GNU bug report logs - #63546
nix-channel error: opening pseudoterminal master: No such device

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Nathan Dehnel <ncdehnel <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 04:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Jonas Schneider-Bensch <taffinaround <at> gmail.com>
To: 63546 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: nix-channel error: opening pseudoterminal master: No such device
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2023 08:54:14 +0200

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Perhaps this is a permissions issue with the nix shepherd service? I
haven't tried the patch linked above, but found that I could run

$ sudo nix-channel --update

without running into the issue. Then, I got the same error again when
trying to install any package with nix-env. Once again, I could run

$ sudo nix-env -i <some-package>

which would successfully install it to the root profile. After doing
this, however, I found that I now could run

$ nix-env -i <some-package>

to install the package to my user profile, presumably because the nix
store was populated by the run with sudo.

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