[Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] Nix user permissions

[Rickard Nilsson]

Quoting "Marc Weber" <marco-oweber at gmx.de>:

>
> Hi Rickard
>> $ nix-channel --updatedownloading Nix expressions from
>> `http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.bz2'...
>>    % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time
>> Time  Current
>>                                   Dload  Upload   Total   Spent     
>> Left  Speed
>>    0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:--
>> unpacking channel Nix expressions...
>> error: creating directory `/nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user/rnils':
>
> Create those directories manually (or change their owner properties).
> Or wait until you get the perfect reply.

Unfortunately I keep getting other permission problems:

error: opening lock file `/nix/var/nix/profiles/default.lock':  
Permission denied

   / Rickard


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