Installation directions not working on NixOS 23.05.2613.011567f35433

[samuela]

I'm following the "NixOS module" installation directions in the README. In particular, I have

imports = [
  (fetchTarball "https://github.com/msteen/nixos-vscode-server/tarball/master")
];

services.vscode-server.enable = true;

in my /etc/nixos/configuration.nix and have run sudo nixes-rebuild switch.

But then:

$ systemctl --user enable auto-fix-vscode-server.service
Failed to enable unit: Unit file auto-fix-vscode-server.service does not exist.

Why is this command failing? How can I enable the service?

[msteen]

You should try disabling it first:
systemctl --user disable auto-fix-vscode-server.service

And then you should be able to start / stop / enable it again hopefully. Some weird cache or other mechanism that causes this. As far as I know it is a general issue and not particular to this project.

If that fails you can try:
ln -sfT /run/current-system/etc/systemd/user/auto-fix-vscode-server.service ~/.config/systemd/user/auto-fix-vscode-server.service

I have a version of this project where I have the service enabled for all users by default, but that still has some bugs that I haven't gotten around to fixing yet.

[samuela]

Thanks for your response @msteen !

Disabling didn't seem to work for me:

❯ systemctl --user disable auto-fix-vscode-server.service
Failed to disable unit: Unit file auto-fix-vscode-server.service does not exist.

But linking, enabling, and starting did:

ln -sfT /run/current-system/etc/systemd/user/auto-fix-vscode-server.service ~/.config/systemd/user/auto-fix-vscode-server.service
systemctl --user enable auto-fix-vscode-server.service
systemctl --user start auto-fix-vscode-server.service

Thanks again @msteen ! This module is a life saver!