Nix is completely broken after major macOS update #2444

lilyball · 2018-09-24T20:33:41Z

After updating macOS to 10.14 Mojave, Nix is completely broken, giving me an error saying something about I think libSystem_networking.dylib being missing (I apologize for not having the exact error text, I already blew away my local installation).

My recollection is I went through the same issue when upgrading from macOS 10.12 to 10.13, where I had to completely reinstall Nix and my Nix-installed packages.

It would be fantastic if this issue did not happen again next year when upgrading to macOS 10.15.

edolstra · 2018-09-25T12:08:20Z

It's pretty much a certainty that it will break on 10.15, because, well, that's macOS :-)

domenkozar · 2018-09-25T15:32:04Z

Maybe install script should safeguard macos to be set to known tested versions? Although that won't prevent macOS upgrades...

lilyball · 2018-09-25T15:42:42Z

That would be awful. The *only* remedy to a macOS upgrade breaking Nix is to reinstall Nix. Locking the installer script to known versions would prevent that, without a good reason, as reinstalling works just fine.

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kahlil29 · 2018-09-26T08:50:41Z

Having the same issue.
Reinstalled but still getting the following error (that I got after upgrading on my older installation)

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/system/libsystem_network.dylib
  Referenced from: /nix/store/wrl2sxy6yqgm7w7ii1515jxndncc7545-Libsystem-osx-10.11.6/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
  Reason: image not found

Completely stuck here.

domenkozar · 2018-09-26T08:52:48Z

@kahlil29 did you upgrade to Nix 2.1?

kahlil29 · 2018-09-26T09:10:18Z

@domenkozar I nuked my installation and ran it again from scratch via

curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

It installed Nix version 2.1.2
It gave me the same error after that.

kahlil29 · 2018-09-26T11:39:43Z

Is there no known workaround for this?
I tried the solution given here as well with the tar file by @LnL7 Temp Solution but that ended up giving me the same error.

I have now resorted to running an Ubuntu VM on my system and had to install everything from scratch.

LnL7 · 2018-09-26T18:09:45Z

The issue you describe was fixed in 2.1. I have not upgraded myself, but I have helped somebody with the upgrade process so whatever this is it's something specific to your system. Either something that isn't 2.1 or something from the previous install is interfering.

kahlil29 · 2018-09-26T20:48:56Z

@LnL7 Thanks for your input on this!
I'll try nuking everything properly once more and re-installing Nix 2.1 again.

ajbouh · 2018-10-03T15:39:28Z

I just had this same issue. Doing the following at least allowed installation to complete without any Library not loaded errors.

sudo mv /nix /nix-old
export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
unset SSL_CERT_FILE
unset NIX_PATH
# ... Reran installer

kahlil29 · 2018-10-07T19:12:19Z

It's not my nix installation procedure that's triggering the error. Installation runs fine but the moment I go into my company's GitLab repo and run nix-shell -A shells.ghc ...it begins the download process and during that is where it comes up with the error(s). Still not able to resolve it.

vai0 · 2018-10-08T23:51:26Z

I am encountering the same exact issue as @kahlil29. Ran through the steps to do a clean install. Installation runs just fine - it's just once I run nix-shell within my project it throws:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/system/libsystem_network.dylib
  Referenced from: /nix/store/46qj01lcjz48wb4hc7mvn3mhb3syda7h-Libsystem-osx-10.11.6/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
  Reason: image not found

LnL7 · 2018-10-09T20:00:35Z

What you describe sounds a lot more like an expression that uses a pinned nixpkgs that didn't have 10.14 support yet instead of an issue with the install.

jordanst3wart · 2018-10-15T23:04:34Z

This does actually seem to be an issue with the individual packages. Reinstalling the individual packages fixes the issue for me (see below).

unknown at unknown in ~
$ micro
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/system/libsystem_network.dylib
  Referenced from: /nix/store/12yshvbpz9hjn7khzzf0ar67kaw6g7f7-Libsystem-osx-10.11.6/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
  Reason: image not found
[1]    10652 abort      micro

unknown at unknown in ~
$ nix-env -e micro
uninstalling 'micro-1.4.0'
building '/nix/store/scgi90x34jj9f6f2mw6yj532hzhsd5jk-user-environment.drv'...
created 465 symlinks in user environment

unknown at unknown in ~
$ nix-env -i micro
warning: name collision in input Nix expressions, skipping '/Users/jordanstewart/.nix-defexpr/channels_root/nixpkgs'
replacing old 'micro-1.4.0'
installing 'micro-1.4.1'
these paths will be fetched (5.76 MiB download, 14.25 MiB unpacked):
  /nix/store/4w5hz6sh4924p2wqn2zp2gsc03wqd83p-micro-1.4.1-bin
  /nix/store/lss6icbzgvl1ns2ns74l56sxqdngwhpq-micro-1.4.1
copying path '/nix/store/4w5hz6sh4924p2wqn2zp2gsc03wqd83p-micro-1.4.1-bin' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
copying path '/nix/store/lss6icbzgvl1ns2ns74l56sxqdngwhpq-micro-1.4.1' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
building '/nix/store/3a822vr0xn0n6isc2ka4619j5w8xiln2-user-environment.drv'...
created 469 symlinks in user environment

unknown at unknown in ~
$ micro
# works here

unknown at unknown in ~
$ nix-env --version
nix-env (Nix) 2.1.3

s50600822 · 2018-11-05T04:57:06Z

pretty sure going for 2.1.3 will get #2193 instead.

jbddc · 2018-11-05T15:46:02Z

I am encountering the same exact issue as @kahlil29. Ran through the steps to do a clean install. Installation runs just fine - it's just once I run nix-shell within my project it throws:
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/system/libsystem_network.dylib
  Referenced from: /nix/store/46qj01lcjz48wb4hc7mvn3mhb3syda7h-Libsystem-osx-10.11.6/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
  Reason: image not found

I'm also getting this error and already nuked my nix install and installed it again. :/

copumpkin · 2018-11-06T13:27:13Z

@jordanst3wart yeah, if you use nix-env, packages will stay at whatever version they were at when you installed them until you upgrade them, even if you update your channel. If that version was built on a foundation that was incompatible with Mojave, they'll break.

@jbddc @kahlil29 we need more information to debug something like that. What expression led to that? Do you have any idea which program is crashing with that error? There might be crash logs in Console.app for example.

s50600822 · 2018-11-06T13:55:14Z

Hi if #2518 is addressed, I can use latest Nix on macOS can anyone help ?

jbddc · 2018-11-08T19:46:22Z

@jordanst3wart yeah, if you use nix-env, packages will stay at whatever version they were at when you installed them until you upgrade them, even if you update your channel. If that version was built on a foundation that was incompatible with Mojave, they'll break.

@jbddc @kahlil29 we need more information to debug something like that. What expression led to that? Do you have any idea which program is crashing with that error? There might be crash logs in Console.app for example.

Well, I can confirm that I can install packages using nix-env, which I suppose calls the most recent channel of nixpkgs-unstable.
What I was trying to install, however, was haskellR using the --nix flag with stack. I subsequently got the aforementioned library not loaded error. On the other hand, I had no issues installing the package using --docker.

If the issue is related to the main project (haskellR that is) having an older version of nixpkgs pinned, then I think this workflow is not sustainable if nix is to be adopted by the masses. macOS upgrades breaking packages like this makes me think that either:

The de facto way of writing nix expressions for darwin packages is wrong
The way that nix abstracts macOS system libraries and files could be improved to take into account its dynamic shift of location from upgrade to upgrade
Apple just likes to mess with developers and completely change it's OS's "infrastructure" every year :/

drever · 2018-11-11T18:07:53Z

I ran into the same problem when trying to install miso. I seems to be pinned to Libsystem-osx-10.11.6. I there any way to fix this?

kahlil29 · 2018-11-11T19:36:23Z

@copumpkin I think my issue was due to bytestring-trie
In a more recent version there has been some change to do with monoid and semigroup that causes the version I have not to build with GHC 8.4.3
I think the fix is to use a patched version of the package locally, but I haven't got down to trying it yet, hopefully in the next few days.
Check this issue : reflex-frp/reflex-platform#398
So in conclusion, my issue is nothing nix-specific, from what I gather.

newhoggy · 2019-03-14T10:14:46Z

I'm experience this issue:

$ git clone git@github.com:mankyKitty/fantastic-waddle.git
$ cd fantastic-waddle
$ nix build -f release.nix
builder for '/nix/store/1mj7i40s6h363y10b2w9cgfjr5jr64ff-stdenv-darwin-boot-0.drv' failed due to signal 6 (Abort trap: 6); last 3 log lines:
  dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/system/libsystem_network.dylib
    Referenced from: /nix/store/cp0dhigj0lxg96d5m5qmdws4k417jvy2-bootstrap-tools/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
    Reason: image not found

vai0 · 2019-03-14T15:52:07Z

@newhoggy Could possibly be that the project is pinning an older nixpkgs that doesn't have the MacOS fixes

kitlangton · 2019-05-10T04:17:47Z

I'm also experiencing this issue

copying path '/nix/store/ndsv1isl9zkzkw56q4l71x51hrbgn7y1-stdenv-darwin' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
building '/nix/store/9gxq1wp55n5l2y16hp33l67byvdksm5i-source.drv'...
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/system/libsystem_network.dylib
  Referenced from: /nix/store/naqkzg617irnxzxq84jskczbc6544l5j-Libsystem-osx-10.11.6/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
  Reason: image not found

mtesseract · 2019-05-13T03:45:52Z

@kitlangton For me a similar build failure was fixed by updating the project's pinned Nixpkgs version.
This is what @vai0 also hinted at.

kitlangton · 2019-07-11T00:58:29Z

I'm still experiencing this issue, nothing seems to fix it. Has anyone who has experienced this issue been able to fix it?

chreekat · 2019-09-04T09:25:17Z

I think this issue is fixed in Nixpkgs, but can someone point to the sha where it got fixed?

stale · 2021-02-14T10:04:43Z

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

koalalorenzo · 2023-11-09T08:49:33Z

I just upgraded to a minor version and got a similar issue.

grahamc · 2023-11-09T15:21:56Z

Hey y'all, I don't usually talk about the Determinate Nix Installer here, since I think it is typically off topic. However, in this case I think it might help a lot of people. We've recently fixed this problem in the Determinate Nix Installer, which you can get like this:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install

Note it does have some minor differences from the upstream Nix installer, which you can read about in its README: https://github.com/determinateSystems/nix-installer#installation-differences.

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