Can't install nix on Darwin #9215

retrry · 2015-08-12T11:50:56Z

Hello,
I'm trying to install nix on my MacBook Pro with (10.10.4 version of OS X) and I get error:

$ curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  1330  100  1330    0     0   1400      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  1400
unpacking Nix binary tarball for x86_64-darwin from `https://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-1.9/nix-1.9-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2'...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 27.0M  100 27.0M    0     0  1869k      0  0:00:14  0:00:14 --:--:-- 2126k
performing a single-user installation of Nix...
copying Nix to /nix/store........................
initialising Nix database...
replacing old ‘nix-1.9’
installing ‘nix-1.9’
building path(s) ‘/nix/store/306py0frikbrgyxgd476viaxz9m7hjab-user-environment’
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
  Referenced from: /nix/store/kp4f6acmkhslpsy6zc9v2x7jzn9417b5-perl-5.20.1/bin/perl
  Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
    /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib: stat() failed with errno=1
    /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib: stat() failed with errno=1
builder for ‘/nix/store/i0nf8c7mc0dsjklrg0hl31ll33vxpikk-user-environment.drv’ failed due to signal 5 (Trace/BPT trap: 5)
error: build of ‘/nix/store/i0nf8c7mc0dsjklrg0hl31ll33vxpikk-user-environment.drv’ failed
nix-binary-tarball-unpack/nix-1.9-x86_64-darwin/install: unable to install Nix into your default profile

I have Xcode installed.

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ariscn · 2015-08-13T01:03:21Z

I was able to install Nix on OS X (10.10.4, which is current), but it's failing in a few weird ways.

When running nix-channel --update, it looks like it's unable to get http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-15.07pre66767.dec8f59//nixexprs.tar.xz, as the curl output on screen shows 0s. However, I can curl that file directly.

When running nix-env -qas, it loops forever with: download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/qn2ajs1h9np6avqgv2cv5dwp7b8jf0hv.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...

I've tried Nix 1.9, as well as the master tarball from Hydra.

pikeas · 2015-08-22T08:22:05Z

Would love to see a response on this!

kontrafiktion · 2015-08-26T21:07:33Z

have you checked out your /usr/lib/ directory, esp.:

ls -al /usr/lib/libSystem*
stat /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
otool -L /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

because the error seems to claim that this file could not be stated

pikeas · 2015-08-27T07:20:50Z

$ ls -al /usr/lib/libSystem*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  52960 May 31 04:52 /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  60576 Jun 22 15:05 /usr/lib/libSystem.B_debug.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     17 Feb 16  2015 /usr/lib/libSystem.dylib -> libSystem.B.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     23 Jul 27 11:23 /usr/lib/libSystem_debug.dylib -> libSystem.B_debug.dylib
$ stat /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
16777221 26968976 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 52960 "Aug 22 19:27:52 2015" "May 31 04:52:01 2015" "Jul 27 11:29:03 2015" "May 31 04:52:01 2015" 4096 24 0x20 /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
$ otool -L /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib:
    /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1213.0.0)
    /usr/lib/system/libcache.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 69.0.0)
    /usr/lib/system/libcommonCrypto.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 60061.30.1)
    /usr/lib/system/libcompiler_rt.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 35.0.0)
    /usr/lib/system/libcopyfile.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
    /usr/lib/system/libcorecrypto.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 233.30.1)
    /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 442.1.4)
    /usr/lib/system/libdyld.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 353.2.1)
    /usr/lib/system/libkeymgr.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 28.0.0)
    /usr/lib/system/liblaunch.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 559.30.1)
    /usr/lib/system/libmacho.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 862.0.0)
    /usr/lib/system/libquarantine.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 76.20.1)
    /usr/lib/system/libremovefile.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 35.0.0)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_asl.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 267.0.0)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_blocks.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 65.0.0)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_c.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1044.10.1)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_configuration.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 699.30.1)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_coreservices.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 9.0.0)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_coretls.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 35.30.2)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_dnssd.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 576.30.4)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_info.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 459.20.1)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_kernel.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 2782.30.5)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_m.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 3086.1.0)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_malloc.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 53.30.1)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_network.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 412.20.3)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_networkextension.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_notify.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 133.1.1)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_platform.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 63.0.0)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_pthread.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 105.10.1)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_sandbox.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 358.20.5)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_secinit.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 18.0.0)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_stats.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 163.30.2)
    /usr/lib/system/libsystem_trace.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 72.20.1)
    /usr/lib/system/libunc.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 29.0.0)
    /usr/lib/system/libunwind.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 35.3.0)
    /usr/lib/system/libxpc.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 559.30.1)

pikeas · 2015-09-19T05:07:19Z

Just tried with the latest Nix, still failing, this time with a helpful error message. The error leads back to this bit of code:

($url, $filename) = `cd $tmpdir && $Nix::Config::curl --silent --write-out '%{url_effective}\n%{filename_effective}' -L '$url' -O`;
chomp $url;
die "$0: unable to check ‘$url’\n" if $? != 0;

I haven't written Perl in about 10 years, but this looks like a simple curl? If I curl https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable directly, there's no error, so it looks like an issue with what Nix::Config::curl is doing?

I'm running standard OS X 10.10.5 on a recent Macbook Pro, and I'm installing Nix the normal way. I don't think I'm doing anything strange, so is Nix really broken by default on OS X...?

ghost · 2015-09-23T17:22:37Z

Just installed Nix today on 10.10.5. No problems installing for me

retrry · 2015-09-23T18:07:03Z

Ok, so I had some time and played around a little bit with installation on Darwin and found out the culprit.
The culprit was that before installation I set: build-use-chroot = true in /etc/nix/nix.conf to enable Darwin Sandboxes and it was causing the installation to fail. When I removed that file - installation succeeded.

So this bug should be closed or this is an actual bug with Darwin Sandboxes?

ariscn · 2015-09-23T23:25:32Z

Just tried again from my work laptop (no prior Nix install). nix-channel --update works, but nix-env -qas still fails with a long list of failures:

download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/78rf1156ac5xq8gh33jjs61xk761jadi.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/q0y5yqjmxg8ixa665p0naw0kwn589959.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/b8vmfi804j32fagal16lxcabh420zdda.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/13w7qpgg6i6npbf692zy1bn56n2fyl33.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/almi2hmxj8qay77cfyrfmvv3nsmmr1kl.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
<more like this>

wmertens · 2015-09-24T04:48:02Z

Those are probably not failures, they just mean your internet connection is
slow, is that possible?

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015, 01:25 ariscn [email protected] wrote:

Just tried again from my work laptop (no prior Nix install). nix-channel
--update, but nix-env -qas still fails with a long list of failures:

download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/78rf1156ac5xq8gh33jjs61xk761jadi.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/q0y5yqjmxg8ixa665p0naw0kwn589959.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/b8vmfi804j32fagal16lxcabh420zdda.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/13w7qpgg6i6npbf692zy1bn56n2fyl33.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/almi2hmxj8qay77cfyrfmvv3nsmmr1kl.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...

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offlinehacker · 2015-09-24T08:55:24Z

Or that you have some rate limiting on router.

V čet., 24. sep. 2015 6:48 dop. je oseba Wout Mertens <
[email protected]> napisala:

Those are probably not failures, they just mean your internet connection is
slow, is that possible?

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015, 01:25 ariscn [email protected] wrote:

Just tried again from my work laptop (no prior Nix install). nix-channel
--update, but nix-env -qas still fails with a long list of failures:

download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘
https://cache.nixos.org/78rf1156ac5xq8gh33jjs61xk761jadi.narinfo’ after 5
seconds...download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘
https://cache.nixos.org/q0y5yqjmxg8ixa665p0naw0kwn589959.narinfo’ after 5
seconds...download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘
https://cache.nixos.org/b8vmfi804j32fagal16lxcabh420zdda.narinfo’ after 5
seconds...download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘
https://cache.nixos.org/13w7qpgg6i6npbf692zy1bn56n2fyl33.narinfo’ after 5
seconds...download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘
https://cache.nixos.org/almi2hmxj8qay77cfyrfmvv3nsmmr1kl.narinfo’ after 5
seconds...

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ariscn · 2015-09-24T16:59:18Z

No, it's very unlikely that it's a network issue - multiple computers on multiple networks, including a very fast office LAN. nix-env is definitely hanging.

gridaphobe · 2015-09-24T20:16:34Z

@ariscn I see those messages every now and then, mostly when pulling packages from hydra (the build server), but I've never seen one turn fatal.

Can you post a full log, including when/how nix-env finally fails?

EDIT: this is on OSX 10.10.5

ariscn · 2015-09-24T20:21:55Z

@gridaphobe Sure thing. Is there any debugging I should enable?

$ nix-env -qas
download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/wvxwl86wfbvh2jv879d35f58xhgim7qy.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/30fd8s2v8mawnfqk3y2395jahmz96ivd.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/9pm5kqsjvdwjjpc4db7p23h5kmyya600.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/58cx282ca1y3ds0lnkkkmczwk9giqb53.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/n5zlqsqnfifiq5fsk61ahsq7hgrpw9zg.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/4i7iahwg7xcldx3fc2p8pwd584j9kzsd.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
<6500 more lines like this>

Hm! I let nix-env run longer this time than I have previously, and it does eventually complete. After those 6500 errors, it outputs the same number of packages:

download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/chijns3mb6fp868gsr8vvzxdwvy12x6d.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
---  3dpong-0.5
---  915resolution-0.5.2
<...>

This is a combination of user error and bad UX. If on the first run - where I am literally just following the tutorial docs - nix-env spams thousands of download errors, I naturally assumed that things were broken.

So, since OS X is not actually broken (yay!), the new set of questions is:

Why does nix-env consistently generate these timeouts for me on first run? Two different OS X laptops, different networks, repeated tries on different days.
Can the error output be made less noisy?

gridaphobe · 2015-09-24T20:42:18Z

Actually, I can confirm this, but only when running nix-env -qas (which I never do because it usually throws an exception on darwin, nix-env -qaP works quite well for searching).

Given that this only happens for nix-env -qas, I'm inclined to believe it has something to do with nix itself, not nixpkgs. So we probably want to move this issue to the nix repo. /cc @edolstra

gridaphobe · 2015-09-24T20:44:21Z

@retrry that's to be expected if you're using the default settings on darwin. The build-use-chroot option is only supported by the alternative, pure stdenv (https://nixos.org/wiki/Nix_on_OS_X#The_Pure_Darwin_stdenv).

So let's close this issue and open a separate one to track the weird nix-env -qas business.

ariscn · 2015-09-24T20:53:52Z

@gridaphobe If nix-env -qas is going to error by default on OS X for now, can a note be added to the docs? It's a pretty rough new user experience when things break on step #3 of a tutorial!

gridaphobe · 2015-09-24T21:08:09Z

Sure! Which docs, specifically? I believe the wiki is open for anyone to edit :)

gridaphobe added the 6.topic: darwin Running or building packages on Darwin label Aug 12, 2015

gridaphobe closed this as completed Sep 24, 2015

mikesperber mentioned this issue Oct 28, 2015

On Darwin, build-use-chroot = true broken #10663

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retrry mentioned this issue Jan 12, 2016

Installing nix 1.10 is broken on OSX El Capitan, 10.11.2, Xcode Version 7.2 (7C68) #12332

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Can't install nix on Darwin #9215

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