| 15 Feb 2026 |
 0x4fbb09 it/its โฏโฮฮ | (you may want to run nix-store --verify --check-contents, i suspect you have more than just that corrupted?) | 21:53:26 |
 kuruczgy | Yeah in this case it's pretty clear that this is a HW fuckup.
Good point on verifying my whole store, but unfortunately I could entirely see that this is a one-off, and my non-ECC RAM HW is just working as intended... | 21:55:46 |
| kuruczgy | Anyway, is there a command to actually rebuild/repair this store path? nix-store --repair-path only talks about substituters, and nix build --rebuild/nix-build --check clearly does not detect the issue or try to replace anything. | 22:03:35 |
| kuruczgy | Though I guess it would probably be smart to rebuild anything that depends on this, so probably I want a recursive delete anyway... | 22:05:01 |
 fumnanya | couldn't you just..... nix-store --delete /nix/store/hash and rebuild your system/package? | 22:07:06 |
| kuruczgy | nix-store --delete ... refuses to delete it since some other paths depend on it, and I don't see a "delete this path and anything that depends on it recursively" option | 22:08:05 |
| fumnanya | you could probably do that with some xargs magic, see here
what does nix-store -q --referrers-closure /nix/store/vyfilqz68s0hld82n37l0s9p1nzsjcdr-linux-6.19.0-modules give?
| 22:21:27 |
| kuruczgy | Well, quite a few nixos-systems... In fact, I just realize this is my booted kernel ๐
$ nix why-depends /run/booted-system /nix/store/vyfilqz68s0hld82n37l0s9p1nzsjcdr-linux-6.19.0-modules
/nix/store/wmr5xisvxzqgwwcvk9nm4p5f07w0xc3v-nixos-system-cobalt-26.05
โโโโ/nix/store/02qwxxfw4bs7vhlgf6k3v69lrz5vy2hz-linux-6.19.0-modules
โโโโ/nix/store/vyfilqz68s0hld82n37l0s9p1nzsjcdr-linux-6.19.0-modules
| 22:24:18 |
| kuruczgy | Ok, so deletion is definitely not an option, I need some in-place replacement | 22:24:40 |
| fumnanya | hmmm you probably didn't build your own kernel though...it probably came from cache.nixos.org.....so shouldn't repair-path work then? | 22:25:16 |
| kuruczgy | I definitely did build my own kernel | 22:25:29 |
| kuruczgy | nix-store --verify --check-contents finished, it found one other bad path in the whole store, so this does not seem like a widespread corruption.
reading the Nix store...
checking path existence...
checking link hashes...
checking store hashes...
path '/nix/store/d61f7l6yyqk1n5kljzy893iv9xr6zgmh-curl-impersonate-1.4.2' was modified! expected hash 'sha256-By0RCVGwSBN4icsLsIgCtxBc7n2Od840S4p0g/zPka0=', got 'sha256-pQpattmS9VmO3ZIQUFn66az8GSmB4IvYhTTCFn6SUmo='
path '/nix/store/vyfilqz68s0hld82n37l0s9p1nzsjcdr-linux-6.19.0-modules' was modified! expected hash 'sha256-9c9vmIar3f/xtbpfTVFugBRLqdCI7dS6aibpSxZRrCA=', got 'sha256-WWV4alvXbw7zgmG0yHrlnMS7W5NcxgtTjowTQkJ8dAc='
warning: not all store errors were fixed
So I guess it's either the RAM or the SSD that's the culprit.
| 22:43:02 |
| kuruczgy | Well I just rebooted and both corruptions are gone ๐ | 22:48:04 |
| fumnanya | oh wow....yay(?) | 22:49:21 |
| fumnanya | maybe do a memtest overnight hehe | 22:49:59 |
| 16 Feb 2026 |
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| Ern | Hello, I have a problem with reinstalling Lix on Darwin that I don't know how to solve. | 02:17:55 |
| Ern | My nix darwin install previously broke, so I uninstalled it. It left the _nixbld users behind, so I removed them. | 02:18:48 |
| Ern | I then tried to install lix with
curl -sSf -L https://install.lix.systems/lix | sh -s -- install | 02:19:21 |
| Ern | The installer prompted me to escalate privileges, which I did. The installer then threw this error. | 02:20:32 |
| Ern | INFO Step: Configure Nix
ERROR
0: Install failure
1: Error executing action
2: Action configure_nix errored
3: Action setup_default_profile errored
4: Failed to execute command with status 1 HOME="/Users/ernnn" "/nix/store/gxpdrn2sw1xpymxmsrxc7c706b7higws-lix-2.94.0/bin/nix-store" "--load-db", stdout:
stderr: warning: $HOME ('/Users/ernnn') is not owned by you, falling back to the one defined in the 'passwd' file ('/var/root')
error: you don't have sufficient rights to use this command
4:
Location:
src/cli/subcommand/install.rs:300 | 02:21:56 |
| Ern | * ERROR
0: Install failure
1: Error executing action
2: Action `configure_nix` errored
3: Action `setup_default_profile` errored
4: Failed to execute command with status 1 `HOME="/Users/ernnn" "/nix/store/gxpdrn2sw1xpymxmsrxc7c706b7higws-lix-2.94.0/bin/nix-store" "--load-db"`, stdout:
stderr: warning: $HOME ('/Users/ernnn') is not owned by you, falling back to the one defined in the 'passwd' file ('/var/root')
error: you don't have sufficient rights to use this command
4:
Location:
src/cli/subcommand/install.rs:300```
| 02:22:16 |
| Ern | The revert also errored with | 02:23:17 |
| Ern | 0: Action `create_apfs_volume` errored
1: Failed to execute command with status 1 `"/usr/sbin/diskutil" "apfs" "deleteVolume" "Nix Store"`, stdout: Started APFS operation
Deleting APFS Volume from its APFS Container
Unmounting disk3s7
The volume "Nix Store" on disk3s7 couldn't be unmounted because it is in use by process 0 (kernel)
stderr: Error: -69888: Couldn't unmount disk
1:
| 02:23:23 |
 hexa | hrm, you might have to reboot for the kernel to release the volume | 02:28:05 |
| Ern | Going to attempt that now | 02:28:33 |
| Ern | restarted, reran, new error
INFO Step: Provision Nix
ERROR
0: Install failure
1: Error executing action
2: Action `provision_nix` errored
3: Action `fetch_and_unpack_nix` errored
4: Unarchiving error
5: trying to unpack outside of destination path: /nix/temp-install-dir
6: Invalid argument
Location:
src/cli/subcommand/install.rs:300
Revert worked successfully this time. | 02:33:07 |
| Ern | Third attempt, full success. | 02:36:52 |
