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diff --git a/src/nix/run.cc b/src/nix/run.cc
index 35b763345..90b76d666 100644
--- a/src/nix/run.cc
+++ b/src/nix/run.cc
@@ -199,7 +199,10 @@ void chrootHelper(int argc, char * * argv)
uid_t gid = getgid();
if (unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS) == -1)
- throw SysError("setting up a private mount namespace");
+ /* Try with just CLONE_NEWNS in case user namespaces are
+ specifically disabled. */
+ if (unshare(CLONE_NEWNS) == -1)
+ throw SysError("setting up a private mount namespace");
/* Bind-mount realStoreDir on /nix/store. If the latter mount
point doesn't already exists, we have to create a chroot