[ERROR] Unable to find executable 'nix' in $PATH

[4levels]

Hi,

after following the readme, I immediately get the following error when trying to call sudo kubernix.
I'm actually calling sudo target/releases/kubernix from this repo's cloned folder.

Steps I followed from the readme:

• install nix curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
• clone this repo and cd into it
• build the release make build-release

I already restarted my terminal, even rebooted completely, still to no avail.
I can successfully invoke nix as normal user.

I checked the issues here but couldn't find any pointers either.

I'm using Debian 10.7 - uname -a Linux dl01 4.19.0-12-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.152-1 (2020-10-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I suspect I'm overlooking something obviously here. Anyone knows what?

I have a VM running nixos natively, not sure if I should try inside that machine instead?

[saschagrunert]

Hey @4levels, that's an issue with sudo, which does not seem to preserve the path where the nix binary is in.

Can you try to run kubernix via:

> sudo env "PATH=$PATH" target/releases/kubernix

[4levels]

That seems to do the trick! I would have never tought of that 👍
I do get the following errors during the run though:

sudo env "PATH=$PATH" target/release/kubernix
warning: the group 'nixbld' specified in 'build-users-group' does not exist
[ERROR] API Server (kube-apiserver) died unexpectedly
[ERROR] Scheduler (kube-scheduler) died unexpectedly
[ERROR] Controller Manager (kube-controller-manager) died unexpectedly
[ERROR] Timed out waiting for process 'Kubelet' (kubelet) to become ready
[ERROR] Timed out waiting for process 'Proxy' (kube-proxy) to become ready
[ERROR] Unable to start all processes
[⠠  4m] ██████████████████░░░░░░░ 16/22 Proxy stopped

[4levels]

FYI Just as poc I tried the readme steps in the VM I have running nixos natively, and all seems to work way better in there!
The kubernix call ends with the expected outcome, dropping me in a shell.

I'll continue from there, but would still like to run this on my debian box as well..