[Nix-dev] Problem Installing NixOS...

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Bárður Árantsson wrote:

> I was trying to install NixOS in a VirtualBox from the
> 
>     nixos-0.1pre12055-i686-linux.iso
> 
> ISO and everything seemed to go fine, I rebooted after the installation 
> was complete, but now Nix complains
> 
>    error: Your Nix store has a database in Berkeley DB format. To
>    convert to the new format, please compile Nix with Berkeley DB
>    support.
> 
> whenever I try any of the nix-* commands.

There is a new ISO now:

http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/nixos-0.1pre12173-9fkysak3/

which should solve this problem.

> Does this mean that I screwed something up during the install?
> The only non-required thing I did during installation was to call 
> nixos-checkout (as the manual suggests).

Yes, just yesterday we switched Nixpkgs to use the new Berkeley DB-free branch 
of Nix.  (And I made a screwup: the version in Nixpkgs didn't have support for 
converting old schemas.  This has been fixed now.)

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