[Nix-dev] 3 strange busybox problems

[Michael Bock]

nope, it's not in the configuration.nix's pkgs list.


On 20.04.2017 10:09, Maarten Hoogendoorn wrote:
> Did you install busybox globally on your system? It might shadow some
> GNU core tools, if you set the priority for busybox higher than the
> priority for the GNU tools.
>
> 2017-04-20 9:56 GMT+02:00 Michael Bock <mb at thought2.de
> <mailto:mb at thought2.de>>:
>
>     Hi nix folks,
>
>     I'm having some strange troubles on my NixOS machine. It looks that's
>     somehow related to the busybox package, here are some cases:
>
>     1. It's not possible to see manpages for any program anymore.
>
>     ``
>
>     man grep
>     man: no manual entry for 'grep'
>
>     man -aw
>     BusyBox v1.24.2 () multi-call binary.
>
>     Usage: man [-aw] [MANPAGE]...
>
>     Format and display manual page
>
>         -a    Display all pages
>         -w    Show page locations
>
>     ``
>
>     This appeared some time ago and is the case throughout any rollback.
>
>
>     2. The top command
>
>     ``
>
>     top
>
>     [...]
>
>     *** buffer overflow detected ***: top terminated
>     [...]
>
>     00400000-004f8000 r-xp 00000000 fe:01 411845
>     /nix/store/gkm15nx2gw43qasbkijs3czzhq6hwk86-busybox-1.24.2/bin/busybox
>     [...]
>
>     7febfa18d000-7febfa1a3000 r-xp 00000000 fe:01 695683
>     /nix/store/q3wx1gab2ysnk5nyvyyg56ana2v4r2ar-glibc-2.24/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
>     [...]
>
>     ``
>
>     See the full output here: https://pastebin.com/ssUCziP7
>
>     This appeared earlier than the first issue and is also now the case in
>     any older rollback.
>
>
>     3. Tor-Browser (happens with some other programs as well..)
>
>     ``
>
>     tor-browser
>     cp: invalid option -- 'u'
>     BusyBox v1.24.2 () multi-call binary.
>
>     Usage: cp [OPTIONS] SOURCE... DEST
>
>     Copy SOURCE(s) to DEST
>
>         -a    Same as -dpR
>         -R,-r    Recurse
>     [...]
>
>     ``
>
>     This however, disappears when rolling back.
>
>
>     All of them seem to be busybox related. For example the procps top
>     works
>     fine:
>
>     ``
>
>     nix-shell -p procps
>
>     top ...
>
>     ``
>
>
>     Does anyone have suggestion here? It's actually the first time
>     something
>     'mutable' happened to the nix system I'm using, it's updated to 17.03
>     but this did not change the problems.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Michael
>
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