[Nix-dev] strange nix error

[James Cook]

/nix/var/nix/profiles has the same permissions/owner/group on my
system.  If the daemon is running as root and you have the env
variable set, then I'm not sure what's happening.

James

On 5 April 2014 22:25, Ben Franksen <ben.franksen at online.de> wrote:
> Ben Franksen wrote:
>> James Cook wrote:
>>> On 5 April 2014 16:47, Ben Franksen <ben.franksen at online.de> wrote:
>>>> I have installed nix under ubuntu, using the ubuntu deb package. Then I
>>>> followed the instructions in the nix manual for multi-user installs,
>>>> i.e. created build users & groups and added a nix.conf:
>>>> [...]
>>>> Then I do nix-env -i <somepackage> and get
>>>>
>>>> error: setting synchronous mode: unable to open database file
>>>
>>> I had a similar problem, and fixed it by setting the environment
>>> variable NIX_REMOTE to "daemon" as suggested in the user's guide.
>>
>> That was it. Thanks!
>>
>> I had set the variable but only in my .zshenv and forgot to restart the
>> shell. Stupid me.
>
> I have successfully created a new package and the build runs through just
> fine, yay!
>
> Unfortunately the installation into the user environment fails:
>
> ...
> building path(s) `/nix/store/8jw7qly1mq2nzdjlnnhiqwgsbhwc3ns9-user-
> environment'
> created 8 symlinks in user environment
> error: opening lock file `/nix/var/nix/profiles/default.lock': Permission
> denied
> ben at sarun[1]: ~ > ll -d /nix/var/nix/profiles
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr  5 21:53 /nix/var/nix/profiles
>
>
> Does /nix/var/nix/profiles have to be writeable by the nixbld<n> users or
> the nixbld group? I searched the nix manual but found no hint.
>
> Cheers
> Ben
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