James Cook wrote: > On 5 April 2014 16:47, Ben Franksen <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have installed nix under ubuntu, using the ubuntu deb package. Then I >> followed the instructions in the nix manual for multi-user installs, i.e. >> created build users & groups and added a nix.conf: >> [...] >> Then I do nix-env -i <somepackage> and get >> >> error: setting synchronous mode: unable to open database file > > I had a similar problem, and fixed it by setting the environment > variable NIX_REMOTE to "daemon" as suggested in the user's guide.
That was it. Thanks! I had set the variable but only in my .zshenv and forgot to restart the shell. Stupid me. Cheers Ben -- "Make it so they have to reboot after every typo." -- Scott Adams _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
