diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
index 1519732..acd49ab 100644
--- a/flake.lock
+++ b/flake.lock
@@ -60,17 +60,17 @@
     },
     "nixpkgs-for-bootstrap": {
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1656265786,
-        "narHash": "sha256-A9RkoGrxzsmMm0vily18p92Rasb+MbdDMaSnzmywXKw=",
+        "lastModified": 1669834992,
+        "narHash": "sha256-YnhZGHgb4C3Q7DSGisO/stc50jFb9F/MzHeKS4giotg=",
         "owner": "NixOS",
         "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "cd90e773eae83ba7733d2377b6cdf84d45558780",
+        "rev": "596a8e828c5dfa504f91918d0fa4152db3ab5502",
         "type": "github"
       },
       "original": {
         "owner": "NixOS",
         "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "cd90e773eae83ba7733d2377b6cdf84d45558780",
+        "rev": "596a8e828c5dfa504f91918d0fa4152db3ab5502",
         "type": "github"
       }
     },
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index ae85c31..d037aee 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
     nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs";
 
     # for bootstrap zip ball creation and proot-termux builds, we use a fixed version of nixpkgs to ease maintanence.
-    # head of nixos-22.05 as of 2022-06-27
+    # head of nixos-22.11 as of 2022-12-01
     # note: when updating nixpkgs-for-bootstrap, update store paths of proot-termux in modules/environment/login/default.nix
-    nixpkgs-for-bootstrap.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/cd90e773eae83ba7733d2377b6cdf84d45558780";
+    nixpkgs-for-bootstrap.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/596a8e828c5dfa504f91918d0fa4152db3ab5502";
 
     home-manager = {
       url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
diff --git a/modules/environment/login/default.nix b/modules/environment/login/default.nix
index a89cf3f..fb45f2d 100644
--- a/modules/environment/login/default.nix
+++ b/modules/environment/login/default.nix
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ in
     environment.files = {
       inherit login loginInner;
 
-      prootStatic = "/nix/store/wsgnxpmrdmjy7qrsxvp7r5jandbabzjl-proot-termux-static-aarch64-unknown-linux-android-unstable-2022-05-03";
+      prootStatic = "/nix/store/8xg8jnaczivjjrd9nq38qvrp9z7avib1-proot-termux-static-aarch64-unknown-linux-android-unstable-2022-05-03";
     };
 
   };
diff --git a/overlays/lib/nixpkgs.nix b/overlays/lib/nixpkgs.nix
index 2ad1437..720dab7 100644
--- a/overlays/lib/nixpkgs.nix
+++ b/overlays/lib/nixpkgs.nix
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
 { super }:
 
 let
-  # head of nixos-22.05 as of 2022-06-27
+  # head of nixos-22.11 as of 2022-12-01
   pinnedPkgsSrc = super.fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "NixOS";
     repo = "nixpkgs";
-    rev = "cd90e773eae83ba7733d2377b6cdf84d45558780";
-    sha256 = "1b2wn1ncx9x4651vfcgyqrm93pd7ghnrgqjbkf6ckkpidah69m03";
+    rev = "596a8e828c5dfa504f91918d0fa4152db3ab5502";
+    sha256 = "sha256-YnhZGHgb4C3Q7DSGisO/stc50jFb9F/MzHeKS4giotg=";
   };
 in
 
diff --git a/pkgs/nix-directory.nix b/pkgs/nix-directory.nix
index 619660c..d9178ff 100644
--- a/pkgs/nix-directory.nix
+++ b/pkgs/nix-directory.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ let
   prootCommand = lib.concatStringsSep " " [
     "${proot}/bin/proot"
     "-b ${pkgsStatic.nix}:/static-nix"
+    "-b /proc:/proc" # needed because tries to access /proc/self/exe
     "-r ${buildRootDirectory}"
     "-w /"
   ];
@@ -30,7 +31,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   PROOT_NO_SECCOMP = 1; # see https://github.com/proot-me/PRoot/issues/106
 
   buildPhase = ''
-    mkdir --parents ${buildRootDirectory}/nix
+    # create nix state directory to satisfy nix heuristics to recognize the manual create /nix directory as valid nix store
+    mkdir --parents ${buildRootDirectory}/nix/var/nix/db
     cp --recursive store ${buildRootDirectory}/nix/store
 
     CACERT=$(find ${buildRootDirectory}/nix/store -path '*-nss-cacert-*/ca-bundle.crt' | sed 's,^${buildRootDirectory},,')