Andrew Morsillo wrote:
After building the latest ISO and installing on a virtual machine doing
nixos-checkout then nixos-rebuild switch causes the terminal to hang
while executing "nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/system -f
/etc/nixos/nixos --set -A system" in the nixos-rebuild script. I am at a
loss as to how this can be resolved or even what the problem is.
The only output given (even when the nix-env command is set to verbose)
is "obtaining list of Nix archives at
'http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable/MANIFEST.bz2'.
<http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable/MANIFEST.bz2'.>..
2433 store paths in manifest store derivation is
/nix/store/(hash)-nix-0.12pre10798.drv /nix/store/(hash)-nix-0.12pre10798"
It's apparently caused by the upgrade to Glibc 2.7. Berkeley DB hangs on
database environments created by BDB linked against Glibc 2.5, it seems. A
workaround to get things working again is described here:
http://mail.cs.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2008-February/000555.html
BTW, I'm right now rewriting Nix to get rid of the Berkeley DB dependency, so we
won't have problems like this in the future :-)
--
Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/
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