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MacOS catalina failing initial installation of Nix script #10681

Open wesbragagt opened 2 months ago

wesbragagt commented 2 months ago

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Additional information

I executed

  1. sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install)
  2. Confirmed Y for all the prompts

Output

---- sudo execution ------------------------------------------------------------
I am executing:

    $ sudo /usr/bin/ex -u NONE -n /etc/synthetic.conf

to add Nix to /etc/synthetic.conf

---- oh no! --------------------------------------------------------------------
error: failed to configure synthetic.conf

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abathur commented 2 months ago

I don't think we've had a report like this in a while, but this sounds a bit like an issue that can pop up if something in your vimrc/plugins causes vim to exit with an error.

Can you try running:

/usr/bin/ex -u NONE -n boofar <<EOF
:a
nix
.
:x
EOF
echo $?
/bin/rm boofar

(This will just try to create a file like the installer does, check the status, and then remove the file.)