On a systemd-based Linux distribution: If the user has previously had multi-user Nix installed on the system, removed it and then reinstalled multi-user Nix again the old nix-daemon.service will still be running when `scripts/install-systemd-multi-user.sh` tries to start it which results in nothing being done and the old daemon continuing its run.
When a normal user then tries to use Nix through the daemon the nix binary will fail to connect to the nix-daemon as it does not belong to the currently installed Nix system. See below for steps to reproduce the issue that motivated this change.
$ sh <(curl https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon
$ sudo rm -rf /etc/nix /nix /root/.nix-profile /root/.nix-defexpr /root/.nix-channels /home/nix-installer/.nix-profile /home/nix-installer/.nix-defexpr /home/nix-installer/.nix-channels ~/.nix-channels ~/.nix-defexpr/ ~/.nix-profile /etc/profile.d/nix.sh.backup-before-nix /etc/profile.d/nix.sh; sed -i '/added by Nix installer$/d' ~/.bash_profile
$ unset NIX_REMOTE
$ sh <(curl https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon
└$ export NIX_REMOTE=daemon
└$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.hello
installing 'hello-2.10'
error: cannot connect to daemon at '/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket/socket': No such file or directory
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
└$ sudo systemctl restart nix-daemon.service
└$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.hello
installing 'hello-2.10'
these paths will be fetched (6.09 MiB download, 27.04 MiB unpacked):
/nix/store/2g75chlbpxlrqn15zlby2dfh8hr9qwbk-hello-2.10
/nix/store/aag9d1y4wcddzzrpfmfp9lcmc7skd7jk-glibc-2.27
copying path '/nix/store/aag9d1y4wcddzzrpfmfp9lcmc7skd7jk-glibc-2.27' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
copying path '/nix/store/2g75chlbpxlrqn15zlby2dfh8hr9qwbk-hello-2.10' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
building '/nix/store/w9adagg6vlikr799nkkqc9la5hbbpgmi-user-environment.drv'...
created 2 symlinks in user environment
In the multi-user install script, we originally made sure no previous
references to Nix existed. This prevented any previous installs from
contaminating the new install. However, some users need the ability to
repair their existing Nix installation without uninstalling all
references to Nix. This change allows users with existing Nix
installations to use the installer, while still outputing a warning
message on the dangers of this. As a result, the multi-user install
script work much more like the single-user install script has worked
in the past.
This is a requirement for macOS Catalina users now that
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.nix-daemon.plisg is not managed by
the Nix store. If there is ever a change to the .plist, all users will
need to rerun this install script to get the new changes. Otherwise,
changes to the launch daemon will require manual interventions.
On Catalina, the /nix filesystem might not be mounted at start time.
To avoid this service not starting, we need to keep the launch agent
outside of the Nix store. A wait4pid will hold for our /nix dir to be
mounted.
Fixes#3125.
If a network proxy configuration is detected, setup an override
systemd unit file for nix-daemon service with the non-empty
proxy variables.
Proxy detection is performed by looking for http/https/ftp proxy and no
proxy variables in user environment
With macOS catalina, we can no longer modify the root system
volume (#2925). macOS provides a system configuration file in
synthetic.conf(5) to create empty root directories. This can be used
to mount /nix to a separate volume. As a result, this directory will
need to already exist prior to installation. Instead, check for
/nix/store and /nix/var for a live Nix installation.
When we are in single user mode, we still want to have access to
profiles. This way things in Nixpkgs that rely on them getting set
accurately are done in both cases. The point where I hit this is with
using aspell which looks in NIX_PROFILES:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/libraries/aspell/default.nix
Before this patch, NIX_PROFILES was never set in single user mode!
This corrects that.
Having max-jobs = 32 ($NIX_USER_COUNT is hardcoded to that value) may
severely overload the machine. The nix.conf(5) manual page says max-jobs
defaults to 1, so let's use that value.
NOTE: Both max-jobs and cores are now being set to their default value,
so they can be removed alltogether.
Sandboxing is now enabled by default on Linux, but is still disabled on
macOS. However, the installer always turned it off to ensure consistent
behavior.
Remove this default configuration, so we fall back to the default
platform-specific value.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Instead, print a message about what happened and tell the user what can
be done (run "[sudo -i] nix-channel --update nixpkgs" again at a later
time). This change allows installing Nix when you're offline.
Since the multi-user installer is so verbose, the message isn't printed
until the end.
Fixes issue #2650 ("installation without internet connection").
This removes part of the PATH that were being added automatically in multi-user installs:
- $HOME/.nix-profile/lib/kde4/libexec - shouldn't be needed anymore, we are now using kde5
- @localstatedir@/nix/profiles/default/lib/kde4/libexec - same as above
- @localstatedir@/nix/profiles/default - shouldn't ever contain binaries
If the profile is sourced inside a script with `set -u`, the check for
__ETC_PROFILE_NIX_SOURCED and NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE would raise an error.
A simple guard around this check allows the script to operate under
standard environments (where it is fairly reasonable to assume USER
and HOME are set.)
By passing --daemon or --no-daemon, the installer can be forced to
select one or the other installation options, despite what the
automatic detection can provide.
This commit can be backported to 2.0-maintenance because it explicitly
turns off the daemon installation for Linux under systemd.
We use grep instead of an equality check because it is difficult
to extract _just_ the user's note, instead it is prefixed with
some plist junk. This was causing the user note to always be set,
even if there was no reason for it.
Grep would ignore files that didn't exist, but would complain
about files in a directory if the directory didn't exist. Simply check
for the directory first, prior to grepping it.
- darwin installer: delete hardware report, not necessary
- moves os-specific code from the darwin installer to to `poly_*`
functions
- adds profile.d support to the profile targets, which automatically
handles many distros which don't have a /etc/bashrc but do have an
/etc/profile.d
- /bin/bash -> /usr/bin/env bash
- document why each excluded shellcheck check is excluded
- rename the multi-user to Daemon-based
Checking for MANPATH without quotes always returns true, so that it breaks bash-completion for man pages on modern systems without MANPATH environment variable.
The installer will error out if a user's shell configuration includes any mention of ~nix-profile~, even if this is in a comment. This change is designed to do the bare minimum to ignore lines beginning with a `#`.
In particular, drop the "build-" and "gc-" prefixes which are
pointless. So now you can say
nix build --no-sandbox
instead of
nix build --no-build-use-sandbox
The current behaviour modifies the first writeable file from amongst
.bash_profile, .bash_login and .profile. So .bash_profile (if it is
writable) would be modified even if a user has already sourced nix.sh
in, say, .profile.
This commit introduces a new environment variable,
NIX_INSTALLER_NO_MODIFY_PROFILE. If this is set during installation,
then the modifications are unconditionally skipped.
This is useful for users who have a manually curated set of dotfiles
that they are porting to a new machine. In such scenarios, nix.sh is
already sourced at a place where the user prefers. Without this
change, the nix installer would insist on modifying .bash_profile if
it exists.
This commit also add documentations for both the current behaviour and
the new override.
Steven Shaw
Samuel Dionne-Riel
Jonas Chevalier
Jörg Thalheim