Nixops on Darwin – cannot find bash/users-groups.json

[lovek323]

I'm trying the example deployment to virtualbox on an OS X system (I'm using the latest darwin-clang-stdenv branch for nixpkgs and the 1.2 release for nixops). Everything seems to build fine, but when it gets to copying the paths to the virtual machine, I get some interesting errors.

-bash: line 1: /nix/store/005j6bnfbw25as730ar6zc21c2h578f2-bash42-045.drv: No such file or directory
-bash: line 2: /nix/store/g1dlyn1686dd0sd4hzldjlimcgf9hk8y-users-groups.json: No such file or directory
copying 200 missing paths to ‘[email protected]’...
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'nix::SysError'

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 😄

[rened]

While I haven't seen this exact error, installation on OSX of nix/nixops is currently quite tricky - the functionality is there, but it is important to install the very latest versions. You might want to take a look at #238 and https://github.com/rened/nixops-mac-setup to get to a working environment quickly.

[lovek323]

Thanks @rened, I'll take a look.

[lovek323]

I had already done most of the things in that repository, so, unfortunately, that didn't resolve my problem. However, I have managed to fix it (albeit in an extremely hacky way).

The deploy was giving a "Permission denied" error for a particular patch for bash (/nix/store/005j6bnfbw25as730ar6zc21c2h578f2-bash42-045.drv). The permissions were -r--r--r--, which is what I would have expected. However, when I changed to 777, the install worked. I'd love to find out more about what was going on here, but I haven't been able to track down the exact command that was failing with permission denied.

[domenkozar]

@lovek323 is this still an issue nowadays?

[domenkozar]

Merging into #560