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rsync command not found with 23.11 nixos image #260

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Tommixe opened this issue Dec 2, 2023 · 10 comments
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rsync command not found with 23.11 nixos image #260

Tommixe opened this issue Dec 2, 2023 · 10 comments

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@Tommixe
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Tommixe commented Dec 2, 2023

nixos-anywhere fails at copy extra file step using as installation target a machine booted with nixos 23.11 minimal iso image:
https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-23.11/latest-nixos-minimal-x86_64-linux.iso

nixos-anywhere command:
nix run github:numtide/nixos-anywhere -- --extra-files "$temp" --flake .#server02 root@$192.168.178.191

This is the error:

+ echo '### Copying extra files ###'
### Copying extra files ###
+ rsync -rlpv -FF -e 'ssh -i "/tmp/tmp.eYUCcg96wX"/nixos-anywhere -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no ' /tmp/tmp.Ol4VOcuUb6/ root@192.168.178.191:/mnt/
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.178.191' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
bash: line 1: rsync: command not found
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(231) [sender=3.2.7]
+ rm -rf /tmp/tmp.eYUCcg96wX

Using the 23.05 image installation works without any issue.
@Mic92
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Mic92 commented Dec 24, 2023

We should probably start making our own ISOs that have all needed tools.

@Ramblurr
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Ramblurr commented Feb 8, 2024 •
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Is there a workaround, besides using the 23.05 image?

Something like this before the nixos-everywhere call works:

ssh root@hostname "nix-env -iA nixos.rsync"

@Mic92
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Mic92 commented Feb 9, 2024

Another work around is building your own installer. nixos-generators works well for that.

@Lassulus
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Lassulus commented Mar 26, 2024 •
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maybe we can do a fallback with nix-shell? or even nix-env?

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0x4A6F commented Mar 26, 2024

Editing /etc/nixos/configuration.nix and adding rsync to systemPackages with a nixos-rebuild test also works on current minimal iso.

  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    rsync
  ];

@Lassulus
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hmm, but thats a lot of hassle. Maybe we should just port the rsync code to scp?

@Lassulus
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#295 is the PR for that, not tested yet

@Mic92
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Mic92 commented Apr 30, 2024

We also create a new nixos-anywhere optimized installer image that has rsync installed and enables sshd by default: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-images?tab=readme-ov-file#iso-installer-images

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uPaymeiFixit commented May 1, 2024 •
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We also create a new nixos-anywhere optimized installer image that has rsync installed and enables sshd by default: nix-community/nixos-images#iso-installer-images

I saw this a few days ago and could not for the life of me figure out where the ISOs are actually hosted. I'm new to nix and figure I must misunderstand how it works.

EDIT: Found it. I mistook the assets for releases.

@Prince213 Prince213 mentioned this issue May 9, 2024
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To anyone who is looking at this, #316 (or #325) has been merged and it solves the problem.

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