[Nix-dev] bootstrap failure

[Michael Raskin]

>On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:24:18 -0700, Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru>  
>wrote:
>
>>> Anyone know what might be going wrong with the nix-env invocation in the
>>> bootstrap attempt below?  This was following a "bash
>>> /mnt/nix/store/nixos-prepare-install checkout-sources" operation.
>>>
>>> +  
>>> /nix/store/v8yf6bzqzgfszd3v6q15f100hq6x73yl-nix-1.0pre26015/bin/nix-env
>>> -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/system -f /etc/nixos/nixos --set -A system -j2
>>> --keep-going
>>> error: user-thrown exception: Not defined.
>>> (use `--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
>>
>> Looks like you need to set some variables in configuration.nix.
>
>I'm attempting a Linode installation as documented here:  
>http://nixos.org/wiki/Install_NixOS_on_Linode
>
>I have:
>
># cat /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
>{
>   boot.loader.initScript.enable = true;
>}
>#
>
>I had thought to supplement that, but:
>
># bash /mnt/nix/store/nixos-prepare-install guess-config
>INFO:  /mnt/README-BOOTSTRAP-NIXOS found, assuming your're bootstrapping  
> from an archive. Nix files should be in place
>     To realise your NixOS installtion execute:
>
>     run-in-chroot "/nix/store/nixos-bootstrap --install -j2 --keep-going"
>#
>
>>
>> Without --show-trace output, it is hard to give any details..
>>
>
>There's no obvious way to do that:
>
># bash /mnt/nix/store/run-in-chroot "/nix/store/nixos-bootstrap --install  
>-j2 --keep-going --show-trace"

Maybe you just need to read previous trace and edit the script in-store
and add --show-trace to nix-env invokation manually.