Forgejo: locales are missing from the source tree

[soulwhisper]

Nixpkgs version

• Stable (24.11)

Describe the bug

forgejo v10.0.1 failed to start, report

01 ...rvices/cron/tasks.go:210:RegisterTaskFatal() [F] Unable to register cron task update_mirrors Error: translation is missing for task "update_mirrors", please add translation for "admin.dashboard.update_mirrors"

related solution method could be link.

Steps to reproduce

fresh install

Expected behaviour

service init should have no errors and be functional.

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System metadata

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 6.6.76, NixOS, 24.11 (Vicuna), 24.11.20250316.a1185f4
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.24.12
• nixpkgs: /nix/store/l75sdw6vydkwaa6cfrf33h2pnzikpxm8-source

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[eclairevoyant]

https://docs.gitea.com/next/installation/install-from-source#build

[adamcstephens]

I wouldn't trust the gitea docs to be appropriate for forgejo any longer. The relevant link would be:

https://forgejo.org/docs/next/contributor/from-source/

Also the originally linked issue is here, there's no reason to go through the (somewhat slow) Internet Archive for it.

[emilylange]

Also, this sounds like you are trying to run Forgejo on NixOS without using the nixos/forgejo module (services.forgejo).
Please use the provided NixOS module instead of running the bare executable from the CLI.

See https://search.nixos.org/options?query=services.forgejo.

In case my guess is wrong, please share the bits of your NixOS configuration that use services.forgejo. There might be some misconfiguration or footgun we can improve upon and fix.

[soulwhisper]

@emilylange my config here.

[emilylange]

Remove services.forgejo.settings.server.STATIC_ROOT_PATH and this will fix your issue.

Also, you probably don't need

systemd.tmpfiles.rules = [
  "d ${cfg.dataDir} 0755 appuser appuser - -"
];

either, given the NixOS module sets

nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/misc/forgejo.nix

Line 604 in 437ae0f

"d '${cfg.stateDir}' 0750 ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group} - -"

If I may ask, what made you want to set STATIC_ROOT_PATH in the first place?

[soulwhisper]

@emilylange I am moving all my apps to some dir like '/{zfs-pool}/apps/appname' for backup. so may be I need to change related ROOT in such service? Thank you for your help.

EDIT: As adamcstephens replied below, I suggest hiding misleading or unnecessary configurations from users. In the first place, this option suggests that its example is '/var/lib/forgejo/data'.

[adamcstephens]

I would expect that changing stateDir alone should be sufficient to change location where forgejo stores its data.

@emilylange perhaps we should warn on setting of STATIC_ROOT_PATH? It's not clear to me why users would need to change this?

STATIC_ROOT_PATH: StaticRootPath: Upper level of template and static files path.

[mweinelt]

@emilylange I am moving all my apps to some dir like '/{zfs-pool}/apps/appname' for backup. so may be I need to change related ROOT in such service? Thank you for your help.

Just (bind?) mount your ZFS dataset on top of the state directory in that case.

[soulwhisper]

@mweinelt Believe me I made research about directory changing. bind/bindfs is slow. overlayfs is better but complicated for my goals. rewrite a little bit systemd services with a specific app user is just fine. A staging vm example config here.

[mweinelt]

There is no need to bind-mount if you can just use a regular mount, as implied by my previous post.

[adamcstephens]

zfs set mountpoint=/var/lib/forgejo yourpool/yourdataset