Closed rscorer closed 3 days ago
Did you update this machine to the macOS 15 beta while Nix was already installed?
I did, I wondered about that just after sending the bug report...
Was there something specific that caused you to want to uninstall? (Like Nix not working in some specific way after the upgrade?)
We don't currently have a good path for macOS <15 users to upgrade to macOS 15 (though we do have preliminary support for fresh installations as of v0.20.2). There's some more information on this issue upstream: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10892
If you want to uninstall and reinstall (with v0.20.2 or newer), you may need to do some surgery on the receipt (/nix/receipt.json
) we generated to trick the uninstaller into thinking we never actually created the _nixbld{1,2,3,4}
users (which macOS stole from us in the update). I can provide more in-depth instructions on what I'd try, if that would be helpful.
I was getting the error "the user '_nixbld1' in the group 'nixbld' does not exist" when trying to update my flakes
After searching for the error, I didn't find anything relevant (one person talking about migrating a Mac system didn't seem relevant -- perhaps it was!)
So I thought I'll simply uninstall and re-install, I've got all my nix setup files safely stored it would appear to be the easiest option.
I was able to resolve this issue on Beta 2: https://discord.com/channels/1116012109709463613/1116012112360251445/1270949139458424832
You essentially do just have to uninstall and reinstall and it should function fine. I'm using M3 Pro for clarification.
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