Ubuntu – Can’t open gnome-terminal, nautilus or gedit

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I've had some problems after recent nvidia driver update to Ubuntu 17.10 (ubuntu on xorg) (Login loop after nvidia driver update) But I was able to fix the login loop by reinstalling nvidia drivers downloaded from nvidia driver page.

But problems with gnome-terminal, nautilus and gedit still here. I can't open any of them by clicking on icons (dash, dock). I can open gedit and nautilus from UXTerm but gnome-terminal shows this error:

Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached

But

dbus-launch gnome-terminal

Works.

All those are running in the new user account I created.

I've tried reinstalling all of them, running

localectl set-locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

But none of them worked. Any way to fix this thing?

Best Answer

It seems your locale setting have not been saved. To fix this you can set them via the GUI dialog in settings which is actually pretty easy.

After that the applications should be back to normal.

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There are several caveats in what you tried to do. I already mentioned the danger introduced by your approach:

Next time nautilus is going to be updated, your dolphin gets overwritten (as your link points there). Same goes for gnome-terminal.

So we figured, this was not a good idea :)

But there are some ways to try working around, so "x" gets run when "z" was requested -- but I'm not aware of any as soon not "z", but "/full/path/to/z" gets called. As long as it is just "z":

creating an alias for z, like alias z=x (works on a per-user-level -- or globally, depending on where it was defined)
creating a "replacement" for z in a location mentioned in the PATH before the location the real z resides in

A little more details on the second approach. Taking your original problem, you want to have dolphin executed whenever nautilus is called upon. You already found nautilus at /usr/bin/nautilus. Now let's (probably correctly) assume your $PATH contains (in this order) /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin -- so you see /usr/local/bin would be searched before /usr/bin. So we simply create a shell script /usr/local/bin/nautilus with the following content:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/dolphin %$@

So what will happen? If you (or some script/program/daemon/...) invokes nautilus, this will execute /usr/local/bin/nautilus (as this is the first "nautilus" found in the PATH), which simply starts /usr/bin/dolphin -- voila! But if the "whatever" uses the full path, this won't work.

So you say: Hey, why didn't Izzy say "just do a ln -s /usr/bin/dolphin /usr/local/bin/nautilus?" Sure you can do that -- and it will work the same. But using a script as shown may come in handy if you need to introduce additional parameters which are not passed with the original call. With above script, dolphin simply gets passed the same parameters the original call used (%$@). But you can play around with things in the script, replace parameters, etc. As for your current problem, the link would be enough (as long as nautilus doesn't get called with the full path).

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