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.


On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:30 AM Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> Can you reply to the bug tracker?
>
> In any case, "~root" is a different directory than
> "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root", and the guix-profile directory is named
> differently in each location.
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020, at 13:10, Michael Gorlick wrote:
>
> Au contraire.
>
> $ sudo -i ls -a ~root
> .  ..  .bash_history  .bashrc  .cache  .config .gnupg .guix-profile
>  .local  .profile  .wget-hsts
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:06 AM Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 09:46:05AM -0700, Michael Gorlick wrote:
> > There is a wee typo in the systemd file *guix-daemon.service* installed
> on
> > Ubuntu 20.04 by the guix-install.sh script.
> > The text of
> */root/.config/guix/current/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service
> > *contains the text:
> >
> >
> Environment='GUIX_LOCPATH=/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/lib/locale'
> > LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
> >
> > The portion .../guix-profile/... should read .../*.guix-profile/*..., in
> > other words the path as given omits the requisite single period (.) as
> the
> > prefix of the directory .guix-profile.
>
> In my experience, the path as shown in your example is correct. The
> directory is not a "hidden" directory in this location.
>
>
>