Hi Myles, Myles English <mylesengl...@gmail.com> skribis:
> I have always had trouble with my locale after installing guix on Arch > Linux (with zsh and a basic window manager, bspwm). I have set > GUIX_LOCPATH in ~/.zshenv and it appears correct in my shell. The > system-wide locale looks right. When I install postgresql it gives the > usual "warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument". When I try > to initialise a database cluster, passing the locale doesn't work. > > Does anyone using Arch Linux and a basic WM know which file to put > GUIX_LOCPATH in so that the warning goes away? > > How can I find out what guix thinks its locale is or what are available? > > Is there a way to use initdb even though there is a locale warning? > > Shell experiments: > > $ locale > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > > $ echo $GUIX_LOCPATH > /home/myles/.guix-profile/lib/locale What does “ls $GUIX_LOCPATH/2.24” show? You must make sure you have the ‘glibc-locales’ or ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ that correspond to the glibc version of the program you are using (if you just installed postgresql, it’s using glibc 2.24.) Then you need to make sure GUIX_LOCPATH is set both in the environment of the postgresql daemon, and in the environment of the commands you invoke (initdb, etc.). HTH! Ludo’.