Hello,
New to NixOS but been using RPis for a few years and have some experience with a handful of Linux distros.
I had nixos running on an RPi 3b for a couple weeks and decided to see what a “fresh reinstall” looked like, since my understanding is that one of the big advantages of nixos is reproducibility of a system based essentially just the configuration.nix
.
- backed up my full SD card just in case
- copied
/etc/nixos/*.nix
to another computer - followed the NixOS on ARM instructions to download a fresh
aarch64
build of 20.03 (seems to be passing) - verified the hash on the download
- flashed this to my SD card
- booted (seems fine)
- start sshd and change root passwd
- copy over my backed up
*.nix
sudo nixos-rebuild switch test
Here, it hangs on a step that looks like gcc
trying to compile ruby. I’ve let it run overnight, rebooted, even reflashed the SD card and tried again, every time it hangs here.
gcc -c -I. -I/nix/store/ay3n1j1gf2n3gyqrafwm38wp1m048wrm-ruby-2.6.6/include/ruby-2.6.0 -I/nix/store/ay3n1j1gf2n3gyqrafwm38wp1m048wrm-ruby-2.6.6/include/ruby-2.6.0/aarch64-linux -DRUBY_VERSION=26 -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_GTK -I/nix/store/jw03x2qw8mhag52xwr4xnqq6pdyjw1n2-glib-2.62.4-dev/include -I/nix/store/jw03x2qw8mhag52xwr4xnqq6pdyjw1n2-glib-2.62.4-dev/include/glib-2.0 -I/nix/store/q8w0nyhx2acvcgx7kkdfps0wmgvvz3dj-glib-2.62.4/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/nix/store/l5bx9mxi69zaydl6q79bb3lq5dvbd8n5-gtk+3-3.24.13-dev/include/gtk-3.0 -I/nix/store/wrn2xwn6hlzjrpnn8182bj77a21jmh0a-atk-2.34.1-dev/include/atk-1.0 -I/nix/store/l4q6142p28jjaicwfa70lwnxr26phal6-cairo-1.16.0-dev/include/cairo -I/nix/store/yld0m23fal83ysampmh09r4w5v9vk0s4-freetype-2.10.1-dev/include/freetype2 -I/nix/store/yld0m23fal83ysampmh09r4w5v9vk0s4-freetype-2.10.1-dev/include -I/nix/store/lkih64gvysch2lzzxbgzc0fd355ybm0z-gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0-dev/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/nix/store/yks37jgp165c1nshh7awd58l67xja2cy-pango-1.44.7-dev/include/pango-1.0 -I/nix/store/ycjgh2pb91y89nij4z2jf5pycgrkr4ah-harfbuzz-2.6.4-dev/include/harfbuzz -g -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 -o objects/if_ruby.o if_ruby.c
What is going wrong? And should it be downloading from the aarch64 binary cache instead of compiling from source here?
Many thanks in advance!