[Nix-dev] Nix seemingly broke ~/.nix-profile symlink

[Bjørn Forsman]

On 4 February 2015 at 14:11, Pascal Wittmann <PascalWittmann at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 02/03/2015 10:46 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
>> Just for information (as I cannot reproduce it).
>>
>> I don't really know how this happened. I think the last thing I did
>> before noticing anything wrong was to run "nix-collect garbage" and
>> then "nix-build".
>
> I just encountered the same issue. Called `nix-collect-garbage` and
> afterwards `nixos-rebuild switch`. The system hung and after rebooting I
> just had a black screen with a cursor. Fixing ~/.nix-profile solved the
> problem. Before I noticed that ~/.nix-profile was broken I did some
> rollbacks, but they didn't solve the problem.

Ok, so it wasn't just me :-)

I forgot to mention my system version:

$ nixos-version
14.12.335.676e8d7 (Caterpillar)

- Bjørn