From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mikael Djurfeldt Subject: bug#40123: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:57:53 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87pnd9bk76.fsf@devup.no> <87k13hbj7e.fsf@devup.no> <91170830b228c5f4b7d0ed50cc0eb6fa@selfhosted.xyz> Reply-To: mikael@djurfeldt.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000097a46c05a1282586" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52437) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jEgiN-0004BE-Pv for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:59:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jEgiM-00038O-CK for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:59:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:35553) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jEgiM-000378-8h for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:59:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jEgiM-0002G6-5i for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:59:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <91170830b228c5f4b7d0ed50cc0eb6fa@selfhosted.xyz> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: david larsson Cc: bug-Guix , 40123@debbugs.gnu.org --00000000000097a46c05a1282586 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Den ons 18 mars 2020 21:48david larsson skrev: > > > This led me to find my problem: For some reason, my > > ~root/.guix-profile was pointing to the current-guix profile rather > > than the guix-profile. > > > > It could have been me who did that. :( > > > > Anyway, problem solved! This was not a guix bug. > > Not so fast! I just did the same yesterday using the install-script but > on a RedHat server, and my /root/.config/guix/current pointed at > /var/guix/profiles/per-user/MYOTHERUSER/current-guix instead of > /var/guix-profiles/per-user/root/current-guix which it should be > pointing at! I also think this is related to > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2020-01/msg00241.html I actually also think that there *is* a bug. But in my case it was either a lack in the documentation of how to setup .guix-profile or lack of getting this done automatically. This forced me into guesswork. David, for your problem, I'm wondering if it couldn't be related to what everyone has asked me: how you become root. Best regards, Mikael --00000000000097a46c05a1282586 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Den ons 18 mars 2020 21:48david larsson <david.la= rsson@selfhosted.xyz> skrev:

> This led me to find my problem: For some reason, my
> ~root/.guix-profile was pointing to the current-guix profile rather > than the guix-profile.
>
> It could have been me who did that. :(
>
> Anyway, problem solved! This was not a guix bug.

Not so fast! I just did the same yesterday using the install-script but on a RedHat server, and my /root/.config/guix/current pointed at
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/MYOTHERUSER/current-guix instead of
/var/guix-profiles/per-user/root/current-guix which it should be
pointing at! I also think this is related to
https://lists= .gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2020-01/msg00241.html
=

I actually also think t= hat there *is* a bug. But in my case it was either a lack in the documentat= ion of how to setup .guix-profile or lack of getting this done automaticall= y. This forced me into guesswork.

David, for your problem, I'm wondering if it couldn't be = related to what everyone has asked me: how you become root.

Best regards,
= Mikael

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