In reply to @zhaofeng:zhaofeng.li
Interesting, and it says something like sudo: command not found?

This is the output for both commands:

.dotfiles on  main [!+] λ colmena apply-local --sudo
thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to run sudo to escalate privileges: Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }', src/command/apply_local.rs:162:10
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

.dotfiles on  main [!+] ⊥ colmena apply-local
[WARN ] Colmena was not started by root. This is probably not going to work.
[WARN ] Hint: Add the --sudo flag.
warning: Git tree '/home/isaac/.dotfiles' is dirty
[INFO ] Using flake: git+file:///home/isaac/.dotfiles
warning: Git tree '/home/isaac/.dotfiles' is dirty
warning: Git tree '/home/isaac/.dotfiles' is dirty
        🕔 7s 2 succeeded
desktop ✅ 6s Evaluated desktop
        ❌ 7s Failed: Child process exited with error code: 1
desktop ✅ 6s Evaluated desktop
desktop ✅ 0s Built "/nix/store/pm7h842lz8c1jwx3crwj1hmwxn9hphr5-nixos-system-desktop-23.05pre-git"
desktop ✅ 0s Pushed system closure
desktop ❌ 0s Activation failed: Child process exited with error code: 1
[ERROR] Failed to deploy to desktop - Last 3 lines of logs:
[ERROR]  created)
[ERROR]    state) Running
[ERROR]  failure) Child process exited with error code: 1
[ERROR] Failed to complete requested operation - Last 1 lines of logs:
[ERROR]  failure) Child process exited with error code: 1
[ERROR] -----
[ERROR] Operation failed with error: Child process exited with error code: 1

In reply to @zhaofeng:zhaofeng.li
Just confirming, is the deployment.privilegeEscalationCommand set inside the host config? If it's outside, you may have inadvertently created a deployment node instead

In reply to @ask-yourself:matrix.org

This is the output for both commands:

.dotfiles on  main [!+] λ colmena apply-local --sudo
thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to run sudo to escalate privileges: Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }', src/command/apply_local.rs:162:10
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

.dotfiles on  main [!+] ⊥ colmena apply-local
[WARN ] Colmena was not started by root. This is probably not going to work.
[WARN ] Hint: Add the --sudo flag.
warning: Git tree '/home/isaac/.dotfiles' is dirty
[INFO ] Using flake: git+file:///home/isaac/.dotfiles
warning: Git tree '/home/isaac/.dotfiles' is dirty
warning: Git tree '/home/isaac/.dotfiles' is dirty
        🕔 7s 2 succeeded
desktop ✅ 6s Evaluated desktop
        ❌ 7s Failed: Child process exited with error code: 1
desktop ✅ 6s Evaluated desktop
desktop ✅ 0s Built "/nix/store/pm7h842lz8c1jwx3crwj1hmwxn9hphr5-nixos-system-desktop-23.05pre-git"
desktop ✅ 0s Pushed system closure
desktop ❌ 0s Activation failed: Child process exited with error code: 1
[ERROR] Failed to deploy to desktop - Last 3 lines of logs:
[ERROR]  created)
[ERROR]    state) Running
[ERROR]  failure) Child process exited with error code: 1
[ERROR] Failed to complete requested operation - Last 1 lines of logs:
[ERROR]  failure) Child process exited with error code: 1
[ERROR] -----
[ERROR] Operation failed with error: Child process exited with error code: 1

Sry spoke too soon. That actually does not seem to resolve the issue:

.dotfiles on  main [!] λ colmena apply-local --sudo-command=doas
[WARN ] Colmena was not started by root. This is probably not going to work.
[WARN ] Hint: Add the --sudo flag.
warning: Git tree '/home/isaac/.dotfiles' is dirty
[INFO ] Using flake: git+file:///home/isaac/.dotfiles
warning: Git tree '/home/isaac/.dotfiles' is dirty
warning: Git tree '/home/isaac/.dotfiles' is dirty
        🕕 7s 2 succeeded
desktop ✅ 6s Evaluated desktop
        ❌ 7s Failed: Child process exited with error code: 1
desktop ✅ 6s Evaluated desktop
desktop ✅ 0s Built "/nix/store/7xj0j1acvhf7avnkkc746nc04a920qri-nixos-system-desktop-23.05pre-git"
desktop ✅ 0s Pushed system closure
desktop ❌ 0s Activation failed: Child process exited with error code: 1
[ERROR] Failed to complete requested operation - Last 1 lines of logs:
[ERROR]  failure) Child process exited with error code: 1
[ERROR] Failed to deploy to desktop - Last 3 lines of logs:
[ERROR]  created)
[ERROR]    state) Running
[ERROR]  failure) Child process exited with error code: 1
[ERROR] -----
[ERROR] Operation failed with error: Child process exited with error code: 1

It still seems to complain in the same way:

.dotfiles on  main [!+] λ colmena apply-local --sudo --sudo-command=doas
error: getting the HEAD of the Git tree '/home/isaac/.dotfiles' failed with exit code 1:
       error: executing 'git': No such file or directory

(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: ChildFailure { exit_code: 1 }', src/command/apply_local.rs:95:55
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

{user, ...}: {
  # deployment.privilegeEscalationCommand = ["doas"];
  security = {
    doas = {
      enable = true;
      extraRules = [
        {
          keepEnv = true;
          noPass = true;
          users = ["${user}"];
        }
      ];
    };
    sudo.enable = true ;
  };
}