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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: Help with locale
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:44:54 -0400
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On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 09:37:27PM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:22 PM Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> > Okay. As root, can you do `guix package --list-installed` and send the
> > results here?
> 
> guile-ssh 0.12.0 out
> /gnu/store/qqpigisk01ivzvb9pyi4d4d6v5p6djzw-guile-ssh-0.12.0
> glibc-locales 2.29 out
> /gnu/store/03nvilh2x4z07dxv7h13gh986vvgpnsf-glibc-locales-2.29
>
> > And finally, again as root, the result of `ls -l
> > ~root/.guix-profile/lib/locale`?
> >
> 
> ls: cannot access '/root/.guix-profile/lib/locale': No such file or
> directory
> 
> (There's not even a "lib".)
>
> BTW, I tried Jeremy's suggestions and in the course of that discovered that
> my ordinary user gets the lib/locales link installed. So, the problem I
> report only exists for the root user.

Something is not right here.

The .guix-profile directory is a symlink union of all the packages in
the user's profile, so it should definitely contain a 'lib/locale'
directory if the user has installed glibc-locales.

What is the result of `ls -l ~root/.guix-profile`?