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authorMikey Ariel <mariel@redhat.com>2014-08-27T16·41+0200
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-<appendix xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
-          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
-
-<title>Troubleshooting</title>
-
-
-<para>This section provides solutions for some common problems.  See
-the <link xlink:href="http://bugs.strategoxt.org/browse/NIX">Nix
-bug tracker</link> for a list of currently known issues.</para>
-
-
-<section><title>Collisions in <command>nix-env</command></title>
-
-<para>Symptom: when installing or upgrading, you get an error message such as
-
-<screen>
-$ nix-env -i docbook-xml
-...
-adding /nix/store/s5hyxgm62gk2...-docbook-xml-4.2
-collision between `/nix/store/s5hyxgm62gk2...-docbook-xml-4.2/xml/dtd/docbook/calstblx.dtd'
-  and `/nix/store/06h377hr4b33...-docbook-xml-4.3/xml/dtd/docbook/calstblx.dtd'
-  at /nix/store/...-builder.pl line 62.</screen>
-
-</para>
-
-<para>The cause is that two installed packages in the user environment
-have overlapping filenames (e.g.,
-<filename>xml/dtd/docbook/calstblx.dtd</filename>.  This usually
-happens when you accidentally try to install two versions of the same
-package.  For instance, in the example above, the Nix Packages
-collection contains two versions of <literal>docbook-xml</literal>, so
-<command>nix-env -i</command> will try to install both.  The default
-user environment builder has no way to way to resolve such conflicts,
-so it just gives up.</para>
-
-<para>Solution: remove one of the offending packages from the user
-environment (if already installed) using <command>nix-env
--e</command>, or specify exactly which version should be installed
-(e.g., <literal>nix-env -i docbook-xml-4.2</literal>).</para>
-
-<para>Alternatively, you can modify the user environment builder
-script (in
-<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/share/nix/corepkgs/buildenv/builder.pl</filename>)
-to implement some conflict resolution policy.  E.g., the script could
-be modified to rename conflicting file names, or to pick one over the
-other.</para>
-
-</section>
-
-
-<section><title><quote>Too many links</quote> error in the Nix
-store</title>
-
-
-<para>Symptom: when building something, you get an error message such as
-
-<screen>
-...
-<literal>mkdir: cannot create directory `/nix/store/<replaceable>name</replaceable>': Too many links</literal></screen>
-
-</para>
-
-<para>This is usually because you have more than 32,000 subdirectories
-in <filename>/nix/store</filename>, as can be seen using <command>ls
--l</command>:
-
-<screen>
-$ ls -l /nix/store
-drwxrwxrwt 32000 nix nix 4620288 Sep 8 15:08 store</screen>
-
-The <literal>ext2</literal> file system is limited to an inode link
-count of 32,000 (each subdirectory increasing the count by one).
-Furthermore, the <literal>st_nlink</literal> field of the
-<function>stat</function> system call is a 16-bit value.</para>
-
-<para>This only happens on very large Nix installations (such as build
-machines).</para>
-
-<para>Quick solution: run the garbage collector.  You may want to use
-the <option>--max-links</option> option.</para>
-
-<para>Real solution: put the Nix store on a file system that supports
-more than 32,000 subdirectories per directory, such as ReiserFS.
-(This doesn’t solve the <literal>st_nlink</literal> limit, but
-ReiserFS lies to the kernel by reporting a link count of 1 if it
-exceeds the limit.)</para>
-
-</section>
-  
-
-
-</appendix>