Terminal stoped loading

Try to load another terminal (such as xterm). Now launch gnome-terminal in it and report the output given.

Here is a possible fix.

1. Switch to another virtual terminal by hitting Ctrl and Alt and F3 on your keyboard

2. In the black screen that comes up, login using your username and password

3. Reinstall gnome-terminal and gnome-terminal-data from the command line by typing:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install gnome-terminal gnome-terminal-data

4. Type Y when prompted... and sit back.

5. Once successfully reinstalled, log out of the shell by typing exit and then hit Ctrl and Alt and F7 on your keyboard to return to your gnome session.

6. Try launching gnome-terminal again.

If this answered your question, please consider closing this ticket as such. If not, let us know the results and we'll keep trying.

Jim Jones

I installed a terminal from synaptic to see about gnome-terminal. the output was "gnome-terminal: symbol lookup error: gnome-terminal: undefined symbol:vte_terminal_set_opacity".

For the second idea, When the black screen shows it is blank (no command line). I typed my username and password any way with no result.

Maybe something in gconf was changed.

Let's try a different path.

Instead of following steps 1 and 2 above, to get to a terminal screen, try logging out of GNOME or your window manager.

Once you have logged out, click on the sessions on the lower left of the login screen and choose terminal or failsafe terminal.

Then log in as normal.

You should only be presented with a command line terminal.

Now try steps 3 and 4 above.

If it installs fine, leave this session by typing exit. You should now be back at the login screen.

Now use the Session chooser to set your session back to gnome and then login.

Once login, try using the gnome-terminal again.

Jim Jones

Alright I got it working. I used synaptic to uninstall and reinstall it. Then it worked.
Thank you.

Sorry to bring this issue up again, but I am having the same problem with Feisty. I have tried all of the solutions above, but none of them work. The Gnome-terminal loader from the applications menu just starts the program. The task bar says it is starting the program, but after about 30 seconds, nothing happens and the taskbar message just disappears. I used Xterm to report the output:

The program 'gnome-terminal' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 105 error_code 2 request_code 78 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function

I am new to linux (with a fresh install) and this occurred after a long session of editing xorg.conf to get my desktop the way I want it. Before I knew it, gnome-terminal stopped working in the same manner described above.

Any help is appreciated. Since I can use xterm, I guess there is no rush for a solution.