[Nix-dev] attribute 'replaceStrings' missing??

[Arseniy Seroka]

Maybe something was corrupted. Check nix-store with
`sudo nix-store --verify --check-contents --repair`.

2015-10-15 0:25 GMT+03:00 Christopher Rooney <christopher.j.rooney at gmail.com
>:

> I updated for the first time in a while (from generation 23 to 24). I got
> an error on most common uses of nix-env (-i, -e, -qa). I rolled back to 23
> and everything worked, and here is s transcript of the update to generation
> 25.
>
> [~/tmp]$ nix-channel --update
> downloading Nix expressions from ‘
> https://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-16.03pre70404.d6d88aa//nixexprs.tar.xz
> ’...
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
> Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> Speed
> 100 5948k  100 5948k    0     0   235k      0  0:00:25  0:00:25 --:--:--
> 346k
> unpacking channels...
> created 2 symlinks in user environment
> [~/tmp]$ nix-env -qa
> error: attribute ‘replaceStrings’ missing, at
> /nix/store/mf3c1kdjm0llfb9zdsjbqg5fjbjypyil-nixpkgs-16.03pre70404.d6d88aa/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/editors/geany/with-vte.nix:2:12
> [~/tmp]$ nix-env -q geany
> error: selector ‘geany’ matches no derivations
> [~/tmp]$ nix-channel --rollback
> switching from generation 25 to 24
> [~/tmp]$ nix-env -qa
> error: attribute ‘replaceStrings’ missing, at
> /nix/store/1fa3vwkgix78i5disxfamcwk1sv9mgyd-nixpkgs-16.03pre70175.b2588ad/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/editors/geany/with-vte.nix:2:12
> [~/tmp]$ nix-channel --rollback 23
> switching from generation 24 to 23
> [~/tmp]$ nix-env -qa
> ...(works)...
>
> Geany would appear to be a text editor of which I haven't previously heard
> and I don't use.
>
> Sorry for noobness and thanks for any insight.
>
> chris
>
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-- 
Sincerely,
Arseniy Seroka
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