install failed on to copy the basic Nix files to the new store at /nix/store

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Platform

• [ ] Linux:
• [x] macOS
• [ ] WSL

Additional information

Output

Output

~~> Installing Nix

---- sudo execution ------------------------------------------------------------
I am executing:

    $ sudo cp -RPp ./store/0aib3vrycbmh24ay14nwc3cidl2z7bif-aws-c-event-stream-0.5.0 ./store/0d94gkn5h7nn2hrv16ghy3ykd0yr2s3a-lowdown-1.3.2-lib ./store/0iw99qiqlmxrpxwyyw0351i8wd9272hz-libiconv-1.17 ./store/12w1gpnkq7gy91j8k4nid5862kph2yw4-aws-sdk-cpp-1.11.448 ./store/16qvmw6is4m528amxa8mwlq2mi5d0kj0-toml11-3.7.1 ./store/2qsrdx1g2vr6706gvj69fcs2y674h25k-aws-checksums-0.2.2 ./store/3076rc8fp7ib9w98s8m0ffahm5678ly2-aws-c-io-0.15.3 ./store/3j1afppmdainmflzh7j2231lrs77r1a2-s2n-tls-1.5.12 ./store/3yzl1ckl9s34gz7gsdisbzm3sn5i2l52-openssl-3.4.1 ./store/4983i2clmrpkdmidkdcpa8wbwn8pdm9j-nix-fetchers-2.29.0 ./store/49wnnf3mg5gad0cxyqglv095jhlpd3cs-nix-fetchers-2.29.0-dev ./store/4viarfh5y8bq5h9q0ibr652svyvlfylb-llhttp-9.2.1 ./store/54hk2jzk0aarrwc9lh6njr0wgcq3zb2l-nss-cacert-3.108 ./store/5s0xmjrx5fdakl3fa0g179hxfrz4nskn-tbb-2021.11.0-dev ./store/621gznka92jgygyyvmndhgh0wk786jb4-zstd-1.5.7 ./store/6blvjcka906rd5xbfdwpzmginf3rvaj2-nghttp2-1.65.0-lib ./store/6k1n9g1z4ljhcnclc4mz8js7kzrzn55d-krb5-1.21.3-lib ./store/6q1fgqxgp5bxk9qill5vmh0gb9yvg93q-aws-c-compression-0.3.0 ./store/78pyl46xkjwa3sgyg130cy38sr1nbsk6-aws-c-cal-0.8.0 ./store/89hqcg90npplmlk4pymsky8fjnp9rs5v-aws-c-s3-0.7.1 ./store/a8nvrdf92lppdfzycx8zv7mcn3i0vrnk-libsodium-1.0.20 ./store/afgspk4fcn7n8qd7djfyvk3naf9i2wzy-nlohmann_json-3.11.3 ./store/aypiwg77ql3sqb8an48zp8vqnaljlwvp-s2n-tls-1.5.12-dev ./store/az60dw6brz5qwck9mcz4gqd7y0gzvi9v-nix-main-2.29.0 ./store/b5gpclnpiiggaflkkpbcgx4qr4cxiq7c-gettext-0.22.5 ./store/bnq6sdbk3fpid44la2jcrx6rr6fz6ws2-sqlite-3.48.0 ./store/c3fgc2vz11fykfx0mf8f9ycnbz31ga95-nix-2.29.0 ./store/c6846y12ivpk61s996vwlf3yr4czlhpn-nix-store-2.29.0 ./store/c9pz8nr8pmc0sdv7kyff9cb241yqsal6-libarchive-3.7.8 ./store/d87xh0mfx0fxsdj49k7m5b25jg9an7hz-brotli-1.1.0-lib ./store/dd6i0721s2kwh0pa8fzkvnn6yfh09fbj-libxml2-2.13.8 ./store/dndfb20kk038rv9s9kp7wqf971z0da3g-nix-expr-2.29.0 ./store/f02cyb6qdyqy92ks7clr60fqbabh1nzy-openssl-3.4.1-dev ./store/f434qikmkzr4d65ygixbki9lq1aibgf2-boehm-gc-8.2.8-dev ./store/f9567rjsx192k5zzvq7daghafcay8m60-aws-c-sdkutils-0.2.1 ./store/fnb1scic2h237hyrla4zxkpisjd7dsjp-libarchive-3.7.8-dev ./store/fykc7y5iw7vl6c93i80d0maywd99c9b8-aws-c-auth-0.8.1 ./store/grskrvrxcpz36qgkmlsmzr6s8slrgabn-libunistring-1.3 ./store/gz47rzqvx9knfq7sv36pf9a8arcmz968-libcxx-19.1.7 ./store/hpcm5scq59h34hk2wngs85s7gm5c75f0-bash-5.2p37 ./store/j20pg933s7h5ah687gn1zni0da9yfn8z-nix-flake-2.29.0 ./store/jn61h3v1h50sdddga1cz5k9qw7x0j7ak-libpsl-0.21.5 ./store/kmzcp6fd8bzqn5w23yqxf9jixx7hlp6k-libresolv-83 ./store/l2g8yvadrp43c5mvm8zknmjhkibl28pa-nix-expr-2.29.0-dev ./store/l59pp0ndfz7sm6fzdj4saviq8sqkl23z-tbb-2021.11.0 ./store/lb660i1wqyv5ym27ixsn41lw0xa5j6dk-nix-util-2.29.0-dev ./store/lbc2r71sxdms7wzziw3ravj9arscrf2a-libarchive-3.7.8-lib ./store/m8al21x15n9b0rjbfc07l92mk6yky1y1-nix-cmd-2.29.0 ./store/mdmrm6c4scfrd2n9xgj2ismlkl69mqa7-editline-1.17.1 ./store/mgpz5fn22szzcim9x6p3f2k3xr9aqn7s-aws-c-mqtt-0.11.0 ./store/mn723pfrziv5xs9lnkvymg5d1n6rsnaj-libiconv-109 ./store/mp0zi8jdlqsxkkr99gfbr07rra69xb2w-libcpuid-0.7.1 ./store/mrz98bf6h6r02d300vhjz60vvzjxhbw2-xz-5.8.1 ./store/msz47gpx81sw1zr4kvw4mwcpg4qdhwp7-openssl-3.4.1-bin ./store/n55jybmhns1hfqw131bqss221932z8px-libidn2-2.3.8 ./store/nak4shkkdj0mmazapnl59hl21vjdap1m-bzip2-1.0.8 ./store/nb0iczpvvv2scr78r6cjnl4cw848g8ja-publicsuffix-list-0-unstable-2025-03-12 ./store/q7zsf0jr67hgsk1fwjwvjrdnr1ddim97-aws-crt-cpp-0.29.4 ./store/qjhbw2nm2ipr6p8d71phy34nyma77ikg-boehm-gc-8.2.8 ./store/qqvfpwviw0c0gal2phlsg8s3b1jlpgr8-boost-1.87.0-dev ./store/qw272vgpd9wcfbfdynsrnmb2icpzqyiw-libblake3-1.8.2 ./store/rjw4l7lyzgxc1gkialsj35h81n4q8x8m-aws-crt-cpp-0.29.4-dev ./store/rr2vnmkkgy3s2d9hifrnm2jy0m833fq8-libgit2-1.9.0-lib ./store/s36zhjg43zrpblybl8xyyylvycp3b8l5-curl-8.12.1 ./store/vh0nz87bba0gi9qdv5yrfjwryyrmh9jk-libssh2-1.11.1 ./store/vv065sp6lmb5qs3vky0v5f00zh1q0mfm-nix-store-2.29.0-dev ./store/wvlyd5z67m3zb2x4md5bkf7ffl1ijsld-boost-1.87.0 ./store/x9lsc77n69wfd57187p47az5syrnxpvc-aws-c-common-0.10.3 ./store/xgqx1hsmf2lplgv896v7ngri5mlpisf7-nix-util-2.29.0 ./store/yhf3rsa9fpm1qffzsf8qw4lphpagw10d-aws-c-http-0.9.2 ./store/z31nrcsd7yyimkp096qj6vmqhawdszbl-zlib-1.3.1 ./store/zlgk0jnvaa1g2xziyh0pgdww699gi1p2-pcre2-10.44 /nix/store/

to copy the basic Nix files to the new store at /nix/store

cp: cannot overwrite directory /nix/store/6k1n9g1z4ljhcnclc4mz8js7kzrzn55d-krb5-1.21.3-lib/sbin with non-directory ./store/6k1n9g1z4ljhcnclc4mz8js7kzrzn55d-krb5-1.21.3-lib/sbin

---- oh no! --------------------------------------------------------------------
Oh no, something went wrong. If you can take all the output and open
an issue, we'd love to fix the problem so nobody else has this issue.

:(

We'd love to help if you need it.

You can open an issue at
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/new?labels=installer&template=installer.md

Checklist

• [x] checked latest Nix manual (source)
• [x] checked open installer issues and pull requests for possible duplicates

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[roberth]

Triaged in Nix meeting today:

Is this reproducible? Perhaps you local copy of sbin got replaced by a file due to some sort of corruption.

Observations:

• sbin is a symlink
• this happens when copying from a local copy into a new store without nix but cp instead. cp may be different on darwin

Possible workaround:

• sudo rm -rf /nix/store/6k1n9g1z4ljhcnclc4mz8js7kzrzn55d-krb5-1.21.3-lib

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2025-06-11-nix-team-meeting-minutes-231/65543/1