Gnome-terminal, Error constructing proxy

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rhish

x11/gnome-terminal won't start.

This is the error when starting it from an x11/xterm

Code: 
% gnome-terminal &

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

[1]    Exit 1                        gnome-terminal

From console.log

Code: 
<console.info> hostname kernel: Dec 15 06:21:37 <auth.notice> hostname dbus[801]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call",sender=":1.38" (uid=1001 pid=1256 comm="/usr/local/bin/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)"requested_reply="0" destination=":1.34" (uid=0 pid=1248 comm="/usr/local/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
 
Hi, did you check your locale settings? What's the otuput of locale command? It seems that gnome-terminal needs a UTF-8 locale to run.
 
nivit@ said:
Hi, did you check your locale settings? What's the otuput of locale command? It seems that gnome-terminal needs a UTF-8 locale to run.
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Yes, this seems to be the issue. Or, well, changing locale to UTF-8 got it past this particular error and allowed it to start. Things still don't seem right, but I need to investigate further. It's not real clear what all the implications are to changing locale, and how locale gets changed.
 
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