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2 years ago If I found this issue first, I wouldn't bother to try nix in codespaces but since I have spent few hours trying to get nix working in codespaces, I will share here what I have got so far. This is my Dockerfile:-
# See here for image contents: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/tree/v0.236.0/containers/python-3/.devcontainer/base.Dockerfile
# [Choice] Python version (use -bullseye variants on local arm64/Apple Silicon): 3, 3.10, 3.9, 3.8, 3.7, 3.6, 3-bullseye, 3.10-bullseye, 3.9-bullseye, 3.8-bullseye, 3.7-bullseye, 3.6-bullseye, 3-buster, 3.10-buster, 3.9-buster, 3.8-buster, 3.7-buster, 3.6-buster
ARG VARIANT="3.10-bullseye"
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/python:0-${VARIANT}
RUN apt install -y util-linux netcat
# [Choice] Node.js version: none, lts/*, 16, 14, 12, 10
ARG NODE_VERSION="none"
RUN if [ "${NODE_VERSION}" != "none" ]; then su vscode -c "umask 0002 && . /usr/local/share/nvm/nvm.sh && nvm install ${NODE_VERSION} 2>&1"; fi
RUN mkdir -m 0755 /nix && chown vscode /nix && groupadd nixbld && for n in $(seq 1 10); do useradd -c "Nix build user $n" -d /var/empty -g nixbld -G nixbld -M -N -r -s "$(command -v nologin)" "nixbld$n"; done
RUN curl -o nix-install.sh -L https://nixos.org/nix/install && su vscode -c "sh ./nix-install.sh --no-daemon"
# [Optional] If your pip requirements rarely change, uncomment this section to add them to the image.
# COPY requirements.txt /tmp/pip-tmp/
# RUN pip3 --disable-pip-version-check --no-cache-dir install -r /tmp/pip-tmp/requirements.txt \
# && rm -rf /tmp/pip-tmp
# [Optional] Uncomment this section to install additional OS packages.
# RUN apt-get update && export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
# && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends <your-package-list-here>
# [Optional] Uncomment this line to install global node packages.
# RUN su vscode -c "source /usr/local/share/nvm/nvm.sh && npm install -g <your-package-here>" 2>&1For some reason, $HOME/.profile is not sourced when the workspace started so I have to do it manually in each terminal. But after that things seems to works. docker-compose also working and I managed to get our project running.
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Describe the bug
1. Using the default Codespaces environment/image without any configuration, it is possible to install Nix in single-user mode using the
sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemoncommand. Then the Nix commands are accessible and appear to work, but building anything fails. For example, running2. Attempting to install Nix in multi-user mode fails with the error message
Expected behavior
Running Nix in Github Codespaces is probably something that a lot of people will want to do. Even if it is the case that Nix can't support it, it would probably be helpful to have some documentation that states that it is unsupported and/or describes potential workarounds.
Edit: A solution found by @offlinehacker is to first run
sudo apt install -y acl && sudo setfacl -k /tmp. Then Nix can be installed normally and building things will succeed. See https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/6680#issuecomment-1230902525.