bug#40123: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile

2020-03-19 Thread david larsson
On 2020-03-18 22:57, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: Den ons 18 mars 2020 21:48david larsson skrev: This led me to find my problem: For some reason, my ~root/.guix-profile was pointing to the current-guix profile rather than the guix-profile. It could have been me who did that. :( Anyway, problem

bug#40123: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile

2020-03-19 Thread david larsson
On 2020-03-19 02:26, Leo Famulari wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 09:47:39PM +0100, david larsson wrote: Not so fast! I just did the same yesterday using the install-script but on a RedHat server, and my /root/.config/guix/current pointed at /var/guix/profiles/per-user/MYOTHERUSER/current-guix i

bug#40123: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile

2020-03-18 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 09:47:39PM +0100, david larsson wrote: > Not so fast! I just did the same yesterday using the install-script but on a > RedHat server, and my /root/.config/guix/current pointed at > /var/guix/profiles/per-user/MYOTHERUSER/current-guix instead of > /var/guix-profiles/per-user

bug#40123: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile

2020-03-18 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:57:53PM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: > David, for your problem, I'm wondering if it couldn't be related to what > everyone has asked me: how you become root. Usually when you need to "be root" it just means that you want superuser privileges, so people do `sudo su` or

bug#40123: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile

2020-03-18 Thread Mikael Djurfeldt
Den ons 18 mars 2020 21:48david larsson skrev: > > > This led me to find my problem: For some reason, my > > ~root/.guix-profile was pointing to the current-guix profile rather > > than the guix-profile. > > > > It could have been me who did that. :( > > > > Anyway, problem solved! This was not a

bug#40123: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile

2020-03-18 Thread david larsson
On 2020-03-18 20:02, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:40 PM Marius Bakke wrote: Mikael Djurfeldt writes: To figure out where the package gets installed, try running this command: find /var/guix/profiles -name sv_SE.utf8 -type d It's obvious that that line will producet

bug#40123: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile

2020-03-18 Thread Marius Bakke
Mikael Djurfeldt writes: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:40 PM Marius Bakke wrote: > >> Mikael Djurfeldt writes: >> >> > To figure out where the package gets installed, try running this >> >> command: >> >> >> >> find /var/guix/profiles -name sv_SE.utf8 -type d >> >> >> > >> > It's obvious that tha

bug#40123: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile

2020-03-18 Thread Mikael Djurfeldt
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:40 PM Marius Bakke wrote: > Mikael Djurfeldt writes: > > > To figure out where the package gets installed, try running this > >> command: > >> > >> find /var/guix/profiles -name sv_SE.utf8 -type d > >> > > > > It's obvious that that line will produce an empty result. Th

bug#40123: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile

2020-03-18 Thread Marius Bakke
Mikael Djurfeldt writes: > To figure out where the package gets installed, try running this >> command: >> >> find /var/guix/profiles -name sv_SE.utf8 -type d >> > > It's obvious that that line will produce an empty result. That is because > the sv_SE.utf8 directory only exists in the store. But

bug#40123: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile

2020-03-18 Thread Mikael Djurfeldt
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:18 PM Marius Bakke wrote: > Tje Mikael, > > Mikael Djurfeldt writes: > > > To reproduce the bug: > > > > * install guix on top of an ordinary linux distribution using the install > > script at guix.gnu.org > > > > * install glibc-locales as root > > > > Expected: > > >

bug#40123: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile

2020-03-18 Thread Marius Bakke
Tje Mikael, Mikael Djurfeldt writes: > To reproduce the bug: > > * install guix on top of an ordinary linux distribution using the install > script at guix.gnu.org > > * install glibc-locales as root > > Expected: > > There should be a link ~root/.guix-profile/lib/locales That should be ~root/.

bug#40123: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile

2020-03-18 Thread Mikael Djurfeldt
To reproduce the bug: * install guix on top of an ordinary linux distribution using the install script at guix.gnu.org * install glibc-locales as root Expected: There should be a link ~root/.guix-profile/lib/locales Actual: No such link has been installed. Note: The link does get installed