toraritte
Using mix local.hex consumes all memory, and eventually the machine needs to be reset. Using the --force switch doesn’t help either. Didn’t want to open an issue yet, because I may be just missing something entirely, but couldn’t find much in the docs.
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NobbZ
In the other (meanwhile deleted) thread, you said you were using
nix. Can you please tell us more about your system? I’ve never seen similar issues, but as far as I knownixrequires you to do some things differently.Ps: elixir and Erlang versions used when the problem occurs might be if special interest for us.
toraritte
I assumed that it is probably specific to my setup, because I didn’t find any issues or posts about it either. The weird thing is that this only happens (ca. 7 time out of 10) when installing Hex in any way:
Once Hex is installed, all other global installs to
MIX_HOMEseem to work (e.g., Phoenix, Rebar). I kinda solved it by committing the installed Hex into version control. (Couldn’t find an.ezarchive file for it online, and didn’t have the time to figure out how to create it.)The specs of my system in case it is helpful to anyone:
Anyway, thank you NobbZ!