Try to guard against broken locale settings

As falling back to the C locale can break things, like creating nars from
outputs.

3 files changed, 35 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/guix-build-coordinator/utils.scm b/guix-build-coordinator/utils.scm
index c619a12..5d365a6 100644
--- a/guix-build-coordinator/utils.scm
+++ b/guix-build-coordinator/utils.scm
@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@
 
             running-on-the-hurd?
 
-            get-gc-metrics-updater))
+            get-gc-metrics-updater
+
+            check-locale!))
 
 (eval-when (eval load compile)
   (begin
@@ -931,3 +933,31 @@ again."
           (let ((value (assq-ref stats name)))
             (metric-set metric value))))
        metrics))))
+
+(define (check-locale!)
+  (with-exception-handler
+      (lambda (exn)
+        (display
+         (simple-format
+          #f
+          "exception when calling setlocale: ~A
+falling back to en_US.utf8\n"
+          exn)
+         (current-error-port))
+
+        (with-exception-handler
+            (lambda (exn)
+              (display
+               (simple-format
+                #f
+                "exception when calling setlocale with en_US.utf8: ~A\n"
+                exn)
+               (current-error-port))
+
+              (exit 1))
+          (lambda _
+            (setlocale LC_ALL "en_US.utf8"))
+          #:unwind? #t))
+    (lambda _
+      (setlocale LC_ALL ""))
+    #:unwind? #t))
diff --git a/scripts/guix-build-coordinator-agent.in b/scripts/guix-build-coordinator-agent.in
index c863e9e..0ac36f9 100644
--- a/scripts/guix-build-coordinator-agent.in
+++ b/scripts/guix-build-coordinator-agent.in
@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@
                (max 256 columns)
                256))))
 
+(simple-format (current-error-port) "locale is ~A\n" (check-locale!))
+
 (let ((opts (parse-options %options
                            %option-defaults
                            (cdr (program-arguments)))))
diff --git a/scripts/guix-build-coordinator.in b/scripts/guix-build-coordinator.in
index 9760968..b112262 100644
--- a/scripts/guix-build-coordinator.in
+++ b/scripts/guix-build-coordinator.in
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
              (guix-build-coordinator build-allocator)
              (guix-build-coordinator client-communication))
 
+(simple-format (current-error-port) "locale is ~A\n" (check-locale!))
+
 (define %base-options
   ;; Specifications of the command-line options
   (list (option '("secret-key-base-file") #t #f