Unimaginable! I reinstalled GNOME3, xorg, started from scratch, short of reformatting the disk and NO.
In xterm, $ gnome-terminal 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 This bug is described extensively in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746415 I do have UTF-8, $ cat /etc/default/locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= 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= and yet I get the error. I'm falling back to good old trustworthy wheezy. -R > Folks, > > I upgraded to jessie a few moments ago and I cannot run gnome-terminal. > What's up? > > I ran root-terminal and it broke my desktop completely. What's up? > > Thanks > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/d8316e5233dea4fa81ece63da14c36fe.squir...@webmail.calel.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/ca4856c9cf3cdf0f7de4dcb9906f6f45.squir...@webmail.calel.org
