Thank you for the reply, unfortunately that computer has come to the end of its natural life so I can't investigate any further. I will be sure to try nix on my new build.
Alex Kost writes: > Myles English (2016-05-12 02:52 +0300) wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am trying guix on Arch Linux. While updating the system package to >> glibc 2.23 I get this error: >> >> $ locale-gen >> Generating locales... >> en_GB.UTF-8...cannot create temporary file: >> /run/current-system/locale/2.22/locale-archive.nfq78F: No such file or >> directory > > "locale-gen" script runs "localedef" command (which is from "glibc" > package). So I think that the Guix's localedef is started. My guess is > you installed "glibc" into your guix user profile, and > "~/.guix-profile/bin" takes preference over other directories in your > $PATH. Could you check "which localedef"? > > If it's true, why did you install glibc in your profile? I think it is > not needed. Not sure, I did have some installation difficulties at "2.6 Application Setup"[fn:1] where "guix package -i glibc-locales" did not work first time, I forget the details though. > OTOH if my guess is correct, this environment problem should happen only > for your user, but the root user shouldn't have localedef in its PATH. > So you probably keep your user environment during system update (maybe > with "sudo -E pacman -S ..." or something similar), right? How did you > start pacman? I think you are right and I had environment variables set in my .zshrc that I shouldn't have. Myles Footnotes: [fn:1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup.html
