Getting "secret key is corrupt" on most commands

[cah6]

Issue description

It seems like any command that tries to fetch a cached binary is failing with:
error: secret key is corrupt

Steps to reproduce

Not sure how I get into this state but current behavior is:

$ nix-env -i zip
warning: name collision in input Nix expressions, skipping '/Users/christian.henry/.nix-defexpr/channels_root/nixpkgs'
installing 'zip-3.0'
these paths will be fetched (0.15 MiB download, 0.54 MiB unpacked):
  /nix/store/cpja0xjyi9nxb715nljbkpii7l6zmhyk-zip-3.0
error: secret key is corrupt

Technical details

nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" actually fails too:

$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
these paths will be fetched (2.01 MiB download, 11.35 MiB unpacked):
  /nix/store/1bzafpp9bhbs70kbg4k3ya1xz9bnd26k-bash-4.4-p19-doc
  /nix/store/1c995fhi4rqn7ss7qv4l5mbcl5ajyspf-adv_cmds-osx-10.5.8-locale
  /nix/store/20n07wawwvn0af8dr7xxl7zpkfyh9324-bash-4.4-p19-man
  /nix/store/2hwayv4fhak2kl7y6hjyi18gxh7ncvx8-readline-7.0p3
  /nix/store/614viw8ffn0qfmfrcidfv487qz8rnjcj-bash-4.4-p19-dev
  /nix/store/72dvq0f1rpmrnk4d0h7by8m6ln70l0b9-bash-4.4-p19-info
  /nix/store/8p3izl58ny7hr52jwh1fpnwgc0zxk8xc-DarwinTools-1
  /nix/store/bj2m0fb1kik3dxn1nx763s3lmmy7jgwv-nix-info
  /nix/store/dr80a9mwy52yqaxc9n9lw35mqm4yc08p-stdenv-darwin
  /nix/store/k5wbwf1nsywpbbrypjd82hcn7pbd69wh-bash-4.4-p19-info
  /nix/store/lvymdjrcixv781ss1byny6zjqmfxq828-bash-4.4-p19-dev
  /nix/store/p17frn8zgghjfpr0j38mfbasvsjcfpbp-bash-4.4-p19
  /nix/store/xsbwr7ns6wxrmhis72q5x9m2vlcw6rgi-bash-4.4-p19-man
  /nix/store/y9s019svvv488abp0sazjm6qa0nwmgc7-bash-4.4-p19-doc
error: secret key is corrupt

but I have:

$ nix --version
nix (Nix) 2.0.2

and

$ nix-channel --list
nixpkgs http://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable

and I'm on OSX 10.13.4. Is there any way to regenerate the secret key used by nix or something? I don't even know where stuff like that is stored.

[xeji]

cc @edolstra

[edolstra]

What does your nix.conf look like?

[cah6]

Gahh forgot that some keys were there. Looks like at some point my nix.conf lost a line and so it became

trusted-public-keys = cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY= ryantrinkle.com-1:JJiAKaRv9mWgpVAz8dwewnZe0AzzEAzPkagE9SP5NWI=binary-caches = https://cache.nixos.org https://nixcache.reflex-frp.org

instead of

trusted-public-keys = cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY= ryantrinkle.com-1:JJiAKaRv9mWgpVAz8dwewnZe0AzzEAzPkagE9SP5NWI=
binary-caches = https://cache.nixos.org https://nixcache.reflex-frp.org

Thanks for the replies! Feel free to resolve this however you want.

[xeji]

Glad you found the cause of your problem. Closing as not-a-bug.

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/error-secret-key-is-corrupt-when-building-flake/40440/2

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/error-secret-key-is-corrupt-when-building-flake/40440/3