Re: [Nix-dev] nixos-install building FLAC and failing

2013-06-14 Thread Malcolm Matalka
That worked, has sound become enabled by default all of a sudden? Vladimír Čunát vcu...@gmail.com writes: On 06/14/2013 12:23 AM, Malcolm Matalka wrote: I'm trying to install NixOS on another Linode host, and I'm running into something odd during 'nixos-install'. Despite my configuration,

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos-install building FLAC and failing

2013-06-14 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 06/14/2013 08:00 AM, Malcolm Matalka wrote: That worked, has sound become enabled by default all of a sudden? I don't know... I would prefer to have it enabled by default only iff you enable X (I'm not sure it's even possible to do that). Vlada smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos-install building FLAC and failing

2013-06-14 Thread Oliver Charles
I also got this error while installing a new Linode. I fixed it by reverting to the previous version of FLAC. On 13 Jun 2013 23:23, Malcolm Matalka mmata...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to install NixOS on another Linode host, and I'm running into something odd during 'nixos-install'. Despite

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos-install building FLAC and failing

2013-06-14 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 06/14/2013 09:26 AM, Oliver Charles wrote: I also got this error while installing a new Linode. I fixed it by reverting to the previous version of FLAC. It seems to be enough to disable the tests. However, for the tree I would prefer to fix this impurity... tests can save us in some

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos-install building FLAC and failing

2013-06-14 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 14/06/13 00:23, Malcolm Matalka wrote: Here is the error: ERROR: iterator claims file is writable when tester thinks it should not be; are you running as root? Well, maybe the build is actually running as root. The installer is supposed to set up nixbld* uids in the target

[Nix-dev] nixos-install building FLAC and failing

2013-06-13 Thread Malcolm Matalka
I'm trying to install NixOS on another Linode host, and I'm running into something odd during 'nixos-install'. Despite my configuration, AFAIK, a bunch of sound stuff is being installed, and FLAC is failing on tests, most likely because I'm running as root. I just don't understand why FLAC is

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos-install building FLAC and failing

2013-06-13 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 06/14/2013 12:23 AM, Malcolm Matalka wrote: I'm trying to install NixOS on another Linode host, and I'm running into something odd during 'nixos-install'. Despite my configuration, AFAIK, a bunch of sound stuff is being installed, and FLAC is failing on tests, most likely because I'm running

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos-install fail due to sync

2013-04-08 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 08/04/13 15:50, Malcolm Matalka wrote: I'm trying to do a new install of nixos on VirtualBox, and nixos-install is failing because of a sync call in 'switch-to-configuration'. The error is that it cannot run sync. Thanks, fixed. However, this was not a fatal error since

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos-install

2012-06-08 Thread Marco Maggesi
Yes, indeed. I was not aware of the migration. My fault, probably, I read the nix-dev mailing list discontinuously. M. 2012/6/7 Kirill Elagin kirela...@gmail.com: 2012/5/10 Marco Maggesi magg...@math.unifi.it The directory  /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root is empty on my system. What is

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos-install

2012-06-07 Thread Kirill Elagin
2012/5/10 Marco Maggesi magg...@math.unifi.it The directory /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root is empty on my system. What is wrong? That's wrong. You are probably using old-style /etc/nixos stuff. Migrate to nix channels. -- Кирилл Елагин ___

[Nix-dev] nixos-install

2012-05-10 Thread Marco Maggesi
Hi, I'm trying to build a xen guest image with nixos. The command nixos-install fails with the following message error: selector `nixos' matches no derivations The source of the problem is the following command found in the script nixos-install srcs=$(nix-env -p

[Nix-dev] NixOS install from Linux using lilo

2011-12-25 Thread Sergey Mironov
Hello list. I am trying to install Nixos on my Lenovo S10-3t netbook. I followed wiki article [1] but the problem is that I have lilo instead of grub as the boot manager. I have tried to translate grub config lines into lilo.conf but faced failed booting saying: -- mounting /dev/root on /...

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS install from Linux using lilo

2011-12-25 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Sergey Mironov's message of Sun Dec 25 16:09:20 +0100 2011: Hello list. I am trying to install Nixos on my Lenovo S10-3t netbook. I followed wiki article [1] but the problem is that I have lilo instead of grub as the boot manager. I have tried to translate grub config lines into

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS install from Linux using lilo

2011-12-25 Thread Marc Weber
Why are you trying to boot from CD? Why don't you just use your boot loader to choose boot from cdrom? Try to tell us what you want to achieve - then we can help you find the best and fastest way. I personally maintain a minimal bootstrapping archive which can be used to install nixos without