NixOS is a Linux distribution that uses the Nix package manager.
NixOS is a Linux distribution built on top of the Nix package manager. It uses declarative configuration.
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`nixos-rebuild switch` fails with "No space left on device"
I keep filling up /boot with old kernels, at which point nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade will download a bunch of derivations only to eventually fail when installing the new kernel (or initrd) because there is insufficient space on /boot.
One option…
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How to install Postgis with Osm2pgsql on NixOS
When installing PostGIS on NixOS with an expression like
services.postgresql.extraPlugins = [ (pkgs.postgis.override { postgresql = pkgs.postgresql94; }).v_2_1_4 ];
How to add other extensions like Osm2pgsql to it?
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Start a nix-shell with only the current directory mounted (similar to a container)
I am looking for a way to launch a shell with specific packages installed within, but no unnecessary access to the rest of the system, i.e:
Only the current directory (pwd) mounted, no access to other parts of the filesystem*
Only the requested…
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Nginx can't read files when symlinking folder in /home/user to /var/www
I want to be able to edit my sites files without using sudo, so I symlinked /home/USER/project to /var/www/project with ln -sTf /home/USER/PROJECT /var/www/PROJECT However, Nginx displays 403 forbidden when visiting the site.…
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Issues with starting a virtual machine using virsh without intializing virt manager
I am having problems with starting a virtual machine using virsh.
When I do virsh list --all, I see the VM named "ubuntu20.04" and it's state if shut off. Then I do virsh start ubuntu20.04 and get this error:
error: Failed to start domain…
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Migration from Nixops 1.7 to 2.0 and .nix to nixops.nix
I try to migrate my nixops from version 1.7 to nixops_unstable 2.0.0-pre-7220cbd. After installing nixops_unstable I cannot work with the nixops command anymore:
$ nixops deploy -d streaming
Traceback (most recent call last):
File…
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NixOS starting a daemon process example - is the example broken?
In the python flask example application given on https://nixos.org/guides/dev-environment.html ... Isn't it just killing the daemon process whether it passes the health check or not? Maybe there's something implicit going on that I'm not…
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Linux confused by identical mounts on different disks after attaching disk
We are having a weird problem when attaching an EBS volume to a running Linux (NixOS in this case) instance (for the purpose of growing the file system on that attached volume; on it is the NixOS root file system for another machine that we shut…
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