From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: Michael Gorlick <michael.m.gorlick@gmail.com>,
42989-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42989: Subtle Typo in guix-daemon.service installed by guix-install.sh
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 22:18:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7xszbbg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200822213930.GA30500@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sat, 22 Aug 2020 17:39:30 -0400")
Hi,
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:22:13PM -0700, Michael Gorlick wrote:
>> You are right and the confusion is mine. The reason the error messages
>> disappeared is that thanks to a "guix pull", a "guix upgrade", and a "guix
>> install glibc-utf8-locales" on user "root" I now have the latest version of
>> the utf8-locales, 2.31, installed at
>> */var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/lib/locale.*
>>
>> Sorry for the bother. However, judging by prior discussions not everyone
>> understands that the build daemons rely in this way on the guix-profile of
>> the root. It would help if the documentation pointed out this common
>> misunderstanding and explicitly advised users on foreign distributions to
>> pull and upgrade the root profile regularly.
>
> Yeah, locales are one of the bigger user experience problem with Guix :/
> The warnings are a definite improvement over how it used to be, when
> glibc would simply ABORT any program that was using the wrong version of
> locales.
>
> We are still searching for a solid solution to the problem, as we've
> been tweaking the documentation for years now, but people still report
> the warnings all the time.
I think the situation has improved a lot in recent years. I'll close
this since the title is misguided, and since it's very old :-).
Thank you,
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-14 2:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-22 16:46 bug#42989: Subtle Typo in guix-daemon.service installed by guix-install.sh Michael Gorlick
2020-08-22 17:06 ` Leo Famulari
[not found] ` <CAFLY-s+qQ-p9shgi+rRRoFUxj6c=0=rewVW9+g0cKVJxLZq3dg@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <7fdbeb59-df88-49ff-9eb0-f9799c54db7f@www.fastmail.com>
2020-08-22 19:22 ` Michael Gorlick
2020-08-22 21:39 ` Leo Famulari
2022-07-14 2:18 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2022-07-14 17:33 ` Michael Gorlick
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