Installation finished but doesn't prompt for a root password about nixos-in-place HOT 10 OPEN

I'm able to reproduce this issue; nixos-install is encountering an error while activating the current profile. This is related to a new change in NixOS and I'm currently investigating what it was. In the meantime, hopefully nixos-infect works for you.

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Tried again, with Ubuntu 14.04 this time. Similar result:

copying NixOS/Nixpkgs sources...

*** Copying ‘/nix/store/j0g8z80v40zjf1qwq8v2gvpbmsvr5h1v-nixos-16.09.677.0dc31e8’ from ‘/tmp/root/nix/store/j0g8z80v40zjf1qwq8v2gvpbmsvr5h1v-nixos-16.09.677.0dc31e8’

warning: Nix search path entry ‘/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels’ does not exist, ignoring
created 1 symlinks in user environment
finalising the installation...
updating GRUB 2 menu...
installing the GRUB 2 boot loader on /dev/vda...
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
setting up /etc...
mount: /dev/pts not mounted or bad option

       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so.
mount: mount point /dev/shm is a symbolic link to nowhere
Initializing machine ID from KVM UUID.

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Is there a workaround for the problem? I cannot just passwd since I probably have to chroot to somewhere beforehand.

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I don't know, but I switched to nixos-infect which is working.

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Same issue here on my Chinese cloud provider

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@jeaye Would it be an acceptable work-around to install a previous version of nixos (e.g. 15.09) where installation still works? Updating nixos once it is installed seems to be easy.

I tried to hardcode https://nixos.org/releases/nixos/14.12-small/nixos-14.12.668.7963a45/nixos-minimal-14.12.668.7963a45-x86_64-linux.iso into the script, but that iso seems to be too old: The installation has issues with a grub boot setting, so it does not complete successfully.

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@chris-martin I believe you tried to use an older iso as well - any luck?

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That sounds vaguely familiar, but sorry I don't recall.

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@rened, I just merged in #29 a few days ago, which may address this issue. Care to try again?

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Thanks a lot @jeaye, works like a charm!

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