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Just downloaded Ubuntu 16.04 - i686 and created a live USB with LiLi USB installer. While Trying Ubuntu, can't open Gnome Terminal, neither by clicking the icon, nor by ctrl+alt+t. Can anyone assist please?

Regards

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    Try again with Rufus and see what happens. Apr 30, 2016 at 19:56

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I had the same problem after upgrading from Ubuntu 15.10. I needed to reconfigure my locales.

Before you do this: Remember that you get back to the GUI ("normal screen") by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F7

Open Text-and-Terminal Emulator (without GUI)

Press: Ctrl + Alt + F1

Reconfigure Locales

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
$ sudo locale-gen "en_US.UTF-8"
$ sudo localectl set-locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

Confirm result

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

and

$ locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
en_US.utf8
POSIX

Switch back to GUI

Press: Ctrl + Alt + F7

Terminal should now work again. You might have to reboot.

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  • The first command worked for me. Brought up a graphical interface where I selected the locale and my terminal was up and running. Jan 31, 2018 at 14:22
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Many programs that exist for creating a bootable Linux installer on a USB stick don't work very well with Ubuntu. UUI is one of the wordt, and LiLi isn't much better.

Using Rufus has fixed a lot of issues for those trying to install Ubuntu from a flash drive. Use that instead.

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Try Ctrl+Alt+F1, this opens a "tty terminal" or terminal with no GUI. Use Ctrl+Alt+F7 to return to the GUI.

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  • We can certainly access command line in different methods, but why not the default option working that wonders me. May 1, 2016 at 3:00
  • No offense, but there is no different. I guess you could just live with it and be done... May 1, 2016 at 17:43
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I had the same problem when I try to install Ubuntu 16.04 on my lenovo laptop. I couldn't open terminal from my live usb installer. I couldn't even be able to open installer to install in my laptop. It happened because Ubuntu image is not downloaded properly even though it shows download successfully. So I posted same problem on Ubuntu forums. You can check the thread here

I downloaded fresh Ubuntu image from the official site. I then checked md5sum. After I made sure it is downloaded correctly, I made a live USB installer. And then I installed successfully in my laptop. To check md5sum execute following commad.

me@linux:$ md5sum ubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso
c94d54942a2954cf852884d656224186

The result should match the md5sum hash value in this page for respective OS. Please refer to the thread(first) link I've provided for further information.

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  • Did you check that link? My whole answer is a brief description of that link. And I also posted the solution that worked for me. Thank you..
    – NayabSD
    Jun 19, 2016 at 13:21

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