Unable to open terminal

asked 2017-05-04 10:36:51 -0600

I am unable to open terminal in my Xfce session. If I click on System>Xfce Terminal nothing happens. If I go Run>Xfce4-Terminal nothing happens. If I right click anywhere and click Open Terminal Here it says "Failed to execute default Terminal Emulator Input/output error"

I am however able to use Ctrl+Alt+F# to access a terminal.

Any ideas on how to be able to access the terminal inside my X session because it is really annoying to have to Ctrl+Alt+F# to switch between X and Terminal.

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Check your default application settings, and see what terminal software is trying to be run. I use Cinammon as my DE so I do not know what terminal software Xfce wants to use.

SteveEbey73701 ( 2017-05-04 11:40:52 -0600 )edit

Happened to me once. I re-installed the terminal and it worked. Otherwise try install another terminal.

ldlyu ( 2017-05-04 12:06:10 -0600 )edit

you can also try konsole.

jlozadad ( 2017-05-04 14:04:04 -0600 )edit

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Installing Konsole did the trick. Tried to run Xfce4-Terminal from inside Konsole and got the following error:

[code]xfce4-terminal: error while loading shared libraries: /lib64/libgnutls.so.30: file too short[/code]

I have a working console now so it's not that important but but out of curiosity how would I fix that?

Valfunction ( 2017-05-05 03:41:36 -0600 )edit

That library is provided by gnutils. Reinstall it and see if that's what's needed.

sideburns ( 2017-05-05 13:19:43 -0600 )edit

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