Re: locale warnings

[Matthew Brooks <matthewfbrooks@mailbox.org>]

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Have you tried setting GUIX_LOCPATH for the user (instead of just root) and also installing glibc-locales for the user (instead of only root)?

I had the same problem with locales not being found, but installing the locales and setting the environment variable for the user fixed it for me.

On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:48:53 +0300
Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Hinko,
> 
> Hinko Kocevar <Hinko.Kocevar@esss.se> writes:
> 
> […]
> 
> >> I followed the instructions to set up locale for user
> >> (https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Application-Setup),
> >> but I'm still getting these messages for each guix invocation:
> >>
> >> substitute: guile: warning: failed to install locale
> >> substitute: warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument  
> >
> > These warnings come from the ‘guix substitute’ process, which is spawned
> > as root by ‘guix-daemon’.
> >
> > To fix it, you need to add GUIX_LOCPATH to ‘guix-daemon.service’ if it’s
> > not already there, like this:
> >
> >   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/etc/guix-daemon.service.in#n10  
> 
> Did adding a GUIX_LOCPATH environment variable to the
> guix-daemon.service help?  I have the same issue on GNU/Linux Mint
> workstation, but this tip didn't help me.
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ PAGER= systemctl show guix-daemon.service  | grep locale
> Environment=GUIX_LOCPATH=/root/.guix-profile/lib/locale
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ sudo guix package -I 
> …
> guix    0.14.0  out     /gnu/store/pii5cimi72lj5l7793h54g5sg0sr2apl-guix-0.14.0
> glibc-utf8-locales      2.25    out     /gnu/store/xa391b23r5lbwxb9q26sq5rq1fkd1xi3-glibc-utf8-locales-2.25
> glibc-locales   2.27    out     /gnu/store/s28fmfrq8r0c688x59cj0fcyh2pv87nj-glibc-locales-2.27
> glibc   2.27    out     /gnu/store/y7siq9fr3dyccyaig94rpkqfimbiw35f-glibc-2.27
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Thanks,
> Oleg.


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