[Nix-dev] 3 strange busybox problems [solved]

[Michael Bock]

But it was installed in the root's user packages. works now! thanks for
the hint..


On 20.04.2017 10:15, Michael Bock wrote:
>
> nope, it's not in the configuration.nix's pkgs list.
>
>
> On 20.04.2017 10:09, Maarten Hoogendoorn wrote:
>> Did you install busybox globally on your system? It might shadow some
>> GNU core tools, if you set the priority for busybox higher than the
>> priority for the GNU tools.
>>
>> 2017-04-20 9:56 GMT+02:00 Michael Bock <mb at thought2.de
>> <mailto:mb at thought2.de>>:
>>
>>     Hi nix folks,
>>
>>     I'm having some strange troubles on my NixOS machine. It looks that's
>>     somehow related to the busybox package, here are some cases:
>>
>>     1. It's not possible to see manpages for any program anymore.
>>
>>     ``
>>
>>     man grep
>>     man: no manual entry for 'grep'
>>
>>     man -aw
>>     BusyBox v1.24.2 () multi-call binary.
>>
>>     Usage: man [-aw] [MANPAGE]...
>>
>>     Format and display manual page
>>
>>         -a    Display all pages
>>         -w    Show page locations
>>
>>     ``
>>
>>     This appeared some time ago and is the case throughout any rollback.
>>
>>
>>     2. The top command
>>
>>     ``
>>
>>     top
>>
>>     [...]
>>
>>     *** buffer overflow detected ***: top terminated
>>     [...]
>>
>>     00400000-004f8000 r-xp 00000000 fe:01 411845
>>     /nix/store/gkm15nx2gw43qasbkijs3czzhq6hwk86-busybox-1.24.2/bin/busybox
>>     [...]
>>
>>     7febfa18d000-7febfa1a3000 r-xp 00000000 fe:01 695683
>>     /nix/store/q3wx1gab2ysnk5nyvyyg56ana2v4r2ar-glibc-2.24/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
>>     [...]
>>
>>     ``
>>
>>     See the full output here: https://pastebin.com/ssUCziP7
>>
>>     This appeared earlier than the first issue and is also now the
>>     case in
>>     any older rollback.
>>
>>
>>     3. Tor-Browser (happens with some other programs as well..)
>>
>>     ``
>>
>>     tor-browser
>>     cp: invalid option -- 'u'
>>     BusyBox v1.24.2 () multi-call binary.
>>
>>     Usage: cp [OPTIONS] SOURCE... DEST
>>
>>     Copy SOURCE(s) to DEST
>>
>>         -a    Same as -dpR
>>         -R,-r    Recurse
>>     [...]
>>
>>     ``
>>
>>     This however, disappears when rolling back.
>>
>>
>>     All of them seem to be busybox related. For example the procps
>>     top works
>>     fine:
>>
>>     ``
>>
>>     nix-shell -p procps
>>
>>     top ...
>>
>>     ``
>>
>>
>>     Does anyone have suggestion here? It's actually the first time
>>     something
>>     'mutable' happened to the nix system I'm using, it's updated to 17.03
>>     but this did not change the problems.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>
>>     Michael
>>
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