[Nix-dev] cannot start worker (unexpected end-of-file)

[Bjørn Forsman]

Hi Bryce,

On 18 March 2013 22:02, Bryce L Nordgren <bnordgren at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bjorn,
>
> I hit this last week. The only way I got it to work again was to boot off of
> a current nixos install disk and re-install. Once "nix" and "nixos-rebuild"
> were working again, I could continue on with my own configuration.nix.

Hm... I thought NixOS had atomic upgrades? Or, if things broke anyway,
that it would be fixable without using external tools. What's going
on?

But thanks for telling me how you fixed it.

> Re-installing doesn't have to wipe the drive. It can just install brand new
> software in your nix store and it clear out the old entries in the grub boot
> menu. It also fixes whatever file is ending early.

Good to know.

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman