nix build for first-time home-manager build fails with address boundary error

[muni-corn]

Describe the bug

Original Reddit post

So I recently wiped my laptop to change its filesystem from btrfs to ext4, hoping for a little performance improvement (every bit counts at its age). I was able to re-partition my disk and re-install NixOS smoothly on my laptop. (Here's my NixOS config.)

But I cannot build my home-manager configuration.

I manage my home-manager config with flakes. To build it for the first time on a fresh system, I'm trying to use nix build --no-link ~/.config/nixpkgs/#homeConfigurations.<machine_name>.activationPackage. However, this fails with an address boundary error (SIGSEGV).

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. You may need a fresh install NixOS with my system config (linked above). Also, enable nix-command and flakes experimental features.
2. Clone home-manager config (also linked above) to ~/.config/nixpkgs
3. cd ~/.config/nixpkgs
4. nix build --no-link ~/.config/nixpkgs#homeConfigurations.littlepony.activationPackage

You should get something like nix build ... terminated by SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)

Expected behavior

I should be able to build my home-manager configuration successfully

Additional context

I haven't found anything online about this. I've tried running it with env GC_DONT_GC=1, but that didn't fix the issue.

Here's an strace that might help.

Thank you in advance for any help, workarounds, or suggestions :)

Notify maintainers

@rycee maybe

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

[user@system:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 5.15.39, NixOS, 22.05 (Quokka)`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.9.0pre20220512_d354fc3`
 - channels(harrison): `"home-manager, nixos"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

[muni-corn]

Update: Here's gdb output of running the command.

[muni-corn]

Sorry all, this issue belongs in the nix repository, not nixpkgs. Please visit the issue linked above, nix#6554, instead.