home-manager-manual error

[mightybyte]

I just started getting the following error when I run home-manager switch:

./manual.xml:38: element include: XInclude error : could not load generated/options-db.xml, and no fallback was found
builder for '/nix/store/n0yg6anycws9play1anx12m6j9xyh77f-home-manager-manual-combined.drv' failed with exit code 1

[rycee]

Hmm, I did fundamentally change how the manual is generated the other day but haven't noticed any issues building them on NixOS 18.03 or master. Which environment are you using home manager in? NixOS or some other distro? Version?

[mightybyte]

I'm using macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 with Nix 2.

[rycee]

I guess there must be some difference between the macOS 10.12 that travis-ci seem to use and 10.13 because it seems to build ok there.

Would you mind pasting all the log lines from building '/nix/store/XYZ-home-manager-manual-combined.drv'... to the error place? Any difference from the travis-ci output?

[rycee]

Oh, btw. In case you've missed it, if you disable the manual.manpages.enable option I guess you should be able to complete the home-manager switch so that you aren't blocked completely by this bug.

[mightybyte]

The above is all the lines in that range. Here's some more though:

building '/nix/store/n0yg6anycws9play1anx12m6j9xyh77f-home-manager-manual-combined.drv'...
./manual.xml:38: element include: XInclude error : could not load generated/options-db.xml, and no fallback was found
builder for '/nix/store/n0yg6anycws9play1anx12m6j9xyh77f-home-manager-manual-combined.drv' failed with exit code 1
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/15ayvjnaq91822j963yyyamr1bfal01k-home-manager-manpages.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/x5ijnzpjhsnllmxjk79wbkjx1k089ss4-home-manager-path.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/3jfyvjqlc4jbmd40x4f6hr50vdkdg3v5-home-manager-generation.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
error: build of '/nix/store/3jfyvjqlc4jbmd40x4f6hr50vdkdg3v5-home-manager-generation.drv' failed

That workaround got me unblocked, thanks!

[PhDyellow]

I had the same error under NixOS 18.03, using home-manager as a nixos module.

I tried commenting out manual.manpages.enable, but it didn't work.

I had success after commenting out all refernces to homemanager in my configuration.nix, rebuilding nixos, running a full sudo nix-collect-garbage -d, then enabling homemanager again and rebuilding nixos.

[j0xaf]

Same issue here under Ubuntu 18.04. Disabling manual.manpages.enable as workaround helped.

[jbgi]

I tried commenting out manual.manpages.enable, but it didn't work.

I had to set it to false, commenting was not enough.

[rycee]

I'm pretty certain I've managed to fix this in #264. Unfortunately travis-ci is not doing macos builds at the moment so I'll wait a bit with the merge. It would be great if somebody here could test that branch and see if it actually fixes the problem.

As a bonus I managed to produce the beginnings of an HTML manual including the options: https://rycee.github.io/home-manager/

[rycee]

Merged to master now. Please give manual.manpages.enable = true a try, hopefully it should build the manual OK now.

[dermetfan]

Fixed it for me, I had the same problem on NixOS 18.09.

[rycee]

Cool, I'll close this then. If anybody still experiences this issue then please reopen.