What if I found a bug?

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I am a noob.
And I found a bug (see below)?
Is this an appropiate place for bugs/discussions about wether it is a bug?

$ sudo nixos-rebuild --upgrade switch

building '/nix/store/jawjwq71krnaj7j95ajpkrgvnknwd3l9-udev-rules.drv'...
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/jm8f8hk3lh2cf8jkg3ax9gph5ciygnvj-udev-rules.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built```
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Are you using the stable release?
Is that the complete log/result of running that command? If not post them all

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azazel75

    October 27

Are you using the stable release?

I’m trying to switch from unstable to 19.09.

Is that the complete log/result of running that command?

No, there was a lot of normal-looking stuff too.

But I can no longer reproduce (since it fixed itself). My theory is that something was wrong with the .nixos-channels file.

Thanks!

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Can you elaborate? I stumbled upon a similar issue (the same?) when upgrading from 19.03 to 19.09.

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not trying to be coy, but I don’t really understand it.
I had (and have) two .nixos-channels files; in ~ and in ~root (i.e./root). when it failed, they were different. when I made them identical (by softlinking, it worked.
the one in ~ is so I can git control the nixos setup. maybe it does something bad?

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Never heard of .nixos-channels before. Is it analogue to
nix-channel(1)? Is it documented somewhere? I cannot find any mention
of it in the NixOS manual.

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apologies. it’s a file, and it’s called .nix-channels.
I’m on a phone…

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No worries; my questions weren’t exclusively directed at you, but to whomever might have an answer.