| 20 Jan 2026 |
 DolceTriade | The parts that were failing were part of a custom binary cache | 19:14:29 |
 raitobezarius | so a misbehaving binary cache perhaps? | 19:18:36 |
| raitobezarius | still, we shouldn't crash because of that | 19:18:52 |
| DolceTriade | Yes, that seems likely. | 19:19:55 |
| raitobezarius | if we can get access to it and have a reproducer in a bug issue, we can look into that | 19:20:41 |
| raitobezarius | we would debug it via gdb and look into the state machine | 19:20:49 |
| DolceTriade | We're using attic as our binary cache and I guess we discovered that one of binary cache uploads failed. Dunno how to reproduce this. I can try to build a reproducer. | 19:22:20 |
| DolceTriade | * We're using attic as our binary cache and I guess we discovered that one of binary cache uploads failed. Dunno how to reproduce this. I can try to build a reproducer that simulates a similar situation | 19:22:36 |
| DolceTriade | * We're using attic as our binary cache and I guess we discovered that one of binary cache uploads failed. Dunno how to reproduce this. I can try to build a reproducer that simulates a similar situation. We have to pin to specific random versions for legacy reasons. :( | 19:22:54 |
| 21 Jan 2026 |
 Winter | running into the same silly “writeTextFiles from my system build are taking longer than i expect to build,” where “longer than i expect” = like a second per drv… 🤨
can reliably ish repro at least… but still very weird
| 02:06:58 |
| Winter | * running into the same silly “writeTextFiles from my system build are taking longer than i expect to build” again, where “longer than i expect” = like a second per drv… 🤨
can reliably ish repro at least… but still very weird
| 02:07:14 |
| Winter | am i going insane, or are NixOS system closures Just Like That | 02:07:25 |
| raitobezarius | In reply to @winter:catgirl.cloud
running into the same silly “writeTextFiles from my system build are taking longer than i expect to build” again, where “longer than i expect” = like a second per drv… 🤨
can reliably ish repro at least… but still very weird
Sandbox setup time grows with respect to the number of derivations that you are building overall | 06:32:46 |
| raitobezarius | As you have more derivations, forking takes more time even if the derivation is trivial to build | 06:33:20 |
| raitobezarius | It's on our radar to fix this | 06:33:28 |
| raitobezarius | Because it's impossible to build 1M of trivial drvs due to that | 06:33:38 |
 Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | btw, thank you so much for build-vm! nixos really plays well with Qemu | 08:36:03 |
| raitobezarius | lmk once you have one, i'm interested | 08:54:46 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | 
Download PXL_20260121_115557999.jpg | 11:56:17 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | Booting of the NixOS image straight from the internet | 11:57:44 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | Like, the provided one on the website | 11:57:53 |
 delroth | off-topic? | 12:01:38 |
 K900 | How did you write it? | 12:01:47 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | dd | 12:19:15 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | Can this be because of the stick? | 12:42:02 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | Like, a hardware error | 12:42:08 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | Anyways offtopic | 12:42:16 |
 antifuchs | this is fascinating! is there a writeup of this somewhere / an issue? I'd love to understand that more. | 19:53:06 |
| raitobezarius | The wiki may talk about it around the concept of "zygote" | 21:01:10 |
| raitobezarius | I think looking at docs on Android zygote might be the more efficient way to learn about the problem space | 21:01:46 |
