Just one more data to clarify the really strange behaviour of my G-T installation: I do not have any non-UTF locale, as you can see from the output of "localectl list-locales": C.UTF-8 en_US.utf8 it_IT.utf8
HTH, Maurizio. PS What is the relationship between G-T and G-T-S? I think I usually run G-T only: does it rely on G-T-S underneath? On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 2:51 PM, MamoMC <mam...@tin.it> wrote: > Here are some tests run on my PC. > I wonder they are helpful to debug (and hopefully solve!) the problem. > > ****** > maurizio@LiMOne:~$ gnome-terminal --version > GNOME Terminal 3.12.2 > maurizio@LiMOne:~$ gnome-terminal > 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 1 > maurizio@LiMOne:~$ LANG=C.UTF-8 gnome-terminal > 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 1 > maurizio@LiMOne:~$ LANG=C gnome-terminal > 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 1 > maurizio@LiMOne:~$ /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server > Non UTF-8 locale is not supported! > maurizio@LiMOne:~$ *LANG=C.UTF-8 > /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server* > maurizio@LiMOne:~$ LANG=C /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server > Non UTF-8 locale is not supported! > ****** > > In red the only case when the code did not give any error and it did exit > a few seconds after it had been run without any message. > > I also tried to follows some suggestions from > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=180103 by giving as root > locale-gen + localectl set-locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8" + reboot but no good > results. > In the end of the blog DESPAIR says > > Today I got last update "GNOME Terminal 3.12.2". > And problem seems like fixed. > > I do have the very SW version but it did not work for me. > > Egmont, please feel free forward to bugzilla.gnome.org my tests you can > find at the beginning of this reply if you think it can be useful. > > Maurizio. > -- Ciao, Maurizio.