cannot remove '/nix/store/.../lib/libunwind-generic.a':

[bbarker]

Issue description

This happens during the installation of a large meta derivation I have for my dev environment (not ideal, I know - I should break things up). I've had this issue many months ago, and it has cropped up again. Currently it prevents me from building my Nix docker container as I'm not sure what package is at fault for depending on libunwind, but I heard that fixing bad sym links in libunwind might be a fix.

shrinking /nix/store/gm3jw08gs0wqpbg2ifj4p9jvqbz0f33j-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/libexec/idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/fsnotifier
shrinking /nix/store/gm3jw08gs0wqpbg2ifj4p9jvqbz0f33j-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/libexec/idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/fsnotifier-arm
shrinking /nix/store/gm3jw08gs0wqpbg2ifj4p9jvqbz0f33j-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/libexec/idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/fsnotifier64
strip is hashed (/nix/store/3xwc1ip20b0p68sxqbjjll0va4pv5hbv-binutils-2.30/bin/strip)
stripping (with command strip and flags -S) in /nix/store/gm3jw08gs0wqpbg2ifj4p9jvqbz0f33j-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/libexec  /nix/store/gm3jw08gs0wqpbg2ifj4p9jvqbz0f33j-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/bin 
patching script interpreter paths in /nix/store/gm3jw08gs0wqpbg2ifj4p9jvqbz0f33j-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3
/nix/store/gm3jw08gs0wqpbg2ifj4p9jvqbz0f33j-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/bin/format.sh: interpreter directive changed from "/bin/sh" to "/nix/store/vs6d2fjkl4kb3jb7rwibsd76k9v2n4xy-bash-4.4-p23/bin/sh"
/nix/store/gm3jw08gs0wqpbg2ifj4p9jvqbz0f33j-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/bin/inspect.sh: interpreter directive changed from "/bin/sh" to "/nix/store/vs6d2fjkl4kb3jb7rwibsd76k9v2n4xy-bash-4.4-p23/bin/sh"
/nix/store/gm3jw08gs0wqpbg2ifj4p9jvqbz0f33j-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/bin/idea.sh: interpreter directive changed from "/bin/sh" to "/nix/store/vs6d2fjkl4kb3jb7rwibsd76k9v2n4xy-bash-4.4-p23/bin/sh"
/nix/store/gm3jw08gs0wqpbg2ifj4p9jvqbz0f33j-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/plugins/Kotlin/kotlinc/bin/kotlinc: interpreter directive changed from "/usr/bin/env bash" to "/nix/store/vs6d2fjkl4kb3jb7rwibsd76k9v2n4xy-bash-4.4-p23/bin/bash"
/nix/store/gm3jw08gs0wqpbg2ifj4p9jvqbz0f33j-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/plugins/Kotlin/kotlinc/bin/kotlinc-jvm: interpreter directive changed from "/usr/bin/env bash" to "/nix/store/vs6d2fjkl4kb3jb7rwibsd76k9v2n4xy-bash-4.4-p23/bin/bash"
/nix/store/gm3jw08gs0wqpbg2ifj4p9jvqbz0f33j-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/plugins/Kotlin/kotlinc/bin/kotlin: interpreter directive changed from "/usr/bin/env bash" to "/nix/store/vs6d2fjkl4kb3jb7rwibsd76k9v2n4xy-bash-4.4-p23/bin/bash"
/nix/store/gm3jw08gs0wqpbg2ifj4p9jvqbz0f33j-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/plugins/Kotlin/kotlinc/bin/kotlin-dce-js: interpreter directive changed from "/usr/bin/env bash" to "/nix/store/vs6d2fjkl4kb3jb7rwibsd76k9v2n4xy-bash-4.4-p23/bin/bash"
/nix/store/gm3jw08gs0wqpbg2ifj4p9jvqbz0f33j-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/idea-ultimate-2018.3.3/plugins/Kotlin/kotlinc/bin/kotlinc-js: interpreter directive changed from "/usr/bin/env bash" to "/nix/store/vs6d2fjkl4kb3jb7rwibsd76k9v2n4xy-bash-4.4-p23/bin/bash"
checking for references to /tmp/nix-build-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3.drv-0/ in /nix/store/gm3jw08gs0wqpbg2ifj4p9jvqbz0f33j-idea-ultimate-2018.3.3...
building '/nix/store/xfr2rp4cynphmh716pszdlv7ia0fsygf-brandon-dev-env.drv'...
created 991 symlinks in user environment
rm: cannot remove '/nix/store/ikxw4x9rn43iqfkgvfaf92f6qjf0wh16-brandon-dev-env/lib/libunwind-generic.a': No such file or directory
builder for '/nix/store/xfr2rp4cynphmh716pszdlv7ia0fsygf-brandon-dev-env.drv' failed with exit code 1
error: build of '/nix/store/xfr2rp4cynphmh716pszdlv7ia0fsygf-brandon-dev-env.drv' failed
installing 'brandon-dev-env'
these derivations will be built:
  /nix/store/xfr2rp4cynphmh716pszdlv7ia0fsygf-brandon-dev-env.drv
building '/nix/store/xfr2rp4cynphmh716pszdlv7ia0fsygf-brandon-dev-env.drv'...
created 991 symlinks in user environment
rm: cannot remove '/nix/store/ikxw4x9rn43iqfkgvfaf92f6qjf0wh16-brandon-dev-env/lib/libunwind-generic.a': No such file or directory
builder for '/nix/store/xfr2rp4cynphmh716pszdlv7ia0fsygf-brandon-dev-env.drv' failed with exit code 1
error: build of '/nix/store/xfr2rp4cynphmh716pszdlv7ia0fsygf-brandon-dev-env.drv' failed

Steps to reproduce

I'm not actually sure of a concise way to test this yet, but my exact method is to run source build.sh in the repo https://github.com/cornellcac/docker-nix-intellij - this will take up ~10GB or so in docker images, which can then be deleted.

Technical details

Happens during docker build, so I'll just give the details I know of: base OS: Ubuntu 18.04 (the container image, basically). Nix version is 2.2.1 2.1.3 - I wanted to try 2.2.1, but there is NixOS/nix#2636

[bbarker]

Update: tried with the latest Nix release (2.2.1) and is still an issue.

[bbarker]

This popped up on the unstable branch with libunwined 1.3.1. I switched back to 18.09 with libunwind 1.2.1 and didn't have any issues.

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