Re: Help with locale

[Mikael Djurfeldt]

Den tis 17 mars 2020 21:58Mikael Djurfeldt <address@hidden> skrev:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:45 PM Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 09:37:27PM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:22 PM Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > > Okay. As root, can you do `guix package --list-installed` and send the
>> > > results here?
>> >
>> > guile-ssh 0.12.0 out
>> > /gnu/store/qqpigisk01ivzvb9pyi4d4d6v5p6djzw-guile-ssh-0.12.0
>> > glibc-locales 2.29 out
>> > /gnu/store/03nvilh2x4z07dxv7h13gh986vvgpnsf-glibc-locales-2.29
>> >
>> > > And finally, again as root, the result of `ls -l
>> > > ~root/.guix-profile/lib/locale`?
>> > >
>> >
>> > ls: cannot access '/root/.guix-profile/lib/locale': No such file or
>> > directory
>> >
>> > (There's not even a "lib".)
>> >
>> > BTW, I tried Jeremy's suggestions and in the course of that discovered
>> that
>> > my ordinary user gets the lib/locales link installed. So, the problem I
>> > report only exists for the root user.
>>
>> Something is not right here.
>>
>> The .guix-profile directory is a symlink union of all the packages in
>> the user's profile, so it should definitely contain a 'lib/locale'
>> directory if the user has installed glibc-locales.
>>
>> What is the result of `ls -l ~root/.guix-profile`?
>>
>
> First, sorry, I didn't remember correctly: There is actually a "lib" and
> has been all the time. Here's different directory listings both for the
> root user and for the ordinary mdj user:
>
> root@hat:~# ls -l ~root/.guix-profile
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 mar 14 19:48 /root/.guix-profile ->
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix
> root@hat:~# ls -lL ~root/.guix-profile
> total 20
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 jan  1  1970 bin
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 jan  1  1970 etc
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 jan  1  1970 lib
> -r--r--r-- 2 root root  454 jan  1  1970 manifest
> dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 jan  1  1970 share
> root@hat:~# ls -l ~root/.guix-profile/lib
> total 8
> lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 68 jan  1  1970 guile ->
> /gnu/store/7slr0lvrsyvg00h8sv101pc5rx144mcf-guix-683861125/lib/guile
> lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 71 jan  1  1970 guix ->
> /gnu/store/pqffdyy62xv8qla6jqa5gb47abnflbiz-guix-package-cache/lib/guix
> root@hat:~# ls -l ~mdj/.guix-profile
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mdj mdj 44 mar 17 21:24 /home/mdj/.guix-profile ->
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/mdj/guix-profile
> root@hat:~# ls -lL ~mdj/.guix-profile
> total 20
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 jan  1  1970 etc
> dr-xr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 jan  1  1970 include
> dr-xr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 jan  1  1970 lib
> -r--r--r--  2 root root  465 jan  1  1970 manifest
> dr-xr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 jan  1  1970 share
> root@hat:~# ls -l ~mdj/.guix-profile/lib
> lrwxrwxrwx 3 root root 66 jan  1  1970 /home/mdj/.guix-profile/lib ->
> /gnu/store/03nvilh2x4z07dxv7h13gh986vvgpnsf-glibc-locales-2.29/lib
>

Or, rather, the root "lib" directory turned up when I installed guile-ssh.
It did not exist when I only had glic-locales.