Re: Help with locale

[Mikael Djurfeldt]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:22 PM Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 09:19:02PM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:
> > I only tried it for root so far and it did not show up in root's
> > '~/.guix-profile/lib/locale'.
>
> Okay. As root, can you do `guix package --list-installed` and send the
> results here?
>

It's just:

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


>
> Also, as root, can you send the result of `echo $GUIX_LOCPATH`?
>

/root/.guix-profile/lib/locale

>
> 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".)


>
> How are you "becoming root", by the way?
>

sudo -i

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.

Best regards,
Mikael