v2rayN problem in nix linux , xray

AMHOAZ · January 30, 2026, 8:20pm

Hello
Has anyone been able to solve the issue with v2rayN that prevents it from running the xray core?!
At first, I created a symbolic link to the xray core in the directory it was looking for, but it still didn’t work.
Then, I downloaded xray separately and placed it in that section, but it still couldn’t run.
I executed v2rayN with sudo, but it still couldn’t run.
I placed the xray file in the path it was looking for, but this time it was pinging but not connecting. It said it couldn’t run the xray core.

thanks

zendo · January 31, 2026, 1:31am

I used to setup it this way, it worked fine.

github.com/zendo/nsworld

modules/home/xdg/files.nix

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            };
          
            xdg.dataFile = {
              "goodvibes".source = staticDot "goodvibes";
              "color-schemes/Genshin.colors".source = staticDot "misc/kde-color-Genshin.colors";
          
              # rime for fcitx5
              "fcitx5/rime/default.custom.yaml".source = staticDot "rime/default.custom.yaml";
              "fcitx5/rime/rime_ice.custom.yaml".source = staticDot "rime/rime_ice.custom.yaml";
          
              # v2rayn
              # "v2rayN/bin/sing_box/sing-box".source = "${pkgs.sing-box}/bin/sing-box";
              # "v2rayN/bin/xray/xray".source = "${pkgs.xray}/bin/xray";
              # "v2rayN/bin/geoip.dat".source = "${pkgs.v2ray-geoip}/share/v2ray/geoip.dat";
              # "v2rayN/bin/geosite.dat".source = "${pkgs.v2ray-domain-list-community}/share/v2ray/geosite.dat";
            };
          }

AMHOAZ · January 31, 2026, 6:21am

Thank you for the solution! It worked perfectly for me.

I’m curious, how did you figure this out? I searched everywhere but came up empty. I didn’t even know xdg.dataFile existed or that I could assign a path to it.

I rarely had these issues on Arch thanks to the Arch Wiki, but I’m finding Nix quite challenging, and I often don’t know where to look to solve problems. Even AI tools didn’t suggest the solution you provided.

Thanks again!