Darwin-rebuild not applying home manager bash settings

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When I run darwin-rebuild switch --flake my home-manager bash settings aren’t applied to my ~/.bashrc, and I am dumped into /bin/bash, not my user shell.

I have tried running /etc/profiles/per-user/holdenc/bin/bash, and source ~/.bashrc, neither result in my expected shell.

When I installed Darwin I used sudo, because I was running into permission issues. I wonder if that might be causing the issue.

I have the following settings in my configuration.nix:

 # A list of permissable shells for login accounts
  environment.shells = [ pkgs.bashInteractive ];
  # enable bash as an interactive shell 
  programs.bash.enable = true;
  # the users's default shell
  users.knownUsers = [ "holdenc" ];
  users.users.archie = {
    home = "/Users/holdenc";
    shell = pkgs.bashInteractive;
    uid = 501;
  };

Can anyone provide with me with any debugging steps I can try?
Tried nix-collect-garbage -d, rm -rf ~/.cache/nix.

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For what it’s worth my configuration works fine on NixOS, and has worked fine on Darwin until recently.

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I’m not familiar with mac so I’ll leave others to answer, but I have a comment:

This is not a troubleshooting step, unless you like longer rebuilds with no upsides.

This is the flake evaluation cache, and this would only help if eval was somehow broken.

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WHere have you set home.programs.bash.enable ? Your config shows nix-darwin set up but no home manager settings, the latter are the ones that affect the files in your home directory.

As for why /bin/bash - I think you have to set your shell in System Settings manually - or set in in your terminal app.

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I’ve set programs.bash.enable in my home manager module.

As for why /bin/bash - I think you have to set your shell in System Settings manually - or set in in your terminal app.

Yes, the issue is that my shell settings don’t appear in my .bashrc, so even if I source my user shell, nothing changes.

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I think you missed this

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Turns out this was the issue. Deleting and reinstalling nix / Darwin without sudo resolved this.