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Subject: Re: postgres service
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:17:48 +0100
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To: Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>
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Hello!

Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> skribis:

> I added a postgresql service to the list of my services, like this
>
> (services (cons* (postgresql-service #:locale "it_IT.UTF-8")
>                 (gnome-desktop-service)
>                 (xfce-desktop-service)
>                   %desktop-services))
>
> This is an excerpt of the "guix system reconfigure etc/config.scm" log
>
> ...
> loading system objects' descriptions ... ok
> creating collations ... sh: locale: command not found
> ok
> No usable system locales were found.
> Use the option "--debug" to see details.
> ...

It looks like the =E2=80=98initdb=E2=80=99 attempts to invoke the =E2=80=98=
locale=E2=80=99 command (from
glibc), which it cannot find here.  If this is correct, then we should
add =E2=80=98locale=E2=80=99 to the PATH when invoking =E2=80=98initdb=E2=
=80=99.

Christopher: WDYT?

Thanks,