[Nix-dev] unable to delete a store path

[Mathijs Kwik]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:
> On 09/26/2012 06:01 AM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
>
> There's your answer. You need to remove the gcroot (most likely something in
> /nix/var/nix/gcroots or a subdirectory) pointing to this path before
> deleting it.

I think you mis-read my paste.
"nix-store --query --roots /nix/store/..." is my input, it's all on
the same line
there is no output from the command itself

>>
>> 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
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