cachix-action: `cachix: CppStdException "Exception: path '/nix/store/...' is not valid; type: nix::InvalidPath"`

I’m seeing a weird error trying to use cachix-action.

/home/runner/work/_actions/cachix/cachix-action/v10/dist/main/push-paths.sh /home/runner/.nix-profile/bin/cachix ploop 
cachix: CppStdException "Exception: path '/nix/store/ab3yh7s8rms16b66jlbbzvjaif94ls93-python3.9-apache-beam-2.35.0' is not valid; type: nix::InvalidPath"
Error: Action failed with error: Error: The process '/home/runner/work/_actions/cachix/cachix-action/v10/dist/main/push-paths.sh' failed with exit code 1

Here’s a link to the failed run: https://github.com/samuela/nixpkgs-upkeep/runs/4976168659?check_suite_focus=true.

Am I doing something wrong?

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Reactions: 3
Comments: 18 (8 by maintainers)

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This is now fixed in https://github.com/cachix/cachix/pull/410

I’ll make a release and let you know once it hits the channels!

Thanks for reporting!

domenkozar on Jun 27, 2022

0.7.0 should fix this, I’ll update the official url.

domenkozar on Feb 14, 2022

great news @domenkozar, thank you 🙌

steveej on Jun 27, 2022

Thanks so much @domenkozar!

samuela on Jun 27, 2022

To reproduce:

nix-build -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).runCommand "foo" {} "sleep 999999999"'

Then in another terminal:

$ find /nix/store -maxdepth 1 -name *.drv.chroot
/nix/store/nz0ziflbx07n04szdhg0f60jk5givdla-foo.drv.chroot

And finally:

$ cachix push mycache /nix/store/nz0ziflbx07n04szdhg0f60jk5givdla-foo.drv.chroot
cachix: CppStdException e "\ESC[31;1merror:\ESC[0m path '\ESC[35;1m/nix/store/nz0ziflbx07n04szdhg0f60jk5givdla-foo.drv.chroot\ESC[0m' is not valid"(Just "nix::InvalidPath")
``

domenkozar on Jun 24, 2022

Anyone know of a workaround for this issue? I’m running into it on a GitHub action that ends up building GHC. It eventually times out. Then it hits this error and so every build needs to rebuild GHC and ends up timing out and failing.

purefn on Apr 20, 2022

We’re seeing this, too:

Post job cleanup.
Cachix: push
  /home/runner/work/_actions/cachix/cachix-action/v10/dist/main/push-paths.sh /home/runner/.nix-profile/bin/cachix adamatic-bridge 
  cachix: CppStdException "Exception: \ESC[31;1merror:\ESC[0m path '\ESC[35;1m/nix/store/w7wj6qd654qwq9595r28bp1b6vp3fvky-nodejs-14.18.1.drv.chroot\ESC[0m' is not valid; type: nix::InvalidPath"
  Error: Action failed with error: Error: The process '/home/runner/work/_actions/cachix/cachix-action/v10/dist/main/push-paths.sh' failed with exit code 1

EDIT: Using cachix-action@10 EDIT2: This happens only when the build itself fails (after which cachix-action runs and also fails)

runeksvendsen on Apr 7, 2022

Tried again today with cachix-action@10, same issue.

austinbutler on Feb 23, 2022