Nix switch to Determinate isn't working

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Following up on Nix on macOS Sequoia - #2 by abathur I uninstalled Download | Nix & NixOS and installed the Nix installer from Determinate Systems.

How ever when I “switch” to my config GitHub - kaihendry/mac-nix: Kai's home-manager, nix-darwin starting config

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It doesn’t work like I expect it to. Bash is not setup. My shell doesn’t work. Can someone please tell me where I am going wrong? I am not sure how to get my familiar bash/starship prompt working from here or how to configure the terminal to do so.

/etc/profiles/per-user/ appears empty. Maybe something this is an indicator something is amiss?

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I don’t know if this is an issue but you set PATH in home.sessionVariables and in sessionPath - I would move putting go on the path to the sessionPath setting

e.g.

home.sessionPath = [
    "$HOME/bin"
    "$HOME/go/bin"
  ];
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It’s not the issue @mark though thanks for replying.

There are a couple of things that I am bewildered by. Nix shell works when:
ln -s /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt is linked.

However when I run nix run nix-darwin -- switch --flake ~/.config/nix-darwin it complains:

The following files have unrecognized content and would be overwritten:

  /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

When I move it or remove it, it then runs, but then /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt is left missing and furthermore /etc/profiles/per-user/ is not populated either. I am not sure is this is a GitHub - DeterminateSystems/nix-installer: Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 7 million installs. or an GitHub - LnL7/nix-darwin: nix modules for darwin issue!

Update: I’ve filed a bug here: /etc/profiles/per-user empty · Issue #1254 · LnL7/nix-darwin · GitHub

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It wasn’t a DeterminateSystems/nix-installer issue. It was due to the install/uninstall issue wrt nix-darwin iiuc. The fix for me was removing /etc/static so it could be recreated correctly. I had some /etc/static/etc nonsense going on.

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I seem to have the exact same issue!

But i didn’t quite get the fix!

Did you rm -rf /etc/static and then reinstall nix darwin?

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Yes @thife455 ! mv to /tmp instead of rm to play safe. Let me know if it worked?

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No dice!

It seems that the link to the certs is either malformed or not runnable through the nix cli. Trying to figure out why this would be :frowning:

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Fixed it! Just redownloaded the certificate and put it in the static path! i think darwin wasn’t properly validating that the cert was there!

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Interestingley enough this was the issue that drew me into this thread, however, mine still hasn’t been fixed! /etc/profiles/per-user continues to be empty ever with nix darwin working!