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

[David Philipe Gil]

> 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, go@1.8.1) 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.

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