NixOs installer fails

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Hello,

Today, 15th October, I downloaded the gnome based NixOs 22.05 installer with the intention to start a fresh install on a physical machine.

I already have a working install in a VM.
(Based on a NixOs 22.05 download of 22/07/2022)

Right at the start of the latest installer menu it complains that the machine is not connected to the internet. Weird. I can browse the internet from within the live iso.

Next I tried to install it in a VM.
Same issue. Installer thinks it is not connected. Browsing is possible.

What is wrong ?

I still have the July download and will try that as well.

BR,

Simon

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That is strange. My July download fails as well. That is:

nixos-gnome-22.05.1859.c93e5ab157b-x86_64-linux.iso

Looking into log, pasted to termbin.com, I found alot of these errors:

2022-10-16 - 11:44:56 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: “nixos-install: warning: error: unable to download ‘https://cache.nixos.org/9kyv20m69m9yyrchbgvc76qnzgy0598n.narinfo’: Couldn’t resolve host name (6); retrying in 269 ms”

Following the link resulted a “404”.

The machine is on a wired connection.

Next, again I tried on a Virtualbox VM.
Similar issue.

Any one an idea?

best regards

Simon

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One thing I found is that the NixOs installer does not like openDNS or my specific settings.
After changing the DNS settings to googles 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, the installer happily started.

One other change, I disconnected the 4 drives which will be the zfs/raid tank/storage.

Now I am stuck with a install issue wrt grub/Blocklist.

BR

Simon

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New machine, new install.

Again I see issues that the NixOs installer cannot resolve the hostname wrt cache.nixos.org.

I have no clue where this comes from and could need some help.

BTW, I am using the GUI installer.

br,

ST

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could you share the output of ip a, ip r and cat /etc/resolv.conf ?

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Thanks for the message.
Apologies not replying sooner.

I ran the installer via the command line.
Initially this failed as well. The second time it ran fine.
Somehow it seems the machine has a stuttering internet connection.

Since I have a working install I am not willing to reproduce. Possibly I have another ssd to try.

Mvg

Simon

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