I have attempted to reinstall Nix several times and have run into issues. I used to have a working Mojave installation so that I could easily install all-hies but it broke with Catalina I believe. I’ve disabled system integrity protection to attempt to fix this issue but I’m having no luck.
ls -la /
produces the following: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Jun 30 18:13 nix -> /usr/local/nix
I’ve already deleted /usr/local/nix
but I can’t remove the symlink.
rm -rf /nix
produces rm: /nix: Permission denied
Trying to run sh <(curl https://nixos.org/nix/install) --darwin-use-unencrypted-nix-store-volume
seems to do nothing:
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
I downloaded the install script manually instead and tried to run it:
downloading Nix 2.3.6 binary tarball for x86_64-darwin from 'https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.3.6/nix-2.3.6-x86_64-darwin.tar.xz' to '/var/folders/mk/kl1n81y967n6l1zfmt70__300000gn/T/nix-binary-tarball-unpack.XXXXXXXXXX.WRK2wM2v'...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 26.4M 100 26.4M 0 0 12.4M 0 0:00:02 0:00:02 --:--:-- 12.4M
Note: a multi-user installation is possible. See https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sect-multi-user-installation
Creating volume and mountpoint /nix.
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| This installer will create a volume for the nix store and |
| configure it to mount at /nix. Follow these steps to uninstall. |
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1. Remove the entry from fstab using 'sudo vifs'
2. Destroy the data volume using 'diskutil apfs deleteVolume'
3. Remove the 'nix' line from /etc/synthetic.conf or the file
error: /nix is a symlink, please remove it and make sure it's not in synthetic.conf (in which case a reboot is required)
/nix -> /usr/local/nix
Pretty lost on how to fix my install at this point. Any help would be appreciated.