Troubleshooting#
What to do if a binary cache is down or unreachable?#
Pass --option substitute false to Nix commands.
How to fix: error: querying path in database: database disk image is malformed#
This is a known issue. Try:
$ sqlite3 /nix/var/nix/db/db.sqlite "pragma integrity_check"
Which will print the errors in the database. If the errors are due to missing references, the following may work:
$ mv /nix/var/nix/db/db.sqlite /nix/var/nix/db/db.sqlite-bkp
$ sqlite3 /nix/var/nix/db/db.sqlite-bkp ".dump" | sqlite3 /nix/var/nix/db/db.sqlite
How to fix: error: current Nix store schema is version 10, but I only support 7#
This is a known issue.
It means that using a new version of Nix upgraded the SQLite schema of the database, and then you tried to use an older version Nix.
The solution is to dump the database, use the old Nix version to initialize it, and then re-import the data:
$ /path/to/nix/unstable/bin/nix-store --dump-db > /tmp/db.dump
$ mv /nix/var/nix/db /nix/var/nix/db.toonew
$ mkdir /nix/var/nix/db
$ nix-store --init # this is the old nix-store
$ nix-store --load-db < /tmp/db.dump
How to fix: writing to file: Connection reset by peer#
This may mean you are trying to import a too large file or directory into the Nix store, or your machine is running out of resources, such as disk space or memory.
Try to reduce the size of the directory to import, or run garbage collection.