[Nix-dev] strange nix error

2014-04-05 Thread Ben Franksen
Hi I have installed nix under ubuntu, using the ubuntu deb package. Then I followed the instructions in the nix manual for multi-user installs, i.e. created build users groups and added a nix.conf: ben@sarun[1]: ~ sudo dpkg -i nix_1.6.1-1_amd64.deb output elided bben@sarun[1]: ~ cat

Re: [Nix-dev] strange nix error

2014-04-05 Thread James Cook
On 5 April 2014 16:47, Ben Franksen ben.frank...@online.de wrote: Hi I have installed nix under ubuntu, using the ubuntu deb package. Then I followed the instructions in the nix manual for multi-user installs, i.e. created build users groups and added a nix.conf: ben@sarun[1]: ~ sudo dpkg

Re: [Nix-dev] strange nix error

2014-04-05 Thread Ben Franksen
James Cook wrote: On 5 April 2014 16:47, Ben Franksen ben.frank...@online.de wrote: I have installed nix under ubuntu, using the ubuntu deb package. Then I followed the instructions in the nix manual for multi-user installs, i.e. created build users groups and added a nix.conf: [...] Then I

Re: [Nix-dev] strange nix error

2014-04-05 Thread Ben Franksen
Ben Franksen wrote: James Cook wrote: On 5 April 2014 16:47, Ben Franksen ben.frank...@online.de wrote: I have installed nix under ubuntu, using the ubuntu deb package. Then I followed the instructions in the nix manual for multi-user installs, i.e. created build users groups and added a

Re: [Nix-dev] strange nix error

2014-04-05 Thread James Cook
/nix/var/nix/profiles has the same permissions/owner/group on my system. If the daemon is running as root and you have the env variable set, then I'm not sure what's happening. James On 5 April 2014 22:25, Ben Franksen ben.frank...@online.de wrote: Ben Franksen wrote: James Cook wrote: On 5

Re: [Nix-dev] strange nix error

2014-04-05 Thread Ben Franksen
James Cook wrote: /nix/var/nix/profiles has the same permissions/owner/group on my system. If the daemon is running as root and you have the env variable set, then I'm not sure what's happening. Never mind, I googled a bit and found this on the net: