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eccerr0r
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 Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:23 pm Post subject: gnome-terminal in Gnome-3.12 broke? [Solved/Rootcaused] |
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I got a rude awakening on one of my Gnome-3 boxes, gnome-terminal appeared to stop working.
Not having a command line, I was wondering if I should have installed xterm anyway...
Reading on the web that vte-0.3.36 was needed, this was already taken care of by portage. vte? oh yeah, that library. Workaround: I could run /usr/bin/vte2_90 to get a terminal to work with.
Anyway I noticed with "localectl" that I didn't have a locale set. And
| Code: | $ /usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server
Non UTF-8 locale is not supported! |
But if I ran
| Code: | | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server & |
Then the next gnome-terminal would work!
but if I localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 it still wouldn't work...
I wonder if this is a side effect of not being able to use gdm... It figures, I suspect...
Solved!
Multiple problems:
* default Locale was not set and gnome-terminal now requires a UTF8 locale
* The main problem is that I'm using SLiM instead of gdm. SLiM does not appear to set LANG (locale) on default. I added this code in my ~/.profile to workaround this problem:
| Code: | source /etc/locale.conf
export LANG
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This allowed gnome-terminal-server to start, and hence gnome-terminal.
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poncho
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:40 pm Post subject: Re: gnome-terminal in Gnome-3.12 broke? |
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| eccerr0r wrote: | | but if I localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 it still wouldn't work... |
I think this should be:
| Code: | | localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.utf8 |
what does | Code: | | localectl list-locales |
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Logicien
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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Suppose the locales of the user you are at the prompt are well set, you can just do
| Code: | | locale > /etc/locale.conf |
to set the system locales with Systemd. Use sudo if not root.
Note that /etc/localtime must be set or link to the good locales too. This is mandatory, specially to have the right time with a display manager.
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eccerr0r
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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Good catch, I was assuming with the hyphen as gnome-terminal-server listed with a hyphen... Weird. Alas it still does the same thing.
| Code: | $ localectl list-locales
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
$ cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_US.utf8
$ locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
$ localectl
System Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8
VC Keymap: us
X11 Layout: us
X11 Model: pc105+inet
X11 Options: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
$ /usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server
Non UTF-8 locale is not supported!
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/etc/localtime appears to be linking to the right zoneinfo and times show up correct even after DST starts... hmm
More info
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746415
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=180103
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I had two machines broken with gnome-terminal 3.12. However, it looks like I was able to (easily) fix my other machine that has a working gdm. By
| Code: | # localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.utf-8
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This was able to fix this problem after a reboot (probably just restart gdm) and gnome-terminal starts up fine once more.
| Code: | $ localectl
System Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8
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Gnome-terminal-server then starts up just fine for this machine. I suspect that what needs to happen is SLiM on my other machine needs to export LANG= from /etc/locale.conf to gnome-session, which then gnome-terminal-server can run...
Oh well, localization seems to be the way to go unfortunately. Kind of feels bloaty because I can use LANG=C just fine...
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