Bug#746415: gnome-terminal: will not start with non-utf-8 locale [solved]

[Maurizio Crozzoli]

Package: gnome-terminal
Followup-For: Bug #746415

Dear Maintainer,

I just solved my problem by running

 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'

and - that looks to me the part which made the difference! - by asking the
system to set "en_US.UTF-8" as default value ("it_IT.UTF-8" is also available -
of course that means the row 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8' is added to
'/etc/default/locale').

A system reboot seems to be another necessary part (the very last one!) of the
solution.

After those steps, once I run the command 'locale' under my user I get a lot of
"en_US.UTF-8" while, before that, I got either empy lines or "C"values... and,
finally, gnome-terminal starts once again as it used to do in the past.

Thanks to the suggestion from
'http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=58860'.

I do hope this helps others.

Maurizio.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.20.0-2
ii  gconf-service                                3.2.6-2
ii  gnome-terminal-data                          3.12.3-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.12.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.12.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-7
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.16-2
ii  libdconf1                                    0.20.0-2
ii  libgconf-2-4                                 3.2.6-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.30.7-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.40.0-3
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.12.2-1+b1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a                      3.12.2-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.3-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.3-1
ii  libuuid1                                     2.20.1-5.8
ii  libvte-2.90-9                                1:0.36.3-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-2

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.8.6-1
ii  gvfs      1.20.2-1
ii  yelp      3.12.0-1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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