cannot apply config

[fishcat13]

im completley new to nix so it might be it but i changed all the variables to mine and when i ran sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake . i got

warning: Git tree '/home/fishcat/.dotfiles' is dirty
building the system configuration...
warning: Git tree '/home/fishcat/.dotfiles' is dirty
error: cached failure of attribute 'nixosConfigurations.nixos.config.system.build.toplevel'

warning: Git tree '/home/fishcat/.dotfiles' is dirty building the system configuration... warning: Git tree '/home/fishcat/.dotfiles' is dirty error: … while calling the 'head' builtin

     at /nix/store/bd4fmzws6n5542khxbifbkr6nrygi232-source/lib/attrsets.nix:1575:11:

     1574|         || pred here (elemAt values 1) (head values) then
     1575|           head values
         |           ^
     1576|         else

   … while evaluating the attribute 'value'

     at /nix/store/bd4fmzws6n5542khxbifbkr6nrygi232-source/lib/modules.nix:821:9:

      820|     in warnDeprecation opt //
      821|       { value = addErrorContext "while evaluating the option `${showOption loc}':" value;
         |         ^
      822|         inherit (res.defsFinal') highestPrio;

   (stack trace truncated; use '--show-trace' to show the full trace)

   error:
   Failed assertions:
   - Exactly one of users.users.serpentian.isSystemUser and users.users.serpentian.isNormalUser must be set.

   - users.users.serpentian.group is unset. This used to default to
   nogroup, but this is unsafe. For example you can create a group
   for this user with:
   users.users.serpentian.group = "serpentian";
   users.groups.serpentian = {};

` im sorry if this is stupid but being new to nix this error massage is cryptic to me

[rashanana]

The error is bc there is an assertion for the user Serpentian to exist. Remove the lock file -> then change the assertion to check for your user instead as well as the configuration file described in the README.

[Serpentian]

Could you please show the diff of changes you done to the repo? Did you change the username in settings.nix?

I'll try to reproduce the issue

[fishcat13]

The error is bc there is an assertion for the user Serpentian to exist. Remove the lock file -> then change the assertion to check for your user instead as well as the configuration file described in the README.

how do i do the first half ?

[fishcat13]

Could you please show the diff of changes you done to the repo? Did you change the username in settings.nix?

I'll try to reproduce the issue

yes i did that

[fishcat13]

Could you please show the diff of changes you done to the repo? Did you change the username in settings.nix?

I'll try to reproduce the issue

`{pkgs, ...}: rec { system = "x86_64-linux"; hostname = "nixos"; # Hostname username = "fishcat"; # Ssername profile = "desktop"; # Select from profiles directory timezone = "Asia/Jerusalem"; # Select timezone locale = "en_US.UTF-8"; # Select locale name = "fishcat13"; # Name (git config) email = ""; # Email (git config) dotfilesDir = "/home/${username}/.dotfiles"; # Absolute path of the local repo theme = "gruvbox"; # Selected theme from themes directory (./themes/) themeDetails = import (./. + "/themes/${theme}.nix") {dir = dotfilesDir;}; wm = ["hyprland" "kde"]; # Selected window manager or desktop environment; # must select one in both ./user/wm/ and ./system/wm/ # Note, that first WM is incldued included into work profile # second one includes both.

font = "JetBrains Mono"; # Selected font
fontPkg = (pkgs.nerdfonts.override { fonts = [ "JetBrainsMono"]; });
fontSize = 12; # Font size

icons = "Papirus";
iconsPkg = pkgs.papirus-icon-theme;

# Session variables.
editor = "nvim"; # Default editor
editorPkg = pkgs.neovim;
browser = "firefox"; # Default browser; must select one from ./user/app/browser/
browserPkg = pkgs.firefox;
term = "kitty"; # Default terminal command
termPkg = pkgs.kitty;

}`

[YoussefDevPro]

just run : find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/serpentian/UR_USER_NAME_HERE/g' {} + and then : find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/serpenti/UR_USER_NAME_HERE_TOO/g' {} +