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Re: Experience using the Nix service as a novice user
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Carlo Zancanaro |
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Re: Experience using the Nix service as a novice user |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:22:49 +1100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Hi Christian!
On Sun, Feb 04 2024, Christian Miller wrote:
> I wanted to try out the Nix service and followed the manual. I had
> some trouble while doing so. The following are the steps I took, the
> errors I encountered, and how I resolved them. As well as feedback to
> the experience.
Thank you for this feedback!
I recently installed the Nix service myself, and ran into these rough
edges, but I didn't think to write them down or fix things. Thank you
for the clear and detailed prompt to do so.
I've just sent a patch to guix-patches with some updates to the manual
which attempts to add the pieces that you found were missing. Could you
have a look at that and make sure you're happy with what I've written?
> At this point, I started encountering problems. The command
> "nix-channel --update" returns:
>
> unpacking channels...
> error: opening pseudoterminal master: No such device
> error: program
> '/gnu/store/mh2nc81cvw321q0lx4y38g4n7b86q88y-nix-2.16.1/bin/nix-env'
> failed with exit code 1
>
> This was easy to fix because I had found this solution[1]
>
> sudo herd restart nix-daemon
I didn't mention this in the manual, because this seems more like a bug
that should be fixed. I've also had the same issue, so I'll try to
investigate the next time it happens to see if I can fix it.
> I initially attempted this within a VM ($(guix system vm nix.scm) -m
> 4096 -smp 2) that had 4 GiB of memory and 2 cores. The process was
> terminated. Is it normal for Nix to require such a large amount of
> resources to install a package?
I wouldn't expect it to need that much, unless it was needing to build
things from source. Usually Nix's substitute coverage is pretty good, so
I wouldn't expect you to need to build much from source.
Carlo