Nix builds fail on remote chroot substituter paths
Builds fail with getting attributes of path errors when a remote chroot substituter is used, even though the path exists.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 6 October 2026 · last reported 6 October 2026
What's going wrong
People running Nix with a remote chroot store as a binary substituter report builds that stop with a 'getting attributes of path' error, even though the store path is present on the substituter machine.
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