[Nix-dev] Re: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

[Tony White]

2009/6/11 Tony White <tonywhite100 at googlemail.com>:
> 2009/6/8 Tony White <tonywhite100 at googlemail.com>:
>> 2009/5/31 Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org>:
>>> Lluís Batlle <viriketo at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> stracing shows that the 'locale' commandline isn't caring on
>>>> LOCALE_ARCHIVE.
>>>
>>> Hmm, it apparently *does* honor that variable, and it does open the
>>> 77 MiB locale archive, too:
>>>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> $ locale --version
>>> locale (GNU libc) 2.9
>>> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
>>> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>>> Written by Ulrich Drepper.
>>>
>>> $ strace -f -o ,,s locale -a
>>> C
>>> POSIX
>>>
>>> $ grep locale-archive ,,s
>>> 6108  open("/var/run/current-system/sw/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
>>> 6108  open("/nix/store/v52qk62nsj4fx9m79755caijcgpndclc-glibc-2.9/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>>>
>>> $ LOCALE_ARCHIVE=/foo/bar strace -f -o ,,s locale -a
>>> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
>>> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
>>> locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
>>> C
>>> POSIX
>>>
>>> $ grep /foo/bar ,,s
>>> 6129  open("/foo/bar", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>
>>> Ludo'.
>>>
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>>
>> Hi all,
>> So this is broken for now?
>> I've added the :
>>
>> environment = {
>>   extraPackages = [ pkgs.glibcLocales ];
>>  }
>>
>> but bashrc is in the store, so adding the variable to that using the expression?
>> If it's the system wide locales, that's kind of important that it
>> works, isn't it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tony
>>
>
> Hello,
> Further on this :
>
> sudo svn up /etc/nixos/nixos
> svn: warning: cannot set LC_CTYPE locale
> svn: warning: environment variable LANG is en_US.UTF-8
> svn: warning: please check that your locale name is correct
> Skipped '/etc/nixos/nixos'
>
> and that's with defaultLocale = "en_GB.UTF-8"; hashed out.
>
> Any suggestions on where to go from here? It appears totally broken.
>
> Thanks,
> Tony
>
Hi,
I've discovered what's wrong and it's because I was using sudo and not su -.
I think I may need to set my user account to be a part of the nix
group or something similar.
The message disappears if I login as root instead of using sudo.

Thanks,
Tony