Issue when used to install nix on Mac OS Ventura 13.1

Thanks for reporting! We'll take a look. It might take us a bit longer than usual as we're entering the holiday season and some of the team is away; but we'll report back on this ticket once we address.

Thanks for the report! Two quick questions:

1. Is this your first nix install? Or is this a reinstall? (This error can happen when you have an existing /nix directory before the install)
2. If you try to install nix directly (https://nixos.org/download.html#nix-install-macos) do you get same issue?

It is possible this doesn't affect devbox. If that's the case let us know as well!

Thanks!

I tested this on Mac OS Ventura 13.1 with Devbox 0.2.0. I did get the same error in my logs, but the nix install seemed to proceed as normal, and I got a successful Nix installation that worked with Devbox. So right now this doesn't seem to affect Devbox

I think this may happen when a /nix store already exists on the machine. If it does end up breaking the install, the correct next steps would be to uninstall Nix completely and try again.

Should be addressed by the new installer, but the chown: /nix/.Trashes: Operation not permitted error seems to be something happening on the NixOS Installer, so the bug would need to be filed there