Re: locales gone

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:00:25AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:
>> 
>> > And if I strace postgres service I get
>> >
>> > [pid  6184] 
>> > open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/lib/locale/locale-archive",
>> >  O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> > [pid  6184] 
>> > open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/share/locale/locale.alias",
>> >  O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
>> > [pid  6184] fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=2997, ...}) = 0
>> > [pid  6184] read(3, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2997
>> > [pid  6184] read(3, "", 4096)           = 0
>> > [pid  6184] close(3)                    = 0
>> > [pid  6184] 
>> > open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_COLLATE",
>> >  O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> > [pid  6184] 
>> > open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_COLLATE",
>> >  O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> > [pid  6184] 
>> > open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/lib/locale/en_US/LC_COLLATE",
>> >  O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> > [pid  6184] 
>> > open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/lib/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_COLLATE",
>> >  O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> > [pid  6184] 
>> > open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/lib/locale/en.utf8/LC_COLLATE",
>> >  O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> > [pid  6184] 
>> > open("/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/lib/locale/en/LC_COLLATE",
>> >  O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> >
>> > And indeed those don't exist.
>> 
>> Ooh, I see.  To work around an issue in our glibc 2.23 package (that I
>> forgot to fix in 2.24), whereby glibc does not look for locale data in
>> /run/current-system/locale, commit
>> ab3a64507a792e4da0527b423fbc28f8768e736a sets GUIX_LOCPATH in
>> /etc/environment.
>
> Did commit 9f58fe3d1c not fix that issue?

Oh you’re right, it’s fixed in ‘core-updates’:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ ./pre-inst-env guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) glibc-final)'

[...]

/gnu/store/1qpfjj4rk11wm6ix098hqbai9wrwb24c-glibc-2.24-debug
/gnu/store/iwgi9001dmmihrjg4rqhd6pa6788prjw-glibc-2.24
$ strings /gnu/store/iwgi9001dmmihrjg4rqhd6pa6788prjw-glibc-2.24/lib/libc.so.6 
| grep /run/current-system
/run/current-system/locale/2.24
/run/current-system/locale/2.24/locale-archive
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

For current master the patch might still be helpful.

Thanks Leo!

Ludo’.