Hi >> > >> > Failed to set locale. > >> > > >> > then it exits. > >> > > >> > I've set: > >> > GUIX_LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale > >> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > >> > > >> > Using glibc-locales > >> > >> Does setting LC_ALL instead of LANG help? The LC_* variables take > >> precedence over LANG. > > > > setting LC_ALL didn't work. Same error. > > > > Did a strace on it just to see what's going on. > > Here's the last part just before it exits > > > >> open("/run/current-system/locale/2.25/en_US.UTF-8/LC_IDENTIFICATION", > >> O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > >> open("/run/current-system/locale/2.25/en_US.utf8/LC_IDENTIFICATION", > >> O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > >> open("/run/current-system/locale/2.25/en_US/LC_IDENTIFICATION", > >> O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > >> open("/run/current-system/locale/2.25/en.UTF-8/LC_IDENTIFICATION", > >> O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > >> open("/run/current-system/locale/2.25/en.utf8/LC_IDENTIFICATION", > >> O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > >> open("/run/current-system/locale/2.25/en/LC_IDENTIFICATION", > >> O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > >> write(2, "Failed to set locale.\n", 22) = 22 > >> exit_group(1) = ? > >> +++ exited with 1 +++ > >> > > > > It's looking for locale specific things in /run/current-system. Which > Arch > > doesn't have. Is that a GuixSD specific thing? Don't have GuixSD > installed > > at the moment so cannot check myself. > > Yes, that’s a GuixSD-specific thing, but if you set GUIX_LOCPATH, then > $GUIX_LOCPATH should take precedence. The strace output you sent > suggests that GUIX_LOCPATH was unset, wasn’t it? > Yeah I think it was unset, looked in my .zshrc and I had just added GUIX_LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale forgot to add export. However it still complained when I set it properly. > > > > > > Failed to set locale. > > > > > > > > then it exits. > > > > > > > > I've set: > > > > GUIX_LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale > > > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > > > > > > > Using glibc-locales > > > > > > Does setting LC_ALL instead of LANG help? The LC_* variables take > > > precedence over LANG. > > > > setting LC_ALL didn't work. Same error. > > How recent is the guix you have? Did you run guix pull and > guix package -u .* recently? > I installed the one listed in arch AUR, which is 0.13.0 then did a guix pull a week ago or so. Did one this morning and that fixed it! Rofi now starts without any issues. Question though, do I need to add the regex when updating the packages? It seems it updated all my packages by just doing guix package -u. Anyway thanks for helping out, sorry to bother you with a non-issue. You can mark this bug as PEBCAK 2017-08-23 14:16 GMT-07:00 Ludovic Courtès : > Hi Fredrik, > > Fredrik Salomonsson skribis: > > >> > >> > Failed to set locale. > >> > > >> > then it exits. > >> > > >> > I've set: > >> > GUIX_LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale > >> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > >> > > >> > Using glibc-locales > >> > >> Does setting LC_ALL instead of LANG help? The LC_* variables take > >> precedence over LANG. > > > > setting LC_ALL didn't work. Same error. > > > > Did a strace on it just to see what's going on. > > Here's the last part just before it exits > > > >> open("/run/current-system/locale/2.25/en_US.UTF-8/LC_IDENTIFICATION", > >> O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > >> open("/run/current-system/locale/2.25/en_US.utf8/LC_IDENTIFICATION", > >> O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > >> open("/run/current-system/locale/2.25/en_US/LC_IDENTIFICATION", > >> O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > >> open("/run/current-system/locale/2.25/en.UTF-8/LC_IDENTIFICATION", > >> O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > >> open("/run/current-system/locale/2.25/en.utf8/LC_IDENTIFICATION", > >> O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > >> open("/run/current-system/locale/2.25/en/LC_IDENTIFICATION", > >> O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > >> write(2, "Failed to set locale.\n", 22) = 22 > >> exit_group(1) = ? > >> +++ exited with 1 +++ > >> > > > > It's looking for locale specific things in /run/current-system. Which > Arch > > doesn't have. Is that a GuixSD specific thing? Don't have GuixSD > installed > > at the moment so cannot check myself. > > Yes, that’s a GuixSD-specific thing, but if you set GUIX_LOCPATH, then > $GUIX_LOCPATH should take precedence. The strace output you sent > suggests that GUIX_LOCPATH was unset, wasn’t it? > > For example, I get: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > $ GUIX_LOCPATH=/foo strace -e open true --help > > [...] > > open("/foo/2.25/en_US.utf8/LC_IDENTIFICATION", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 > ENOENT (No such file or directory) > open("/run/current-system/locale/2.25/en_US.utf8/LC_IDENTIFICATION", > O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 > open("/gnu/store/ybpgv1v7606xw7mafda66w10hiynpi > w2-glibc-2.25/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No > such file or directory) > open("/gnu/store/ybpgv1v7606xw7mafda66w10hiynpi > w2-glibc-2.25/lib/gconv/gconv-modules", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 > open("/foo/2.25/en_US.utf8/LC_MEASUREMENT", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 > ENOENT (No such file or directory) > > [...] > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > HTH, > Ludo’. > -- s/Fred[re]+i[ck]+/Fredrik/g