[Nix-dev] Current path to installing on Raspberry Pi?

[Jeff Johnson]

OK I'm a little lost. The shell is doing something weird, but I'm not sure
what. When I `_NIXOS_REBUILD_REEXEC=1 nixos-rebuild switch`, it says:

/run/current-system/sw/bin/nixos-rebuild: like 141:
/root/.nix-profile/bin/nix-instantiate: cannot execute binary file
building the system configuration...
/root/.nix-profile/bin/nix-build: line 3: user: command not found
... that repeats for each line up to 18 ...

If I try to run nix-instantiate directly it has the same "cannot execute
binary file" error, which means it's mistakenly being interpreted by bash
too right? I tried `perl $(which nixos-rebuild) switch`, but same error.

The other thing I tried is looking for older builds. Somebody reported
being able to upgrade to 13.10 in September, so if I take a build of nix
from then maybe it'll still work. But I can't find the armv6l ones listed
anywhere on the hydra site. Is it possible to find them without knowing the
hash URL already?
Jeff

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Jeff Johnson <jefdaj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh that makes sense. Might not be too hard to fix either. I'll try
> when I get home tonight. Thanks!
>
> On 1/23/15, Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com> wrote:
> > those errors seem to come from a shell trying to interpret perl source...
> >
> > On Mon Jan 12 2015 at 9:04:34 PM Jeff Johnson <jefdaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all! I just tried to install NixOS on my Raspberry Pi following the
> >> wiki page (https://nixos.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi). I think I got pretty
> >> close, but not quite all the way. I wrote the image to an sd card,
> booted
> >> it up, logged in as root, changed the nix-channel from unstable to
> 13.10,
> >> and tried to upgrade with:
> >>
> >> nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
> >>
> >> It gave an error about needing at least nix 1.7 to parse the current nix
> >> expressions. I found the latest build and installed it following the
> >> directions on the wiki (
> >>
> https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_update_when_nix_is_too_old_to_evaluate_nixpkgs
> >> ):
> >>
> >> nix-install-package --non-interactive --url
> >>
> http://hydra.nixos.org/build/18524521/nix/pkg/nix-1.8-armv6l-linux.nixpkg
> >>
> >> That appeared to work, but now when I rerun the upgrade command I get an
> >> error from the perl interpreter:
> >>
> >> [root at nixos:~]# nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
> >> /root/.nix-profile/bin/nix-channel: line 3: use: command not found
> >> /root/.nix-profile/bin/nix-channel: line 4: use: command not found
> >> /root/.nix-profile/bin/nix-channel: line 5: use: command not found
> >> /root/.nix-profile/bin/nix-channel: line 6: syntax error near unexpected
> >> token '('
> >> /root/.nix-profile/bin/nix-channel: line 6: `use File::Path qw(mkpath);'
> >>
> >> I tried moving /root/.nix-profile but the version in /nix/var/... that
> it
> >> falls back on gives the same error. Do I need to manually find and
> >> install
> >> some dependencies?
> >> Thanks
> >> Jeff
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