Try setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8.
LANG=C causes the problem which is an issue setting up some communication
bus used by gnome-terminal
make sure LANG is correctly set *before *you start your first gnome-terminal


-- Bill Morita
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Jun 2016, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> >   The locale is set to en_US.UTF-8, and that's exported in
> ~/.bash_profile.
> > This configuration works on other hosts (such as my server/workstation),
> and
> > used to work on the laptop.
>
>    I found the problem, but not how to resolve it.
>
>    The laptop has both rvxt and rvxt-unicode installed; there's a
> /usr/bin/urxvt. But, that command will not load a terminal, only the rxvt
> command will.
>
>    Since other hosts have no issue with urxvt I'm at a loss what to do
> here.
>
> Rich
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