* Change the module syntax of the example to follow Eelco's suggestions.
* Add a section "Building your own NixOS CD", which explain how to replace
configuration.nix by the configuration file of a live CD/DVD.
* Fix "Testing the installer" and "Testing the initrd" to fit the location
of derivations.
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to directly boot into any of the Grub menu entries. This doesn't
work yet though. Probably Grub needs some messing with the
savedefault option.
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work for X logins. (The documentation also says so.) Instead just
call ck-launch-session from the xsession script.
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default session is selected. This is because we always want to run
our own initialisation (like starting ssh-agent).
* ssh-agent: don't start it is a child but have it re-exec the
xsession script. This ensures that ssh-agent quits when we log out.
* In the xsession script, don't redirect output to ~/.xsession-errors
if the display manager is kdm, since kdm already does that. In fact
it uses ~/.xsession-errors<optional number> if there are concurrent
X sessions.
* For consistency with other distros and the xdm manpage, exec the
~/.xsession script instead of sourcing it. Do this for the "custom"
session type provided by kdm.
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some reason:
Sep 10 17:52:49 dutibo kernel: mtrr: no MTRR for f0000000,400000 found
Sep 10 17:52:50 dutibo kdm[2960]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
Sep 10 17:52:50 dutibo kdm[2960]: Unable to fire up local display :0; disabling.
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* Modularised the xorg.conf generation. For instance, the Wacom and
Synaptics support has been moved into separate modules. The
contents of xorg.conf is defined by the option
services.xserver.config, and various other options for specific
sections (e.g. services.xserver.serverLayoutSection).
* displayManager.job.env: made this an attribute set.
* tcpEnable -> enableTCP for naming consistency.
* defaultDepth can be set to 0 to leave it undefined (needed for the
vmware driver).
* Removed some options that seem obsolete or are now the default
(e.g. RenderAccel, AllowGLXWithComposite).
* Removed services.xserver.package. This can now be done using
nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides.
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- Added rpc.statd service, which prevents messages that tell you that you should use -o nolock
- Create /var/lib/nfs on initialization
- Create /etc/exports, so that exportfs can create /var/lib/nfs/etab. This prevents errors such as: mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified
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substitute some values, just prepend them to the start of kdmrc.
KDM will merge multiple sections with the same name (even though it
complains a bit). Option definitions that occur first have
precedence.
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adding an attribute "password" that defines the default password for
an account. The default (null, as opposed to the empty string)
means not to set a password.
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into one argument "modules".
* release.nix: fixed the manual job.
* ISO generation: break an infinite recursion. Don't know why this
suddenly happens. Probably because of the nixpkgs.config change,
but I don't see why. Maybe the option evaluation is too strict.
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be set from the NixOS configuration. For instance, you can say
nixpkgs.config.firefox.enableGeckoMediaPlayer = true;
environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.firefox ];
but the more interesting application is to apply global overrides to
Nixpkgs throughout NixOS, e.g.
nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs:
{ glibc = pkgs.glibc27;
gcc = pkgs.gcc42;
};
would build the whole system with Glibc 2.7 and GCC 4.2. (There are
some issues with "useFromStdenv" in all-packages.nix that need to be
fixed for packages in the stdenv bootstrap though.)
The implementation of this option is kind of evil though due to the
need to prevent a circularity between the evaluation of
nixpkgs.config and the "pkgs" module argument.
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separate module, which just declares a configuration value that
causes the xinetd module to add it to xinetd.conf. Also Nixified
the service declarations to abstract over the inetd implementation.
* Renamed the services.xinetd.tftpd options to services.tftpd. The
fact that the tftpd module uses xinetd is an implementation detail.
* xinetd: use -dontfork to let Upstart monitor it, and use -syslog to
get error messages at startup.
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* Let ConsoleKit track the current logins instead of pam_console.
Udev now takes care of setting the device permissions to the active
user. This works much better, since pam_console wouldn't apply
permissions to new (hot-plugged) devices. Also, the udev+ConsoleKit
approach supports user switching. (We don't have that for X yet,
but it already works for logins on virtual consoles: if you switch
between different users on differents VCs with Alt+Fn, the device
ownership will be changed automatically.)
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the bus daemon can start on demand). ConsoleKit and PolicyKit need
this. This requires a setuid wrapper for dbus-daemon-launch-helper,
as well as a "messagebus" group.
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mkOption argument, because then we lose them if somebody sets
security.setuidPrograms somewhere else. (Shouldn't "default" be
merged as well?)
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programs require that the mode is 4550 so that execution of the
setuid program can be restricted to members of a group.
* setuid-wrappers: remove a race condition in the creation of the
wrappers if the ownership or mode was different than root:root and
4555.
* setuid-wrappers: allow the full path of the wrapped program to be
specified, rather than looking it up in $PATH.
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option security.pam.services containing the list of PAM services.
For instance, the SLiM module simply declares:
security.pam.services = [ { name = "slim"; localLogin = true; } ];
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interface names, use udev's own firmware loader, and dropped the
sndMode option (udev puts all audio devices in the "audio" group, so
users can be added to that group if necessary).
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util-linux-ng instead of e2fsprogs, blkid is in util-linux-ng, and
we need to manually create /dev/.udev prior to starting udevd for
some reason.
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machine containing a replica (minus the state) of the system
configuration. This is mostly useful for testing configuration
changes prior to doing an actual "nixos-rebuild switch" (or even
"nixos-rebuild test"). The VM can be started as follows:
$ nixos-rebuild build-vm
$ ./result/bin/run-*-vm
which starts a KVM/QEMU instance. Additional QEMU options can be
passed through the QEMU_OPTS environment variable
(e.g. QEMU_OPTS="-redir tcp:8080::80" to forward a host port to the
guest). The fileSystem attribute of the regular system
configuration is ignored (using mkOverride), because obviously we
can't allow the VM to access the host's block devices. Instead, at
startup the VM creates an empty disk image in ./<hostname>.qcow2 to
store the VM's root filesystem.
Building a VM in this way is efficient because the VM shares its Nix
store with the host (through a CIFS mount). However, because the
Nix store of the host is mounted read-only in the guest, you cannot
run Nix build actions inside the VM. Therefore the VM can only be
reconfigured by re-running "nixos-rebuild build-vm" on the host and
restarting the VM.
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* Simplified the udev rules generation: merged nixRules into
services.udev.extraRules, and handle services.udev.extraRules using
services.udev.packages.
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With these modifications, a user can configure a tomcat instance with web applications and web services by writing a service, such as:
...
services = {
tomcat = {
enable = true;
webapps = [ mypkgs.HelloWorldWebApplication ];
axis2 = {
enable = true;
services = [ mypkgs.HelloService mypkgs.HelloWorldService ];
};
};
};
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(e.g. --install-grub instead of $NIXOS_INSTALL_GRUB). Also support
some nix-build options (e.g. --show-trace and -j).
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gets rid of endless dhclient log messages such as
Jul 16 19:09:30 dutibo dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wmaster0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
Jul 16 19:09:30 dutibo dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
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* Simplified the pre-start script of the network-interfaces module.
* Removed wireless support from the network-interfaces module. It
only worked for static WEP configurations anyway, and AFAIK nobody
used it.
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broken httpd.conf to be generated. We should really have a merge
function that appends newlines to every value of options like
services.httpd.extraConfig.
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jobs, e.g. (from the nscd job)
{ name = "nscd";
description = "Name Service Cache Daemon";
startOn = "startup";
stopOn = "shutdown";
environment = { LD_LIBRARY_PATH = nssModulesPath; };
preStart =
''
mkdir -m 0755 -p /var/run/nscd
mkdir -m 0755 -p /var/db/nscd
'';
exec = "${pkgs.glibc}/sbin/nscd -f ${./nscd.conf} -d 2> /dev/null";
};
The Upstart job is generated from this. The main goal is to provide
some abstraction from the Upstart syntax. For instance, this should
make it easier to upgrade to newer versions of Upstart, to switch to
an entirely different process management system (e.g. initng or
launchd), or to test a job independantly from Upstart. (However the
startOn and stopOn attributes are tied to Upstart's event model.)
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It allows it to know whether `libnss-mdns' is available, which clients
can ask via the `IsNSSSupportAvailable' D-Bus method.
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-> No longer install graphical packages if the xserver is disabled.
-> avoid duplication of "mkIf config.services.xserver.enable".
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ove QEMU (and other NixOS instances that use a remote filesystem like
NFS):
* Don't take down the network interfaces during shutdown.
* Don't try to unmount the Nix store. Usually, this doesn't work
because it's still in use, but on remote filesystems like CIFS the
`-f' umount flag actually works.
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disabled. Other desktop/display/window manager modules should be
conditional on config.services.xserver.enable as well, but at least
they're disabled by default due to other options.
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* Make sure that reconfiguration in the live CD works properly by
including the proper configuration module in
/etc/nixos/configuration.nix. Ugly.
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configuration. No virtual disk image is generated; the VM shares a
Nix store with the host. This makes it very fast to build new VMs.
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$ nixos-hardware-scan > /etc/nixos/hardware.nix
and import the hardware.nix module in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix.
That way you can easily rescan for new hardware.
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exists. $NIXPKGS needs to be set, otherwise NixOS can't find
Nixpkgs (because in the chroot it's in /mnt/etc/nixos/nixpkgs).
Also clear LANG to shut up Perl warnings about the locale.
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This is because fsck.ext3 takes several minutes to recover the
journal, whereas the ext3 implementation in the kernel only takes a
few seconds. I'd love to know why this is the case...
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an X server and KDE 4. Thanks to squashfs it's only 466 MiB large.
`installation-cd-small.nix' builds the original, text-only
installation CD.
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size of the i686-linux ISO image from 463 MiB to 147 MiB. Hopefully
it also speeds up installation due to reduced seek time and larger
block sizes, but I haven't tested that yet (on real hardware).
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rescue-dvd.nix (not tested though), i.e. it has all its extra
packages and includes the build-time dependencies.
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iso-image.nix contains the minimal stuff necessary to build a
bootable ISO image containing the given configuration. The idea is
that this can be customised by providing additional modules, e.g. to
add extra packages to the image.
The ISO image is exported in the configuration attribute
system.build.isoImage. So it can be built as follows:
$ nix-build lib/eval-config.nix \
--arg configuration 'import ./modules/installer/cd-dvd/iso-image.nix' \
-A config.system.build.isoImage
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package) can be overriden by setting environment.systemPackages in
/etc/nixos/configuration.nix: it shouldn't be special-cased.
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need some devices. In particular this fixes the "Cannot open
virtual console 7" errors in VirtualBox. (There's nothing special
about VirtualBox, but the different timing makes it more likely to
trigger this bug.)
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previously failed to resolve the NTP server hostnames in its config
file, it will happily sit in a loop forever doing nothing.
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start script. It's probably not necessary, but more importantly, it
can hang forever if the network is down. (Actually it will sit in a
loop waiting for UDP packets that will never arrive.) This causes
the NixOS reboot to hang, since Upstart can't kill jobs stuck in
their start script.
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enabled as a session type. Since I'm lazy, provide it
unconditionally. Also have it include "common-console" to set
device ownership when logging in.
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initialising network interfaces, etc.) to modules/tasks. This
follows the Upstart terminology: a service is a job that doesn't
usually terminate (e.g. a daemon), while a task is a job that does
some work and then exits.
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passwords is now done in an activation scriptlet rather than an
Upstart job (not tested). BTW, we should get rid of this module and
add support to the users-groups.nix module for creating accounts
with an empty password.
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