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Improve detection of WSL installs without Systemd #462

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pingiun opened this issue May 12, 2023 · 5 comments · Fixed by #469
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Improve detection of WSL installs without Systemd #462

pingiun opened this issue May 12, 2023 · 5 comments · Fixed by #469
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pingiun commented May 12, 2023

I used the installer on a fresh WSL installation of Ubuntu. The installer seems to run fine, however when I want to use a nix run command afterwards, I get the following error:

error: could not set permissions on '/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user' to 755: Operation not permitted

I have not configured WSL to use systemd but the installer did say "INFO Step: Configure Nix daemon related settings with systemd". This may be related to an issue I filed earlier about not detecting systemd correctly?
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pingiun commented May 12, 2023

Just to be clear, I tried this:

sudo chmod 755 /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user

Which didn't fix the issue, it still gives the same error

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pingiun commented May 12, 2023

I setup systemd in /etc/wsl.conf, rebooted, reinstalled nix and now the issue is gone

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I'm glad you got it! Perhaps we should do more validation of WSL environments in our planner...

@Hoverbear Hoverbear changed the title New install on WSL: could not set permissions on '/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user' Improve detection of WSL installs without Systemd May 12, 2023
@Hoverbear Hoverbear added this to the 0.8.1 milestone May 12, 2023
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Related to #336

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Confirming this issue. I think the solution in https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/pull/336/files#r1153191998 is probably right.

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