On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 09:37:27PM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:22 PM Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote: > > Okay. As root, can you do `guix package --list-installed` and send the > > results here? > > guile-ssh 0.12.0 out > /gnu/store/qqpigisk01ivzvb9pyi4d4d6v5p6djzw-guile-ssh-0.12.0 > glibc-locales 2.29 out > /gnu/store/03nvilh2x4z07dxv7h13gh986vvgpnsf-glibc-locales-2.29 > > > And finally, again as root, the result of `ls -l > > ~root/.guix-profile/lib/locale`? > > > > ls: cannot access '/root/.guix-profile/lib/locale': No such file or > directory > > (There's not even a "lib".) > > BTW, I tried Jeremy's suggestions and in the course of that discovered that > my ordinary user gets the lib/locales link installed. So, the problem I > report only exists for the root user.
Something is not right here. The .guix-profile directory is a symlink union of all the packages in the user's profile, so it should definitely contain a 'lib/locale' directory if the user has installed glibc-locales. What is the result of `ls -l ~root/.guix-profile`?
