The gnome-terminal application fails to start when the system locale is set to non-UTF8

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • gnome-terminal fails to initialize when system locale is set to non-UTF8. The logs below are found in /var/log/messages:
systemd[2119]: Starting GNOME Terminal Server...
gnome-terminal-server[2771]: Locale not supported.
systemd[2119]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=9/n/a
systemd[2119]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
systemd[2119]: Failed to start GNOME Terminal Server.
org.gnome.Terminal.desktop[2766]: # watch_established: "/org/gnome/desktop/a11y/" (establishing: 1)
org.gnome.Terminal.desktop[2766]: # Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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