error: opening lock file '/nix/var/nix/db/big-lock': Permission denied

NixOS / nix

Nix, the purely functional package manager

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Open domenkozar opened 4 years ago

domenkozar commented 4 years ago

It would be great if Nix checked permission and told why it has to abort here.

I think in my case it was running nix-build under a user that didn't have permission to single-user installation (using github.com/NixOS/docker/).

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