Live NixOS image missing /bin/sh after envfs change
Live image has no /bin/sh because environment.shell was disabled, breaking scripts that expect the standard shell.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
9 public reports · first reported 7 October 2026 · last reported 9 October 2026
What's going wrong
People building NixOS live images report that the resulting system has no /bin/sh, so scripts and packages with /bin/sh shebangs fail at runtime.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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