Dear Guix community, I was trying to install guix package manager on a "foreign distribution", in particular Ubuntu 20.04 under WSL2 (Windows). WSL is not a normal linux distribution (the kernel and the init file are shipped by Microsoft), but despite this I was able to complete the setup using the script on guix website. The deamon must be started manually, but this is a minor issue. The issue comes when I try to execute "guix pull" (both from standard user and root). compute-guix-derivation fails complaining for a bug... Here below the output to terminal user@PP423:~$ guix pull hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales' package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines: guix install glibc-utf8-locales export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale" See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info. Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at ' https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... Authenticating channel 'guix', commits 9edb3f6 to 6b588da (18,157 new commits)... 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[##################] 100.0% font-dejavu-2.37 2.3MiB 14.5MiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% fribidi-1.0.9 75KiB 685KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% gdbm-1.20 191KiB 891KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% glibc-2.33-static 1.4MiB 6.6MiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% glibc-utf8-locales-2.33 808KiB 8.3MiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% graphite2-1.3.13 97KiB 873KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% grep-3.6 245KiB 16KiB/s 00:15 [##################] 100.0% icu4c-69.1 10.5MiB 116KiB/s 00:58 [########### ] 62.2%Backtrace: 16 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/lfjnz6id1jaizirca0hysrnsz5ab87h6-compute-guix-derivation") In ice-9/eval.scm: 155:9 15 (_ _) 159:9 14 (_ #(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(# ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?)) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 152:2 13 (with-fluid* _ _ _) 152:2 12 (with-fluid* _ _ _) In ./guix/store.scm: 2129:24 11 (run-with-store # _ #:guile-for-build _ #:system _ #:target _) 1966:8 10 (_ _) In ./guix/gexp.scm: 300:22 9 (_ _) 1181:2 8 (_ _) 1047:2 7 (_ _) 893:4 6 (_ _) In ./guix/store.scm: 2014:12 5 (_ #) 1410:13 4 (map/accumulate-builds # # ?) 1406:5 3 (map/accumulate-builds # # ?) 1421:15 2 (_ # _ _) 733:11 1 (process-stderr # _) In ./guix/serialization.scm: 80:6 0 (read-int #) ./guix/serialization.scm:80:6: In procedure read-int: ERROR: 1. &nar-error: file: #f port: # guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program '/gnu/store/lfjnz6id1jaizirca0hysrnsz5ab87h6-compute-guix-derivation' failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: "6b588da368c77cde82ea2f22ca315116228777ad"; system: "x86_64-linux"; host version: "1.3.0"; pull-version: 1).