[Nix-dev] NixOS rebuild error: can't install grub

[Anderson Torres]

Many thanks, boy! In fact, both tests, kernel and nixos-version, appointed
the same broken profiles...

I will archive it for the future.

Again, many thanks!



2014-03-18 0:51 GMT-03:00 James Cook <james.cook at utoronto.ca>:

> Hi Anderson (cc list for web-search-ability),
>
> I looked at /nix/store/g0hwyp1ip5q399hppgb8mzpxfy6fhq7f-install-grub.pl
> line 213 (the same file exists on my system).  It looks like that
> error would be caused if you have any profile
> (/nix/var/nix/profiles/system-###-link) which are abnormal.  So see if
> any of your profiles are missing the file "nixos-version" -- e.g. if
> the following command produces any output, then some of your profiles
> are missing it*.
>
>   for i in $(echo /nix/var/nix/profiles/system-*-link); do test -f
> $i/nixos-version || echo missing in $i; done
>
> If some profiles are missing that file, and you don't need them,
> consider deleting those or just moving them somewhere else if you
> don't want to lose them (but then the next garbage collection will get
> them if you move them).
>
> James
>
>
> *Even if some are missing nixos-version, they ought to still work as
> long as another complicated test works (I'm continuing to read after
> line 213). The complicated test is: there should be a file called
> kernel, and if you ls -l that file to see which directory it really
> lies in, e.g:
>     $ ls -l system-272-link/kernel
>     lrwxrwxrwx 3 root nixbld 64 Dec 31  1969 system-272-link/kernel ->
> /nix/store/0bp0h8m0zh2dnv9s8j9fdmagpjxwb9lw-linux-3.13.3/bzImage
> then you should see a directory under lib/modules there, e.g. in my case,
>     $ ls
> /nix/store/0bp0h8m0zh2dnv9s8j9fdmagpjxwb9lw-linux-3.13.3/lib/modules
>     3.13.3
>
> On 17 March 2014 19:45, Anderson Torres <torres.anderson.85 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 1 - I am updating the channels now, and I will try again later - I am
> very
> > busy in real life now!
> > 1a - My internet connection is slow. Maybe tomorrow I can post some
> > progress...
> >
> > 2 - Just for the case, I will post my configuration files - I use a
> modular
> > approach:
> >
> (link removed in case it was just for me)
> >
> > 2014-03-17 2:41 GMT-03:00 James Cook <james.cook at utoronto.ca>:
> >
> >> On 16 March 2014 18:43, Anderson Torres <torres.anderson.85 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hello!
> >> >
> >> > I am with a problem here: NixOS refuses to update the system with a
> GRUB
> >> > error:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > root at janis-nixos ~ # nixos-rebuild switch
> >> >
> >> > building Nix...
> >> > building the system configuration...
> >> > updating GRUB 2 menu...
> >> > Use of uninitialized value $_[0] in substitution (s///) at
> >> >
> >> >
> /nix/store/z1krxp2hwph8fypchf2b0ssnyp6z8k9l-perl-5.16.3/lib/perl5/5.16.3/File/Basename.pm
> >> > line 341.
> >> > fileparse(): need a valid pathname at
> >> > /nix/store/g0hwyp1ip5q399hppgb8mzpxfy6fhq7f-install-grub.pl line 213.
> >> >
> >> > Can someone help me?
> >>
> >> I don't have any ideas, but can you post a minimal configuration.nix
> >> that reproduces the problem, and which revision of nixpkgs you're at
> >> (or when you last ran nix-changel --update)?
> >>
> >> James
> >
> >
>
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