Virtualbox fails on Unstable to build

[sjau]

Issue description

I have VBox and Extensions in my configuration.nix. It fails to build now on unstable

checking for getc_unlocked... yes
checking for getcwd... yes       
checking for getegid... yes      
checking for geteuid... yes      
checking for getgid... yes       
checking for getuid... yes       
checking for mempcpy... yes      
checking for munmap... yes       
checking for putenv... yes       
checking for setenv... yes       
checking for setlocale... yes    
checking for stpcpy... yes       
checking for strcasecmp... yes   
checking for strdup... yes       
checking for strtoul... yes      
checking for tsearch... yes      
checking for __argz_count... yes 
checking for __argz_stringify... yes                              
checking for __argz_next... yes  
checking for __fsetlocking... yes
checking for iconv... yes        
checking for iconv declaration... install-shextern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... tar: Skipping to next header                                                                 

bzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing.                   
        Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)              

It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted. 
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.      

You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover      
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.                  

tar: Child returned status 2     
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now                        
do not know how to unpack source archive /nix/store/r9pdz70s6rjn1w8zm6sncgg2l6mwys6p-VirtualBox-5.1.26.tar.bz2                       
builder for ‘/nix/store/0ipjp7m8758c517g661a17fssvffxwpb-virtualbox-5.1.26.drv’ failed with exit code 1                              
cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/nwz38h1zm19gm3rr27mf7i66v2v3hda5-nixos-system-subi-18.03pre116572.9824ca6975.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built

Technical details

• System: (NixOS: nixos-version, Ubuntu/Fedora: lsb_release -a, ...)

18.03pre116347.272c0bf88c (Impala)

• Nix version: (run nix-env --version)

nix-env (Nix) 1.11.15

• Nixpkgs version: (run nix-instantiate --eval "<nixpkgs>" -A lib.nixpkgsVersion)

"18.03pre116572.9824ca6975"

• Sandboxing enabled: (run grep build-use-sandbox /etc/nix/nix.conf)

build-use-sandbox = false

[orivej]

Does it fail if you try to build again?

[sjau]

yes, tried about 10x or so.... even wiped everything and started over...

[orivej]

What is the output of these commands?

ls -l /nix/store/r9pdz70s6rjn1w8zm6sncgg2l6mwys6p-VirtualBox-5.1.26.tar.bz2
sha256sum /nix/store/r9pdz70s6rjn1w8zm6sncgg2l6mwys6p-VirtualBox-5.1.26.tar.bz2

[sjau]

root@subi:~# ls -l /nix/store/r9pdz70s6rjn1w8zm6sncgg2l6mwys6p-VirtualBox-5.1.26.tar.bz2
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 115915813  1. Jan 1970  /nix/store/r9pdz70s6rjn1w8zm6sncgg2l6mwys6p-VirtualBox-5.1.26.tar.bz2
root@subi:~# sha256sum /nix/store/r9pdz70s6rjn1w8zm6sncgg2l6mwys6p-VirtualBox-5.1.26.tar.bz2
ec31ee7d8f31b74daa680b2dc93de081a8c383877db3d041f56a1ffc4322b0ee  /nix/store/r9pdz70s6rjn1w8zm6sncgg2l6mwys6p-VirtualBox-5.1.26.tar.bz2

[orivej]

Does this print anything?

nix-store --verify-path /nix/store/r9pdz70s6rjn1w8zm6sncgg2l6mwys6p-VirtualBox-5.1.26.tar.bz2

[sjau]

root@subi:~# nix-store --verify-path /nix/store/r9pdz70s6rjn1w8zm6sncgg2l6mwys6p-VirtualBox-5.1.26.tar.bz2
path ‘/nix/store/r9pdz70s6rjn1w8zm6sncgg2l6mwys6p-VirtualBox-5.1.26.tar.bz2’ was modified! expected hash ‘a0efe0b41a32c4e6623e22eabd62feb116a2b13faf2f6a5048d712f6ca59bc1b’, got ‘98f9d2a9c048e5cf292f233cc93833e8962ba3a1ef6af8faf04db0f05b837db9’
root@subi:~# 

[orivej]

Please remove this file and build again:

sudo nix-store --delete --ignore-liveness /nix/store/r9pdz70s6rjn1w8zm6sncgg2l6mwys6p-VirtualBox-5.1.26.tar.bz2

VirtualBox sources have not been updated since July. The size of your file is correct, but the hash sum is wrong. My guess is that you had that file cached for a while and then it got corrupted without any action from nix tools. You may also want to check health status of your disk and integrity of the file systems.

[sjau]

ssd is fine as is the filesystem.

But deleteing seems to have worked...