syslog give interesting info : Apr 9 13:42:14 niks-ThinkPad org.gnome.Terminal[1244]: Non UTF-8 locale (ANSI_X3.4-1968) is not supported!
but when i cat /etc/default/locale I get : LANG=en_US.UTF-8 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1568272 Title: Gnome-terminal won't start To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1568272/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs