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My gnome-terminal will not start

Asked by pedrider2008

When I open gnome-terminal it says starting terminal at the bottom, but it never does anything.

I ran it in xterm and it says:
"The error was BadValue (interger parameter out of range for operation)". (Details: Serial 105 error_code 2 request_code 78 minor_code 0 )

I tried reinstalling gnome-terminal under the synaptics package manager but that didn't help. I got this after setting up my nvidia drivers.

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Best Stefan Neagu (neasteflorin-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

nVidia drivers are well-known to cause problems. When I installed them X wouldn't start at all, but I had a backup of the config file and I restored it. If you made a backup before installing you should use it to restore.
Code:
sudo cp <backup path> <X11 config path>

Try installing KDE, remove GNOME using the purge option which deletes configuration:
sudo dpkg --purge gnome
restart
sudo apt-get autoremove
restart
sudo apt-get gnome

This should work.

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pedrider2008 (pedrider2008) said : 		#2

Thanks Stefan Neagu, that solved my question.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) said : 		#3

This often happens when Xinerama/Twinview is being used and the Composite extension is enabled. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17/+bug/58232 for details. In theory if the binary drivers are installed using restricted-manager an appropriate workaround should already have been added to /etc/X11/xorg.conf ...