On Thu, Sep 29 2016, allan gottlieb wrote: > I run systemd if that is relevant. All commands below were run > as ordinary user "gottlieb" (I know the sudo runs the stated command as > root) > > On one machine (named E6430) running gnome-terminal is problematic. > > If I log via the gnome graphical login screen I cannot start a gnome > terminal either by > Selecting it from the favorites menu > Using my own keyboard shortcut (which has worked for years) > Invoking M-x shell in emacs and typing gnome-terminal > > The first two produce nothing on the screen, third produces > 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 9 > > However the following both work > 1. in the same emacs shell as above typing sudo gnome-terminal > 2. from another machine where gnome-terminal works as normal > ssh -Y e6430 > gnome-terminal > > Any suggestions would be appreciated > > thanks, > allan
# localectl set-locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8" Fixed the problem (without explaining what caused it). allan
