[Nix-dev] nixos-rebuild issues

[shea at shealevy.com]

Gah! Now I definitely look a fool :)

# $(nix-build -A system "<nixos>" 
--no-out-link)/bin/switch-to-configuration test
# nixos-rebuild switch/boot/whatever

On 2012-12-20 17:52, Shea Levy wrote:
> Argh, sorry, Thunderbird wrapped where it shouldn't have. For
> clarification, the commands are:
>
> # $(nix-build -A system "<nixos>"
> --no-out-link)/bin/switch-to-configuration test
> # nixos-rebuild switch/boot/whatever
>
> On 12/20/2012 05:50 PM, Shea Levy wrote:
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>> This is actually a problem with nix-1.2 client interacting poorly 
>> with
>> nix-1.1 daemon (https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/76). The 
>> workaround
>> for now is to run the following as root:
>>
>> # $(nix-build -A system "<nixos>"
>> --no-out-link)/bin/switch-to-configuration test
>> # nixos-rebuild switch/boot/whatever
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Shea Levy
>>
>> On 12/20/2012 05:44 PM, Jan Malakhovski wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> ~~~~
>>> commit a9edaf10ed7570f66f17130c82a4e4170e80bfbb
>>> Merge: 5f8647e c6bf1f8
>>> Author: aszlig <aszlig at redmoonstudios.org>
>>> Date:   Fri Dec 7 18:48:26 2012 +0100
>>>
>>>       Merge pull request #207 from washort/mysql55
>>>
>>>       And sorry to @washort for bugging him too much with the 
>>> syntax.
>>> ~~~~
>>>
>>> breaks nixos-rebuild for me:
>>>
>>> ~~~~
>>> # nixos-rebuild build --show-trace
>>> building Nix...
>>> building the system configuration...
>>> these derivations will be built:
>>> .... long list of derivations ....
>>> error: build of 
>>> `/nix/store/dvv0czxamgsrf01935dz0kxchhsj4zxl-nixos-0.1pre-git.drv!out' 
>>> failed
>>> ~~~~
>>> just like that.
>>>
>>> Commit c6bf1f works fine, all the recent ones tried by bisect 
>>> failed.
>>>
>>> Also, today I tried to install NixOS onto a machine behind strict 
>>> network gateway with a proxy. I forgot to set nix.proxy in 
>>> configuration.nix while in installer, but after a reboot I couldn't 
>>> rebuild the system with nixos-rebuild. nixos-rebuild wasn't passing 
>>> the http_proxy environment varible to the daemon, or so it looked.
>>> I tried something like
>>> nix-build <nixos> -A system
>>> and it, quite unexpectedly, worked.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>     Jan Malakhovski
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