System not rebooting if sudo is present and --extra-files is used

[madjam002]

When using --extra-files, I've noticed that the system is not rebooting automatically after installation.

I think the installation is failing at the point where the extra files are copied across

nixos-anywhere/src/nixos-anywhere.sh

Line 580 in 9ba099b

tar -C "$extraFiles" -cpf- . | runSsh "${maybeSudo} tar -C /mnt -xf- --no-same-owner"

Is maybeSudo supposed to be used here even in the kexec environment? As it's logging that the command cannot be found in the installer kexec environment.

Uninstalling sudo before running nixos-anywhere works fine.

[Zempashi]

Perfect timing, I was encountering the issue as well right now. Workaround also works for me as I log in root before kexec.

[thenbe]

When using terraform all-in-one, this error is "flaky" - as in it occurs roughly 50% the time. I'm not sure why the error only occurs sometimes when I run terraform apply, and does not occur every time I run terraform apply.

Error Message

$ terraform apply
 │ Error: local-exec provisioner error
│
│   with module.deploy.module.deploy.module.install.null_resource.nixos-remote,
│   on .terraform/modules/deploy.deploy/terraform/install/main.tf line 28, in resource "null_resource" "nixos-remote":
│   28:   provisioner "local-exec" {
│
│ Error running command
│ '.terraform/modules/deploy.deploy/terraform/install/run-nixos-anywhere.sh
│ ': exit status 127. Output: [email protected]'...
│ copying path
│ '/nix/store/nf0pby1b7d72kk9xxql9pil95k7sdq76-shutdown-ramfs-contents.json'
│ to 'ssh://[email protected]'...
│ copying path
│ '/nix/store/1v9s1drarqpprm9c5nq80wqk6psl9ncv-unit-dbus.service' to
│ 'ssh://[email protected]'...
│ copying path
│ '/nix/store/7wryi41dwpvlx0ivnk1s1xw6hsanyyc8-unit-dbus.service' to
│ 'ssh://[email protected]'...
│ copying path '/nix/store/ifwjw8wnz9bhdbypb3qkzqnvx8y326c3-user-units' to
│ 'ssh://[email protected]'...
│ copying path '/nix/store/x6rw9rcwkvi23s039icw23p3xq44i561-system-units' to
│ 'ssh://[email protected]'...
│ copying path '/nix/store/4lhd4p3x8i6xrc1l5kzl11w35s3q1gcx-etc' to
│ 'ssh://[email protected]'...
│ copying path
│ '/nix/store/hn7h3b7zjm79xvbvdbws917zd5m2hksp-nixos-system-foo-24.11.20241014.a3c0b3b'
│ to 'ssh://[email protected]'...
│ ### Copying extra files ###
│ bash: line 1: sudo: command not found