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Install on MacOS High Sierra fails after interrupting first install #2233
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Fixed. I found and deleted a number of files like this:
I found the install script very confusing for more than one reason:
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Just had another guy in IRC who faced issues with
To make configuration of this variable possible without having to unpack the whole thing and modify stuff. Can anyone point out problems with this approach? I'm not sure if this is supported by all shells... Otherwise telling the user what the first free UID is would also be helpful |
I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info |
I closed this issue due to inactivity. → More info |
On my first install of nix, I interrupted it as it seemed to be busy establishing what turned out to be 32 "build users". This has left the system in a permanently broken state.
I presently get this error when trying to install nix.
There is no directory
/nix
./var/empty
is empty. There is no~/.nix_profile
directory. I really don't understand where the residual state for this install is, but I can't clean it up.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: