[Nix-dev] Upgrading NixOS with sudo results in some error

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 07/21/2014 04:43 AM, Roger Qiu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I try running:
> 
> ``
> sudo nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
> ```
> 
> I get this message:
> 
> ```
> /run/current-system/sw/bin/nix-channel: unable to check 
> `https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-14.04'
> ```
> 
> What does that mean? And how can I fix it?
> 
> It only happens when I use sudo with it. I cannot use the normal user 
> because of permission problems, so I end up have to switch to root user 
> and running it for it to succeed. But even as root, if I prefix the 
> command with `sudo` it still fails with that problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> Roger
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While the other e-mails are workarounds, [1] is the actual issue in
question in case you're interested why the problem occurs.

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/2688

-- 
Mateusz K.