Bug#750607: gnome-terminal: will not start with non-utf-8 locale

[Stephen Samuel]

The problem is that gnome-terminal-server
is not starting:
      root at hpre:~# locate gnome-terminal-server
      /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server
the reason is that LANG or LC and/or LC_ALL are defined badly.  The
question is *where* are these variables ill-defined.  locally or globally.

One quick thing to do is create a new user and see if Gnome-terminal will
start there.  If it does, then the problem is with your account
definitions. (e.g. .bashrc or .profile )
what I would suggest is:
       egrep 'LANG|LC[_=]' .??* 2> /dev/null  | less
check the output...
other places to look for global causes are /etc/default/locale, /etc/rc ,
/etc/bash.bashrc  and /etc/profile*

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Stephen Samuel http://www.bcgreen.com  Software, like love,
778-861-7641                              grows when you give it away
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