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I am confused by the current state of my channel subscription on NixOS. It seems that I have a per-user subscription to nixos-17.03 and nixos-17.09:

$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 4.19.13, NixOS, 18.09.1853.c2950341d03 (Jellyfish)`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.1.3`
 - channels(alexey): `"nixos-17.03-17.03.1949.78e9665b48f, nixos-17.09-17.09.3238.e984f9e48e1"`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-18.09.1853.c2950341d03"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

$ tree /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/alexey/channels
/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/alexey/channels
├── binary-caches
│   ├── nixos-17.03 -> /nix/store/kzd027j27bifzi82339isf6rzir2g1hq-nixos-17.03-17.03.1949.78e9665b48f/binary-caches/nixos-17.03
│   └── nixos-17.09 -> /nix/store/m7qgsz2wy9rgc7dpzsacybc9rw79pxxh-nixos-17.09-17.09.3238.e984f9e48e1/binary-caches/nixos-17.09
├── manifest.nix -> /nix/store/913gblkfnvb0sz130wm59s82jxwkp3b1-env-manifest.nix
├── nixos-17.03 -> /nix/store/kzd027j27bifzi82339isf6rzir2g1hq-nixos-17.03-17.03.1949.78e9665b48f/nixos-17.03
└── nixos-17.09 -> /nix/store/m7qgsz2wy9rgc7dpzsacybc9rw79pxxh-nixos-17.09-17.09.3238.e984f9e48e1/nixos-17.09

However, they are not shown with nix-channel --list, and I cannot remove them with nix-channel --remove:

$ nix-channel --list
$ sudo nix-channel --list
nixos https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-18.09

Is something broken on my system, or what could be the explanation? How can I remove those per-user channels?

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  • I've opened an issue about this for Nix.
    – Alexey
    Commented Feb 10, 2019 at 13:34
  • Why is channel listing only shown when sudo?
    – daparic
    Commented Sep 14, 2019 at 4:53

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Guesstimate: have you ran nix-channel --update since dropping them? (not tested, etc.) You've dropped all channels from your user, according to the output.

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  • I've just tried it, without and with sudo (by the way, not sure if sudo is needed), and also i did nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade, but they still show up.
    – Alexey
    Commented Jan 8, 2019 at 19:20
  • With sudo you operate on root's channel list, without it you operate on the user's channel list. It might be bug that removing names doesn't really work. I certainly did replace channel URL while keeping the name and that works but it's something else.
    – Vladimír Čunát
    Commented Jan 9, 2019 at 12:04
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    Could it be related to this open issue about "Channel names with . or -"?
    – Alexey
    Commented Jan 9, 2019 at 13:07
  • Could you suggest by any chance how to "manually" remove them without breaking anything?
    – Alexey
    Commented Jan 14, 2019 at 9:12

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