- Renamed system.build.menuBuilder to system.build.installBootLoader.
- ‘install-grub.pl’ (formerly grub-menu-builder.pl) now generates the
GRUB menu *and* installs GRUB (if necessary).
- ‘switch-to-configuration.sh’ has no boot loader specific knowledge
anymore. It just calls installBootLoader.
The old GRUB menu builder script is quite slow, typically taking
several seconds. This is a real annoyance since it's run every time
you switch to a new configuration. Therefore this patch replaces the
Bash script with a much faster Perl script. In a VirtualBox test, the
execution time went from 2.7s to 0.1s. The Perl version is also more
correct because it uses XML to get the GRUB configuration (through
builtins.toXML), so there are no shell escaping issues.
The new script currently lacks support for subconfigurations defined
through "nesting.children".
BusyBox doesn't handle the "auto" filesystem type very well: fsck will
just ignore such filesystems, and mount will only work properly if the
required kernel module is already loaded. Therefore, use blkid to
determine the filesystem type.
Also generate an /etc/fstab in the initrd rootfs on the fly. This is
useful if you're dropped into an emergency shell since it allows you
to say "fsck /dev/sda1" or "mount /dev/sda" and have the right thing
happen.
Using BusyBox instead of Bash plus a bunch of other tools gives us a
much more feature-full, yet smaller initrd. In particular, BusyBox
contains networking commands such as ip and a DHCP client, useful for
NFS boots. It's also much more convenient for rescue situations
because the shell has builtin readline support and there are many more
tools (including vi).
Enabled a bunch of units that ship with systemd. Also added an option
‘boot.systemd.units’ that can be used to define additional units
(e.g. ‘sshd.service’).
Upstart requires /dev/ptmx since its 1.4, and will lock up in case of it missing.
I was hitting this in the fuloong, where I don't use the nixos initrd.
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* Change the name of the top-level derivation from "system" to
"nixos-<version>".
* Show the NixOS version in the GRUB boot menu instead of the kernel
version.
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* Load scsi_wait_scan after all other kernel modules to ensure that
all SCSI device nodes have been created.
* Increase the timeout for the appearance of the root device to 20
seconds.
* Do a "udevadm settle" just after the root device has appeared to
make sure that udev isn't accessing the device anymore (hopefully).
On EC2 (Xen), I've seen fsck on the root fail randomly with "device
in use" errors.
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* Add a slash to the end of $MODULE_DIR, as expected by depmod. (Not
that running depmod from the command line is all that useful, since
you can't use it to update the tree in the Nix store. But at least
commands like "depmod -n" work now.) Reported by Kirill Elagin on
IRC.
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USR1 signal before it has forked into the background (because it
will be in the start/running state immediately).
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slow: calling basename in a loop somewhere has a noticable impact on
performance. We really shouldn't use bash scripts.
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were redirecting output to /var/log/upstart/<job>, so it didn't work
properly.
* mountall-ip-up: send the USR1 signal to the mountall process by
looking up its PID, rather than doing "pkill -USR1 mountall". This
prevents a very subtle race condition where USR1 is delivered to a
child process of mountall (such as fsck), if pkill sees the child
just before its execve(). There is actually still a race condition
because mountall installs its USR1 handler *after* daemonising, so
mountall-ip-up could accidentally kill mountall. Should report this
to upstream.
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It needs udevd to be running because the modules may require
firmware. Thanks to Mathijs and Arie for pointing this out.
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longer compares the current configuration to the previous
configuration, but instead compares the current Upstart state to the
intended state. Thus, if the switch script is interrupted, running
nixos-rebuild again will resume starting/stopping Upstart jobs where
the previous run left off.
We determine if an Upstart job has changed by having the pre-start
script of each Upstart job put a symlink to its .conf file in
/var/run/upstart-jobs. So if this symlink differs from the target
of /etc/init/<job>.conf, then the job has changed. This also
prevents multiple restarts of dependent jobs. E.g., if job B has
"start on started A" and "stop on stopping A", then restarting A
will cause B to be restarted, so B shouldn't B restarted a second
time.
We only start jobs that are not running if 1) they're tasks that
have been previously run (like mountall); or 2) they're jobs that
have a "start on" condition. This seems a reasonable heuristic.
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starts the given job and waits until it's running; "stop_check"
checks that the current job hasn't been asked to stop.
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modprobe.
* Move the implementation of boot.kernelModules from the udev job to
the activation script. This prevents races with the udev job.
* Drop references to the "capability" kernel module, which no longer
exists.
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Note: This feature is INCOMPLETE. Moreover, when runEfibootmgr is true it will
MODIFY NVRAM and, on Apple systems, possibly brick your firmware. PLEASE be
careful while further testing is performed
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This allows setting a fixed device name per array, thus ensuring that at boot,
the arrays will always be mounted with the same names. I think this allows
solving the problem of grub getting confused about softraid device names
(prefix and root), if the devices always get the same naming at initrd.
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I set it as default because users can benefit of this without having to prepare
their nixos first, and I don't think it will break any nixos for the initrd
size increase.
It can be disabled with 'boot.initrd.withExtraTools = false'.
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reiserfs now have separate modules that are conditional on
boot.supportedFilesystems and boot.initrd.supportedFilesystems.
By default, these include the filesystems specified in the fsType
attribute in fileSystems. Ext2/3/4 support is currently
unconditional.
Also unbreak the installer test (http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2272302).
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Upstart won't find a "bash" binary in $PATH when those commands are run, so we
refer to it using an absolute path.
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pierron recommended the use of types.string over mergeOptionString, as
it is superior but might break things.
For my system the change evaluated to the exactly same.
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This reverts commit 025f8c40b40fad50086e8761eee61098d8fb2651.
The check was intened for building the initrd of the installer.
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popt-0.16 and cryptsetup-1.4.1 both generated pkgconfig (in contrast
to older versions). The pkgconfig files (popt.pc and cryptsetup.pc)
contain references into the store that are not removed by patchelf and
stage-1 fails with errors like: "output is not allowed to refer to
path `/nix/store/qccjhn063cfv171rcaxvxh0yk96zf7l2-cryptsetup-1.4.1'".
Now, only the cryptsetup binaries and its dependencies are copied,
determined by ldd. In addition the cryptsetup binary and lvm are
tested after patchelf has adjusted the library paths.
Thanks to Peter Simons and Eelco Dolstra for giving the rights hints.
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After the change from revision 30103, nixos-rebuild suddenly consumed
freaky amounts of memory. I had to abort the process after it had
allocated well in excess of 30GB(!) of RAM. I'm not sure what is causing
this behavior, but undoing that assignment fixes the problem. The other
two commits needed to be revoked, too, because they depend on 30103.
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possibility that a udevd process survives, preventing udevd from
starting in stage 2:
machine# udevd[1421]: bind failed: Address already in use
machine# udevd[1421]: error binding udev control socket
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directory. This happened with /etc/polkit-1, which used to be a
symlink to /etc/static/polkit-1, which was itself a symlink but now
is a directory. Not handling this correctly led to /etc/static
being clobbered with symlinks pointing to themselves.
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was already the case on Linux 2.6.32, but in newer kernels the CFQ
scheduler is built as a module, so all block devices got the ‘none’
scheduler instead.
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then every unshare(CLONE_NEWNS) system call causes a new entry to be
created in /dev/cgroup/<pid>, which is not removed automatically.
This can cause subsequent calls to unshare() to fail if the PID has
wrapped around. Worse, a large number of entries in /dev/cgroup
causes a very substantial system slowdown: doing 10,000
fork()/unshare(CLONE_NEWNS)/exit() calls took 21s without the "ns"
subsystem, but 2m43s with it, and the system slows down permanently
until the entries in /dev/cgroup are removed (going to a load of > 6
on my laptop).
This is particularly important for Nix because its chroot feature
uses unshare(CLONE_NEWNS). (http://yellowgrass.org/issue/Nix/219)
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be set when udevd calls external programs. (The udev manpage claims
that udevd passes its own environment variables, but this is not the
case.)
* Get rid of some udev rule hacks that no longer seem needed.
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problem is that configuration values below a mkIf are evaluated
strictly even if the condition is false. Thus "${luksRoot}" causes
an evaluation error. As a workaround, use the empty string instead
of `null' as the default value. However, we should really fix the
laziness of mkIf. It's likely that NixOS evaluation would be much
faster if it didn't have to evaluate disabled configuration values.
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in /etc/xen/auto at boot time, to save all running domains during
shutdown, and to restore all saved domains at boot time.
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init script. This removes the need for the `systemConfig' boot
parameter; `init=<stage-2-init>' is enough. However, the GRUB menu
builder still needs to add `systemConfig' to the kernel command line
for compatibility with old configurations.
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* Moved some scriptlets to the appropriate modules.
* Put the scriptlet that sets the default path at the start, since it
never makes sense not to have it there. It no longer needs to be
declared as a dependency.
* If a scriptlet has no dependencies, it can be denoted as a plain
string (i.e., `noDepEntry' is not needed anymore).
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like `build-vm', but boots using the regular boot loader (i.e. GRUB
1 or 2) rather than booting directly from the kernel/initrd. Thus
it allows testing of GRUB.
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