How To Resolve "LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)"

System: Ubuntu 18.04

Guix: 1.0.1

Whenever I "guix pull" I see the error "LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)". I installed "glibc_utf8_locales" and it seems to have had no effect.

In my .profile I am pointing to "/home/username/.guix-profile/lib/locale". Am I missing something?

I have entered "hash guix" as well with no effect.

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 08:53:52PM +0000, David Philipe Gil via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:

Is this on the Guix System, or another distro?

Did you check the instructions in the manual section 2.6.1 Locales?

It's likely this error is coming from the guix-daemon, so you'll need to

make sure that GUIX_LOCPATH is set in the environment where the

guix-daemon starts.

On most distros this happens in the systemd unit file with something

like this line in the Service section:

Environment=GUIX_LOCPATH=/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/lib/locale

I did read section 2.6.1 but i could not understand the implications of the stated info.

I used the guix install script to install the guix package manager onto trisquel, which is an ubuntu based distro.

i have been putting my environment variables in .profile and am not familiar with using systemd. would you provide more specific info for what exactly to do in steps as far as adding this guix locale support properly into my systemd setup?

this might be a good feature to add to future versions of the guix package manager installer script.

Thank you for your assistance :)

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 07:55:21PM +0000, David Philipe Gil wrote:

Make sure the file /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service includes a

line like this in the Service section:

Environment=GUIX_LOCPATH=/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/lib/locale

If you make any changes to that file, you need to make them take effect

by running `systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl restart guix-daemon` as

root.

You should also run `env` from the shell where you use Guix and make

sure it includes GUIX_LOCPATH.

For both the systemd service file and your shell, you need to make sure

the value of GUIX_LOCPATH is a directory that contains locales, and that

they are the same version — there will be a directory with a version

number like '2.29' in, for example, '/home/leo/.guix-profile/lib/locale'.

This should all be handled by the installer script so it would be great

to figure out what's wrong.

my "/etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service" says:

```

# This is a "service unit file" for the systemd init system to launch

# 'guix-daemon'. Drop it in /etc/systemd/system or similar to have

# 'guix-daemon' automatically started.

[Unit]

Description=Build daemon for GNU Guix

[Service]

ExecStart=/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild

Environment='GUIX_LOCPATH=/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/lib/locale' LC_ALL=en_US.utf8

RemainAfterExit=yes

StandardOutput=syslog

StandardError=syslog

# See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-04/msg00608.html.

# Some package builds (for example, go@1.8.1) may require even more than

# 1024 tasks.

TasksMax=8192

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

```

my GUIX_LOCPATH equals:

```

/home/david/.guix-profile/lib/locale

```

inside inside that directory is a foilder named "2.29" and it contains what looks like every locale.

My entire "env" is the following:

```

CLUTTER_IM_MODULE=ibus

LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=00:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arc=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lha=01;31:*.lz4=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.tzo=01;31:*.t7z=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lrz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.lzo=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.zst=01;31:*.tzst=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.alz=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.cab=01;31:*.wim=01;31:*.swm=01;31:*.dwm=01;31:*.esd=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.mjpg=01;35:*.mjpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.webm=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.m4a=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.opus=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36:

GUIX_PROFILE=/home/david/.guix-profile

LESSCLOSE=/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s

XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

GDM_LANG=en_US

DISPLAY=:0

COLORTERM=truecolor

GIT_SSL_CAINFO=/home/david/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

DESKTOP_AUTOSTART_ID=1011d029ca029e4cc158392712626196800000018970007

XDG_VTNR=7

SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh

MANDATORY_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/gnome.mandatory.path

XDG_SESSION_ID=c2

XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/lightdm-data/david

USER=david

DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome

EMACSLOADPATH=/home/david/.guix-profile/share/emacs/site-lisp:/home/david/.guix-profile/share/emacs/26.3/lisp

QT4_IM_MODULE=ibus

TEXTDOMAINDIR=/usr/share/locale/

GUIX_LOCPATH=/home/david/.guix-profile/lib/locale

GNOME_TERMINAL_SCREEN=/org/gnome/Terminal/screen/00441cab_c189_445c_9a5e_3f23985d3b02

DEFAULTS_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/gnome.default.path

PWD=/home/david

HOME=/home/david

TEXTDOMAIN=im-config

SSH_AGENT_PID=2035

QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1

LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI=qemu:///system

XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11

XDG_DATA_DIRS=/home/david/.guix-profile/share:/usr/share/mate:/usr/share/mate:/home/david/.guix-profile/share:/usr/share/trisquel-session:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/

SSL_CERT_FILE=/home/david/.guix-profile/ca-certificates.crt

XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=gnome

GIO_EXTRA_MODULES=/home/david/.guix-profile/lib/gio/modules

GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge

TERM=xterm-256color

VTE_VERSION=5202

SHELL=/bin/bash

XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0

QT_IM_MODULE=ibus

XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus

IM_CONFIG_PHASE=2

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME

GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1

GNOME_TERMINAL_SERVICE=:1.130

SHLVL=1

XDG_SEAT=seat0

LANGUAGE=en_US

GDMSESSION=gnome

SSL_CERT_DIR=/home/david/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs

GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated

LOGNAME=david

DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000

XAUTHORITY=/home/david/.Xauthority

XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0

GUIX_GTK3_PATH=/home/david/.guix-profile/lib/gtk-3.0

XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-gnome:/etc/xdg

PATH=/home/david/.config/guix/current/bin:/home/david/.guix-profile/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/home/david/.local/bin

INFOPATH=/home/david/.guix-profile/share/info:/home/david/.guix-profile/share/info

SESSION_MANAGER=local/thinkpadw541:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/1897,unix/thinkpadw541:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1897

LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s

GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus

_=/usr/bin/env

```

Please let me know if I can provide more information to help solve this issue.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 12:24:46PM +0000, David Philipe Gil wrote:

[...]

And do you have the locales installed in root's profile? Check if that

directory is exists and contains locales.

Finally I would try removing the LC_ALL variable at the end. I don't

have that (custom service file) and things are working fine for me.

On Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:37 PM, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

I actually don't have a root profile in my home directory if that is what you mean. However, removing the "LC_ALL=en_US.utf8" from the "Environment=" line in "/etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service" seems to have solved the issue!

Was that added by the install script? Will this be fixed/addressed?

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 08:58:19PM +0000, David Philipe Gil wrote:

That LC_ALL bit was added to fix an earlier bug,

https://bugs.gnu.org/35671.

I'm not that familiar with how locales work so I'm not sure the best way

forward here... so I'm CC-ing Ludovic, who worked on it previously.