From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: bug#37688: "guix system reconfigure" doesn't work with LC_ALL=C - and locale problems Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:18:56 +0200 Message-ID: <20191010001856.5b8e7be1@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/F/9YYetRIu.tlSf=ZZ06Mv="; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56935) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iIKJP-0007yo-Sz for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:20:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iIKJO-0002pw-Le for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:20:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45546) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iIKJO-0002pq-JB for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:20:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iIKJO-00067n-0Y for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:20:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iIKIS-0007uM-Gm for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:19:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iIKIR-0001ts-2o for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:19:04 -0400 Received: from dd26836.kasserver.com ([85.13.145.193]:51610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iIKIQ-0001sv-SY for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:19:03 -0400 Received: from localhost (77.116.67.42.wireless.dyn.drei.com [77.116.67.42]) by dd26836.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5E6873362648 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:19:00 +0200 (CEST) List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 37688@debbugs.gnu.org --Sig_/F/9YYetRIu.tlSf=ZZ06Mv= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Because of the locale problems every time there is a merge, I've tried to u= pgrade as follows: sudo -i LC_ALL=3DC guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm downloading from https://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/532l4zja85y9c69i0l0bwnsxx= 98gpzdw-nss-certs-3.45... nss-certs-3.45 135KiB = 104.5MiB/s 00:00 [######## ] 47.4%Backtrace: 3 (apply-smob/1 #) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 705:2 2 (call-with-prompt _ _ #) In ice-9/eval.scm: 619:8 1 (_ #(#(#))) In guix/ui.scm: 1692:12 0 (run-guix-command _ . _) guix/ui.scm:1692:12: In procedure run-guix-command: Throw to key `encoding-error' with args `("scm_to_stringn" "cannot convert = wide string to output locale" 84 #f #f)'. Can we please do something about these encoding problems once and for all? Most have standardized on UTF-8 in like 2000, so why does this keep happeni= ng? Also, what is it that changes the locale database format so fundamentally e= ach and every time that it can't be used any more? Human culture doesn't chang= e that quickly :P The reason I set LC_ALL=3DC is because with my usual language setting I can= not see where the log file is when a build failure occurs: >Das Erstellungsprotokoll kann unter =C3=A2 eingesehen werden. ^ You got this E-Mail right. That's w= hat it said. That is very bad usability. If there's an official way to make these upgrades not break (automatically = update in a cron job, say), is it documented in the manual how to do that? On the other hand: $ LC_ALL=3Dde_AT.utf8 guix package -u . # With broken locales. [...] >Das Erstellungsprotokoll kann unter =C3=A2 eingesehen werden. ^ You got this E-Mail right. That's w= hat it said. $ LC_ALL=3DC guix package -u . # With broken locales. [...] View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/3y/jqbvjchd344qwg62x0gbj95dx0vfk9-sim= ple-scan-3.24.1.drv.bz2'. There it works. Furthermore, I cannot log in on the Linux console. It doesn't ask for the password and doesn't let me log in either. (I wanted to see whether the text console does the same--well, I guess we won't know) --Sig_/F/9YYetRIu.tlSf=ZZ06Mv= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEds7GsXJ0tGXALbPZ5xo1VCwwuqUFAl2eXNAACgkQ5xo1VCww uqWCXwf8CaOPdIH+JP21z5zsYimXTzQ7ONvj0+VbCChGHz/ZqZD2i15DPh5U2nGY swgCtgQjIWxw0GUrh4aEXuKE6hirfatFsF/MDi3chLTMF1ah4/3dDvO3x9z85fhl IB/0bw6FGoCSCbiEOZegLk382be3prxjwIrcxc8ZyDcDeOjWjGj0q5tXKI7ncba/ Z9jWLj/LPKr48yLZRbn3BRZ5+MGvTR5zfRehuK+d+f0gj25Xnm17BIbQBVRGmj+V TVVApwkBO6hLXWQwVaR3MFgCGwBqJ2bw+2b0Mxw+WNRNRmoqLpIJkEAvO89Iu6XN 7vOkw2ASizoUXsfU4gh5tHMAhtJlVA== =zlQ9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/F/9YYetRIu.tlSf=ZZ06Mv=--