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Thursday, 11 December 2025

Failed to execute Terminal Emulator. Input/Output error.

Failed to execute Terminal Emulator. Input/Output error.


I have installed Xfce4 desktop environment in server.
When i am opening terminal and closing, it is showing above error.

Reason:

Your system's default terminal emulator (the one set by update-alternatives) is:

  • missing
  • broken
  • misconfigured
  • the executable was deleted
  • package is half-installed (common after emergency mode)

So when the console tries to spawn a terminal → it fails with I/O error.

Solution:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator

Select xfce-terminal and it works.


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