Ah, then you know more than I do :-/ There's another thread about this on nix-dev with subject starting with "Impossible to use Nix + fetchgit..."; that's all I've got for you.
James On 7 July 2015 at 15:09, Alexander Vorobiev <alexander.vorob...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the reason is we use active directory with sssd (which is kind of a > standard for enterprise RHEL-based clusters) for authentication. My > understanding is sssd is not supported by Nix at the moment and the > LD_LIBRARY_PATH trick (to add the libnss_sss.so.2 from the host system to > the search path) suggested here https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/554 > isn't working for emacs. > > Alex > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 8:42 PM, James Cook <james.c...@utoronto.ca> wrote: >> >> On 30 June 2015 at 07:46, Alex Vorobiev <alexander.vorob...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have just installed nix-1.9 on RHEL 6.5 (using gcc-5.1 I compiled >> > myself) >> > and I am trying to use it in single-user mode. I installed a few >> > packages >> > and they all seem to work (after I unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH). I also >> > installed >> > emacs which starts but shows this error message "user my_user_id has no >> > home directory" and doesn't load my initialization files. (I don't know >> > whether it is important but the system uses ldap/pam so there is no >> > record >> > for me in /etc/passwd.) Regular non-nix emacs 24.5 works fine. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Alex >> >> In case this is still troubling you, I found a thread where a Guix >> user (Guix is based on nix) was having a similar problem, and one >> question that came up was whether nscd was running on the system. >> >> The message: >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2015-02/msg00088.html >> >> James > > _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev