Error while creating a DigitalOcean image file

[bratfizyk]

Describe the bug

I've been trying to run a deploy to Digital Ocean so I followed this article but it failed for me while generating a DigitalOcean NixOS image.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create the file image.nix as described in the article.
2. Run nix-build ./image.nix from the folder containing the file created in step (1).

Expected behavior

nix-build ./image.nix executes without any errors and produces an image file.

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Additional context

My personal NixOS configuration: https://github.com/bratfizyk/dotFiles

Notify maintainers

I was asked to report this issue by @aanderse

Metadata

[user@system:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.1.94, NixOS, 24.11 (Vicuna), 24.11.20240620.d603719`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.2`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/store/xfpiyfgf6y30fxk5ngv0cjn474qfr3sj-source`

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[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/colmena-deployment-extremely-slow/47546/15

[eclairevoyant]

What's the exact command you ran to build?

[bratfizyk]

What's the exact command you ran to build?

Hi, sorry for a delayed response. I had a problem with my computer. The exact command is nix-build ./image.nix. I've already updated the issue description.

[aanderse]

tried on 4c547b66635455ad061d4beecaf1805810dc0428 and could not reproduce via nix repl -f ~/nixpkgs:

nix-repl> config = { imports = [ ./nixos/modules/virtualisation/digital-ocean-image.nix ]; }

nix-repl> :b (pkgs.nixos config).digitalOceanImage
trace: warning: system.stateVersion is not set, defaulting to 24.11. Read why this matters on https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options.html#opt-system.stateVersion.

This derivation produced the following outputs:
  out -> /nix/store/m9gi9w2ss7g5k3jl3bwcgzcfmvwf7saf-digital-ocean-image

@bratfizyk what commit of nixpkgs are you trying this on?

[bratfizyk]

Hi @aanderse, thanks for replying to this. I've updated my system flake and I confirm I can now successfully execute nix-build ./image.nix. Regarding specific commit - I think this is the line we're searching for, right?

So assuming I read this correctly, now I'm on 2741b4b489b55df32afac57bc4bfd220e8bf617e, while previously I was on a71e967ef3694799d0c418c98332f7ff4cc5f6af.

[aanderse]

great to hear that everything is working now

presumably there was some commit that broke this but then eventually it got fixed

are we good to close this issue now?

[bratfizyk]

are we good to close this issue now?

Sure. Once again, thanks for looking into this.