[Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] Nix user permissions

Marc Weber marco-oweber at gmx.de
Fri Apr 9 15:52:49 CEST 2010


> error: opening lock file `/nix/var/nix/profiles/default.lock':  
>    / Rickard
Hi Rickard,

can you run strace -o /tmp/file -f nix-env -i ...

If the Nix daemon is used this trace file should not contain any access
to default.lock (my nix-env run didn't contain this line)

So if it does double check that NIX_REMOTE=daemon is exported

This just worked for me in the past. So I may be mistaken.

Also ensure that the directory
/nix/var/nix/profiles exists.

Marc Weber



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