gnome-terminal crash on non-utf8 locale

[Zhang Qide]

Dear Maintainer,

I set my ubuntu 16.04 box's locale to zh_CN.GBK or zh_CN.GB18030, gnome-terminal crash every time when I try to open it. This is some info:

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

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.18.3-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue Jun 7 01:09:44 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-02 (35 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jon Green (jonatocado)]

In my case, I had a happy, up-to-date Xenial Ubuntu installation. I decided to load the xubuntu packages too, as an alternative desktop. Switching back to regular Ubuntu later, gnome-terminal no longer works, for the above reasons.

Having determined that the problem is that DBus isn't providing correct locale information, I have used:

* "sudo locale-gen --purge"
* "sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales" (selecting only en_GB locales that are UTF-8)
* "sudo gnome-language-selector" (ditto)

...and rebooted after each, but gnome-terminal still fails with status 8 when launched from xterm.

[renandiass (renandiass)]

I changed my encoding to ISO-8859-1 and after that my gnome-terminal doesn't open. The error is the same mentioned above:

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