale -a:

[paul@paul-arch ~]$ locale -a
C
POSIX
en_US.utf8

and localectl:

[paul@paul-arch ~]$ localectl
   System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: us-acentos
      X11 Layout: us
     X11 Variant: intl

And my Region & Language settings:

http://i.imgur.com/7ltrkXI.png

What did I do wrong?

PS: first post here, I hope I set the text right!

Mod note: Converted image to url. Please see the CoC regarding acceptable image sizes. -- WorMzy

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"An it harm none, do what thou wilt"

Pednick

Member

Registered: 2014-04-09

Posts: 38

Re: gnome-terminal won't open

I found a solution from this thread:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=212638

I partly solved the problem now.
Before calling  'sudo locale-gen' I accidentally uncommented es_US.UTF-8 instead of en_US.UTF-8. I ran 'sudo locale-gen' and 'sudo localectl set-locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8"' again, set the correct language and region settings in gnome settings and restarted the session. Now gnome-terminal and playonlinux work again. Tilda still gives the same error message.

I can use Tilda now, but I had to remove all the config files.

 #cd /home/cesar/.config/tilda/

#rm config_0

#tilda

It worked for me anyway.

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"An it harm none, do what thou wilt"