[Nix-dev] nixops: argument list too long

[Eike]

Unfortunately, the configuration.nix is little complex. You can find it
here [0]. As a test I removed all system packages listed in [1] (that
are included in [0]) and the error disappeared.

I'll try to make a smaller example that fails.

Eike

[0] https://github.com/eikek/confnix/blob/unstable/systems/lenni/configuration.nix
[1] https://github.com/eikek/confnix/blob/unstable/common-desktop.nix 

nickbh <nick.b.h.alt at gmail.com> writes:

> 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    | lenni | Up / Outdated | none | nixops-745c1905-5050-11e6-b200-90e6baf47cb4-lenni |            |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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