[Nix-dev] nixops: argument list too long

[nickbh]

That’s odd, I can’t think why that would happen, though I’m sure I don’t know all the workings of nixops. Perhaps someone else on the list might have a clue. 

If you share the system packages of your config we can see if the error can be replicated. 

> On 24 Jul 2016, at 13:47, Eike <eike at eknet.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> nixops --version says "1.3.1". I'm running NixOS 16.09pre85931.125ffff
> (unstable channel) and installed nixops using `nix-env -i nixops'. I
> noticed that when I remove all system packages from configuration.nix,
> it doesn't error anymore. So I guess it's because the closure is too
> large? This would be too bad for me, because I hoped to manage some
> (physical) desktop machines with nixops that have many system packages.
> 
> Here is the output of nixops info -d lenni. For me it doesn't provide
> any hints regarding this problem:
> 
>    Network name: lenni
>    Network UUID: 745c1905-5050-11e6-b200-90e6baf47cb4
>    Network description: Lenni
>    Nix expressions: /home/eike/workspace/projects/confnix/systems/lenni/deploy.nix
> 
>    +-------+---------------+------+---------------------------------------------------+------------+
>    | Name  |     Status    | Type | Resource Id                                       | IP address |
>    +-------+---------------+------+---------------------------------------------------+------------+
>    | lenni | Up / Outdated | none | nixops-745c1905-5050-11e6-b200-90e6baf47cb4-lenni |            |
>    +-------+---------------+------+---------------------------------------------------+------------+
> 
> Thanks a lot and kind regards
> Eike
> 
> 
> nickbh <nick.b.h.alt at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Apparently that’s a OS error resulting from a size limit on command
>> line args[0]. Were you able to find the cause? If not, what’s your
>> 'nixops —version'? Does 'nixops info -d lenni’ show any clues?
>> 
>> Nick
>> 
>> [0] http://stackoverflow.com/a/28965439/4386011
>>> On 22 Jul 2016, at 22:53, Eike <eike at eknet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I start using nixops and want to deploy from one machine to
>>> another. Both have NixOS running. This is the nix file I feed to nixops
>>> create:
>>> 
>>>   {
>>>     network.description = "Lenni";
>>>     lenni =
>>>       { config, pkgs, ... }:
>>>       {
>>>         imports = [ ./configuration.nix ];
>>> 
>>>         deployment.targetEnv = "none";
>>>         deployment.targetHost = "192.168.1.72";
>>>       };
>>>   }
>>> 
>>> The configuration.nix is the same file I used with `nixos-rebuild`
>>> directly on the target machine.
>>> 
>>> When I run nixops deploy it builds the configuration and then quits with
>>> “[Errno 7] Argument list too long” error:
>>> 
>>>   $ nixops deploy -d lenni
>>>   building all machine configurations...
>>>   lenni> copying closure...
>>>   error: [Errno 7] Argument list too long
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure what I did wrong and could not find anything useful when
>>> searching the internet. Can someone help me out here?
>>> 
>>> Thanks and regards
>>> Eike
>>> 
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