[Nix-dev] unable to delete a store path

[Mathijs Kwik]

Hi all,

I have a store path that seems to refer to itself only, but I can't delete it.
How can I proceed?


mathijs at bluebook nixos% nix-store --query --referrers-closure
/nix/store/q6qapspkz2g4jlgnagiabrfvw32say9v-xine-lib-1.2.2
/nix/store/q6qapspkz2g4jlgnagiabrfvw32say9v-xine-lib-1.2.2

mathijs at bluebook nixos% nix-store --query --roots
/nix/store/q6qapspkz2g4jlgnagiabrfvw32say9v-xine-lib-1.2.2

mathijs at bluebook nixos% nix-store --delete
/nix/store/q6qapspkz2g4jlgnagiabrfvw32say9v-xine-lib-1.2.2
finding garbage collector roots...
error: cannot delete path
`/nix/store/q6qapspkz2g4jlgnagiabrfvw32say9v-xine-lib-1.2.2' since it
is still alive
0 store paths deleted, 0.00 MiB freed