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