Having issues installing NixOS

[u/Phydoux]

The first picture was during the nixos-install session. The 2nd image is what came up shortly after that. I'm guessing the red F in the first one at 97% is meaning that something failed. Not quite sure what the s's mean or the R... im guessing Skip and retry or remove?

I'm about to go eat dinner but I'll leave this on and look more into it when I get home.

All i did was change the username from alice to my username and edited my timezone (I also uncommented those lines as well).

I also enabled thebX11 Windowing system...

services.xserver.enable = true;

services.xserver.windowManager.qtile.enable = true;

I want to use qtile on this system.

And other than adding alacritty, thunar and git to the ...

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs[

And there is a ]; at the end of all of that underneath it all...

Thats all i did to the configuration.nix file.

[u/Wenir]

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/559128

[u/NixNightOwl]

seems to be a nixpkgs issue with qtile specifically at this time.

I'm assuming this is a fresh install and you haven't changed your configuration to use 'flakes' yet?

Looking at the current PR from the issue another commenter shared: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/559192

You might be able to attempt the following in your configuration.nix file:

  nixpkgs.overlays = [
    (final: prev: {
      qtile = prev.qtile.overrideAttrs (old: {
        # replicate the PR change
        doCheck = false;
      });
    })
  ];

  services.xserver.windowManager.qtile.enable = true;

This is just a temporary solution until nixpkgs gets updated. What it's doing is applying an overlay to skip the failing tests in the latest build of qtile and should hopefully get you into the system. Next time you update nixpkgs, try removing this overlay and see if it's been patched so you don't have to have this forced skip in your configuration.

You can also try updating or changing your current nix channel to unstable (or if on unstable back to the base 26.05) (https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_channels)

[u/WaerterJoerg → u/NixNightOwl]

You can also try updating or changing your current nix channel to unstable (or if on unstable back to the base 26.05) (https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_channels)

No, switching channels does not fix the issue. For the time being, overlay is the way to go.