[Nix-dev] nix-shell cannot create directory followed by closeNest: command not found

[Luca Bruno]

If you are using nixos unstable, try upgrading. That's related to a
gdkpixbuf package bug that has been solved recently.


On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk
<fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to write some code for the Yi text editor today. It is a
> Haskell program and I wanted to use nix to help me develop it. After
> all, the ability to do this is one of the main reasons why I went for
> NixOS.
>
> I followed instructions at [1] and using the Project Sandboxes section,
> I have arrived at the default.nix file you can find at [2].
>
> When I run ‘nix-shell’, the dependencies listed get downloaded (and
> installed?) but the incantation fails with:
>
>
> [shana at lenalee:~/programming/yi/yi]$ nix-shell
> mkdir: cannot create directory
>
> ‘/nix/store/d5d5bmdqn9pp05yixckdbiamnhdp8hfw-haskell-yi-ghc7.6.3-0.8.1-profiling’:
> Read-only file system
> closeNest: command not found
>
>
> Is there something I'm missing? I thought that maybe it's a name-clash
> with existing package (Yi is already packaged) but changing the version
> string in default.nix revealed that wasn't the case.
>
>
> [1]:
> http://ocharles.org.uk/blog/posts/2014-02-04-how-i-develop-with-nixos.html
> [2]: http://lpaste.net/103249
>
> --
> Mateusz K.
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