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`nix-store --delete` fails to delete derivations whose outputs exist #282

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opened 2024-05-08 06:49:36 +00:00 by jade · 10 comments

jade commented

2024-05-08 06:49:36 +00:00

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n.b. we know that there are spurious-liveness issues caused by sudo env-vars, which we probably should do something about, but this happens even without sudo doing it.

~ » nix-store --add ~/Downloads/logrotate.conf.drv
/nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv

[root@tail-bot ~]# nix-store --query --roots  /nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf
[root@tail-bot ~]# nix-store --delete /nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf
finding garbage collector roots...
0 store paths deleted, 0.00 MiB freed
error: Cannot delete path '/nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf' since it is still alive. To find out why, use: nix-store --query --roots

Below is a hex dump of the offending file, which one can un-hexdump and then reproduce this bug with.

logrotate.conf.drv

Use xxd -r to reconstitute the file.

~ » xxd Downloads/logrotate.conf.drv
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nix --version
nix (Lix, like Nix) 2.90.0-lixpre20240506-f75d075

n.b. we know that there are spurious-liveness issues caused by sudo env-vars, which we probably should do something about, but this happens even without sudo doing it. ``` ~ » nix-store --add ~/Downloads/logrotate.conf.drv /nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv [root@tail-bot ~]# nix-store --query --roots /nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf [root@tail-bot ~]# nix-store --delete /nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf finding garbage collector roots... 0 store paths deleted, 0.00 MiB freed error: Cannot delete path '/nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf' since it is still alive. To find out why, use: nix-store --query --roots ``` Below is a hex dump of the offending file, which one can un-hexdump and then reproduce this bug with. <details> <summary>logrotate.conf.drv</summary> Use `xxd -r` to reconstitute the file. ``` ~ » xxd Downloads/logrotate.conf.drv 00000000: 4465 7269 7665 285b 2822 6f75 7422 2c22 Derive([("out"," 00000010: 2f6e 6978 2f73 746f 7265 2f62 6e37 6471 /nix/store/bn7dq 00000020: 3436 306a 6a66 3761 377a 7961 7232 6c38 460jjf7a7zyar2l8 00000030: 7778 3636 617a 336a 646b 312d 6c6f 6772 wx66az3jdk1-logr 00000040: 6f74 6174 652e 636f 6e66 222c 2222 2c22 otate.conf",""," 00000050: 2229 5d2c 5b28 222f 6e69 782f 7374 6f72 ")],[("/nix/stor 00000060: 652f 3039 7773 6871 3467 356d 6332 786a e/09wshq4g5mc2xj 00000070: 7832 3477 6d78 6c77 3031 386c 7935 6d78 x24wmxlw018ly5mx 00000080: 676c 2d62 6173 682d 352e 322d 7031 352e gl-bash-5.2-p15. 00000090: 6472 7622 2c5b 226f 7574 225d 292c 2822 drv",["out"]),(" 000000a0: 2f6e 6978 2f73 746f 7265 2f64 6b31 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artemist commented

2024-05-09 01:39:01 +00:00

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This looks like it could be arguments being treated as roots. What platform is this on?

monoidmusician commented

2024-05-09 03:07:40 +00:00

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hmm I'm seeing the opposite issue(?): I cannot delete the .drv, but I can delete the build artifact first (what's the proper name for that?) and then the .drv. this might just be expected behavior? i don't know

like, it makes sense that --referrers prevent GC, so maybe --outputs do too …

nonetheless, it would be great to have a --why-no-delete command, since --roots isn't the full issue when deleting individual paths

λ nix --version
nix (Lix, like Nix) 2.90.0-lixpre20240504-8dfb30a

λ nix-store --add logrotate.conf.drv 
/nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv

λ nix-store --realise /nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv
...
/nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf

λ nix-store --delete /nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv
finding garbage collector roots...
0 store paths deleted, 0.00 MiB freed
error: Cannot delete path '/nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv' since it is still alive. To find out why, use: nix-store --query --roots

λ nix-store --query --roots /nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv

λ nix-store --query --referrers /nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv

λ nix-store --query --outputs /nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv
/nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf

λ nix-store --query --deriver /nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf
/nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv

λ nix-store --query --roots /nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf

λ nix-store --query --referrers /nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf

λ nix-store --delete /nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf
finding garbage collector roots...
deleting '/nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf'
deleting unused links...
note: currently hard linking saves 945.69 MiB
1 store paths deleted, 0.00 MiB freed

λ nix-store --delete /nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv 
finding garbage collector roots...
deleting '/nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv'
deleting unused links...
note: currently hard linking saves 945.69 MiB
1 store paths deleted, 0.00 MiB freed

hmm I'm seeing the opposite issue(?): I cannot delete the `.drv`, but I can delete the build artifact first (what's the proper name for that?) and then the `.drv`. this might just be expected behavior? i don't know like, it makes sense that `--referrers` prevent GC, so maybe `--outputs` do too … nonetheless, it would be great to have a `--why-no-delete` command, since `--roots` isn't the full issue when deleting individual paths <details> ``` λ nix --version nix (Lix, like Nix) 2.90.0-lixpre20240504-8dfb30a λ nix-store --add logrotate.conf.drv /nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv λ nix-store --realise /nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv ... /nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf λ nix-store --delete /nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv finding garbage collector roots... 0 store paths deleted, 0.00 MiB freed error: Cannot delete path '/nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv' since it is still alive. To find out why, use: nix-store --query --roots λ nix-store --query --roots /nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv λ nix-store --query --referrers /nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv λ nix-store --query --outputs /nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv /nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf λ nix-store --query --deriver /nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf /nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv λ nix-store --query --roots /nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf λ nix-store --query --referrers /nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf λ nix-store --delete /nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf finding garbage collector roots... deleting '/nix/store/bn7dq460jjf7a7zyar2l8wx66az3jdk1-logrotate.conf' deleting unused links... note: currently hard linking saves 945.69 MiB 1 store paths deleted, 0.00 MiB freed λ nix-store --delete /nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv finding garbage collector roots... deleting '/nix/store/89j4jgilyw0wyjip1yf1ai6d2fqhm8zm-logrotate.conf.drv' deleting unused links... note: currently hard linking saves 945.69 MiB 1 store paths deleted, 0.00 MiB freed ``` </details>

jade commented

2024-05-09 04:53:21 +00:00

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oh, i see, yes this reproduces on my other machine now. it looks like it was an important step to actually run the build in order to cause this problem. so what we are actually experiencing is that if you nix store delete a .drv which has been built already and has output paths, it will fail to delete.

should we just like, make it work by deleting the outputs? i don't see immediately why one would not do that, but there might be a reason.

alternatively we could report a better error. i can kind of buy the argument that nix store delete should not delete dependents, but nix store delete's current semantics when an output is live make absolutely no sense, since according to the manual, --ignore-liveness means ignore roots, not ignore everything. Why is the

    With the option --ignore-liveness, reachability from the roots is ignored. However, the path still won't be deleted if there
    are other paths in the store that refer to it (i.e., depend on it).

But clearly this is bogus! You can nix store delete --ignore-liveness and the output remains there afterwards, seemingly violating an invariant. This seems like it actually should not be allowed to begin with, in addition to the UX issue we found here.

*oh*, i see, yes this reproduces on my other machine now. it looks like it was an important step to actually run the build in order to cause this problem. so what we are actually experiencing is that if you `nix store delete` a `.drv` which has been built already and has output paths, it will fail to delete. should we just like, make it work by deleting the outputs? i don't see immediately why one would not do that, but there might be a reason. alternatively we could report a better error. i can kind of buy the argument that `nix store delete` should not delete dependents, but `nix store delete`'s current semantics when an *output* is live make absolutely no sense, since according to the manual, `--ignore-liveness` means *ignore roots*, not *ignore everything*. Why is the ``` With the option --ignore-liveness, reachability from the roots is ignored. However, the path still won't be deleted if there are other paths in the store that refer to it (i.e., depend on it). ``` But clearly this is bogus! You can `nix store delete --ignore-liveness` and the output remains there afterwards, seemingly violating an invariant. This seems like it actually should not be allowed to begin with, in addition to the UX issue we found here.

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2024-05-09 04:57:56 +00:00

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~ » nix-store --realise /nix/store/jxbhlfpqvgljyrb0qkdwh50dx6y31ksw-bash-interactive-5.2p26/bin/bash
<...>
~ » nix-store --query --deriver /nix/store/jxbhlfpqvgljyrb0qkdwh50dx6y31ksw-bash-interactive-5.2p26
/nix/store/vdw3gpq9i64zar8r4xsa4b0jb6n7lrlk-bash-interactive-5.2p26.drv
~ » ls /nix/store/vdw3gpq9i64zar8r4xsa4b0jb6n7lrlk-bash-interactive-5.2p26.drv
ls: cannot access '/nix/store/vdw3gpq9i64zar8r4xsa4b0jb6n7lrlk-bash-interactive-5.2p26.drv': No such file or directory

so then, should nix store delete just ignore outputs when deleting derivations and simply delete them properly by default? should it delete also the outputs? i don't know! i would also like to have a "gc this path please, delete its dependents for me uwu" command, which sounds like a horribly dangerous footgun, but if it only works on unrooted paths, it should probably be fine right?

hm, ok it does not violate an invariant at least: i realised a path that is not on my system without doing it from an evaluation (i know it is not on this system because it is a different architecture). ``` ~ » nix-store --realise /nix/store/jxbhlfpqvgljyrb0qkdwh50dx6y31ksw-bash-interactive-5.2p26/bin/bash <...> ~ » nix-store --query --deriver /nix/store/jxbhlfpqvgljyrb0qkdwh50dx6y31ksw-bash-interactive-5.2p26 /nix/store/vdw3gpq9i64zar8r4xsa4b0jb6n7lrlk-bash-interactive-5.2p26.drv ~ » ls /nix/store/vdw3gpq9i64zar8r4xsa4b0jb6n7lrlk-bash-interactive-5.2p26.drv ls: cannot access '/nix/store/vdw3gpq9i64zar8r4xsa4b0jb6n7lrlk-bash-interactive-5.2p26.drv': No such file or directory ``` so then, should `nix store delete` just ignore outputs when deleting derivations and simply delete them properly by default? should it delete also the outputs? i don't know! i would also like to have a "gc this path please, delete its dependents for me uwu" command, which sounds like a horribly dangerous footgun, but if it only works on unrooted paths, it should probably be fine right?

jade commented

2024-05-09 04:59:29 +00:00

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This looks like it could be arguments being treated as roots. What platform is this on?

aha, yes, this is the sudo issue referenced at the top of the bug here. we should probably file another bug for that one: the sudo environment does get caught as a root on linux, which is rather cursed to be honest.

however it wasn't at play because we noticed it and used an interactive root shell.

> This looks like it could be arguments being treated as roots. What platform is this on? aha, yes, this is the sudo issue referenced at the top of the bug here. we should probably file another bug for that one: the sudo environment does get caught as a root on linux, which is rather cursed to be honest. however it wasn't at play because we noticed it and used an interactive root shell.

jade commented

2024-05-09 07:05:02 +00:00

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has been noted that keep-outputs and keep-derivations may be at play in making this error especially terrible.

jade commented

2024-05-17 21:20:50 +00:00

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https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10733 hey a fix, hi alyssa

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Self-references?

lix/lix3 » nix-store --query --referrers /nix/store/7nfrwn7hh3p1jlx32b0ylvx2jcnxf07g-nixos-test-driver-nix-copy-closure
/nix/store/7nfrwn7hh3p1jlx32b0ylvx2jcnxf07g-nixos-test-driver-nix-copy-closure
lix/lix3 » nix-store --query --roots /nix/store/7nfrwn7hh3p1jlx32b0ylvx2jcnxf07g-nixos-test-driver-nix-copy-closure
lix/lix3 » nix store delete /nix/store/7nfrwn7hh3p1jlx32b0ylvx2jcnxf07g-nixos-test-driver-nix-copy-closure
0 store paths deleted, 0.00 MiB freed
error: Cannot delete path '/nix/store/7nfrwn7hh3p1jlx32b0ylvx2jcnxf07g-nixos-test-driver-nix-copy-closure' since it is still alive. To find out why, use: nix-store --query --roots and nix-store --query --referrers

Self-references? ``` lix/lix3 » nix-store --query --referrers /nix/store/7nfrwn7hh3p1jlx32b0ylvx2jcnxf07g-nixos-test-driver-nix-copy-closure /nix/store/7nfrwn7hh3p1jlx32b0ylvx2jcnxf07g-nixos-test-driver-nix-copy-closure lix/lix3 » nix-store --query --roots /nix/store/7nfrwn7hh3p1jlx32b0ylvx2jcnxf07g-nixos-test-driver-nix-copy-closure lix/lix3 » nix store delete /nix/store/7nfrwn7hh3p1jlx32b0ylvx2jcnxf07g-nixos-test-driver-nix-copy-closure 0 store paths deleted, 0.00 MiB freed error: Cannot delete path '/nix/store/7nfrwn7hh3p1jlx32b0ylvx2jcnxf07g-nixos-test-driver-nix-copy-closure' since it is still alive. To find out why, use: nix-store --query --roots and nix-store --query --referrers ```

jade commented

2024-08-30 05:22:04 +00:00

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There are self-references.

There *are* self-references.

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nix store delete/nix-store --delete cannot delete paths with self-references #494

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2024-08-30 05:47:56 +00:00

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The original bug above is caused by the output being present on the system, which is referencing the derivation, possibly due to keep-derivations. The error message is just as awful as before, though. It does not reproduce if the derivation is not realised.

Accordingly, here is a trivial reproducer:

lix/lix3 » nix build -f trivial.nix --print-out-paths --no-link
/nix/store/1s708s1g3hkznawqr442nlb6igvpa1jh-trivial
lix/lix3 » nix-store --query --deriver /nix/store/1s708s1g3hkznawqr442nlb6igvpa1jh-trivial
/nix/store/l89r7n5fwi1i97fv1ah5k5gkdis8nyy9-trivial.drv
lix/lix3 » nix-store --delete /nix/store/l89r7n5fwi1i97fv1ah5k5gkdis8nyy9-trivial.drv
finding garbage collector roots...
0 store paths deleted, 0.00 MiB freed
error: Cannot delete path '/nix/store/l89r7n5fwi1i97fv1ah5k5gkdis8nyy9-trivial.drv' since it is still alive. To find out why, use: nix-store --query --roots and nix-store --query --referrers
lix/lix3 » nix-store --query --roots /nix/store/l89r7n5fwi1i97fv1ah5k5gkdis8nyy9-trivial.drv
lix/lix3 » nix-store --query --referrers /nix/store/l89r7n5fwi1i97fv1ah5k5gkdis8nyy9-trivial.drv
lix/lix3 » cat trivial.nix
builtins.derivation {
  name = "trivial";
  system = "x86_64-linux";
  builder = "/bin/sh";
  args = ["-c" "echo meow > $out"];
}

The behaviour I would expect is that at least one of the listed commands would correctly list the referrers from a gc perspective. Perhaps also that the failure would actually say which paths were referring to it.

The original bug above is caused by the output being present on the system, which is referencing the derivation, possibly due to `keep-derivations`. The error message is just as awful as before, though. It does not reproduce if the derivation is not realised. Accordingly, here is a trivial reproducer: ``` lix/lix3 » nix build -f trivial.nix --print-out-paths --no-link /nix/store/1s708s1g3hkznawqr442nlb6igvpa1jh-trivial lix/lix3 » nix-store --query --deriver /nix/store/1s708s1g3hkznawqr442nlb6igvpa1jh-trivial /nix/store/l89r7n5fwi1i97fv1ah5k5gkdis8nyy9-trivial.drv lix/lix3 » nix-store --delete /nix/store/l89r7n5fwi1i97fv1ah5k5gkdis8nyy9-trivial.drv finding garbage collector roots... 0 store paths deleted, 0.00 MiB freed error: Cannot delete path '/nix/store/l89r7n5fwi1i97fv1ah5k5gkdis8nyy9-trivial.drv' since it is still alive. To find out why, use: nix-store --query --roots and nix-store --query --referrers lix/lix3 » nix-store --query --roots /nix/store/l89r7n5fwi1i97fv1ah5k5gkdis8nyy9-trivial.drv lix/lix3 » nix-store --query --referrers /nix/store/l89r7n5fwi1i97fv1ah5k5gkdis8nyy9-trivial.drv lix/lix3 » cat trivial.nix builtins.derivation { name = "trivial"; system = "x86_64-linux"; builder = "/bin/sh"; args = ["-c" "echo meow > $out"]; } ``` The behaviour I would expect is that at least one of the listed commands would correctly list the referrers from a gc perspective. Perhaps also that the failure would actually say which paths were referring to it.

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nix-store --delete is intended to gc closures and simply does not do that #495

jade changed title from ~~nix-store --delete fails without there being any discernable roots in nix-store --query --roots~~ to nix-store --delete fails to delete derivations whose outputs exist

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