| 1 Mar 2026 |
|  osalbahr joined the room. | 14:26:26 |
| osalbahr | Hello. I wanted to raise attention to an issue I had installing Nix on a 2017 MacBook Pro (Intel) running macOS Ventura (13). It seems to hang at (or right after) the following step:
launchctl kickstart -k system/org.nixos.darwin-store
Anything I can do to help troubleshoot?
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/11711#issuecomment-3975331550
| 14:31:40 |
 cole-h | Was this with the new Rust-based installer (what this channel is about)? The comment in that issue looks like it was with the script-based installer. You're welcome to try this one out though: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/doc/manual/rl-next/beta-installer | 14:49:37 |
| osalbahr | I don't know. I ran sh <(curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) as suggested in https://nixos.org/download | 14:50:19 |
| osalbahr | Should I ask in another channel? | 14:50:37 |
| cole-h | That'll be the script-based one then. Feel free to follow the instructions in the link above if you're interested in trying this one though | 14:51:04 |
| osalbahr | I will test it out next time I reinstall macOS | 15:25:46 |
| cole-h | Sounds good! But just FYI, you don't have to reinstall with this installer ;) | 15:27:07 |
| cole-h | (You can install over your current install) | 15:27:30 |
| osalbahr | I don't think it's a good idea to run both installers at once lol (the script-based is still hanging) | 15:28:10 |
| cole-h | It was intentionally designed to allow that, but no worries! | 15:28:38 |
| osalbahr | no I mean I didn't quit the script yet | 15:28:57 |
| osalbahr | Re-running the script worked. But it seems like nix doesn’t macOS Ventura (13) anyways. I will try to upgrade with OpenCore Legacy Patcher and then try out nix-installer at some point. | 17:52:47 |
| 2 Mar 2026 |
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| 3 Mar 2026 |
| osalbahr | update: it worked, until unstable drops x86_64-darwin support | 21:43:27 |
| 4 Mar 2026 |
 Mic92 | Those will be also useful for arm64-darwin | 12:11:43 |
| 5 Mar 2026 |
| osalbahr changed their display name from osama-albahrani to osalbahr. | 18:38:20 |
| 27 Mar 2026 |
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| 6 Apr 2026 |
| Mic92 | https://github.com/NixOS/nix-installer/pull/176 we could make this also part of the installer nix action if gh is present: https://github.com/NixOS/nix-installer/pull/176 | 13:34:40 |
| Mic92 | * I added github attestation for the release. We could make this also part of the installer nix action if gh is present: https://github.com/NixOS/nix-installer/pull/176 | 13:35:05 |
| Mic92 | gh attestation download ./nix-installer-x86_64-linux --repo NixOS/nix-installer
gh attestation verify ./nix-installer-x86_64-linux --bundle sha256:*.jsonl
| 13:35:31 |
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| cole-h | FYI abathurMatthew Kenigsberg
I can't make it to the installer meeting this week (suddenly very busy and I need to reclaim that 1h). Please ping if you need anything and I'll get back to you ASAP (but async) | 15:16:24 |
| 8 Apr 2026 |
 abathur | @matthewkenigsberg:matrix.org: want to skip this call, or go ahead and meet? | 04:16:57 |
| Mic92 | I discussed with Sergei that our next step might involve packaging up the installer in the repo (vendoring some nix code). So that the nix-installer process has its own release process and testing, and in the nix repo we will bump the nix-installer release (nix-installer will become a nix package in the repo) | 09:00:42 |
| Mic92 | This will help with making releases more seamless. | 09:00:54 |
| Mic92 | When we go for this, we should have a distinguished version scheme in the installer, so it's not confused with nix-versions | 09:01:32 |
| Mic92 | * This will help with making nix releases more seamless. | 09:01:50 |
 Matthew Kenigsberg | Let's just skip | 13:42:17 |
