Subject: Re: bug#39936: How To Resolve "LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)"

From: David Philipe Gil <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:24:46 +0000

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

> > 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?
> 

> 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, [email-masked]) 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.