Bug#784283: gnome-terminal: gnome terminal does not start since freshly installed Debian 8 in position of 7

[Simon McVittie]

On 04/05/15 22:46, Ninoslav D wrote:
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> 	LANGUAGE = (unset),
> 	LC_ALL = (unset),
> 	LC_TIME = "en_GB.utf8",
> 	LC_MONETARY = "en_GB.utf8",
> 	LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_GB.utf8",
> 	LC_NUMERIC = "en_GB.utf8",
> 	LC_PAPER = "en_GB.utf8",
> 	LANG = "C"
>     are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

Something is really not right here: even if the selected locale
en_GB.utf8 doesn't work on your system, LC_ALL=C is not something that
should ever fail.

gnome-terminal has had locale-related issues before (not starting
reliably in non-UTF8 locales) so this might be something similar?

    S