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<appendix xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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<title>Troubleshooting</title>
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<para>This section provides solutions for some common problems.</para>
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<sect1><title>Berkeley DB: <quote>Cannot allocate memory</quote></title>
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<para>Symptom: Nix operations (in particular the
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<command>nix-store</command> operations <option>--gc</option>,
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<option>--verify</option>, and <option>--clear-substitutes</option> —
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the latter being called by <command>nix-channel --update</command>)
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failing:
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<screen>
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$ nix-store --verify
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error: Db::del: Cannot allocate memory</screen>
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</para>
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<para>Possible solution: make sure that no Nix processes are running,
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then do:
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<screen>
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$ cd /nix/var/nix/db
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$ rm __db.00*</screen>
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Collisions in <command>nix-env</command></title>
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<para>Symptom: when installing or upgrading, you get an error message such as
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<screen>
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$ nix-env -i docbook-xml
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...
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adding /nix/store/s5hyxgm62gk2...-docbook-xml-4.2
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collission between `/nix/store/s5hyxgm62gk2...-docbook-xml-4.2/xml/dtd/docbook/calstblx.dtd'
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and `/nix/store/06h377hr4b33...-docbook-xml-4.3/xml/dtd/docbook/calstblx.dtd'
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at /nix/store/...-builder.pl line 62.</screen>
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</para>
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<para>The cause is that two installed packages in the user environment
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have overlapping filenames (e.g.,
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<filename>xml/dtd/docbook/calstblx.dtd</filename>. This usually
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happens when you accidentally try to install two versions of the same
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package. For instance, in the example above, the Nix Packages
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collection contains two versions of <literal>docbook-xml</literal>, so
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<command>nix-env -i</command> will try to install both. The default
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user environment builder has no way to way to resolve such conflicts,
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so it just gives up.</para>
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<para>Solution: remove one of the offending packages from the user
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environment (if already installed) using <command>nix-env
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-e</command>, or specify exactly which version should be installed
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(e.g., <literal>nix-env -i docbook-xml-4.2</literal>).</para>
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<para>Alternatively, you can modify the user environment builder
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script (in
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<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/share/nix/corepkgs/buildenv/builder.pl</filename>)
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to implement some conflict resolution policy. E.g., the script could
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be modified to rename conflicting file names, or to pick one over the
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other.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title><quote>Too many links</quote> error in the Nix
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store</title>
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<para>Symptom: when building something, you get an error message such as
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<screen>
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...
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<literal>mkdir: cannot create directory `/nix/store/<replaceable>name</replaceable>': Too many links</literal></screen>
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</para>
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<para>This is usually because you have more than 32,000 subdirectories
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in <filename>/nix/store</filename>, as can be seen using <command>ls
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-l</command>:
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<screen>
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$ ls -l /nix/store
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drwxrwxrwt 32000 nix nix 4620288 Sep 8 15:08 store</screen>
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The <literal>ext2</literal> file system is limited to a inode link
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count of 32,000 (each subdirectory increasing the count by one).
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Furthermore, the <literal>st_nlink</literal> field of the
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<function>stat</function> system call is a 16-bit value.</para>
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<para>This only happens on very large Nix installations (such as build
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machines).</para>
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<para>Quick solution: run the garbage collector.</para>
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<para>Real solution: put the Nix store on a file system that supports
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more than 32,000 subdirectories per directory, such as ReiserFS.
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(This doesn’t solve the <literal>st_nlink</literal> limit, but
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ReiserFS lies to the kernel by reporting a link count of 1 if it
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exceeds the limit.)</para>
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</sect1>
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</appendix>
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