Hello everybunny :rabbit2: , I’ve installed GNU Guile over Guix on my Debian VM recently. I’m able to use guile(1) but I always get the message: guile: warning: failed to install locale warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument at the beginning. Installing glibc-locales and glibc-utf8…

Great find! Can confirm that this works. ▶ Without the environment variable ▶ With the environment variable So @fyrfaras , you want to set the GUIX_LOCPATH as described within info "(guix) Application Setup" (e.g. use export GUIX_LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale in your .profile or your shell’s…

[image] fyrfaras: Is someone having the same issue? I’m neither a Guix user, nor a Guile user, but let’s try. I guess that guix shell guile -- guile reproduces the behavior. So let’s use strace to see whether something interesting happens before the warning: guix shell guile glibc-locales st…

I’ve seen that message pop up as well from time to time, but now I can’t reproduce it. I don’t know if this helps at all, but since you don’t mention it I’ll ask: did you also set the GUIX_LOCPATH environment variable mentioned in the documentation? Application Setup (GNU Guix Reference M…

Some distributions differ where to set environment variables for login shells or other shells. Putting to GUIX_LOC_PATH into .bashrc works here on ASAHI Ubuntu

Yeah the first little while I used it I had these troubles, I’m really thankful that this page was in the documentation :smiley: There are still some issues I don’t know how to get around, though… sometimes trying to install things from the AUR (btw I use Arch) fails to compile because it mistakenl…

Thank you so much everybunny :rabbit: !! I inserted the GUIX_LOCPATH in my .profile. Now it works like a charm and there aren’t any warnings :sparkler: Thanks again @ashraz , @ryuslash , @ennoausberlin and @daviwil :heart: @ashraz Your indepth view with strace is really cool. For future debuggings…

GNU Guile warning: failed to install locale

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daviwil February 5, 2024, 5:25pm 6

Yep, this is a common pitfall of using Guix as a package manager and these steps are required on “foreign” distributions.

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GNU Guile warning: failed to install locale

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