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

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:00:26PM +0100, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> On 18 March 2013 22:51, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name> wrote:
> [...snip explanation of how to avoid getting into the bad state in the
> first place...]
> 
> If it can be handled manually, surely NixOS could do it automatically?
> 
> Doing manual work to please the package system souds much more like
> Archlinux than NixOS to me ;-)

I agree.

In that state, the nixos-rebuild simple script doesn't know how to get back the
path of the "new nix", that failed to build the previous nixos, because the
old nix doesn't know how to use the new store.

I don't see a trivial solution by now, but I think that a big percent of the
nixos population has hit this issue in the last month (according to my
experience and what I saw in irc talks, mainly).

Without thinking much on it, I'd start by making "--no-build-nix" the default.
:)

Regards,
Lluís.