Lorri fails to setup FHS user environment

[dmayle]

Lorri fails to setup FHS user environment

[dmayle]

It appears this is due to the architecture of direnv. buildFHSUserEnv depends on having a sub-shell in order to setup a chroot, but direnv just evaluates and updates environment variables.

[Profpatsch]

Can you try using `lorri shell` instead? Does this work? It should run the shell hook and then execute your normal user shell. dmayle ***@***.***> writes:

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It appears this is due to the architecture of direnv. buildFHSUserEnv depends on having a sub-shell in order to setup a chroot, but direnv just evaluates and updates environment variables.

[martsa1]

I'm seeing this as well.

My shell.nix:

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }:
(pkgs.buildFHSUserEnv {
  name = "py310_fhs";
  targetPkgs = pkgs: (with pkgs; [
    gcc
    python3 
    python3Packages.pip
    python3Packages.virtualenv
    zsh
  ]);
  runScript = "zsh";
}).env

Works fine with nix-shell, seems to evaluate with lorri shell but not at all with direnv. Notably, the chroot doesn't seem active when instantiated with lorri shell but does with nix-shell.

lorri --version 
1.5.0