[Nix-dev] [nix-dev] broken manifest

[Mathijs Kwik]

It appears however, that the manifest on the server is broken.
See http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/


On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Arie Middelkoop <amiddelk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Delete:  /nix/store/ps8c0vgpwz4zdgr0jznxak6cp53f95lm-MANIFEST.bz2
> then run: nix-store --verify
> Your next nixos-rebuild will then download the manifest again.
>
> The problem is that the manifest that you downloaded is corrupted. I had
> this several times when I was connected to an access point that required me
> to login. It would then redirect my connection to a login website,  which
> would be downloaded as the manifest file and thus be corrupt.
>
> It would actually be nice if nixos-rebuild would transparently deal with
> this issue.
>
> Arie
>
> 2012/1/15 Sergey Mironov <ierton at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi! Looks like nix-rebuild switch is broken! MANIFEST.bz2 from the server
>> is an empty file.
>>
>> [root at pokemon:~]# nixos-rebuild switch
>> fetching list of Nix archives at
>> `http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/MANIFEST.bz2'...
>>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
>>  Current
>>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
>>  Speed
>>   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
>>   0
>> caching /nix/store/ps8c0vgpwz4zdgr0jznxak6cp53f95lm-MANIFEST.bz2...
>> you have an old-style or corrupt manifest
>> `/nix/var/nix/manifests/nixpkgs-unstable-4059d198768f9f8dc9372dc1c54bc3c3.nixmanifest';
>> please delete it at
>> /var/run/current-system/sw/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux-thread-multi/Nix/Manifest.pm
>> line 345.
>> building Nix...
>> building the system configuration...
>> error: unexpected EOF reading a line
>>
>> deleting the *nixmanifest file doesn't change anything. Is it a buildfarm
>> bug?
>>
>> Sergey
>>
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