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I just installed Mageia 7 on my new Dell Latitude 3400 laptop. Everything working well with one exception so far.
When I change the default shell to tcsh, I cannot use gnome-terminal. It gives me an error

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   # Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0:
    Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached

gnome-terminal works ok with bash as my default shell, but I really prefer tcsh shell.
xterm works with either default shell, but I prefer gnome-terminal. Any suggestions how to
overcome this problem?

Looking around a bit, it might be a locale issue. You could try launching tcsh via xterm and posting the output of the 'locale' command

I discovered that

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dbus-launch gnome-terminal

works.

SOLVED: I added a line

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LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

to /etc/locale.conf and the problem is resolved. No idea why this has to be done.

What did it contain beforehand ?

What about /etc/sysconfig/i18n ?

Contents of /etc/sysconfig/i18n is

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COUNTRY=US
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=lat0-16

Hmmm, looks fine. LANGUAGE seems to be set properly there. Next time try running http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/7/en/content/ ... ocaledrake and set your locale settings there and see if your original issue shows up again.