Gnome Terminal not opening

Question

When I try and open the gnome terminal, by clicking the 'terminal' icon in apps, I get a loading and then nothing happens. Is there some way of seeing the background output of trying to open it to try an ddebug it?

UPDATE 1:

So I was able to open xterminal and tried starting the gnome terminal like this: gnome-terminal

This resulted in this output, sorry if it is slightly wrong I had to manually copy it since I couldn't work out how to copy and paste in xterminal:

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

UPDATE 2:

So I got it working again by using google fu to find this thread which got me to enter: locale-gen and reboot which seemed to fix it.

Answer 1

As Ipor Sircer suggests, if you can open another terminal, you can run gnome-terminal from there.

Alternatively, you can dump gnome-terminal's output to a file: assuming you're running GNOME, press AltF2 and enter

sh -c "gnome-terminal > ~/gnome-terminal.log 2>&1"

Then you'll find all the output in ~/gnome-terminal.log.

Answer 2

In Ubuntu 18.04 after installing Google Chrome gnome-terminal doesn't work. Wait to log and then timeout.

Please check - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1772259

Run in xterm or other terminal the following commands:

# This works for me
dbus-launch gnome-terminal

# Fix
dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd --all
gnome-terminal &