disable nix-daemon?

[sellout]

I “accidentally” enabled nix-daemon, and now (after disabling it) whenever I try darwin-rebuild build, it errors with “the group ‘nixbld’ specified in ‘build-users-group’ does not exist”

How can I get it to not try to start nix-daemon now?

[yurrriq]

FWIW I've written and used this script (modified from outdated NixOS docs) to set up the proper groups and users for nix-daemon.

[yurrriq]

N.B. The hard-coded gid=502 might need to be adjusted on your system.

[LnL7]

If you remove /etc/nix/nix.conf and stop the daemon you can rebuild again.

[sellout]

@LnL7 I’ve removed /etc/nix/nix.conf, stopped the daemon, and I still get the same error whenever I try darwin-rebuild or nix-build '<darwin>' -A system --no-out-link (as part of $(nix-build '<darwin>' -A system --no-out-link)/sw/bin/darwin-rebuild build).

I suppose I may as well use @yurrriq’s script and run the daemon anyway – my only reservation is basically having to remember to run that script whenever my nix config moves to a new machine.

[LnL7]

I wrote this when I first installed the daemon on my machine https://gist.github.com/LnL7/ed6a23cd803fdb371e853fe970a848a3, I'm planning to include this in the repo or provide a proper installer sometime.