Bug#746415: Let's groups same bugs

Eugen Dedu eugen.dedu at univ-fcomte.fr
Thu Nov 29 16:08:35 GMT 2018


forcemerge 868461 746415
forcemerge 819510 746415
forcemerge 851281 746415
tags 746415 d-i
thanks

I have recently installed a debian system: I choose C locale at the 
beginning of the installation, finish system installation, reboot and 
log in gnome: I cannot start any terminal, since gnome-terminal, the 
only terminal installed, refuses to start!  (I had to enter a text 
console and install xterm to allow me to have a working terminal in gnome.)

Starting gnome-terminal inside xterm shows the following error:
Error constructing proxy for 
org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling 
StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached

Note there is no error status (such as "exited with status 8").

By the way, uxterm too refuses to start when locale is C, and shows an 
error about locale.

A workaround is dpkg-reconfigure locales and choose a UTF-8 locale, such 
as en_US.UTF-8 (I do not remember if it needs also to be made the 
default or not).

This bug affects current debian installations, hence the d-i tag.

-- 
Eugen



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