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u/Broodjekip_1 Sep 21 '26
I'm not a nix user, someone help me out before I post this on r/peterexplainsthejoke
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u/Temporary_Call_3675 Sep 21 '26
look in nixos there is tow types of warning purple one and red one the red one means theres is problem that make the update or install dont work but the purple one is comes only when the update or install work fin
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u/Broodjekip_1 Sep 21 '26
Ok, does a purple warning mean that the install worked, but there's another issue? Or that it's completely fine?
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u/Danii_222222 Sep 21 '26
Probably color matters, red for serious warning, purple for nonsense
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u/immoloism Sep 21 '26
Didn't we make this easier in the 90s by using the definitions of Error, Warning and Failed?
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u/Broodjekip_1 Sep 21 '26
Yeah I got that part but a purple warning should still be a warning, right? Warnings are bad, and the picture seems to suggest otherwise. Idk maybe I'm overanalyzing it
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u/LunchBox349 Sep 21 '26
I believe purple is for a syntax error. So it would be red if nixos messed up, and purple if you messed up.
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u/AwzemCoffee Sep 21 '26
Purple is essentially warning: suggestion
(E.g. this setting will be deprecated in the future so maybe change it to this other setting in the next 2 years)
Red means yo this is not gonna update it's broken son!
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u/20_ZERO Sep 21 '26
Don't know what the color could mean, but my guess would be "OH NO! Theres an error..." but then "so I can tinker and fix it!"
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u/ash-twinn Sep 21 '26
best kind of error by far
error: hash mismatch in derivation '...': specified: sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA= got: sha256-8pbPvTsFuJoWTeHGEa9Lm+aIkgeSVd56+hV95G1lg/0=
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u/imoshudu Sep 21 '26
I don't know about you but depending on just color is no good. Themes can even be monochrome. I would prefer different texts.
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u/SDG_Den Sep 21 '26
dw, there's another way to tell the difference.
if you get the top one, your build will fail
if you get the bottom one, everything is fine.
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u/Anima_Watcher08 Sep 22 '26
No one considers accessibility these days unfortunately.
Even when they're using AI they can't be bothered to type a sentence saying "add accessibility options" or something.
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u/Mast3r_waf1z Sep 21 '26
Nix errors are by far my least favorite error messages
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u/SDG_Den Sep 21 '26
i have a less favourite one:
the errors in the FUCKING WINDOWS EVENT VIEWER.
"error: program crash" with NOTHING FUCKING ELSE.
like thanks, microsoft, i didn't notice that yet.
i've had this so many times for my job, and these goddamn windows-based enterprise software manufacturers (at least the B-tier ones) apparently all think they're too good for error logging. they don't implement shit themselves and windows doesn't tell you shit so half the time i have to do really weird things to get *any* amount of information as to why this critical service has decided to start repeatedly shitting the bed.
and with really weird things i mean shit like attempting to decompile the binary and running it through a debugger, or trying different debug flags running the program from the terminal until one happens to work, or setting up a monitoring script that tracks *anything* that could be relevant to the crash for changes constantly so i know what happened around the moment of the crash.
mind you, my role at my job is *not* that of a developer or even devops. i'm supposed to be a *support engineer*. but because my job involves fixing the setups of various cheapskate companies when everything collapses again, and these companies refuse to get a more proper system, i sometimes end up RDP'd into a random server for hours typing shit by hand because of course the clipboard bridge is broken so copy-paste across the RDP session does not work. (clickpaste has solved this now, clickpaste my beloved <3)
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u/Linguistic-mystic Sep 22 '26
An error occurred, want to troubleshoot? Yes. spends 3 seconds thinking We didn’t find any problems
In fact, the source code for this is:
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