From: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GUIX_LOCPATH message over and over again
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 16:06:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200523160602.4961dd52@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200519154651.GC24701@jasmine.lan>
On Tue, 19 May 2020 11:46:51 -0400
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 03:17:32PM +0000, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
> > I made a guix pull the other day and since then I'm getting the
> > classic:
> >
> > ....
> > guile: warning: failed to install locale
> > hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or
> > `glibc-locales' package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these
> > lines:
> >
> > guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales
> > export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"
> >
> > See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for mo...
> > ....
> >
> >
> > But what it says doesn't solve anything. The error persists.
> > What am I missing?
> > IIRC it went away in previous time just doing what the error
> > message says.
>
> The locales are not compatible between versions of glibc, and you
> probably pulled a big update that updated glibc. So now, you are using
> the new version, and the guix-daemon is still using the old version.
>
> The locales need to be updated for people who are using Guix (that's
> you) and for the guix-daemon, which runs as a different user
> (typically as root).
>
> Check the manual section on locales for Guix System, specifically the
> part about compatibility:
>
> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Locales.html
>
This should probably be clarified better in the docs, because I
installed Guix on top of Ubuntu recently and even though I've set it up
correctly once on Arch, it was rather confusing to me why I was getting
that message.
I think the frequency with which people ask about it is enough proof
that the docs don't cover properly all the issues that beginners face.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-23 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-19 15:17 GUIX_LOCPATH message over and over again Ekaitz Zarraga
2020-05-19 15:46 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-23 14:06 ` raingloom [this message]
2020-05-23 18:32 ` Leo Famulari
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2020-05-20 6:03 Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2020-05-20 11:02 ` zimoun
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