Hi Giovanni! The problem is already solved, but thanks for your message!
The solution was to _restart_ the daemon. According to systemctl status it was still running, but it needed a restart nevertheless. I think I described it in my follow-up e-mail : ) Thanks! Hans On 4/25/19 4:45 PM, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > Hello Hans-Werner, > > Hans-Werner Roitzsch <hwroitz...@posteo.net> writes: > > [...] > >> But then I started to see the actual problem. When I tried installing >> the locales following the installation of Guix an error with the guix >> daemon socket came up: >> >> ===== >> guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales >> guile: warning: failed to install locale >> hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales' >> package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines: >> >> guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales >> export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale" >> >> See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info. >> >> >> guix package: error: failed to connect to >> `/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket': No such file or directory >> ===== > it seems guix-daemon service is not running: can you check it? > > you should see a process like this one: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (anemone)giovanni@anemone:~$ ps aux | grep guix-daemon > root 2444 0.0 0.0 12216 412 ? Ss Mar22 0:00 > /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon > --build-users-group=guixbuild > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > I installed Guix on Debian with the binary installation bash script > provided upstream and it installed the right systemd service; if > guix-daemon is not running on your system you should double check the > manual > > [...] > > HTH! Gio' >
