Profiles Permissions Issue on WSL2

[metcalfc]

Steps taken:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install
exit # restart shell
nix search git
error: could not set permissions on '/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user' to 755: Operation not permitted

Fairly standard Ubuntu WSL2 setup. Accepted the defaults. The script elevated to sudo itself.

ls -al /nix/
total 7696
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root      4096 Feb 27 16:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root      4096 Feb 27 16:25 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     17793 Dec 31  1969 .reginfo
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   7813432 Feb 27 16:25 nix-installer
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     27630 Feb 27 16:25 receipt.json
drwxrwxr-t 51 root nixbld    4096 Feb 27 16:25 store
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root      4096 Feb 27 16:25 var

ls -al /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 27 16:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 27 16:25 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 27 16:25 root

[georgealexanderday]

Same issue, fresh install of ubuntu 22.04

Edit: Now working, forgot to double check that the system was booted with systemd

[metcalfc]

I uninstalled and reinstalled after having enabled systemd per https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-wsl-enable-systemd and it works now.

For folks that find this after the docs are here: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer#in-wsl