[Nix-dev] nixos-prepare-install can't read /proc/self/stat

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

On Tuesday 12 April 2011 10:46:53 Rickard Nilsson wrote:
>  I'm trying to bootstrap Nixos from an existing Linux (Ubuntu)
>  environment with the nixos-prepare-install. I'm following the first
>  steps of this guide:
>  http://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Install_NixOS_as_OpenVZ_guest
> 
>  However, after the sources has been checked out, I get the following
>  error:
> 
>  U   /mnt/etc/nixos/nixos
>  Checked out revision 26787.
>  INFO:  registering bootstrapping store paths as valid so that they
>  won't be rebuild
>  Couldn't read /proc/self/stat
>  /mnt/nix/store/nixos-prepare-install: line 167:  9876 Aborted
>       chroot "$mountPoint"
>  /nix/store/kxdbs8kvkgsgzl2am1m9dm5hcikrndwh-nix-1.0pre26015/bin/nix-store
>  --register-validity < $NIX_CLOSURE
> 

Try this:
mount -o bind /proc $mountPoint/proc

-- 
Evgeny