Rovanion Luckey
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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
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.
To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at http://nixos.org/nix/manual.
Contributing
Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.