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Subtle Typo in guix-daemon.service installed by guix-install.sh |
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Sat, 22 Aug 2020 09:46:05 -0700 |
There is a wee typo in the systemd file guix-daemon.service installed on Ubuntu 20.04 by the guix-install.sh script.
The text of /root/.config/guix/current/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service contains the text:
Environment='GUIX_LOCPATH=/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/lib/locale' LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
The portion .../guix-profile/... should read .../.guix-profile/..., in other words the path as given omits the requisite single period (.) as the prefix of the directory .guix-profile.
This minor oversight accounts in part for the guile: warning: failed to install locale error and related warnings that have cropped up repeatedly when the build daemons are invoked
To test this fix:
- I edited the guix-daemon.service specification in place at /etc/systemd/system by hand
- Rebooted to restart the guix build daemons (I detest systemd and I'm lazy besides)
- guix pull for my personal userland account
- guix package -u to upgrade same
- guix package -i libc-utf8-locales to upgrade my locales from 2.29 to 2.31
- sudo -i guix pull to update the root's view of guix
- sudo -i guix package -u for an upgrade of same
- sudo -i guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales to have the latest version of the UTF-8 locales installed in ~root/.guix-profile/lib/locale
In subsequent user-level guix install X commands the warning no longer appears nor do the build daemons complain about failing to set the locale to en_US.utf8
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Re: bug#42989: Subtle Typo in guix-daemon.service installed by guix-install.sh |
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Wed, 13 Jul 2022 22:18:27 -0400 |
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Hi,
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:22:13PM -0700, Michael Gorlick wrote:
>> You are right and the confusion is mine. The reason the error messages
>> disappeared is that thanks to a "guix pull", a "guix upgrade", and a "guix
>> install glibc-utf8-locales" on user "root" I now have the latest version of
>> the utf8-locales, 2.31, installed at
>> */var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/lib/locale.*
>>
>> Sorry for the bother. However, judging by prior discussions not everyone
>> understands that the build daemons rely in this way on the guix-profile of
>> the root. It would help if the documentation pointed out this common
>> misunderstanding and explicitly advised users on foreign distributions to
>> pull and upgrade the root profile regularly.
>
> Yeah, locales are one of the bigger user experience problem with Guix :/
> The warnings are a definite improvement over how it used to be, when
> glibc would simply ABORT any program that was using the wrong version of
> locales.
>
> We are still searching for a solid solution to the problem, as we've
> been tweaking the documentation for years now, but people still report
> the warnings all the time.
I think the situation has improved a lot in recent years. I'll close
this since the title is misguided, and since it's very old :-).
Thank you,
Maxim
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