I upgraded to macOS Sequoia a few weeks ago.
I had a feeling this update wasn’t going to be trivial with my Nix setup, but after trying to upgrade to a newer package version on unstable, I got a message that seemed to imply I needed to upgrade the OS, so I went for it.
Also, I was at least confident I wouldn’t lose too much about my setup given it’s all committed to version control in my nix-config repo.
Things were broken in a somewhat concerning way from the start. The OS was showing me a password prompt and none of the passwords that I would have expected seemed to unlock the disk.
User winter from an unofficial Nix Discord suggested the following:
you should be able to just ignore that it happens to me sometimes, i just click cancel and it gets unlocked :)
I didn’t try this but hopefully it helps someone.
What I ended up doing after reading this issue was grabbing the password via this command
security find-generic-password -s "Nix Store" -w
which successfully unlocked the disk.
After that, I had an issue with running nix-darwin
❯ nix run nix-darwin -- switch --flake ~/.config/nix/flake.nix
error: cannot connect to socket at '/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket/socket': Connection refused
I was able to fix this by running
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.nix-daemon.plist
and then things seemed mostly back to normal. However, I still need to run this command after each system restart. Hopefully, I will find some time to resolve this issue soon. If you know of a solution, please let me know, and I’ll update this entry with a link and credit to you.