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Installation in WSL fails #60

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opened 2025-10-22 10:22:04 +00:00 by dwt · 1 comment
dwt commented 2025-10-22 10:22:04 +00:00
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Error: 
   0: Install failure
   1: Error executing action
   2: Action `configure_nix` errored
   3: Action `setup_default_profile` errored
   4: Failed to execute command with status 1 `HOME="/root" NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE="/nix/store/y2zh06pccwcvz43xwgd8mr8pbqflkqww-nss-cacert-3.107/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt" "/nix/store/c47cym23n56kkss8z0ican8nynkf6cwk-lix-2.93.0/bin/nix-env" "-i" "/nix/store/c47cym23n56kkss8z0ican8nynkf6cwk-lix-2.93.0"`, stdout: 
      stderr: installing 'lix-2.93.0'
      warning: user namespaces do not work on this system: error: unable to fork: Invalid argument
      warning: user namespaces appear to be disabled; check '/proc/sys/user/max_user_namespaces'
      error: unable to start build process

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version 0.17.1
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This is sadly not my machine, which means I can not as easily test, and this might be due to a misconfiguration on his part, still, until we know what it is I thought it helpful to report here.

Not sure how user namespaces are used with nix, but I guess that it has something to do with the sandboxing. If I can provide additional tests for this issue, please let me know.

## Error ``` Error: 0: Install failure 1: Error executing action 2: Action `configure_nix` errored 3: Action `setup_default_profile` errored 4: Failed to execute command with status 1 `HOME="/root" NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE="/nix/store/y2zh06pccwcvz43xwgd8mr8pbqflkqww-nss-cacert-3.107/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt" "/nix/store/c47cym23n56kkss8z0ican8nynkf6cwk-lix-2.93.0/bin/nix-env" "-i" "/nix/store/c47cym23n56kkss8z0ican8nynkf6cwk-lix-2.93.0"`, stdout: stderr: installing 'lix-2.93.0' warning: user namespaces do not work on this system: error: unable to fork: Invalid argument warning: user namespaces appear to be disabled; check '/proc/sys/user/max_user_namespaces' error: unable to start build process ``` ## Metadata |key|value| |--|--| |**version**|0.17.1| |**os**|linux| |**arch**|x86_64| This is sadly not my machine, which means I can not as easily test, and this might be due to a misconfiguration on his part, still, until we know what it is I thought it helpful to report here. Not sure how user namespaces are used with nix, but I guess that it has something to do with the sandboxing. If I can provide additional tests for this issue, please let me know.
dwt commented 2025-10-30 12:40:08 +00:00
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We tried the Determinate Nix installer afterwards - which didn't show that error and seemed to run through. But we also didn't get it to work, so perhaps it just didn't log the error correctly. Will look into that later again.

We tried the Determinate Nix installer afterwards - which didn't show that error and seemed to run through. But we also didn't get it to work, so perhaps it just didn't log the error correctly. Will look into that later again.
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