On Saturday, 18 April 2015 16:33:36 UTC-4, Greg Strong wrote:

On Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 1:07:39 PM UTC-4, cprise wrote:

On 04/18/15 12:29, Greg Strong wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed the Debian community template and am having some issues.
> Some apps won't come up, including Terminal with the built-in start menu
> link.  The cursor bounces and an item appears on the task bar for about
> 30 seconds before it gives up.  Not sure what could be going wrong.
> I've applied updates to the template.  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
> Greg
>
> --

Hi,

I'm having the same/similar issue with the debian 8 template.

One thing you should try is to go run 'qvm-sync-appmenus debian-8-x64'
in dom0, then go into the VM settings / Applications tab for the
template and add an item to the right column. That will cause the menus
to be re-generated according to the software that is present in the
template.

Also, if you have any regular VMs that were switched from fedora to
debian you will want to update the settings/Applications tab for them as
well.

After I did that, I can now run most programs. But Files/nautilus still
gives me a problem...
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/ki-m5el9yUQ/X99qrODEX4cJ

Another thing you can try is right-clicking on the (running) templatevm
in Manager and 'Run command in vm', then enter 'gnome-terminal' to see
if that has an effect.

Thank you for the help, I really appreciate it.  Unfortunately, it didn't help.  Running 'gnome-terminal' from 'Run command in vm' doesn't even do anything.   That works if I type 'firefox' but not 'gnome-terminal'.  Sadly, I don't know nearly enough about Linux or Qubes to begin to troubleshoot.  It would be interesting to know if the process was starting, but without a terminal I'm not sure how I would determine that (or how that knowledge would help me.)

There seems to have been an update (in my case anyway) that updated locales which seems to have broken some apps like gnome-terminal.  gnome-terminal requires a proper locale to be set or it will not start.

use xterm to gain access to a terminal.  You may attempt to run gnome-terminal from xterm and if you receive some locale type message, then try to update locale to see if this solves your issue.  Note that after locale is updated you will need to shutdown the AppVM and restart it for changes to take effect.

Here is one way to change locale:
localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_US -c en_US.UTF-8
update-locale LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

And here is another (note the lowercase use of utf8)
localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_US -c en_US.UTF-8
localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.utf8

Please report back if this helps solve your issue.