Terminal not opening up. [SOLVED]

[lmintnewb2]

Google your error message, likely ... more like CERTAINLY you are not the first to encounter this, nor the 10k person and solutions thus spread all over the interwebz. Mentioned yep, since gnome-terminal is the only one installed it's x-terminal-emulator(before you'd installed another anyway). Could take the opportunity to install and try some others and as mentioned make them default with previous commands. Anything set to execute ie: "x-terminal-emulator" would launch whichever is set to default vs anything (icon, menu entry etc) set to run "gnome-terminal" won't work because gnome-terminal is broken atm on your system. Better to fix it/do it right rather than taking such above steps.

Mentioned honestly, would really go with google the error, see this. Though don't just apply every and any fix produced. Actually spend a bit of time on researching the solutions.

Of course felt compelled to at least check out the top return to the google search linked. Locales could be an issue and that top return could actually work. Kinda doubting it here but hey. Personally have long since taken to purging extra ... non-used locales to free up disk space. Why would I need locale support for every language on the planet on my OS, when I barely speak english properly. Have been doing it forever and never had a problem as a result of it either. Am going to say YMMV, so anything you do to YOUR OS's is YOUR responsibility.

[minitux]

What the output of

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locale

and

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locale -a

?

[pbear]

I also uninstalled and re-installed the gnome-terminal. Nothing. The try icon is still there.

Damn frustrating, I'm sure. As I said, at this point I'd reinstall the whole system, but that's your decision. Good luck.

[SyncroScales]

lmintnewb2: I am looking at your search. and I am willing to read a little bit. I do searches and ask questions on the forums, because sometimes I need verification or to make sure that works with my system. I found some helpful suggestions for a few problems, but then people have multiple distros installed within each other and different PPA's, etc. So those solutions are not for me.

minitux:

HomeFolder ~ $ locale
LANG=en_CA
LANGUAGE=en_CA
LC_CTYPE="en_CA"
LC_NUMERIC=en_CA
LC_TIME=en_CA
LC_COLLATE="en_CA"
LC_MONETARY=en_CA
LC_MESSAGES="en_CA"
LC_PAPER=en_CA
LC_NAME=en_CA
LC_ADDRESS=en_CA
LC_TELEPHONE=en_CA
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_CA
LC_ALL=
HomeFolder ~ $ locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
en_AG
en_AG.utf8
en_AU
en_AU.iso88591
en_AU.utf8
en_BW
en_BW.iso88591
en_BW.utf8
en_CA
en_CA.iso88591
en_CA.utf8
en_DK
en_DK.iso88591
en_DK.iso885915
en_DK.utf8
en_GB
en_GB.iso88591
en_GB.iso885915
en_GB.utf8
en_HK
en_HK.iso88591
en_HK.utf8
en_IE
en_IE@euro
en_IE.iso88591
en_IE.iso885915@euro
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_IN.utf8
en_NG
en_NG.utf8
en_NZ
en_NZ.iso88591
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH
en_PH.iso88591
en_PH.utf8
en_SG
en_SG.iso88591
en_SG.utf8
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.iso885915
en_US.utf8
en_ZA
en_ZA.iso88591
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZM
en_ZM.utf8
en_ZW
en_ZW.iso88591
en_ZW.utf8
POSIX
HomeFolder ~ $

pbear: I will re-install. I am just trying a couple of more things first.

[minitux]

try to re-generate and update locale

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sudo locale-gen en_CA.UTF-8

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sudo update-locale LANG=en_CA.UTF-8

if it still does not work, try to reconfigure en_CA.UTF-8 manually with

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

[pbear]

I am just trying a couple of more things first.

In my observation, minitux is very astute. I'd say anything he (or she) suggests is worth trying.

[SyncroScales]

I finally tried the commands.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
error: Bad entry 'en_AG '
en_AG.UTF-8... done
en_AG.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_AU '
en_AU.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_AU.iso88591 '
error: Bad entry 'en_BW '
en_BW.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_BW.iso88591 '
error: Bad entry 'en_CA '
en_CA.ISO-8859-1... done
en_CA.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_CA.iso88591 '
error: Bad entry 'en_DK '
en_DK.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_DK.iso88591 '
error: Bad entry 'en_DK.iso885915 '
error: Bad entry 'en_GB '
en_GB.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_GB.iso88591 '
error: Bad entry 'en_GB.iso885915 '
error: Bad entry 'en_HK '
en_HK.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_HK.iso88591 '
error: Bad entry 'en_IE '
en_IE.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_IE.iso88591 '
error: Bad entry 'en_IE.iso885915@euro '
error: Bad entry 'en_IE@euro '
error: Bad entry 'en_IN '
en_IN.UTF-8... done
en_IN.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_NG '
en_NG.UTF-8... done
en_NG.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_NZ '
en_NZ.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_NZ.iso88591 '
error: Bad entry 'en_PH '
en_PH.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_PH.iso88591 '
error: Bad entry 'en_SG '
en_SG.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_SG.iso88591 '
error: Bad entry 'en_US '
en_US.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_US.iso88591 '
error: Bad entry 'en_US.iso885915 '
error: Bad entry 'en_ZA '
en_ZA.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_ZA.iso88591 '
error: Bad entry 'en_ZM '
en_ZM.UTF-8... done
en_ZM.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_ZW '
en_ZW.UTF-8... done
error: Bad entry 'en_ZW.iso88591 ' '
Generation complete.

Terminal not opening up at this time. I re-booted to make sure and that did not work.

In another post I asked how to install all languages, the problem might be related to the terminal not opening up. This is a message I received from it below with the link. It seems to be an update problem and something has not been supported or updated for the version of Linux I am using.

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

Here is the forum link: viewtopic.php?f=90&t=256699&p=1390326#p1390326

I will mark this thread as [SOLVED] and re-install the OS.