<autogenerated-issue> Remove file /Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist 2: No such file or directory (os error 2)

[oleg-smith]

Error

Error: 
   0: Multiple errors

Metadata

key	value
version	0.26.0
os	macos
arch	aarch64

Backtrace

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[oleg-smith]

Hello,

I had nix installed on MacOS 14.6.1 using official installer.

I manually deleted it as per instruction

Now I'm trying to install nix using nix-installer and getting the error. Could you please suggest a way to fix it?

 INFO Step: Unload, then recreate a `launchctl` plist to put Nix into your PATH
ERROR
   0: Install failure
   1: Error executing action
   2: Action `create_nix_hook_service` errored
   3: Failed to execute command with status 5 `"launchctl" "bootout" "system" "/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist"`, stdout:
      stderr: Boot-out failed: 5: Input/output error

   3:

Location:
   src/cli/subcommand/install.rs:253

Planner: macos (with default settings)

Planned actions:
* Delete file `/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist`
* Remove the Nix configuration from zsh's non-login shells
* Unconfigure the shell profiles
* Remove the Nix configuration in `/etc/nix/nix.conf`
* Unset the default Nix profile
* Remove time machine exclusions
* Remove Nix users and group
* Remove the directory tree in `/nix`
* Remove the APFS volume `Nix Store` on `disk3`


Proceed? ([Y]es/[n]o/[e]xplain): y
 INFO Revert: Remove directory `/nix/temp-install-dir`
 INFO Revert: Configure upstream Nix daemon service
 INFO Revert: Unload, then recreate a `launchctl` plist to put Nix into your PATH
 INFO Revert: Configuring zsh to support using Nix in non-interactive shells
 INFO Revert: Configure Nix
 INFO Revert: Configure Time Machine exclusions
 INFO Revert: Create build users (UID 351-382) and group (GID 350)
 INFO Revert: Provision Nix
 INFO Revert: Create an encrypted APFS volume `Nix Store` for Nix on `disk3` and add it to `/etc/fstab` mounting on `/nix`
Error:
   0: Multiple errors

Location:
   src/cli/subcommand/install.rs:285

Error:
   0: Action `create_nix_hook_service` errored
   1: Remove file `/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist`
   2: No such file or directory (os error 2)
   

[cole-h]

Could you run the installer again with -vv and see if anything changes?

[oleg-smith]

It fails again and offers to revert. Reverting fails as well.

TRACE execute:execute:install:try_execute:execute:retry_bootout: Waiting for bootout to succeed retry_tokens=9 command="launchctl" "bootout" "system" "/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist" domain="system" service_name="systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook" service_path="/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist"
TRACE execute:execute:install:try_execute:execute:retry_bootout: Waiting for bootout to succeed retry_tokens=8 command="launchctl" "bootout" "system" "/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist" domain="system" service_name="systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook" service_path="/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist"
TRACE execute:execute:install:try_execute:execute:retry_bootout: Waiting for bootout to succeed retry_tokens=7 command="launchctl" "bootout" "system" "/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist" domain="system" service_name="systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook" service_path="/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist"
TRACE execute:execute:install:try_execute:execute:retry_bootout: Waiting for bootout to succeed retry_tokens=6 command="launchctl" "bootout" "system" "/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist" domain="system" service_name="systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook" service_path="/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist"
TRACE execute:execute:install:try_execute:execute:retry_bootout: Waiting for bootout to succeed retry_tokens=5 command="launchctl" "bootout" "system" "/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist" domain="system" service_name="systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook" service_path="/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist"
TRACE execute:execute:install:try_execute:execute:retry_bootout: Waiting for bootout to succeed retry_tokens=4 command="launchctl" "bootout" "system" "/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist" domain="system" service_name="systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook" service_path="/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist"
TRACE execute:execute:install:try_execute:execute:retry_bootout: Waiting for bootout to succeed retry_tokens=3 command="launchctl" "bootout" "system" "/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist" domain="system" service_name="systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook" service_path="/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist"
TRACE execute:execute:install:try_execute:execute:retry_bootout: Waiting for bootout to succeed retry_tokens=2 command="launchctl" "bootout" "system" "/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist" domain="system" service_name="systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook" service_path="/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist"
TRACE execute:execute:install:try_execute:execute:retry_bootout: Waiting for bootout to succeed retry_tokens=1 command="launchctl" "bootout" "system" "/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist" domain="system" service_name="systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook" service_path="/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist"
TRACE execute:execute:install:try_execute:execute:retry_bootout: Waiting for bootout to succeed retry_tokens=0 command="launchctl" "bootout" "system" "/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist" domain="system" service_name="systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook" service_path="/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist"
DEBUG execute:execute:install:send: Sending diagnostic to `https://install.determinate.systems/nix/diagnostic`
ERROR execute:execute:
   0: Install failure
   1: Error executing action
   2: Action `create_nix_hook_service` errored
   3: Failed to execute command with status 5 `"launchctl" "bootout" "system" "/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist"`, stdout:
      stderr: Boot-out failed: 5: Input/output error

   3:

Location:
   src/cli/subcommand/install.rs:253

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   0: nix_installer::cli::subcommand::install::execute
      at src/cli/subcommand/install.rs:76
   1: nix_installer::cli::execute
      at src/cli/mod.rs:39

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Installation failure, offering to revert...
TRACE execute:execute:describe_uninstall:execute_command: Executing command="/usr/sbin/diskutil" "info" "-plist" "/"
TRACE execute:execute:describe_uninstall:execute_command: Command success stderr= stdout=<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

reverting:

TRACE execute:execute:uninstall:try_revert:revert:create_synthetic_objects:revert:execute_command: Executing command="/System/Library/Filesystems/apfs.fs/Contents/Resources/apfs.util" "-t"
TRACE execute:execute:uninstall:try_revert:revert:create_synthetic_objects:revert:execute_command: Executing command="/System/Library/Filesystems/apfs.fs/Contents/Resources/apfs.util" "-B"
DEBUG execute:execute:uninstall:try_revert:revert:create_synthetic_objects: Reverted: Create objects defined in `/etc/synthetic.conf`
DEBUG execute:execute:uninstall:try_revert: Reverted: Create an encrypted APFS volume `Nix Store` for Nix on `disk3` and add it to `/etc/fstab` mounting on `/nix`
DEBUG execute:execute:uninstall:send: Sending diagnostic to `https://install.determinate.systems/nix/diagnostic`
Error:
   0: Multiple errors

Location:
   src/cli/subcommand/install.rs:285

Error:
   0: Action `create_nix_hook_service` errored
   1: Remove file `/Library/LaunchDaemons/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook.plist`
   2: No such file or directory (os error 2)

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   0: nix_installer::cli::subcommand::install::execute
      at src/cli/subcommand/install.rs:76
   1: nix_installer::cli::execute
      at src/cli/mod.rs:39
      ```

[oleg-smith]

nix installer worked after updating to MacOS Sequoia

[cmjc]

Same errors - nix installer worked after updating to MacOS Ventura 13.7

[cole-h]

If anybody runs into this again, I'd be very interested to see the output of launchctl print system/systems.determinate.nix-installer.nix-hook (replace that with whatever thing is actually failing), if there is any...