https://andrewzah.com/blog/tidbits/ Recent content in Tidbits on andrew zah's thoughts Hugo -- 0.152.2 en-us Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://andrewzah.com/blog/tidbits/fix-bad-message-nix/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://andrewzah.com/blog/tidbits/fix-bad-message-nix/ <p>After making some config changes, I ran <code>nixos-rebuild switch ...</code> as usual. And got a strange error:</p> <figure class="highlight"> <pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-shell" data-lang="shell"><span class="line"><span class="cl">error: getting status of <span class="s1">&#39;/nix/store/8a1xkznaqzq3a3dgh2q7farm7b7rdk28-source/modules/plugins/mini/diff/default.nix&#39;</span>: Bad message </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">┏━ <span class="m">1</span> Errors: </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">┃ &lt;snip&gt; </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">┃ error: getting status of <span class="s1">&#39;/nix/store/8a1xkznaqzq3a3dgh2q7farm7b7rdk28-source/modules/plugins/mini/diff/default.nix&#39;</span>… </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">┣━━━ </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">┗━ ∑ ⚠ Exited with <span class="m">1</span> errors reported by nix at 19:23:15 after 3s </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">Error: </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> 0: Failed to build configuration </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> 1: Command exited with status Exited<span class="o">(</span>1<span class="o">)</span></span></span></code></pre> </figure> <p>Bad message? After searching online, it seems like a file system issue. Let&rsquo;s check <code>dmesg</code>:</p>