[Nix-dev] ``Failed to execute opertaion: Connection timed out'' when issuing nixos-rebuild

[James Cook]

On 11 April 2015 at 09:08, Manuel Pages <amarr.industrial at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm facing most peculiar issue when I issue commands from nixos-rebuild
> family —
>
> Stopping dbus.service nix-daemon.service
> systemd-udevd.service
> *snip*
> restarting systemd
> *time passes*
> Failed to execute opertaion: Connection timed out
> Failed to execute opertaion: Connection timed out
> Failed to execute opertaion: Connection timed out
> ...
>
> the most terrible thing is that it kills network and I lose shells to the
> server.
> The only way to get back to a working (previous) snapshot of system is to
> reboot computer.
>
> I have no idea what goes wrong as there is no helpful debug information
> during
> nixos-rebuild (even in verbose mode).
>
> Please halp™ :)

I can only offer a painful solution: git bisect to figure out at which
commit this starts happening.

James