[Nix-dev] command-not-found can't open db

[Malcolm Matalka]

I just noticed it's trying to open programs.sqlite in per-user/root,
which my user does not have read access to.  programs.sqlite does exist
in the per-user dir for my user, I don't know if it should be looking
there or why it isn't.

/M

Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka at gmail.com> writes:

> I did a manual upgrade to the latest version of NixOS and Nix a month or
> so ago, and just realized that command-not-found doesn't work for me.
> So I ran it manually (command-not-found whois) and I get the following
> error.  I'm not sure if my manual upgrade didn't set it up properly:
>
> $ command-not-found whois
> DBI
> connect('dbname=/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/programs.sqlite','',...)
> failed: unable to open database file at
> /run/current-system/sw/bin/command-not-found line 12.
> cannot open database
> `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/programs.sqlite' at
> /run/current-system/sw/bin/command-not-found line 12.