Description of problem: Things were working as expected for a while. I logged into the gnome classic shell for the first time and the gnome-terminal would not start. So I switched back to the regular gnome shell and gnome-terminal would still not start. Here is the error: [768]$ journalctl -n100 | grep gnome.Terminal Jan 23 16:45:36 fourier-korora.stellarscience.com org.gnome.Terminal[2312]: Non UTF-8 locale (ANSI_X3.4-1968) is not supported! Jan 23 16:45:36 fourier-korora.stellarscience.com gnome-terminal.desktop[4270]: 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 8 I had LANG=C set in my bashrc so that seemed like the obvious culprit, I changed it to en_US.UTF-8 and for good measure added LANG=en_US.UTF-8 to my /etc/locale.conf file then rebooted my system. gnome-terminal would still not launch. I had the following locale settings: [769]$ locale -v LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= [771]$ localectl System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 VC Keymap: us X11 Layout: us [773]$ localectl list-locales | grep en_US en_US en_US.iso88591 en_US.iso885915 en_US.utf8 [774]$ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 After fighting with this for a while I decided to try setting LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 in my /etc/locale.conf file. After a reboot I was finally able to use gnome-terminal again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [776]$ gnome-terminal --version GNOME Terminal 3.14.2 How reproducible: If I delete LC_ALL from /etc/locale.conf then the problem returns. Setting LC_ALL in .bashrc was not good enough. I also tried setting LC_ALL="" with no luck. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set LANG=C in .bashrc 2. Sign int to gnome classic shell 3. Try to launch gnome-terminal Actual results: Nothing happens, gnome-terminal does not launch. Expected results: gnome-terminal should start Additional info: [777]$ gnome-shell --version GNOME Shell 3.14.3
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