bug: Builder for home-configuration-reference-manpage.drv fails

[V4G4X]

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• [X] My Nixpkgs and Home Manager versions are in sync

Is there an existing issue for this?

• [X] I have searched the existing issues

Issue description

I am trying darwin-rebuild check.

There's been no change to my config but I get this:

darwin-rebuild check
building the system configuration...
these 18 derivations will be built:
  /nix/store/x71ahc9cca66gi5g7vsy9xrflfmnlqln-home-configuration-reference-manpage.drv
  /nix/store/09mma3i0xwrx7y3kj869p8f999q203mb-home-manager-path.drv
  /nix/store/64rdnw351acl6fyqjviaqrk961mw9j7v-darwin-manual-html.drv
  /nix/store/75fpahdjnyhyj0xy0sk7xvlqfkzf4kb5-home-manager-applications.drv
  /nix/store/bi94n5bhh92y9hrmr981s99vy70iiisg-home-manager-files.drv
  /nix/store/jdaf2fvfhczdfq344f7raqnsvk9dpy25-home-manager-fonts.drv
  /nix/store/d8kkllim5srdwxyjjny5yp11hgz08avm-activation-script.drv
  /nix/store/byzrbxa4x7z0i4nqfbdfcnyhnp4fi27f-home-manager-generation.drv
  /nix/store/68r7rqgxrf0k1lysdf45j5nbj1460nnl-activation-varungawande.drv
  /nix/store/d3nzqzcidhsmrpklwh1yqvcm2fzdc524-darwin-help.drv
  /nix/store/hxvgacjrxl267vd8pmz134dcj2r8ag8m-darwin-manpages.drv
  /nix/store/8shfr1yvrs7gw4nivn9wqhgaz73qx74k-system-path.drv
  /nix/store/q9f5xcgnm6lxl1s3nfz4i0bgfc2dinjx-system-applications.drv
  /nix/store/mzwjfrgxixn59lpwxh8j2fkg5x2mkhgy-darwin-system-23.11pre533288.b604023e0a55+darwin4.drv
  /nix/store/68rwmlmmlivx5y3si5hdl53j14pln8cn-darwin-uninstaller.drv
  /nix/store/cpzj24xi9k710h5qps557im9m1jbhmhg-system-applications.drv
  /nix/store/fd4qd93ygjhmfj0cjgqnrqv0l8dnyahj-system-path.drv
  /nix/store/d21p95x9cslwkjnyb4707wpb467c11b7-darwin-system-23.11pre533288.b604023e0a55+darwin4.drv
building '/nix/store/hxvgacjrxl267vd8pmz134dcj2r8ag8m-darwin-manpages.drv'...
building '/nix/store/64rdnw351acl6fyqjviaqrk961mw9j7v-darwin-manual-html.drv'...
building '/nix/store/x71ahc9cca66gi5g7vsy9xrflfmnlqln-home-configuration-reference-manpage.drv'...
usage: nixos-render-docs
       [-h]
       [-j JOBS]
       {options,manual}
       ...
nixos-render-docs: error: unrecognized arguments: --header --footer /nix/store/xq96rpmlh4b1isx0sslkbbcfndl6jib3-options.json/share/doc/nixos/options.json /nix/store/d1aalqlzlawrplvng9g4d0jzfszx5zhd-home-configuration-reference-manpage/share/man/man5/home-configuration.nix.5
error: builder for '/nix/store/x71ahc9cca66gi5g7vsy9xrflfmnlqln-home-configuration-reference-manpage.drv' failed with exit code 2;
       last 6 log lines:
       > usage: nixos-render-docs
       >        [-h]
       >        [-j JOBS]
       >        {options,manual}
       >        ...
       > nixos-render-docs: error: unrecognized arguments: --header --footer /nix/store/xq96rpmlh4b1isx0sslkbbcfndl6jib3-options.json/share/doc/nixos/options.json /nix/store/d1aalqlzlawrplvng9g4d0jzfszx5zhd-home-configuration-reference-manpage/share/man/man5/home-configuration.nix.5
       For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/x71ahc9cca66gi5g7vsy9xrflfmnlqln-home-configuration-reference-manpage.drv'.
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/75fpahdjnyhyj0xy0sk7xvlqfkzf4kb5-home-manager-applications.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/jdaf2fvfhczdfq344f7raqnsvk9dpy25-home-manager-fonts.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/09mma3i0xwrx7y3kj869p8f999q203mb-home-manager-path.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/byzrbxa4x7z0i4nqfbdfcnyhnp4fi27f-home-manager-generation.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/68r7rqgxrf0k1lysdf45j5nbj1460nnl-activation-varungawande.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/d21p95x9cslwkjnyb4707wpb467c11b7-darwin-system-23.11pre533288.b604023e0a55+darwin4.drv' failed to build

How do I fix this?

Maintainer CC

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System information

- system: `"aarch64-darwin"`
 - host os: `Darwin 23.2.0, macOS 14.2.1`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `no`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.17.0`
 - channels(root): `"nixpkgs"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixpkgs`

[V4G4X]

I referred to this, but their solution of doing a simple nix-channel --update didn't work for me.

[rycee]

You are almost certainly having an old Nixpkgs somewhere. Try running nix-channel --update both as root and as your regular user.

[V4G4X]

I am sure I had tried this before, but yes. This changed things.

I have now started getting a version mismatch in the logs.
How do I fix this?

❯ darwin-rebuild check
building the system configuration...
trace: warning: varungawande profile: You are using

  Home Manager version 23.11 and
  Nixpkgs version 24.05.

Using mismatched versions is likely to cause errors and unexpected
behavior. It is therefore highly recommended to use a release of Home
Manager that corresponds with your chosen release of Nixpkgs.

If you insist then you can disable this warning by adding

  home.enableNixpkgsReleaseCheck = false;

to your configuration.

ok

[V4G4X]

nvm.
So running nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager did it for me.

I was able to change the version of home-manager by listing nix-channels, and adding master (latest).
I had a couple of questions.

1. Is this the recommended way to fix this issue?
2. What command should I run to get my latest Nixpkgs version? (Here it's 24.05)

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