When attempting to use the niri-flake overlay and modules on a NixOS 25.05 system, the build for niri-stable (and
niri-unstable) consistently fails with exit code 2. The failure appears to happen during the installPhase according to the
logs.
This prevents the installation and use of niri via the flake, which is necessary for configuring features like Xwayland
support. The expected behavior is for the niri package from the flake to build successfully on NixOS 25.05 when the overlay is
used.
System Information
- NixOS Version: 25.05
nixpkgs URL: github:nixos/nixpkgs/25.05niri-flake URL: github:sodiboo/niri-flake (latest commit on main)
Steps to Reproduce
- Use the following flake.nix configuration:
1 {
2 description = "Niri build test flake";
3 inputs = {
4 nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/25.05";
5 niri-flake.url = "github:sodiboo/niri-flake";
6 home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager/release-25.05";
7 home-manager.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
8 };
9
10 outputs = { self, nixpkgs, niri-flake, home-manager, ... }@inputs: {
11 nixosConfigurations.nixos = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
12 system = "x86_64-linux";
13 specialArgs = { inherit inputs; };
14 modules = [
15 # Import the niri-flake module
16 niri-flake.nixosModules.niri
17
18 # Minimal system config
19 ({ pkgs, ... }: {
20 nixpkgs.overlays = [ inputs.niri-flake.overlays.niri ];
21 programs.niri.enable = true;
22 system.stateVersion = "25.05";
23 users.users.test = { isNormalUser = true; };
24 })
25 ];
26 };
27 };
28 }
- Run nixos-rebuild switch --flake .
Relevant Logs
The build fails with a generic exit code 2. The end of the build log shows:
1
2 Doc-tests niri
3
4 running 0 tests
5
6 test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s
7
8 Finished cargoCheckHook
9 checkPhase completed in 1 minutes 20 seconds
10 Running phase: glibPreInstallPhase
11 Running phase: installPhase
12 Executing cargoInstallHook
13 error: builder for '/nix/store/9pfj20nh6ax25p23b7v4pzh2ccaacsdi-niri-25.08.drv' failed with exit code 2;
14 For full logs, run:
15 nix log /nix/store/9pfj20nh6ax25p23b7v4pzh2ccaacsdi-niri-25.08.drv
The full log doesn't seem to indicate a specific compilation error, and the tests appear to pass. The failure happens during
the installPhase. There are some Fontconfig error messages in the test phase, but these may be red herrings related to the
sandboxed build environment.
Thank you for your work on this project
When attempting to use the niri-flake overlay and modules on a NixOS 25.05 system, the build for niri-stable (and
niri-unstable) consistently fails with exit code 2. The failure appears to happen during the installPhase according to the
logs.
This prevents the installation and use of niri via the flake, which is necessary for configuring features like Xwayland
support. The expected behavior is for the niri package from the flake to build successfully on NixOS 25.05 when the overlay is
used.
System Information
nixpkgsURL: github:nixos/nixpkgs/25.05niri-flakeURL: github:sodiboo/niri-flake (latest commit on main)Steps to Reproduce
Relevant Logs
The build fails with a generic exit code 2. The end of the build log shows:
The full log doesn't seem to indicate a specific compilation error, and the tests appear to pass. The failure happens during
the installPhase. There are some Fontconfig error messages in the test phase, but these may be red herrings related to the
sandboxed build environment.
Thank you for your work on this project