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

[Wout Mertens]

so weird... what was the corruption?

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 4:08 PM Amy de Buitléir <amy at nualeargais.ie> wrote:

> Wout Mertens <wout.mertens <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Of course, it can only be memory corruption if it is not repeatable,
> otherwise there's something weird about the call Perl makes to syswrite(),
> definitely a bug somewhere then.
>
> Oh, it's definitely repeatable...but I found a solution. I noticed that my
> /etc/passwd file is corrupt. With fingers tightly crossed, I renamed that
> file, and tried nixos-rebuild switch again. It worked, and I have a new
> /etc/passwd file.
>
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