Upgraded to Ubuntu 15.04, now terminal won't open

Question

I can't get terminal to open at all after updating to 15.04. I've read it is because of the custom locale. How do I change this? Thanks

there i no error message, it just attempts to open when i click on it and it stops trying after a few seconds — Kyle Jorn, May 11 '15 at 22:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 13 '15 at 15:53

I had the same problem and changing the locale actually fixed it.

You can change the locale in /etc/default/locale. You can try setting the contents of that file to:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_US"

which should work. If that actually works you can then try your preferred locale.

Be sure you are using a valid locale (I, for instance, was missing the .UTF-8 part).

To apply the changes made I would suggest rebooting, but someone else might be able to give a better alternative.

Or using SSH/Terminal:
sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US — Martin Andersson, Nov 25 '16 at 17:18

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