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| Lix | 1127 Members |
| Lix user channel. Feel free to discuss on-topic issues here and give each other help. For matrix.to links to the rest of the Lix channels, see: https://wiki.lix.systems/books/lix-organisation/page/matrix-rooms | 312 Servers |
| Sender | Message | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 31 Mar 2026 | ||
 piegames | And {} in that case, for that matter | 17:44:50 |
 Charles | also true | 17:47:53 |
| Charles | well, this is unfortunate. i just tested whether lix's nix-store --import loads everything in memory with a rust program that writes a valid but garbage NAR, and nix-store --import's RSS happily climbed to over 2GB before i decided that was conclusive and killed it | 19:00:46 |
| Charles | is it theoretically possible for nix-store --import to... not do that? | 19:01:23 |
 zoë (she/her) | this install isn't on nixos, no. could you tell me how i could use the installer for this if i don't have root? it immediately tries to escalate permissions and just fails if it doesn't have them, so that's not an option. i also had a look through the options and didn't see anything that would help me for this (tho i was admittedly very tired so it's pretty likely i missed something) | 21:32:21 |
 K900 | What's the end goal? | 21:33:20 |
| zoë (she/her) | basically just getting lix on a remote machine i'm a user on but don't own/administrate | 21:37:29 |
| zoë (she/her) | * | 21:45:58 |
 marshmallow | does anyone know if nix internal json log's ID fields are globally unique? im going to guess maybe within a daemon but not across daemons | 22:55:17 |
| marshmallow | * | 22:57:24 |
| 1 Apr 2026 | ||
 raitobezarius | id(nextId++ + (((uint64_t) getpid()) << 32)) that's the algorithm for IDs | 08:37:24 |
| raitobezarius | it's unlikely they're unique across multiple invocations | 08:37:45 |
| raitobezarius | (nextId is a global atomic of uint64_t) | 08:38:20 |
| 2 Apr 2026 | ||
 TechWiz joined the room. | 08:58:04 | |
| TechWiz | hi I'm trying to update from 2.94.0 to 2.95.1 and I got ```WARNING: manual intervention will be required to complete this Lix install! This requires a new systemd unit: nix-daemon@.service 'nix upgrade-nix' will provide a profile with a new Lix, likely one of: You should symlink or copy this file to '/etc/systemd/system/nix-daemon@.service', | 09:07:14 |
| TechWiz | * hi I'm trying to update from 2.94.0 to 2.95.1 and I got This requires a new systemd unit: nix-daemon@.service 'nix upgrade-nix' will provide a profile with a new Lix, likely one of: You should symlink or copy this file to '/etc/systemd/system/nix-daemon@.service', I'm trying to symlink said file | 09:07:52 |
| TechWiz | * hi I'm trying to update from 2.94.0 to 2.95.1 and I got This requires a new systemd unit: nix-daemon@.service 'nix upgrade-nix' will provide a profile with a new Lix, likely one of: You should symlink or copy this file to '/etc/systemd/system/nix-daemon@.service', I'm trying to symlink said file | 09:08:39 |
| TechWiz | * hi I'm trying to update from 2.94.0 to 2.95.1 and I got I'm trying to symlink said file | 09:09:55 |
| TechWiz | * hi I'm trying to update from 2.94.0 to 2.95.1 and I got I'm trying to symlink said file | 09:10:46 |
| TechWiz | * hi I'm trying to update from 2.94.0 to 2.95.1 and I got I'm trying to symlink said file | 09:10:57 |
| TechWiz | * hi I'm trying to update from 2.94.0 to 2.95.1 w/ the Lix shell script and I got I'm trying to symlink said file | 09:13:46 |
| K900 | It is in your profile path | 09:16:57 |
| TechWiz | ah, duh, right | 09:17:26 |
| K900 | So /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/lib/... | 09:17:29 |
| TechWiz | ty | 09:17:35 |
| TechWiz set a profile picture. | 09:18:28 | |
| TechWiz changed their profile picture. | 09:19:06 | |
 drab | FYI per the support matrix on https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix-installer it does not seem to support non-root installs of lix for x86 or aarch linux (the "root only" column is checked). I think (?) you might be able to do non-root lix via the static binary on hydra, but I haven't tested this. URL is https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/lixStatic.x86_64-linux/latest/download-by-type/file/binary-dist for the x86_64 linux binary if you want to see if it works for you. There's a blog post on using static nix at https://zameermanji.com/blog/2023/3/26/using-nix-without-root/ that might be relevant (i.e. getting around /nix/store) | 12:56:10 |
 tebriel | 80/80 installcheck - lix:fuctional2 is failing on my m4 Mac. Says 418/420 subtests passed, has anyone else seen this on 2.95.1? | 16:30:21 |
| raitobezarius | do you have more details on which test of f2 failed? | 16:30:40 |