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`systemd-tmpfiles` returns status 73

Open AFI4711 opened this issue 2 years ago • 9 comments

Error

Error: 
   0: Install failure
   1: Error executing action
   2: Action `configure_init_service` errored
   3: Failed to execute command with status 73 `"systemd-tmpfiles" "--create" "--prefix=/nix/var/nix"`, stdout: 
      stderr:

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AFI4711 avatar Oct 18 '23 10:10 AFI4711

Hrm. I’m afraid this doesn’t give us much to go on. Can you give more details?

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023, at 6:14 AM, AFI4711 wrote:

Error

Error: 0: Install failure 1: Error executing action 2: Action configure_init_serviceerrored 3: Failed to execute command with status 73"systemd-tmpfiles" "--create" "--prefix=/nix/var/nix"`, stdout: stderr:

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grahamc avatar Oct 18 '23 10:10 grahamc

Yes of course:

Linux B360M 5.4.0-164-generic #181-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 1 13:41:22 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

`systemctl --version 
systemd 245 (245.4-4ubuntu3.22)
+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDN2 -IDN +PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid
`

cat /etc/os-release:

NAME="Linux Mint"
VERSION="20.3 (Una)"
ID=linuxmint
ID_LIKE=ubuntu
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 20.3"
VERSION_ID="20.3"
HOME_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.linuxmint.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://linuxmint-troubleshooting-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
VERSION_CODENAME=una
UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal


The whole protocol:

`curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install
info: downloading installer https://install.determinate.systems/nix/tag/v0.13.1/nix-installer-x86_64-linux
`nix-installer` needs to run as `root`, attempting to escalate now via `sudo`...
[sudo] Passwort für andi:          
Nix install plan (v0.13.1)
Planner: linux (with default settings)

Planned actions:
* Create directory `/nix`
* Fetch `https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.18.1/nix-2.18.1-x86_64-linux.tar.xz` to `/nix/temp-install-dir`
* Create a directory tree in `/nix`
* Move the downloaded Nix into `/nix`
* Create build users (UID 30000-30032) and group (GID 30000)
* Setup the default Nix profile
* Place the Nix configuration in `/etc/nix/nix.conf`
* Configure the shell profiles
* Configure Nix daemon related settings with systemd
* Remove directory `/nix/temp-install-dir`


Proceed? ([Y]es/[n]o/[e]xplain): Y
 INFO Step: Create directory `/nix`
 INFO Step: Provision Nix
 INFO Step: Create build users (UID 30000-30032) and group (GID 30000)
 INFO Step: Configure Nix
 INFO Step: Create directory `/etc/tmpfiles.d`
 INFO Step: Configure Nix daemon related settings with systemd
ERROR 
   0: Install failure
   1: Error executing action
   2: Action `configure_init_service` errored
   3: Failed to execute command with status 73 `"systemd-tmpfiles" "--create" "--prefix=/nix/var/nix"`, stdout: 
      stderr: 
   3: 

Location:
   /rustc/d5c2e9c342b358556da91d61ed4133f6f50fc0c3/library/core/src/convert/mod.rs:716

Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.
Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets.

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Installation failure, offering to revert...
Nix uninstall plan (v0.13.1)

Planner: linux (with default settings)

Planned actions:
* Unconfigure Nix daemon related settings with systemd
* Remove the directory `/etc/tmpfiles.d` if no other contents exists
* Unconfigure the shell profiles
* Remove the Nix configuration in `/etc/nix/nix.conf`
* Unset the default Nix profile
* Remove Nix users and group
* Remove the directory tree in `/nix`
* Remove the directory `/nix`


Proceed? ([Y]es/[n]o/[e]xplain): Y
 INFO Revert: Remove directory `/nix/temp-install-dir`
 INFO Revert: Configure Nix daemon related settings with systemd
 INFO Revert: Create directory `/etc/tmpfiles.d`
 INFO Revert: Configure Nix
 INFO Revert: Create build users (UID 30000-30032) and group (GID 30000)
 INFO Revert: Provision Nix
 INFO Revert: Create directory `/nix`
Partial Nix install was uninstalled successfully!
`
Whate else do you need?

AFI4711 avatar Oct 18 '23 11:10 AFI4711

1 entry in syslog:

Oct 18 13:10:52 B360M systemd-tmpfiles[60066]: Detected unsafe path transition / → /nix during canonicalization of /nix/var/nix.

AFI4711 avatar Oct 18 '23 11:10 AFI4711

Success on a newer system:

Linux B360M 5.15.0-86-generic #96-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 20 08:23:49 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Linux Mint"
VERSION="21.2 (Victoria)"
ID=linuxmint
ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 21.2"
VERSION_ID="21.2"
HOME_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.linuxmint.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://linuxmint-troubleshooting-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
VERSION_CODENAME=victoria
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy

systemctl --version
systemd 249 (249.11-0ubuntu3.10)
+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +APPARMOR +IMA +SMACK +SECCOMP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +OPENSSL +ACL +BLKID +CURL +ELFUTILS +FIDO2 +IDN2 -IDN +IPTC +KMOD +LIBCRYPTSETUP +LIBFDISK +PCRE2 -PWQUALITY -P11KIT -QRENCODE +BZIP2 +LZ4 +XZ +ZLIB +ZSTD -XKBCOMMON +UTMP +SYSVINIT default-hierarchy=unified
`

`curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install
info: downloading installer https://install.determinate.systems/nix/tag/v0.13.1/nix-installer-x86_64-linux
`nix-installer` needs to run as `root`, attempting to escalate now via `sudo`...
[sudo] Passwort für andi:          
Nix install plan (v0.13.1)
Planner: linux (with default settings)

Planned actions:
* Create directory `/nix`
* Fetch `https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.18.1/nix-2.18.1-x86_64-linux.tar.xz` to `/nix/temp-install-dir`
* Create a directory tree in `/nix`
* Move the downloaded Nix into `/nix`
* Create build users (UID 30000-30032) and group (GID 30000)
* Setup the default Nix profile
* Place the Nix configuration in `/etc/nix/nix.conf`
* Configure the shell profiles
* Configure Nix daemon related settings with systemd
* Remove directory `/nix/temp-install-dir`


Proceed? ([Y]es/[n]o/[e]xplain): Y
 INFO Step: Create directory `/nix`
 INFO Step: Provision Nix
 INFO Step: Create build users (UID 30000-30032) and group (GID 30000)
 INFO Step: Configure Nix
 INFO Step: Create directory `/etc/tmpfiles.d`
 INFO Step: Configure Nix daemon related settings with systemd
 INFO Step: Remove directory `/nix/temp-install-dir`
Nix was installed successfully!
To get started using Nix, open a new shell or run `. /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh`

Thus it seems to be a problem with systemd?

AFI4711 avatar Oct 18 '23 12:10 AFI4711

Reading: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service.html

On success, 0 is returned. If the configuration was syntactically invalid (syntax errors, missing arguments, …), so some lines had to be ignored, but no other errors occurred, 65 is returned (EX_DATAERR from /usr/include/sysexits.h). If the configuration was syntactically valid, but could not be executed (lack of permissions, creation of files in missing directories, invalid contents when writing to /sys/ values, …), 73 is returned (EX_CANTCREAT from /usr/include/sysexits.h). Otherwise, 1 is returned (EXIT_FAILURE from /usr/include/stdlib.h).

So it seems to be that your systemd-tmpfiles either didn't have the correct permissions or directories expected to exist did not exist.

That would suggest either /nix/var/nix, /nix/var, or /nix did not exist (which they should at that point), or that for some reason the installer couldn't write to them...

Hoverbear avatar Oct 24 '23 17:10 Hoverbear

All 3 directories exists and have write access (for root):

ls -al /nix/
insgesamt 9836
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root       4096 Okt 25 13:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 andi andi       4096 Okt 25 13:00 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   10015256 Okt 25 13:01 nix-installer
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      29764 Okt 25 13:01 receipt.json
drwxrwxr-t 51 root nixbld     4096 Okt 25 13:01 store
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root       4096 Okt 25 13:00 temp-install-dir
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root       4096 Okt 25 13:00 var

ls -al /nix/var/nix/
insgesamt 32
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Okt 25 13:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Okt 25 13:00 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Okt 25 13:00 daemon-socket
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Okt 25 13:01 db
-rw------- 1 root root    0 Okt 25 13:01 gc.lock
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Okt 25 13:01 gcroots
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Okt 25 13:01 profiles
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Okt 25 13:01 temproots
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Okt 25 13:01 userpool

ls -al /nix/temp-install-dir/nix-2.18.1-x86_64-linux/
insgesamt 124
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Okt 25 13:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Okt 25 13:00 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 32687 Jan  1  1970 create-darwin-volume.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  9348 Jan  1  1970 install
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  6705 Jan  1  1970 install-darwin-multi-user.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30955 Jan  1  1970 install-multi-user
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  5478 Jan  1  1970 install-systemd-multi-user.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18120 Jan  1  1970 .reginfo
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Okt 25 13:00 store

Since the nix-installer invoked [sudo]. the access attributes seems OK, isn't it?

Another test generates the same error:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix > install

sudo bash install install

AFI4711 avatar Oct 25 '23 11:10 AFI4711

Nevertheless thank your for the detailed answer.

I will check the man page: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service.html

But I have no idea how to change the permissions during the installation process?

The check of the daemon config seems fine:

ll /etc/tmpfiles.d/
insgesamt 24
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Okt 25 13:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 169 root root 12288 Okt 25 13:25 ..
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    60 Okt 25 13:25 nix-daemon.conf -> /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/lib/tmpfiles.d/nix-daemon.conf

ll /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/lib/tmpfiles.d/nix-daemon.conf
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 48 Jan  1  1970 /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/lib/tmpfiles.d/nix-daemon.conf

AFI4711 avatar Oct 25 '23 11:10 AFI4711

Indeed we run as root so getting permissions errors like this is quite unexpected.

Hoverbear avatar Oct 25 '23 19:10 Hoverbear

@roman-bodavskiy has faced the same issue on his Linux Mint as well.

srid avatar Oct 01 '24 18:10 srid

I just hit this issue and came across this thread.

I first tried ./nix-installer install

Which gave me the following (after successfully elevating to root):

 INFO nix-installer v0.27.0
`nix-installer` needs to run as `root`, attempting to escalate now via `sudo`...
 INFO nix-installer v0.27.0
Nix install plan (v0.27.0)
Planner: linux (with default settings)

Planned actions:
* Extract the bundled Nix (originally from /nix/store/0xf66gpzcg4924nkfz7cn4ynqrxcfglq-nix-binary-tarball-2.24.9/nix-2.24.9-x86_64-linux.tar.xz)
* Create a directory tree in `/nix`
* Move the downloaded Nix into `/nix`
* Create build users (UID 30001-30032) and group (GID 30000)
* Setup the default Nix profile
* Place the Nix configuration in `/etc/nix/nix.conf`
* Configure the shell profiles
* Configure upstream Nix daemon service
* Remove directory `/nix/temp-install-dir`


Proceed? ([Y]es/[n]o/[e]xplain): y
 INFO Step: Create directory `/nix`
 INFO Step: Provision Nix
 INFO Step: Create build users (UID 30001-30032) and group (GID 30000)
 INFO Step: Configure Nix
 INFO Step: Create directory `/etc/tmpfiles.d`
 INFO Step: Configure upstream Nix daemon service
ERROR
   0: Install failure
   1: Error executing action
   2: Action `create_upstream_init_service` errored
   3: Action `configure_init_service` errored
   4: Failed to execute command with status 73 `"systemd-tmpfiles" "--create" "--prefix=/nix/var/nix"`, stdout:
      stderr:
   4:

...snipped...
Installation failure, offering to revert...
Nix uninstall plan (v0.27.0)

Planner: linux (with default settings)

Planned actions:
* Remove upstream Nix daemon service
* Remove the directory `/etc/tmpfiles.d` if no other contents exists
* Unconfigure the shell profiles
* Remove the Nix configuration in `/etc/nix/nix.conf`
* Unset the default Nix profile
* Remove Nix users and group
* Remove the directory tree in `/nix`
* Remove the directory `/nix`


Proceed? ([Y]es/[n]o/[e]xplain): y
 INFO Revert: Remove directory `/nix/temp-install-dir`
 INFO Revert: Configure upstream Nix daemon service
 INFO Revert: Create directory `/etc/tmpfiles.d`
 INFO Revert: Configure Nix
 INFO Revert: Create build users (UID 30001-30032) and group (GID 30000)
 INFO Revert: Provision Nix
 INFO Revert: Create directory `/nix`
Partial Nix install was uninstalled successfully!

I allowed the automatic cleanup to happen and then retried with sudo ./nix-installer install and the installer completed successfully. I'm not sure if the automatic cleanup helped, or if there is a difference in the escalation mechanism, but here's another data point.

EDIT: Adding machine details:

version 0.27.0 os linux (Ubuntu 20.04) arch x86_64

randlega avatar Oct 16 '24 18:10 randlega

I repeated the same tests (using v0.27.0) on Mint 20.3:

  1. curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install
  2. sudo ./nix-installer.sh install

Same error:

sudo ./nix-installer.sh install
info: downloading installer https://install.determinate.systems/nix/tag/v0.27.0/nix-installer-x86_64-linux
 INFO nix-installer v0.27.0
Nix install plan (v0.27.0)
Planner: linux (with default settings)

Planned actions:
* Create directory `/nix`
* Extract the bundled Nix (originally from /nix/store/0xf66gpzcg4924nkfz7cn4ynqrxcfglq-nix-binary-tarball-2.24.9/nix-2.24.9-x86_64-linux.tar.xz)
* Create a directory tree in `/nix`
* Move the downloaded Nix into `/nix`
* Create build users (UID 30001-30032) and group (GID 30000)
* Setup the default Nix profile
* Place the Nix configuration in `/etc/nix/nix.conf`
* Configure the shell profiles
* Configure upstream Nix daemon service
* Remove directory `/nix/temp-install-dir`


Proceed? ([Y]es/[n]o/[e]xplain): Y
 INFO Step: Create directory `/nix`
 INFO Step: Provision Nix
 INFO Step: Create build users (UID 30001-30032) and group (GID 30000)
 INFO Step: Configure Nix
 INFO Step: Create directory `/etc/tmpfiles.d`
 INFO Step: Configure upstream Nix daemon service
ERROR
   0: Install failure
   1: Error executing action
   2: Action `create_upstream_init_service` errored
   3: Action `configure_init_service` errored
   4: Failed to execute command with status 73 `"systemd-tmpfiles" "--create" "--prefix=/nix/var/nix"`, stdout:
      stderr:
   4:

Location:
   src/cli/subcommand/install.rs:253

Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.
Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets.

AFI4711 avatar Oct 20 '24 15:10 AFI4711