I installed guix on my Fedora 23 machine according to https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation. After that, I don't recall installing anything but guile. When I attempt to run the following command, I see a backtrace.
# guix package -u "*" warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument Backtrace: In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 157: 16 [catch #t #<catch-closure 27e4d20> ...] In unknown file: ?: 15 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 27e4d20>] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 63: 14 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...] In ice-9/eval.scm: 432: 13 [eval # #] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 2401: 12 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 2801940 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4045:3 ()>] 4050: 11 [#<procedure 2801940 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4045:3 ()>] 1724: 10 [%start-stack load-stack ...] 1729: 9 [#<procedure 2818ea0 ()>] In unknown file: ?: 8 [primitive-load "/gnu/store/85nyj4lz480mxaj5szffli3c1k2rbhfn-guix-0.8.3/bin/.guix-real"] In guix/ui.scm: 1032: 7 [run-guix-command package "-u" "*"] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 157: 6 [catch srfi-34 #<procedure 4142a20 at guix/ui.scm:378:2 ()> ...] 157: 5 [catch system-error ...] In guix/scripts/package.scm: 995: 4 [#<procedure 4144150 at guix/scripts/package.scm:984:4 ()>] 854: 3 [process-actions (# # # # ...)] 566: 2 [options->installable (# # # # ...) #<<manifest> entries: #>] In srfi/srfi-1.scm: 664: 1 [filter-map #<procedure 413e5e0 at guix/scripts/package.scm:566:16 (expr)> ...] In unknown file: ?: 0 [make-regexp "*"] ERROR: In procedure make-regexp: ERROR: In procedure make-regexp: Invalid preceding regular expression # guix --version warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument guix (GNU Guix) 0.8.3 -- Jan Synáček