bug#42414: closed (Packages Installed With GNU Guix not finding Correct Glibc)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Packages Installed With GNU Guix not finding Correct Glibc Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 06:04:55 +0000

After running 'guix pull' followed by 'guix package -u', the UI text for the menus on 'drracket', and 'emacs' started displaying like it was missing the correct encoding, essentially, boxes with four numbers each (see attached image of drracket.).

I have done the troubleshooting, and from what I can tell, it **might** have to do something to do with the change of the 'glibc-utf8-locales'  and 'glibc-locales' from version 2.29 to version 2.31.

I tried installing the older version (2.29) in addition to the 2.31, but that did not seem to fix the issue.

The issue can be observed between generations 22 and 23 in the attached generations.txt file

I tried to replicate that by installing the older versions of both packages in generations 31 and 32, but that does not seem to fix the issue, which tells me I am missing something.

I went on the IRC channel to ask about, and was asked to run 'sudo rm -rf /var/cache/fontconfig; fc-cache -rv' which I did, but that did not resolve the issue either.

I've also tried removing most packages with GNU Guix and reinstalling, but the issue persists.

All this running on Ubuntu 20.04:

    $ lsb_release -a

    No LSB modules are available.

    Distributor ID: Ubuntu

    Description: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

    Release: 20.04

    Codename: focal

with Guix version:

    $ guix --version

    guix (GNU Guix) febd1fcfa0b3cd34980ab5117172764fab56b853

    Copyright (C) 2020 the Guix authors

    License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

    This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

    There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

I'd appreciate some assistance to help me fix this.

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#42414: Packages Installed With GNU Guix not finding Correct Glibc Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:05:39 +0300 User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"Frederick M. Muriithi"
<fredmanglis@protonmail.com> writes:

> After wrestling with this issue some more and
> trying to figure out the cause, I finally fingered
> Ubuntu as the culprit.
>
> Something in my upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to
> Ubuntu 20.04 LTS subtly broke my system. Also I
> think a recent change in guix preventing me from
> doing a 'guix pull' unless logged in as root might
> have had something to do with it.
>
> I'm not quite sure what the final cause was, but I
> fixed the issue, and did a [quick
> write-up](https://fredmanglis.me.ke/blog/guix-apps-not-finding-glibc.html
> ) to help anyone else experiencing the issue.
>

This seems to have been fixed, so going ahead to
close this :)

tl;dr fix: Updating the package seemed to fix
things.


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