[Nix-dev] Failed to install NixOs

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from Angel Popov's message of Mon May 03 16:50:51 +0200 2010:
> Hi,I have tried to install latest minimal nixOS on VirtualBox but
> failed with error:you have an old-style
> manifest'/nix/var/nix/manifests/nixpkgs-unstable-6a6ba9adb717d9125d4c55a192695e6b.nixmanifest'
> ; please delete iterror: unexpected EOF reading a line
> and /nix/var/nix/manifests folder is empty.found the file in
> /mnt/nix/var/nix/manifests and deleted it but it does not help.What
> should I try to do to install minimal nixos?
> Regards, AngelP

I'm not entirely sure. This looks like a buildfarm failure ?
You can try nixos-rebuild --fallback which will build everything from
source.

Consider joining irc (#nixos on freenode) to fasten up round trips..

Marc Weber