Nix: Nix single user install broken - 2.1

Created on 5 Sep 2018 · 7Comments · Source: NixOS/nix

ref - https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-2-1-released/875, https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sect-single-user-installation

on macos high sierra, ensured previous nix directories and includes were deleted and /nix dir recreated with myself as owner.

then when running the script:

$ sh <(curl https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  2464  100  2464    0     0  12851      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 12900
downloading Nix 2.1 binary tarball for x86_64-darwin from 'https://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-2.1/nix-2.1-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2' to '/var/folders/02/r78q_npn2fjcww4ryr21tthr0000gp/T/nix-binary-tarball-unpack.XXXXXXXXXX.X6RMyTyT'...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 28.9M  100 28.9M    0     0  4662k      0  0:00:06  0:00:06 --:--:-- 4558k
Note: a multi-user installation is possible. See https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sect-multi-user-installation
performing a single-user installation of Nix...
copying Nix to /nix/store...................................
initialising Nix database...
error: cannot connect to daemon at '/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket/socket': No such file or directory
/var/folders/02/r78q_npn2fjcww4ryr21tthr0000gp/T/nix-binary-tarball-unpack.XXXXXXXXXX.X6RMyTyT/unpack/nix-2.1-x86_64-darwin/install: unable to register valid paths

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mumblez

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I guess we should clear NIX_REMOTE in the install script.

edolstra on 5 Sep 2018

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Your shell still has NIX_REMOTE set probably. Open a new terminal and re run the installer.

On Sep 5, 2018, at 6:03 AM, Yusuf notifications@github.com wrote:

ref - https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-2-1-released/875, https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sect-single-user-installation

on macos high sierra, ensured previous nix directories and includes were deleted and /nix dir recreated with myself as owner.

then when running the script:

$ sh <(curl https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 2464 100 2464 0 0 12851 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 12900
downloading Nix 2.1 binary tarball for x86_64-darwin from 'https://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-2.1/nix-2.1-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2' to '/var/folders/02/r78q_npn2fjcww4ryr21tthr0000gp/T/nix-binary-tarball-unpack.XXXXXXXXXX.X6RMyTyT'...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 28.9M 100 28.9M 0 0 4662k 0 0:00:06 0:00:06 --:--:-- 4558k
Note: a multi-user installation is possible. See https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sect-multi-user-installation
performing a single-user installation of Nix...
copying Nix to /nix/store...................................
initialising Nix database...
error: cannot connect to daemon at '/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket/socket': No such file or directory
/var/folders/02/r78q_npn2fjcww4ryr21tthr0000gp/T/nix-binary-tarball-unpack.XXXXXXXXXX.X6RMyTyT/unpack/nix-2.1-x86_64-darwin/install: unable to register valid paths
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grahamc on 5 Sep 2018

@grahamc thanks, that fixed it, (I unset all NIX_* env vars)

mumblez on 5 Sep 2018

I guess we should clear NIX_REMOTE in the install script.

edolstra on 5 Sep 2018

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Or fail. The user will have a broken Nix install until they reopen their terminals.

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I guess we should clear NIX_REMOTE in the install script.

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grahamc on 5 Sep 2018

Just encountered this, would like to re-open.

cyounkins on 9 Jun 2019

In case this helps anyone, I ran into this issue yesterday but was able to solve it in my case (the hint about environment above was the key). I had done sudo su - to switch to the root (which IIRC causes the root session to inherit environment vars) and then the rebuild failed. I exited, and did sudo su instead and it worked fine.