On Saturday, September 21st, 2024 at 2:51 PM, Luis Felipe <sirga...@zoho.com> wrote:
> Hi Abbé, > > On 21/09/24 10:08, Abbé wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Since I updated guix few days ago, I started observing following notice > > whenever I start a new shell (with zsh, or bash -l): > > > > ================================================================== > > guile: warning: failed to install locale > > guile: warning: failed to install locale > > hint: Consider installing the `glibc-locales' package and defining` > > GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines: > > > > guix install glibc-locales > > export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale" > > > > See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info. > > ================================================================== > > > > I'm running GuixSD, and have installed glibc-locales in system profile. I > > don't have GUIX_LOCPATH, and never had that set before either. > > > > Following is the output from guix describe: > > > > ================================================================== > > ❯ guix describe > > hint: Consider installing the `glibc-locales' package and defining` > > GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines: > > > > guix install glibc-locales > > export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale" > > > > See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info. > > > > Generation 17 Sep 21 2024 10:03:22 (current) > > guix 9d75215 > > repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git > > branch: master > > commit: 9d75215a59629ab224154ef6b843043289291f81 > > nonguix 99a4773 > > repository URL: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix > > branch: master > > commit: 99a47731552b179ea021a65a8a6f474cece68182 > > ================================================================== > > > > Any ideas how to rectify this, and what caused it ? > > > Did you restart the system? > > I also upgraded my system (a couple of days before you) and I also saw > the hint about setting up GUIX_LOCPATH. This has happened before when I > upgrade, but the message goes away after restarting the system. > > Just as you, I have "glibc-locales" listed in my system's packages. > Also, I don't set GUIX_LOCPATH manually anywhere, but it is set like this: > > ❯ echo $GUIX_LOCPATH > /run/current-system/profile/lib/locale > > Hope that helps, Interesting, this time it worked, but I was seeing it for a week, and I did 'guix pull', 'guix system reconfigure' and reboot, and it never worked, while moving glibc-locales from system profile to user profile. Although I was testing this on a server (accessible over SSH only). Anyways, now all good (with glibc-locales package in system profile), so thank you! -- Abbé
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