No Terminal

[NoOp]

On 09/21/2008 05:35 PM, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:26:57 -0700
> NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> > Two things to try:
>> > 1) Hit Alt+F2 and type in "gnome-terminal" ( or xterm )
>> 
>> And see if you actually have gnome-terminal installed. You can use
>> Synaptic for this: System|Administration|Synaptic...|Search|gnome-terminal
>> Even if it does show it as installed, you can completely remove it and
>> then reinstall it from Synaptic.
> 
> While this is good advice, you'll almost certainly have xterm
> installed, and it will work just as well as gnome-terminal (and be
> quicker as well ;-) )
> 
> Peter
> 

Good point & agreed. However, if his gnome-terminal has stopped working
at some point it's probably a good idea to go ahead and reinstall it.

So, using Peter's excellent advise I'll make an addition :-)

Alt-F2 then enter: xterm

With xterm running:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-terminal

And to troubleshoot gnome-terminal before reinstalling; try running
gnome-terminal from xterm:

gnome-terminal

that should give some indication as to why it gnome-terminal is not
starting.