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On Пятница 17 мая 2013 15:29:09 Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> Switching nixos.org from 32-bit to 64-bit didn't change anything [1]. 
> However, I finally did find the cause: the Zabbix installation on the same
> machine set the PHP configuration option "mbstring.func_overload" to 2,
> causing the semantics of string functions to change globally, i.e. for
> Mediawiki as well. Such a wonderful language...
> 
> Anyway, it should be fixed now.

I don't understand why it still exists tbh.

> [1] Fortunately this experiment didn't take long.  I just changed the
> nixpkgs.system option in configuration.nix from "i686-linux" to
> "x86_64-linux" and ran "nixos-rebuild boot".  Admittedly that only worked
> because distributed builds are enabled on that machine :-)

Apparently NixOS is the only distro which lets you flip arch and moreover keep 
2 different arch configs bootable at once :)