I’m experiencing something weird and can’t find the setting / solution. I (on NixOS) played with a custom binary cache locally (using attic), just out of curiosity. A ran attic use test-cache and it edited my ~/.config/nix/nix.conf adding the new substituter. I ran attic via nix shell github:zhaofengli/attic. After a while I removed it from my config file and reverted it back to its original state. However, nix keeps trying this local substituter, making many builds fail. I have to always specify --substituters "" in order to make my commands work now.
I checked all config files on my system that I know, but can’t find this entry anywhere.
Where can I remove this (I assume cached entry) once and for all? And what was my mistake that resulted in this ?
I am not aware of any cache for configuration. Check that it’s also removed from /etc/nix/nix.conf. You can find out about configuration locations that nix will use here nix.conf - Nix Reference Manual. nix show-config substituters will print the current configured value.
Thank you so much! So this is strange. I checked /etc/nix/nix.conf and it is the generated one (no other substituters defined). The substituter is not in the list of known ones:
When i run nix build it sometimes fails due to trying this binary cache. But sometimes not. So now I realized that it could be related to projects where I have direnv in use. I’ll try this route. Currently I have to pause due to github rate limit for fetching nixpkgs.
Thanks for the suggestion! The output of nix show-config accept-flake-config is false
I think I also falsified that direnv is related. It happens usually when I build packages of my flake. With direnv enabled projects or not doesn’t make a difference. When doing nix build nixpkgs#hello or ...#rustc etc it doesn’t seem to use the local cache entry. But for some flake evaluation it seems to always apply
❯ nix build github:eikek/confnix#msgconvert
warning: error: unable to download 'http://localhost:8080/test/2bx2zy0r4zmy5qaj8hqw90lirybx2lxi.narinfo': Couldn't connect to server (7); retrying in 265 ms
...
Some other packages from the same flake work fine though.
For reference, this is my /etc/nix/nix.conf (I removed the one in my home dir)
# WARNING: this file is generated from the nix.* options in
# your NixOS configuration, typically
# /etc/nixos/configuration.nix. Do not edit it!
allowed-users = *
auto-optimise-store = false
builders =
cores = 0
extra-sandbox-paths =
max-jobs = auto
require-sigs = true
sandbox = true
sandbox-fallback = false
substituters = https://cache.nixos.org/
system-features = nixos-test benchmark big-parallel kvm
trusted-public-keys = cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY=
trusted-substituters =
trusted-users = root
experimental-features = nix-command flakes
Could it be that nix tries this cache with packages I used it for when I was playing around? I think it happens to packages that I tried to push to the cache at tinkering time.
Oh I totally missed this directory! But, hard to believe, I still get the same error…
sharry on nix-build:master [$⇡] via ☕ v19.0.2 via 🆂 v2.13.12
❯ nix build
warning: error: unable to download 'http://localhost:8080/test/bp4sabqjd3c0sdg77yg325bw151xc8kh.narinfo': Couldn't connect to server (7); retrying in 252 ms
warning: error: unable to download 'http://localhost:8080/test/bp4sabqjd3c0sdg77yg325bw151xc8kh.narinfo': Couldn't connect to server (7); retrying in 659 ms
...
I could make a little progress. I removed .cache/nix from my own user and root. I also restarted nix-daemon via systemctl restart nix-daemon. Removing from /root made the difference, I think. Now, nix will still try this local cache for some reason, but it won’t fail the build at least.
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