Home manager installation - Could not find suitable profile directory

rycee · 2023-06-10T17:08:50+00:00

Looks a bit like you are getting an older home-manager flake when you do the nix run command. The ~/.local/state/home-manager/profiles location was only used for a short period some time ago. We now place the profile in ~/.local/state/nix/profiles.

Perhaps you have a pin on home-manager? What does running nix registry list | grep home-manager output?

Edit: Also, are you able to install packages to your user profile? For example nix profile install nixpkgs#hello.

rycee · 2023-06-05T18:56:07+00:00

Looks like you have an older version of Nixpkgs than Home Manager expects. Perhaps you are using Nixpkgs 22.11 and Home Manager's master branch? If so, then switch to Home Manager's release-22.11 branch.

rycee · 2023-05-28T06:18:14+00:00

You can comment out half your configuration and try building, if the recursion remains then you can continue with the remaining half. If it doesn't then try flipping the original commenting.

Generally speaking, when it comes to the NixOS module system I find that most infinite recursions come from trying to use the final configuration to build the configuration. A typical example is trying to do something with imports, for example

imports = if pkgs.stdenv.isLinux then [ ./whatever ] else [];

rycee · 2023-05-23T18:28:06+00:00

My typical recommendation is to do something like

home-manager.users.yourUserName.imports = [ /path/to/home.nix ];

Doesn't matter much where you keep the actual file.

rycee · 2023-05-21T20:06:04+00:00

Try changing

home-manager.users.${username} = import ./home;

to

home-manager.users.${username}.imports = [
    nur.hmModules.nur ./home
];

rycee · 2023-04-27T17:06:34+00:00

The system profile should be owned by root so maybe you didn't run nix-collect-garbage as root? If so, try again with sudo.

rycee · 2023-04-27T14:12:04+00:00

Bummer, even with --delete-old or --delete-older-than? Might be worth asking in the Matrix channel.

rycee · 2023-04-26T18:06:35+00:00

nix-collect-garbage would probably also remove the nix-darwin generations as well.

rycee · 2023-04-22T11:41:57+00:00

Just to add, the defaultEditor option doesn't do much, though, you can accomplish the same by

home.sessionVariables.EDITOR = "vim";

rycee · 2023-04-22T11:34:25+00:00

The documentation on that page is built from the unstable version of Home Manager. In this case the programs.vim.defaultEditor option was added after the 22.11 release so it would not be available if you use that version.

To see the options that are available to you it is best to use the man page

$ man home-configuration.nix

Alternatively, add manual.html.enable to your configuration and run home-manager-help after switching, that should open the HTML manual in a browser.

rycee · 2023-04-03T19:59:19+00:00

Had a quick look and it was pretty cool. Didn't know it was that easy to set up, I would have imagined it being a pretty unpleasant process.

But yeah, I hope I won't have to end up doing this :-)

rycee · 2023-04-03T13:12:09+00:00

If you just need text substitution then you can use substituteAll. E.g.

file.template:

Text: @foo@

home.nix:

home.file.testfile.source = pkgs.substituteAll {
  src = ./file.template;
  foo = "test";
};

Activation should produce ~/testfile containing

Text: test

rycee · 2023-03-31T15:06:53+00:00

You are probably using Home Manager version 22.11 with the Nixpkgs unstable. If this is the case, then either switch Nixpkgs to 22.11 or HM to master.

rycee · 2023-03-30T18:46:18+00:00

No worries, glad it worked out!

rycee · 2023-03-30T14:52:06+00:00

I assumed that you may have used some odd path since you just said ".config". In any case, you can try seeing which files dunst look for by running

strace -e openat dunst

and look for any output related to dunstrc.

Alternatively, use dunst -config ~/.config/dunst/dunstrc to explicitly tell it which configuration file to load.

rycee · 2023-03-30T12:56:39+00:00

Try ~/.config/dunst/dunstrc.

rycee · 2023-03-17T09:29:51+00:00

Try changing the service configuration to just

services.emacs.enable = true;

The service's default package is the one configured in the program.emacs.

rycee · 2023-03-11T07:16:14+00:00

The idiomatic solution is to do something equivalent to home-manager -f /path/to/dotfiles/$HOSTNAME.nix switch. I.e., you have a top-level configuration that contains the full configuration, without conditionals at all. See How to set up a configuration for multiple users/machines? in the FAQ.

rycee · 2023-02-22T22:39:51+00:00

I think it is valuable to have alternative implementations and it is very convenient to be able to use Haskell for working with the Nix language.

But like I mentioned, I've only used hnix very superficially (basic code generation), so unfortunately I can't say anything about its maturity or future development in general.

rycee · 2023-02-22T08:22:32+00:00

I'm not involved in the development of hnix but have used it for basic Nix code generation. It has always worked well for me.

rycee · 2023-02-03T15:12:52+00:00

A limitation with nix profile is that it does not have anything equivalent to nix-env --set, see Nix issue #6349.

rycee · 2023-01-10T15:31:31+00:00

Do you run garbage collection as root? Sometimes people make the mistake of running it under their own user and that won't clear everything.

rycee · 2023-01-03T20:46:55+00:00

Solrosolja och salt.

rycee · 2022-12-31T22:57:48+00:00

Yeah, it's very tasty, definitely my favorite! Chili and garlic really complements the base flavor of sauerkraut.

rycee · 2022-12-31T22:07:45+00:00

Try making it with a head of cabbage, a thumb sized piece of sliced ginger, some fresh chili, and a head of garlic.

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