Nix version: 2.33.0
I am trying to deploy a nixos vm update using deploy-rs and I keep getting errors like this.
ishan@work:~/nix$ deploy
🚀 ℹ️ [deploy] [INFO] Running checks for flake in .
warning: Git tree '/home/ishan/nix' is dirty
warning: unknown flake output 'self'
warning: unknown flake output 'src'
warning: unknown flake output 'snowfall'
warning: unknown flake output 'deploy'
evaluation warning: 'system' has been renamed to/replaced by 'stdenv.hostPlatform.system'
warning: unknown flake output 'pkgs'
warning: The check omitted these incompatible systems: aarch64-darwin, aarch64-linux, x86_64-darwin
Use '--all-systems' to check all.
🚀 ℹ️ [deploy] [INFO] Evaluating flake in .
warning: Git tree '/home/ishan/nix' is dirty
🚀 ⚠️ [deploy] [WARN] Interactive sudo is enabled! Using a sudo password is less secure than correctly configured SSH keys.
Please use keys in production environments.
🚀 ℹ️ [deploy] [INFO] You will now be prompted for the sudo password for kepler.
(sudo for kepler) Password:
🚀 ℹ️ [deploy] [INFO] The following profiles are going to be deployed:
[kepler.system]
user = "kepler"
ssh_user = "kepler"
path = "/nix/store/k4flqnddp9zr0fpsx3c41wrgynnrb08b-activatable-nixos-system-kepler-26.05.20260117.3327b11"
hostname = "kepler"
ssh_opts = ["-t"]
🚀 ℹ️ [deploy] [INFO] Building profile `system` for node `kepler`
error: getting status of '/nix/store/derivations': No such file or directory
🚀 ❌ [deploy] [ERROR] Failed to build profile on node kepler: kepler
Sometimes it fails with
error: getting status of '/nix/store/derivations': No such file or directory
other times it fails with
error: getting status of '/nix/store/version': No such file or directory
Config files
// flake.nix
{
description = "Ishan's homelab configuration";
inputs = {
nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable";
flake-compat.url = "github:nix-community/flake-compat";
flake-compat.flake = false;
flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
flake-utils-plus.url = "github:gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus";
flake-utils-plus.inputs.flake-utils.follows = "flake-utils";
snowfall-lib.url = "github:snowfallorg/lib/main";
snowfall-lib.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
snowfall-lib.inputs.flake-utils-plus.follows = "flake-utils-plus";
treefmt-nix.url = "github:numtide/treefmt-nix";
treefmt-nix.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
home-manager.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
deploy-rs = {
url = "github:serokell/deploy-rs";
inputs.flake-compat.follows = "flake-compat";
inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
inputs.utils.follows = "flake-utils";
};
};
outputs = inputs@{ deploy-rs, self, ... }:
let
lib = inputs.snowfall-lib.mkLib {
inherit inputs;
src = ./.;
snowfall = {
namespace = "work";
meta = {
name = "ishan-nix-configs";
title = "Ishan's Nix configuration";
};
};
};
treefmtModule = inputs.treefmt-nix.lib.evalModule;
in lib.mkFlake {
inherit inputs;
src = ./.;
# deploy = lib.mkDeploy { inherit (inputs) self pkgs; };
deploy.nodes.kepler = {
hostname = "kepler";
sshUser = "kepler";
sshOpts = [ "-t" ];
interactiveSudo = true;
remoteBuild = false;
profiles.system = {
user = "kepler";
sshUser = "kepler";
path = deploy-rs.lib.x86_64-linux.activate.nixos
self.nixosConfigurations.kepler;
};
};
checks = builtins.mapAttrs
(system: deployLib: deployLib.deployChecks inputs.self.deploy)
inputs.deploy-rs.lib;
devShells.x86_64-linux.default =
let pkgs = import inputs.nixpkgs { system = "x86_64-linux"; };
in pkgs.mkShell {
packages = [ inputs.deploy-rs.packages.${pkgs.system}.deploy-rs ];
};
outputs-builder = channels: {
formatter =
(treefmtModule channels.nixpkgs ./treefmt.nix).config.build.wrapper;
};
} // {
inherit (inputs) self;
};
}
// systems/x86_64-linux/kepler/default.nix
{ lib, pkgs, namespace, ... }:
with lib;
with lib.${namespace};
let hostName = "kepler";
in {
imports = [ ./hardware-configuration.nix ];
# Bootloader.
boot.loader.grub.enable = true;
boot.loader.grub.device = "/dev/sda";
boot.loader.grub.useOSProber = true;
# Use latest kernel.
boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_latest;
networking.hostName = hostName;
# Enable networking
networking.networkmanager.enable = true;
# Select internationalisation properties.
i18n.defaultLocale = "en_IN";
i18n.extraLocaleSettings = {
LC_ADDRESS = "en_IN";
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_IN";
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_IN";
LC_MONETARY = "en_IN";
LC_NAME = "en_IN";
LC_NUMERIC = "en_IN";
LC_PAPER = "en_IN";
LC_TELEPHONE = "en_IN";
LC_TIME = "en_IN";
};
time.timeZone = "Asia/Kolkata";
# Enable passwordless sudo.
security.sudo.extraRules = [{
users = [ "kepler" ];
commands = [{
command = "ALL";
options = [ "NOPASSWD" ];
}];
}];
services.openssh = enabled // {
settings = {
PasswordAuthentication = false;
PermitRootLogin = "prohibit-password";
};
};
systemd.targets.multi-user.enable = true;
nix = mkNixConfig { inherit lib pkgs; } // { optimise.automatic = true; };
users.users.kepler.packages = with pkgs; [ nix-output-monitor ];
users = {
mutableUsers = false;
users.kepler = {
uid = 501;
extraGroups = [ "wheel" "networkmanager" ];
isSystemUser = true;
group = "users";
createHome = true;
home = "/home/kepler";
homeMode = "700";
useDefaultShell = true;
openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [
"ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIAX88KLYCUWS1IKTGsgIRIHwGxTyfhsiRyAgtv65GEEm ishan@turquoise"
];
isNormalUser = false;
ignoreShellProgramCheck = true;
};
};
system.stateVersion = "25.11";
}
// systems/x86_64-linux/kepler/hardware-configuration.nix
{ config, lib, modulesPath, ... }: {
imports = [ (modulesPath + "/profiles/qemu-guest.nix") ];
boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [
"ata_piix"
"uhci_hcd"
"ahci"
"virtio_pci"
"virtio_scsi"
"sd_mod"
"sr_mod"
];
boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ ];
boot.kernelModules = [ ];
boot.extraModulePackages = [ ];
fileSystems."/" = {
device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/da361663-426e-47a2-9c68-b0339a37741e";
fsType = "ext4";
};
networking.useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
nixpkgs.hostPlatform = lib.mkDefault "x86_64-linux";
}