Hi, Marius Bakke <[email protected]> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> skriver: > >> Hi, >> >> Marius Bakke <[email protected]> skribis: >> >>> User sss2 reported on #guix[0] that running guix-daemon with an invalid >>> locale causes the following error: >>> >>> # guix pull >>> Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at >>> 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... >>> Building from this channel: >>> guix https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git 77667e2 >>> Computing Guix derivation for 'x86_64-linux'... | >>> guix pull: error: got unexpected path `hint: Consider installing the >>> `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales' package and' from substituter >> >> How did they run the daemon? The systemd unit file we provide normally >> makes sure it runs with the right GUIX_LOCPATH and with a valid locale. > > It was a hand-written systemd unit file, hence the error. My main > concern is with this error message: > > guix pull: error: got unexpected path `hint: Consider installing the > `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales' package and' from substituter > > Previously, the daemon would continue in the face of wrong locale > settings, but print lots of warnings, now it fails hard and early with > this unhelpful message. > > If that is intended, can we catch it and provide a more actionable error > message? No, that must be a regression somewhere, but I’m not sure where. Does it happen if you run say “guix build hello” and a substitute is downloaded? Or “guix build hello -S --no-substitutes”? Thanks, Ludo’.
