[Nix-dev] write_file '/etc/passwd.tmp' - syswrite: Bad address

[Wout Mertens]

Oh wow I never saw that before, and in a Perl script no less.
I think you may have memory corruption? Does memtest86 work fine?

Wout.

On Sat, May 16, 2015, 2:59 PM Amy de Buitléir <amy at nualeargais.ie> wrote:

> Sigh... new problem:
>
> [root at wombat9000:~]# nixos-rebuild switch
> building Nix...
> building the system configuration...
> activating the configuration...
> setting up /etc...
> warning: not applying UID change of user ‘ntp’
> write_file '/etc/passwd.tmp' - syswrite: Bad address at
> /nix/store/a218r8idpw52c652vy44d9zvfjf82jbc-update-users-groups.pl line
> 217.
> warning: error(s) occured while switching to the new configuration
>
>
> What I have tried:
> 1. Ran badblocks, which found no bad blocks on my system.
> 2. nixos-rebuild switch --repair, which gave the same error.
> 3. nix-store --verify --check-contents --repair
>
> [root at wombat9000:~]# nix-store --verify --check-contents --repair
> reading the Nix store...
> checking path existence...
> checking hashes...
>
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