Bootstrap failed: 5: Input/output error

[diit]

Error

Error: 
   0: Install failure
   1: Error executing action
   2: Action `create_upstream_init_service` errored
   3: Action `configure_init_service` errored
   4: Failed to execute command with status 5 `"launchctl" "bootstrap" "system" "/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.nix-daemon.plist"`, stdout: 
      stderr: Bootstrap failed: 5: Input/output error

Metadata

key	value
version	0.21.0
os	macos
arch	aarch64

Context: Previously ran installer, a few months later ran uninstaller with no issue, rebooted and now face the above error when attempting to install.

[cole-h]

If you rerun the installer, does it work the second time?

[padlar]

It worked the second time but I guess it installed v0.20.2

❯ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install
info: downloading installer https://install.determinate.systems/nix/tag/v0.20.2/nix-installer-aarch64-darwin
`nix-installer` needs to run as `root`, attempting to escalate now via `sudo`...
Password:
Nix install plan (v0.20.2)
Planner: macos (with default settings)

Planned actions:
* Create an APFS volume `Nix Store` for Nix on `disk3` and add it to `/etc/fstab` mounting on `/nix`
* Extract the bundled Nix (originally from /nix/store/8jlzxrnl7zfk04r0q1hczr3fpylkwah5-nix-binary-tarball-2.23.3/nix-2.23.3-aarch64-darwin.tar.xz)
* Create a directory tree in `/nix`
* Move the downloaded Nix into `/nix`
* Create build users (UID 301-332) and group (GID 30000)
* Configure Time Machine exclusions
* Setup the default Nix profile
* Place the Nix configuration in `/etc/nix/nix.conf`
* Configure the shell profiles
* Configuring zsh to support using Nix in non-interactive shells
* Create a `launchctl` plist to put Nix into your PATH
* Configure Nix daemon related settings with launchctl
* Remove directory `/nix/temp-install-dir`

Proceed? ([Y]es/[n]o/[e]xplain): Yes
 INFO Step: Create an APFS volume `Nix Store` for Nix on `disk3` and add it to `/etc/fstab` mounting on `/nix`
 INFO Step: Provision Nix
 INFO Step: Create build users (UID 301-332) and group (GID 30000)
 INFO Step: Configure Time Machine exclusions
 INFO Step: Configure Nix
 INFO Step: Configuring zsh to support using Nix in non-interactive shells
 INFO Step: Create a `launchctl` plist to put Nix into your PATH
 INFO Step: Configure Nix daemon related settings with launchctl
 INFO Step: Remove directory `/nix/temp-install-dir`
Nix was installed successfully!
To get started using Nix, open a new shell or run `. /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh`

[cole-h]

Yeah, we're currently slowly rolling out 0.21.0, so it's a bit of random chance as we make sure all the issues are ironed out. You can always specify which version of the installer you want by adding /tag/v0.21.0 to the URL in the README.