Note: 1474927, 1578830, and 1652451 all seem to refer to the same issue. The
error code noted is documented here:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal/FAQ#Exit_status_8
This followed by a reboot or logging back in ought to resolve the issue:
sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.utf8
If you've done something invasive with locales, you might need to do something
more invasive to resolve the issue, as noted here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/608330/problem-with-gnome-terminal-
on-gnome-3-12-2/651169#651169
Thanks to timeless on Freenode for the link to the exit status.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1578830
Title:
gnome-terminal fails to launch after install of xenial
Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
After a fresh install (using the netboot install) of the 32-bit xenial
distribution, gnome-terminal fails to launch from the unity launcher,
or from an xterm.
If I try to launch gnome-terminal from an xterm I can read an error
message:
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
Some googling suggests this is because the locale is not properly set. I
have re-generated my locales:
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
en_AG.UTF-8... done
en_AU.UTF-8... done
en_BW.UTF-8... done
en_CA.UTF-8... done
en_DK.UTF-8... done
en_GB.UTF-8... done
en_HK.UTF-8... done
en_IE.UTF-8... done
en_IN.UTF-8... done
en_NG.UTF-8... done
en_NZ.UTF-8... done
en_PH.UTF-8... done
en_SG.UTF-8... done
en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
en_US.UTF-8... done
en_ZA.UTF-8... done
en_ZM.UTF-8... done
en_ZW.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
but the error persists.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.18.3-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu May 5 16:16:49 2016
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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