[Nix-dev] --ignore-liveness when nix-store --delete'ing

2015-07-02 Thread stewart mackenzie
Hello all, Please do not run this command: nix-store --delete --ignore-liveness /nix/store/hash-gnutar-version I have exactly this issue: http://pastebin.com/z5k8bxWQ and wanted to selectively delete the troublesome gnutar package. The above command completely and utterly borked my system. It

Re: [Nix-dev] --ignore-liveness when nix-store --delete'ing

2015-07-02 Thread stewart mackenzie
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: So ... is this --ignore-liveness expected behaviour? Sort of. nix-store --delete PATH will delete paths that refer to PATH, provided that those paths are themselves garbage, in order to make PATH deletable. But

Re: [Nix-dev] --ignore-liveness when nix-store --delete'ing

2015-07-02 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 02/07/15 17:12, stewart mackenzie wrote: Please do not run this command: nix-store --delete --ignore-liveness /nix/store/hash-gnutar-version I have exactly this issue: http://pastebin.com/z5k8bxWQ and wanted to selectively delete the troublesome gnutar package. The above

Re: [Nix-dev] --ignore-liveness when nix-store --delete'ing

2015-07-02 Thread stewart mackenzie
exciting, shall do. On 3 Jul 2015 00:47, Arseniy Seroka seni...@gmail.com wrote: The only way is to boot live nixos, mount your partition and run `nixos-install`. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl

Re: [Nix-dev] --ignore-liveness when nix-store --delete'ing

2015-07-02 Thread stewart mackenzie
Some more information: $ sudo nixos-rebuild --rollback switch switching from generation 223 to 222 /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-rebuild.sh: line 237: /nix/var/nix/profiles/system/bin/switch-to-configuration: No such file or