error: Determinate detected, aborting activation
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I used determinate's nix installer as presented in step 2. Install Nix.
Then used the simplified version without secrets management.
Running nix run .#build-switch resulted in the following error:
setting up /run via /etc/synthetic.conf...
error: Determinate detected, aborting activation
Determinate uses its own daemon to manage the Nix installation that
conflicts with nix-darwin’s native Nix management.
To turn off nix-darwin’s management of the Nix installation, set:
nix.enable = false;
This will allow you to use nix-darwin with Determinate. Some nix-darwin
functionality that relies on managing the Nix installation, like the
`nix.*` options to adjust Nix settings or configure a Linux builder,
will be unavailable.
To fix this issue I set nix.enable= false;. See ./hosts/darwin/default.nix
...
nix = {
enable = false;
package = pkgs.nix;
settings = {
trusted-users = [ "@admin" "${user}" ];
substituters = [ "https://nix-community.cachix.org" "https://cache.nixos.org" ];
trusted-public-keys = [ "cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY=" ];
};
extraOptions = ''
experimental-features = nix-command flakes
'';
};
...
Now it is working. Am I doing something wrong?
System:
MacBook Pro
Chip Apple M4 Pro
macOS: macOS Sequoia Version 15.3.1 (24D70)
I was just reconfiguring my nix install using the determinate installer as well and came across the same issue.
It looks like there was an upstream change in the Determinate installer that has an additional step asking if you want to install Determinate nix, which you should answer No to instead.
I just uninstalled and reinstalled while changing that response.
