Could you open an issue at github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs ? Thanks! On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015, at 03:56 PM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sorry for the badly worded subject line. > > > > NixOS newbie here. Playing with NixOS on a VirtualBox installation and > > really really liking it so far. > > > > I am using nix-shell and the quick start example in the manual (step #6 > > listed here: <https://nixos.org/nix/manual/>) does not seem to work for > > me: > > > > [ram@nixos:~] nix-shell -p hello > > these paths will be fetched (0.04 MiB ... > > > > *** Downloading .... > > > > [ram@nixos:~]$ hello > > The program `hello' is currently not installed ... > > ... > > [ram@nixos:~]$ exit > > > > [ram@nixos:~]$ > > > > Note that the prompt string didn't change when we entered the nix-shell. > > > > If I do: > > > > [ram@nixos:~]$ nix-shell -p hello --pure > > > > [nix-shell:~]$ hello > > Hello, world! > > > > [nix-shell:~]$ > > > > I wonder why without "--pure" it didn't get into the shell. Would > > appreciate any help. > > I figured that the behaviour that triggered this is the single line in > the /etc/nixos/configuration.nix: > > programs.bash.enableCompletion = true; > > If I comment this out, nix-shell runs just fine. > > This looks like a bug to me. > -- > Ramakrishnan > "Err and err and err again, but less and less and less" ⟶ Piet Hein > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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