bug#45166: Wrong locale settings for guix-daemon causes confusing error

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> 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.

Thanks,
Ludo’.