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rclocher3
April 24th, 2015, 11:19 PM
Hi all,

I just upgraded my computer to Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet", and now I can't launch a terminal. Shift+Ctrl+T doesn't seem to do anything; nor does typing "terminal" into the dash. xterm works though. "ps aux | grep gnome-terminal" shows some defunct instances of gnome-terminal.

rob@esprimo:~$ ps aux | grep gnome-terminal
rob 2757 0.0 0.1 286744 17916 ? Sl 14:50 0:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
rob 2762 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 14:50 0:00 [gnome-terminal-] <defunct>
rob 2869 0.0 0.1 286736 17960 ? Sl 14:54 0:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
rob 2873 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 14:54 0:00 [gnome-terminal-] <defunct>
rob 3381 0.0 0.0 9464 1748 pts/5 S+ 15:11 0:00 grep --color=auto gnome-terminal

Can anybody help?

- Rob

jonoinsa
April 24th, 2015, 11:22 PM
Same for me, knew I should have held off to upgrade :( . Luckily there's heaps of other options......

rclocher3
April 25th, 2015, 01:39 AM
I don't know if this qualifies as a clue or not, but Backup isn't working either.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1500, in <module>
with_tempdir(main)
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1494, in with_tempdir
fn()
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1327, in main
action = commandline.ProcessCommandLine(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/commandline.py", line 1047, in ProcessCommandLine
globals.backend = backend.get_backend(args[0])
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 221, in get_backend
obj = get_backend_object(url_string)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 207, in get_backend_object
return factory(pu)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/_boto_single.py", line 161, in __init__
self.resetConnection()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/_boto_single.py", line 183, in resetConnection
self.conn = get_connection(self.scheme, self.parsed_url, self.storage_uri)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/_boto_single.py", line 97, in get_connection
assert scheme == 's3'
AssertionError

rclocher3
April 25th, 2015, 11:06 PM
Apparently the problem has to do with my custom locale. I changed back to the en_US.UTF-8, and now I can launch a terminal. I'm also stuck with AM/PM time, MM/DD/YYYY dates, and inches, grrrr... If users can't define custom locales, then we might as well admit that the locale system is well and truly broken. Oh well, I'll report the bug.

rclocher3
April 26th, 2015, 01:54 AM
The bug has been reported, have a look at it here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1448563