Re: locales gone, gnome-terminal doesn't start up anymore

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

> so I've updated to 947a5d47a50252cb0b87b78a8f83f274dec593e2 git guix and now 
> I don't have any useful locales.
>
> $ locale -a
> C
> POSIX

I think this has always been the case because this command only lists
statically-known locales, strangely enough.

> Also, gnome-terminal doesn't start anymore:
>
> $ gnome-terminal
> Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: 
> Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: 
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process 
> org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 8
>
> $ gnome-terminal --disable-factory
> Failed to parse arguments: Option "--disable-factory" is no longer supported 
> in this version of gnome-terminal.

Hmm, I suppose there is something else going on here.

Could you try in ‘guix system vm’ with the desktop.tmpl example and see
if the same problem occurs?

Thanks for reporting it,
Ludo’.