My gnome terminal does not come up. Worked before I upgraded to Fedora 24. The error message is
Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached
Seems like I've been down his road before but can't find anything in my notes. Something about locale perhaps?
Here is more info on the problem. It appears not to have a solution that is fixable given my skill set.
The "wrong" locale appears when gnome-terminal does not see an instance of gnome-terminal-server. Rather than starting one itself, it sends a signal to the dbus to start one. The rogue local is then introduced when that signal is serviced. Not clear how to influence that environment. [Ref. #2]
Here is my interpretation. The gnome-terminal site says something like "ask your distribution how to fix its locale". [Ref. #1] The distribution is saying, it is not our responsibility to ensure a proper locale for gnome-terminal, why should gnome terminal be the one deciding what is proper for everyone? I. e., UTF-8 or the highway. We won't fix it. [Ref. #3] So there is a standoff.
This leaves me with a gnome-terminal that is dead broken when using gnome shell under Fedora 24. Kind of non-optimal, IMHO. ;-)
My 2cents for people having similar issues after upgrading from f27 to f28. Your system might need some extra glibc-langpack to start correctly. For example, I configured my system to be fr_FR.utf8 and after upgrading, I had to install manually glibc-langpack-fr to have a working gnome-terminal.
Experienced the same problem with gnome-terminal, and here is the simple step that fixed my problem:
localectl showed that System Locale was not set (I don't know the reason though):
System Locale: n/a
VC Keymap: us
X11 Layout: us
X11 Options: grp:win_space_toggle
Setting it, followed by a reboot fixed it. To do so, execute:
localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.utf8 (Of course, you may want to adapt the locale to what you need/want and what is available on your system (locale -a).
All commands should be run as your regular user, not root.
I'm having the same problem here's mine:
# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
[root@linux-user-101 ~]# rpm -qa | grep glibc
glibc-2.23.1-8.fc24.i686
glibc-common-2.23.1-8.fc24.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.23.1-8.fc24.x86_64
glibc-all-langpacks-2.23.1-8.fc24.x86_64
glibc-headers-2.23.1-8.fc24.x86_64
glibc-2.23.1-8.fc24.x86_64
as well as logs in /var/log/messages:
Aug 10 14:13:17 linux-user-101 org.gnome.Terminal.desktop: Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached
Aug 10 14:13:28 linux-user-101 org.gnome.Shell.desktop: Gjs-Message: JS LOG: Received error from DBus search provider org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop: Gio.IOErrorEnum: Timeout was reached
Aug 10 14:13:28 linux-user-101 org.gnome.Shell.desktop: Gjs-Message: JS LOG: Received error from DBus search provider org.gnome.Terminal.desktop: Gio.IOErrorEnum: Timeout was reached
Aug 10 14:13:28 linux-user-101 dbus[809]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.bluez': timed out
Aug 10 14:13:35 linux-user-101 org.gnome.Terminal.desktop: Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached
You are right, I never did try those suggestions. Don't know why...
But now I have:
For reference, original /etc/locale.conf:
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
After executing "localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.utf8" as root, locale.conf is
LANG=en_US.utf8
After "localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8"
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Asked: 2016-08-08 13:16:31 -0600
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Last updated: Oct 04 '16
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What is the output of
localectlas your user, not root?$ localectl System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 VC Keymap: us X11 Layout: usWas there anything before that error message you pasted in the question? Where are you trying to run it from since you don't have a Gnome terminal?
Good question! I ran the command in an xterm.
Every reference to this kind of issue that I've seen involves the locale info.
What are the outputs of
localeandlocale -a? If the second one has a large of amount of output, then don't include it.Also
rpm -qa | grep glibc.