agenix activation runs from initrd-nixos-activation-start, which fires
right after /sysroot/persistent is mounted but before impermanence's
stage-2 bind mounts. The TPM identity at /var/lib/agenix/tpm-identity
was therefore unreadable at activation time, and every secret silently
failed to decrypt: 'no readable identities found'. Visible downstream
fallout was pull-update-apply hitting HTTP 401 against the binary cache
because nix-cache-netrc was never written to /run/agenix.
Mark /var/lib/agenix as neededForBoot via a bare fileSystems entry,
mirroring the existing /home/${username} bind. Drop the now-redundant
environment.persistence directory entry to avoid two competing units.
Simon Gardling
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