Installation in low-resource environments

[justinwoo]

This is a follow-up on NixOS/nixpkgs#65717

I'm trying to install Nix on GitHub Actions and other like low-resource environments, and I'm trying to figure out how I should be going about installing Nix in these kinds of environments. Right now, I have something like a 20% chance of getting a segfault when installing Nix, so I would like to know if I should be using some other method than the installation script, using some version known to work that may be older, or simply using some method of retrying the installation many times.

Related discourse post here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/installing-nix-on-github-actions/3810

[zimbatm]

The best thing would be if you could collect the coredump and attach it here so it can be debugged.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/12968632

[matthewbauer]

Yeah a coredump is probably the best way to track this down. It looks like it's segfaulting on these lines:

• https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh#L133-L135

Perhaps something in nix-channel is causing thsi.

[zimbatm]

In the discourse thread there are also a segfaults on nix-channel --update, it seems to be related.

[stale]

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