I tried using localectl to set the local to en_US.UTF-8 before rebooting, this did not fix the problem.
After rebooting, though, the problem seems to have cleared up. I don't know if the issue is that the locales were not propely generated (though I suspect not, becuase I didn't notice any issues with firefox, uxterm, or sakura) or if they weren't properly set for the gnome-terminals environment (seems more plausible). But the issue does seem to be resolved. I will probably be doing some more ubuntu installs in the near future, I will report if I encounter this bug with subsequent installs. -Fred -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1578830 Title: gnome-terminal fails to launch after install of xenial Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: After a fresh install (using the netboot install) of the 32-bit xenial distribution, gnome-terminal fails to launch from the unity launcher, or from an xterm. If I try to launch gnome-terminal from an xterm I can read an error message: 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 Some googling suggests this is because the locale is not properly set. I have re-generated my locales: Generating locales (this might take a while)... en_AG.UTF-8... done en_AU.UTF-8... done en_BW.UTF-8... done en_CA.UTF-8... done en_DK.UTF-8... done en_GB.UTF-8... done en_HK.UTF-8... done en_IE.UTF-8... done en_IN.UTF-8... done en_NG.UTF-8... done en_NZ.UTF-8... done en_PH.UTF-8... done en_SG.UTF-8... done en_US.ISO-8859-1... done en_US.UTF-8... done en_ZA.UTF-8... done en_ZM.UTF-8... done en_ZW.UTF-8... done Generation complete. but the error persists. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: gnome-terminal 3.18.3-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu May 5 16:16:49 2016 SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1578830/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
