| 11 Feb 2026 |
 Mic92 | this was on macOS. | 15:46:03 |
| Mic92 | I'll try on some linux container first. | 15:46:15 |
 cole-h | It will not install over a Rust-based install, correct | 15:46:16 |
| cole-h | That's why we included the caveat of "script-based" | 15:46:37 |
| Mic92 | is it designed to install over the script-based install? | 15:46:42 |
| cole-h | (Curing a script based install, or more accurately: an install without a receipt, is a major feature; if that's broken we should fix it) | 15:47:26 |
| cole-h | If you delete the receipt or move it out of the way, the installer will proceed. We just didn't want people to try to reinstall Nix to get a new version, and instead use eg nix upgrade-nix | 15:48:23 |
| Mic92 | Okay. I will see if I can find someone that used the old installer on mac, I don't want to replace my nix installation again, with this bad internet I got at the moment :) | 15:48:25 |
| Mic92 | cole-h: so we got this error: https://github.com/NixOS/nix-installer/issues/131 | 15:52:12 |
| Mic92 | 3: The keychain lacks a password for the already existing "Nix Store" volume on disk disk3, consider removing the volume with diskutil apfs deleteVolume "Nix Store" (if you receive error -69888, you may need to run sudo launchctl bootout system/org.nixos.darwin-store and sudo launchctl bootout system/org.nixos.nix-daemon first) | 15:52:23 |
| Mic92 | So is the user supposed to run these steps? | 15:52:52 |
| cole-h | Correct. I believe we found that this happens, we are unable to read the password out of the Keychain and thus will be unable to unlock the volume on restart. Without the password we can't change the password. | 16:02:20 |
| Mic92 | okay, it worked eventually. | 16:08:51 |
| Mic92 | cole-h: we started testing some more linux distributions and found small fixes being needed for archlinux/opensuse: https://github.com/NixOS/nix-installer/releases/tag/2.33.2 | 16:13:30 |
| Mic92 | Matthew Kenigsberg: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/15201 please undraft, if you agree with our changes. Looks good from my side otherwise. | 16:22:10 |
 Matthew Kenigsberg | Added one small tweak "Thanks to Determinate Systems for all the investment they've put into the installer."
and marked ready | 17:08:44 |
| 22 Feb 2026 |
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| 25 Feb 2026 |
| Matthew Kenigsberg | Forget to mention I'll be out March 11 | 23:04:14 |
| Matthew Kenigsberg | * Forgot to mention I'll be out March 11 | 23:04:21 |
| 27 Feb 2026 |
| cole-h | I will as well | 17:00:09 |
| cole-h | I'll leave it to abathur to decide whether or not to cancel :p | 17:00:31 |
| 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 |
