automatically. This is mostly useful for testing. (KDM also has
this feature, but it's nice not to depend on KDE for non-KDE tests.)
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19239
write some magic string to ttyS0. This removes the dependency on
having a CIFS mount.
* Use a thread to process the stdout/stderr of each QEMU instance.
* Add a kernel command line parameter "stage1panic" to tell stage 1 to
panic if an error occurs. This is faster than waiting until
connect() times out.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19212
installation-cd-minimal.nix is now 2.6.32. Added most of its extra
tools to installation-cd-base.nix.
* Put memtest86 at the bottom of the GRUB menu. (There is currently
no good way to do this other than to change the module inclusion
order.)
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19188
* Miss-interpretation of the --skip option of cryptsetup. Ciphered partition labels are not supported. Labels are erased when doing mkswap on the ciphered partition.
* Avoid doing swapon on devices which are already listed in /proc/swaps.
* Remove no longer listed devices with only one swapoff command.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19164
* Assemble devices only if there is a new entry.
* Add 'new-raid-array' flag to assemble new arrays.
* Emit new-devices flag to triggers the 'filesystems' task.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19145
use exec so that upstart knows when automount shuts down.
If a mount is used upstart will send SIGKILL.
Automount doesn't clean up. So unmount everything using a post script.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19105
trunk) doesn't have a -s flag. 0.7.0 in the stdenv branch
presumably does, but it's marked as unstable upstream.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19047
/nix bind mounted from a fs not rootfs.
As niksnut found, if the sources of bind mounted directories are
umounted before remounting them as "ro", a "mount -o remount,ro" on the
bind targets will not leave the filesystem properly umounted, the same
way as a "-o remount,ro" would do on a usual filesystem.
So, the trick of always remounting as 'ro' before attempting an umount seems
to fix the problem.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19008
partition from /. If so, copy the kernels and initrds to /boot and
use paths relative to /boot in the GRUB configuration file. This
makes the boot.loader.grub.bootDevice option obsolete. (Is there a
way to mark obsolete options?) It also makes it unnecessary to set
boot.loader.grub.copyKernels, although that option is still
available since it can speed up GRUB if the Nix store is very
large.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18998
GRUB version changes. (That's the complete version from the name
attribute, not the boot.loader.grub.version attribute.) The current
version is recorded in /boot/grub/version. This is required to
prevent massive breakage when we change the default value of
boot.loader.grub.version to "2".
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18997
problem:
Nix only recognizes nixbld users which have nixbld set in extraGroups.
After installation the user was created by activate with group='nixbld'
and extraGroups=[]
After rebooting a conditional shell script fixed this by adding
extraGroups=["nixbld"].
This patches creates the user they way it was in the past with
group='nobody' and extraGroups=["nixbld"].
Another solution would be making nix be aware of the primary group as
well. However this would require everyone to update Nix after updating
NixOS.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18985
expose makeInfo (used by test now)
expose config hack
* Adding tests to release.nix
* fixes
* removing dependency on perl
refactoring details:
Move all configuration modules used by the NixOS installation test script
into one directory.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18982
is not on the same partition as /boot (i.e. when
boot.loader.grub.bootDevice is set): just copy the background image
and the font to /boot.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18979
modules that should be added to the initrd, but should only be
loaded on demand (e.g. by the kernel or by udev). This is
especially useful in the installation CD, where we now only load the
modules needed by the hardware.
* Enable automatic modprobing by udev in the initrd.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18975
automatically loaded by the kernel, load it at boot time.
* Put the ext2 module (which used to be built in) in the initrd to
prevent unexpected breakage.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18963
You can run the kvm nixos installation test by:
nix-build --no-out-link tests/test-nixos-install-from-cd.nix
It boots the installed system.
It still fails sshd isn't started (yet)
adding nixos-bootstrapping-archive:
You can install NixOS easily using any live cd now.
See README-BOOTSTRAP-NIXOS
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18950
qemu_kvm. Installation doesn't take place yet. VM is started
printing a remote controlled "Hello".
This serves as example how to run a vm within a bulid job.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18887
of usual system counters).
It sets up some cron jobs for collecting the data, and not that often, generating the
graphs. Then the httpd server is configured with a directory with the generated
static files.
http://www.brianlane.com/software/systemhealth/
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18866
* Add serverAddress option.
* Evaluate the client daemon in foreground, otherwise upstart get the hand
and tries to restart it.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18799
the `sendmail' command (i.e. ssmtp). This is hacky - there should
be some global config value that specifies the path to sendmail,
which the ssmtp module and others can then set.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18777
By using this approach we no longer have to specify schemas like this:
schema = "${myDatabaseSchemaDrvFun}/prefix/to/the/sqlfile.sql";
but like this:
schema = myDataBaseSchemaDrv;
which is in some cases more convenient.
svn path=/nixos/branches/upstart-0.6/; revision=18450
the acpid service.
* Add a pm-utils hook to allow commands to be executed when the system
suspends/resumes etc.
svn path=/nixos/branches/upstart-0.6/; revision=18353
the /init and /system symlinks on the CD (since it removes the
cyclic dependency between building the Grub menu and the system
derivation).
svn path=/nixos/branches/upstart-0.6/; revision=18344
stdenv-updates stuff. Still to be reviewed, but at least an implementation to have
some different armv5tel-linux platforms: qemu versatile and the sheevaplug.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18290
option. Otherwise, the system may depends on unused/unsupported
softwares and users will be force to use properties in their
configuration.nix file to override this default value. (too complex for
new users)
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18288
unmounted or at least remounted read-only during shutdown. Upstart
0.6 apparently uses nscd to do some name lookups, resulting in it
holding some mmap mappings to deleted files in /var/run/nscd.
E.g. lsof shows:
init 1 root DEL REG 253,0 1850313 /var/run/nscd/dbyn3Piz
init 1 root DEL REG 253,0 1850312 /var/run/nscd/dbt2e8PH
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=324900.
This is a workaround - it would be better if Upstart didn't do this.
svn path=/nixos/branches/upstart-0.6/; revision=18258
* dbus: don't signal Upstart, since that seems to make it forget about
pending events or something. In any case starting dbus after acpid
was running wouldn't trigger hal to be started (but the other way
around did work).
svn path=/nixos/branches/upstart-0.6/; revision=18251
initialisation will be incredibly slow (minutes instead of
seconds). An strace shows that it's continuously looking up
timezone information if TZ is empty.
svn path=/nixos/branches/upstart-0.6/; revision=18235
statically configured interface (i.e. we're not running dhclient).
Otherwise the ntpd job won't be triggered.
* Use the "-n" flag of "initctl emit" to send the event
asynchronously.
svn path=/nixos/branches/upstart-0.6/; revision=18227
no longer emits specific events for those. Instead it emits a
"runlevel" event. The "runlevel" task starts the "shutdown" task to
perform the desired action.
* Upstart 0.6 no longer has a "shutdown" event, so "stop on shutdown"
no longer works. Therefore the shutdown task explicitly stops all
running Upstart jobs, before sending a TERM/KILL signal to all
remaining processes.
* Do a "chvt 1" at the start of the shutdown task to switch to the
console.
* Use /dev/console instead of /dev/tty1, since if somebody is logged
in on tty1, bad things will happen.
svn path=/nixos/branches/upstart-0.6/; revision=18224
is "ready". This prevents ugly race conditions, e.g. HAL failing to
start because dbus hasn't finished starting yet.
* Support post-start scripts. These are executed after the job's main
process has started but before the job's "started" event is
emitted. For instance, the udev job uses this to perform "udevadm
trigger / settle" to create all devices. Previously this had to be
done in the pre-start script, so the daemon had to started in the
pre-start script as well.
svn path=/nixos/branches/upstart-0.6/; revision=18211
driver (in services.xserver.videoDriver), the X server is now given
a set of drivers, and will use PCI ids to find the right one.
The only problem is that the choice of OpenGL driver (the
/var/run/opengl-driver symlink) depends on what driver is selected
at runtime (i.e. the NVIDIA implementation for "nvidia", and Mesa
for all other drivers). However this isn't a big problem right now
since "nvidia" isn't included in the default set of drivers anyway
for legal reasons.
* `services.xserver.resolutions' now defaults to [], meaning that the
X server should figure out the desired resolution(s) itself.
Likewise, `services.xserver.defaultDepth' defaults to 0 to let the X
server figure it out.
* Removed some options from xorg.conf that no longer appear needed
("Composite" and the DRI "Mode").
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18176
* Add deprecated options for "serviceType", "serviceName", "function" and
"config" without changing the behavior.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18150
* Replace an obscure piece of code by its equivalent based on the
recursiveUpdate function. Undefined the obsolete name of
boot.grubDevice to avoid conflicts.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18049
The continue keyword was previously used to mount the next device, but
the loop in has been removed. (see r17919)
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=17973
with an empty password, rather than with a hashed empty password.
The latter is a security risk, because it allows remote root logins
if a user enables sshd before setting a proper root password.
* Allow empty passwords for login and slim, but nothing else.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=17833
