And if I strace postgres service I get [pid 6184] open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 6184] open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 6184] fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=2997, ...}) = 0 [pid 6184] read(3, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2997 [pid 6184] read(3, "", 4096) = 0 [pid 6184] close(3) = 0 [pid 6184] open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 6184] open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 6184] open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/lib/locale/en_US/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 6184] open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/lib/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 6184] open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/lib/locale/en.utf8/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 6184] open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/lib/locale/en/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
And indeed those don't exist. /gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23 does exist. There's a share/locale in there but no lib/locale .