New install of Ubuntu 24.04 on a System76 Pangolin laptop. After 2 weeks of use the terminal won't open. I see in the App Center there is a terminal listed with a green install button showing. It is 0.9.9-3build3. Please help. I've been administer of laptops running Ubuntu and linux for 10 and 20 years respectively. No terminal is a serious problem from my perspective.
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Uninstalling xdg-desktop-portal-gnome did it for me.
And I got this from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1chpshs/comment/lqfvqdw/
I got on the trail to that post as I had similar experience as the thread there: after reboot or login, terminal would not open (spinning disk) for quite a while. But sometimes, after a few minutes, when trying again, it suddenly opened.
All other hints I saw across posts were dead-ends:
- I have a stock .bashrc
- it is a fresh install of Ubuntu 24.04.1 (no upgrade)
- no funny things regarding python
So, yeah, after sudo apt-get remove xdg-desktop-portal-gnome and a reboot, all problems with terminal disappeared for me. I admit I have something of a bad feeling as I have no idea what exactly removing that package has as consequence for day-to-day operation, but so far it works and I am crossing fingers.
HTH.
BaCh
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