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I was trying to build the AWN from source, and I installed a bunch of glib/gio dev packages required by libdesktop-agnostic (also built from source) that affect gsettings. At some point during this, I rebooted and found that I couldn't launch any gnome-terminal. (Other gnome apps work normally.)

When I use the nemo-extension terminal (that's a gnome-terminal embedded into nemo) I get the following:

(gnome-terminal:11314): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_settings_get: the format string may not contain '&' (key 'monospace-font-name' from schema 'org.gnome.desktop.interface'). This call will probably stop working with a future version of glib.
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ERROR:terminal-app.c:1449:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app->default_profile_id != NULL)
Aborted (core dumped)

I checked 'monospace-font-name' in the schema 'org.gnome.desktop.interface' using dconf-editor, here's what gsettings get says:

~ $ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface 'monospace-font-name'
'Monospace 10'
~ $

No ampersands there.

It seems like having some libglib/gio's installed at once also causes the following related, similar gnome error-quarks that break gnome-notifications:

Which are great, but I'm kinda a novice at most of linux's technical-ness and I don't know really how (or, importantly, WHERE) to apply said patches.

Before you ask, I don't know which packages are causing this (there are waaaay too many in the libglib namespace) and I can't easily single them out one at a time without breaking lots of things. Yes, all my repositories are official and yes, everything is up-to-date and in order as far as I can tell.

Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela (ubuntu 14.04/trusty) running Cinnamon2.6.1.3 amd64 on a Toshiba Satellite p755 (intel, 6gb ram)

(there's nothing of interest in other log files, including .xsession-errors)

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I had this problem. Exactly the same issues, to the point - I am running Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela (ubuntu 14.04/trusty) running Cinnamon2.6.1.3 amd64; except it's an Asus machine.

I am with you, I want my gnome-terminal back. This is what I did to fix it:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

That was it. The problem was that libglib and the other packages were too new to work with gnome-terminal. So a full distro upgrade fixed all the dependencies. This probably happened after a system update and a reboot. Until the system is rebooted, it will still work fine. But only after that it throws the errors.

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  • Thanks for your answer! I recently dumped LiMint in favour of a modern kernel, but I never thought to do dist-upgrade because I kinda assumed it didn't exist on a Mint system the way do-release-upgrade is an Official-Ubuntu-only thing. I'm certain, however, that this would have solved it. :) Commented Dec 28, 2015 at 3:58
  • Did you happen to post this question anywhere else? I found very similar question in linux mint and ubuntu forums. Commented Dec 29, 2015 at 7:33
  • i think i did so, yes, as well as on the Linux Mint bugtracker Commented Dec 29, 2015 at 14:49
  • All my searches around, went back to your posts. That's what kept me bugging and motivated to find a solution. Commented Dec 30, 2015 at 8:30

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