[Nix-dev] Re: Problem Installing NixOS...

[Bárður Árantsson]

Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> 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.)
> 

Excellent! I've installed using the new ISO and everything comes up fine 
now.

Thanks,

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Bardur Arantsson
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