bug: Upgrading from 24.11 to 25.11 completely broke zsh and shell on mac #8346
Description
Are you following the right branch?
- My Nixpkgs and Home Manager versions are in sync
Is there an existing issue for this?
- I have searched the existing issues
Issue description
There seems to be a bug in home-manager, you can see on my repo: https://github.com/Locbac/nix/
What's happening is that I was on version 24.11 for everything previously. I changed the flake to 25.11 and my server inspiron updated without problems. However on my mac, I'm using home-manager as a module with my nix flake. Currently, absolutely nothing for my zsh works. No aliases, none of my prompt config or anything.
Home-manager now creates a file called .zshenv in my home resulting in:
/Users/amon/.zshenv:1: job table full or recursion limit exceeded
amon@Amons-Mac:~/ > bat .zshenv
─────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
│ File: .zshenv
─────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
1 │ source /Users/amon/.zshenv
─────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
amon@Amons-Mac:~/ > ls -alh
total 1472
drwxr-x---+ 121 amon staff 3,8K déc. 14 18:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root admin 224B août 26 13:44 ..
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 amon staff 78B déc. 14 17:58 .aerospace.toml -> /nix/store/kiq3av7vbkrgz045i5hdnngnyghb7han-home-manager-files/.aerospace.toml
....
-rw-------@ 1 amon staff 2,2K déc. 14 17:46 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--@ 1 amon staff 116B févr. 1 2025 .bashrc
.....
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 amon staff 71B déc. 14 17:58 .emacs.d -> /nix/store/kiq3av7vbkrgz045i5hdnngnyghb7han-home-manager-files/.emacs.d
drwxr-xr-x@ 28 amon staff 896B mars 19 2025 .emacs.d.hmbackup
......
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 amon staff 73B déc. 14 17:58 .ideavimrc -> /nix/store/kiq3av7vbkrgz045i5hdnngnyghb7han-home-manager-files/.ideavimrc
-rw-r--r--@ 1 amon staff 1,0K sept. 27 2024 .ideavimrc.hmbackup
.....
-rw-r--r--@ 1 amon staff 88B déc. 14 17:41 .nix-channels
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 amon staff 128B déc. 14 17:41 .nix-defexpr
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 amon staff 45B mars 5 2025 .nix-profile -> /Users/amon/.local/state/nix/profiles/profile
.....
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 amon staff 72B déc. 14 17:58 .p10k.zsh -> /nix/store/kiq3av7vbkrgz045i5hdnngnyghb7han-home-manager-files/.p10k.zsh
.....
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 amon staff 73B déc. 14 17:58 .spacemacs -> /nix/store/kiq3av7vbkrgz045i5hdnngnyghb7han-home-manager-files/.spacemacs
....
drwx------@ 5 amon staff 160B févr. 11 2025 .zcompcache
-rw-r--r--@ 1 amon staff 72K déc. 14 12:26 .zcompdump
-rw-r--r--@ 1 amon staff 48K juin 27 06:50 .zcompdump.Amons-Mac.local.14851
-rw-r--r--@ 1 amon staff 38K mars 26 2025 .zcompdump.Amons-Mac.local.17295
-rw-r--r--@ 1 amon staff 48K mars 21 2025 .zcompdump.Amons-Mac.local.28379
-rw-r--r--@ 1 amon staff 38K mars 9 2025 .zcompdump.Amons-Mac.local.3678
-rw-r--r--@ 1 amon staff 38K mars 20 2025 .zcompdump.Amons-Mac.local.46707
-rw-r--r--@ 1 amon staff 0B sept. 2 14:52 .zcompdump.Amons-Mac.local.726
-rw-r--r--@ 1 amon staff 47K mars 20 2025 .zcompdump.Amons-Mac.local.82976
-rw-r--r--@ 1 amon staff 49K mars 27 2025 .zcompdump.Amons-Mac.local.9207
-rw-r--r--@ 1 amon staff 50K mars 31 2025 .zcompdump.Amons-Mac.local.94798
-rw-r--r-- 1 amon staff 50K juil. 21 13:22 .zcompdump.Amons-Mac.local.95052
-rw-------@ 1 amon staff 51K déc. 14 18:13 .zsh_history
drwx------ 17 amon staff 544B févr. 14 2025 .zsh_sessions
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 amon staff 70B déc. 14 17:58 .zshenv -> /nix/store/kiq3av7vbkrgz045i5hdnngnyghb7han-home-manager-files/.zshenv
-rw-r--r--@ 1 amon staff 1B déc. 14 13:00 .zshenv.hmbackup
-rw-r--r--@ 1 amon staff 7,2K mars 5 2025 .zshrc.bak
...
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 amon staff 17B juil. 30 19:01 lib -> /opt/homebrew/lib
...
I created a manual backup before with .zshrc.bak but I'm unsure why just switching versions resulted in this mess. A lot of the other home manager stuff it works like the other symlinks.
You can see that .bashrc is also nothing related to .zshrc (if somehow home-manager got confused and added it there):
amon@Amons-Mac:~/ > bat .bashrc
─────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
│ File: .bashrc
─────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
1 │
2 │ export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin"
3 │
4 │ # Added by LM Studio CLI (lms)
5 │ export PATH="$PATH:/Users/amon/.lmstudio/bin"
─────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
amon@Amons-Mac:~/ >
Update
- I have switched to nushell, and all my aliases and everything seem to work. It's only happening with zsh, nothing else.
Maintainer CC
System information
amon@Amons-Mac:~/ > nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
unpacking 'https://flakehub.com/f/DeterminateSystems/nixpkgs-weekly/%2A.tar.gz' into the Git cache...
these 2 paths will be fetched (0.01 MiB download, 0.07 MiB unpacked):
/nix/store/8w3jqx8sqxf5pcxvhwddg7vy6zd97vdj-DarwinTools-1
/nix/store/vijw5rjhnmvcy4f1h36ipb05vwf3m9lb-nix-info
copying path '/nix/store/8w3jqx8sqxf5pcxvhwddg7vy6zd97vdj-DarwinTools-1' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
copying path '/nix/store/vijw5rjhnmvcy4f1h36ipb05vwf3m9lb-nix-info' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
- system: `"aarch64-darwin"`
- host os: `Darwin 24.6.0, macOS 15.6.1`
- multi-user?: `yes`
- sandbox: `no`
- version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.26.2`
- nixpkgs: `/nix/store/9rf7z9hhnxqvbf5i04labfsxill2zhyl-source`
amon@Amons-Mac:~/ >