Eelco Dolstra wrote:
Hm, this is not really the intended use of stateVersion. From the description:
Every once in a while, a new NixOS release may change
configuration defaults in a way incompatible with stateful
data. For instance, if the default version of PostgreSQL
changes, the new version will probably be unable to read your
existing databases. To prevent such breakage, you can set the
value of this option to the NixOS release with which you want
to be compatible. The effect is that NixOS will option
defaults corresponding to the specified release (such as using
an older version of PostgreSQL).
So this is only intended for options that have some corresponding on-disk state. AFAICT this is not the case for sound. In any case stateVersion is a necessary evil that only exists because we can't just upgrade Postgres databases or change SSH host keys. It's not necessary for things like whether sound is enabled. (If the user discovers that sound is suddenly disabled, they can just enable it.)
I had some vague recollection that we also had a configVersion option setting to control the defaults for non-state-related options, but I can't find it so maybe it was only discussed.
Use systemd to create the directory for UNIX socket. Also use localhost instead
of 127.0.0.1 as is done in default cupsd.conf so that IPv6 is enabled when
available.
Use systemd to create the directory for UNIX socket. Also use localhost instead
of 127.0.0.1 as is done in default cupsd.conf so that IPv6 is enabled when
available.
We want to wait for both stacks to be active before declaring that network is active.
So either both default gateways must be specified or only IPv4 if IPv6 is disabled to
avoid dhcpcd for network-online.target.
When the znapzend module was enabled for the first time with pure =
true; then the list of previous entries is empty, but xargs still tried
to execute a znapzendzetup delete command with no arguments, which made
it fail
network-online.target properly depends on the underlying network
management tool (e.g. NixOS static configuration scripts, dhcpcd,
NetworkManager, networkd) signalling that all interfaces are up and
appropriately configured (to whatever degree possible/required), whereas
network.target only indicates that the network management tool itself
has started.
At one point in my configuration I had:
boot.kernel.sysctl = {
# https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13019/description-of-kernel-printk-values
"kernel.printk" = "4 4 1 7";
};
which triggered:
error: The unique option `boot.kernel.sysctl.kernel.printk' is defined multiple times, in `/home/teto/dotfiles/nixpkgs/mptcp-unstable.nix' and `/home/teto/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/system/boot/kernel.nix'.
(use ‘--show-trace’ to show detailed location information)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/teto/nixops/scripts/nixops", line 984, in <module>
args.op()
File "/home/teto/nixops/scripts/nixops", line 406, in op_deploy
max_concurrent_activate=args.max_concurrent_activate)
File "/home/teto/nixops/nixops/deployment.py", line 1045, in deploy
self.run_with_notify('deploy', lambda: self._deploy(**kwargs))
File "/home/teto/nixops/nixops/deployment.py", line 1034, in run_with_notify
f()
File "/home/teto/nixops/nixops/deployment.py", line 1045, in <lambda>
self.run_with_notify('deploy', lambda: self._deploy(**kwargs))
File "/home/teto/nixops/nixops/deployment.py", line 985, in _deploy
self.configs_path = self.build_configs(dry_run=dry_run, repair=repair, include=include, exclude=exclude)
File "/home/teto/nixops/nixops/deployment.py", line 653, in build_configs
raise Exception("unable to build all machine configurations")
Exception: unable to build all machine configurations
This simple addition allows to override it.
After the systemd 237 upgrade, radvd wouldn't start anymore because the
PID file cannot be written. It seems that directories in /run has to be
explicitely defined as RuntimeDirectory now. The PID file isn't needed
due to systemd, though, so it was removed along with forking and loggia
via syslog.
This fixes the ipv6 NixOS test.
Alertmanager 0.13.0 doesn't support single dash long options, so '-config.file'
for example is parsed as '-c', which leads to the service not starting.
Previously the parameters were just dropped. Now they can be read
from within the handler script. An example to show this is added.
Makes use of the new writeShellScript function as suggested in:
issue #21557
resolves: #21557
Inspired from the dhcpd service implementation
Only 2 configurations options at the moment:
- enabled
- path to config directory (defaults to /etc/raddb)
Implementation was also inspired from ArchLinux
systemd file and corrected with @dotlambda and
@fpletz help.
If you have more than 1 User with hasedPassword Option set it generates
```
rm -f /var/lib/mosquitto/passwd
touch /var/lib/mosquitto/passwd
echo 'user1:$6$xxx' > /var/lib/mosquitto/passwd
echo 'user2:$6$xxx' > /var/lib/mosquitto/passwd
```
Which ends up in only having 1 user.
Of course, you'll get a bunch of warnings from the activation script:
$ nixos-enter --root /tmp/mnt/
setting up /etc...
mount: /dev: permission denied.
mount: /dev/pts: permission denied.
mount: /dev/shm: permission denied.
mount: /sys: permission denied.
/nix/var/nix/profiles/system/activate: line 74: /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of '/run/wrappers/wrappers.0pKlU8JsvV/dbus-daemon-launch-helper': Invalid argument
NOTE: Under Linux, effective file capabilities must either be empty, or
exactly match the union of selected permitted and inheritable bits.
Failed to set capabilities on file `/run/wrappers/wrappers.0pKlU8JsvV/ping' (Operation not permitted)
chown: changing ownership of '/run/wrappers/wrappers.0pKlU8JsvV/unix_chkpwd': Invalid argument
[root@nixos:/]#
l2tp saves its secrets into /etc/ipsec.d but strongswan would not read
them. l2tp checks for /etc/ipsec.secrets includes /etc/ipsec.d and if
not tries to write into it.
Solution:
Have the strongswan module create /etc/ipsec.d and /etc/ipsec.secrets
when networkmanager_l2tp is installed.
Include /etc/ipsec.secrets in
/nix/store/hash-strongswan/etc/ipsec.secrets so that it can find l2tp
secrets.
Also when the ppp 'nopeerdns' option is used, the DNS resolver tries to
write into an alternate file /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. This fails when
/etc/ppp does not exist so the module creates it by default.
The use of Nix 2.0 significantly simplifies the installer, since we
can just pass a different store URI (--store /mnt) - it's no longer
needed to set up a chroot environment for the build, and to bootstrap
Nix into the chroot.
Also, commands that need to run in the installation (namely boot
loader installation and setting a root password) are now executed
using nixos-enter.
This also removes the need for nixos-prepare-root since any required
initialisation is done by Nix or by the activation script.
* The environment variables NIX_CONF_DIR, NIX_BUILD_HOOK and
NIX_REMOTE are no longer needed.
* A /bin/sh (from busybox) is provided by default in sandboxes.
* Various options were renamed.
Among other things, this will allow *2nix tools to output plain data
while still being composable with the traditional
callPackage/.override interfaces.
This can be disabled with the `withKerberos` flag if desired.
Make the relevant assertions lazy,
so that if an overlay is used to set kerberos to null,
a later override can explicitly set `withKerberos` to false.
Don't build with GSSAPI by default;
the patchset is large and a bit hairy,
and it is reasonable to follow upstream who has not merged it
in not enabling it by default.
This can be disabled with the `withKerberos` flag if desired.
Make the relevant assertions lazy,
so that if an overlay is used to set kerberos to null,
a later override can explicitly set `withKerberos` to false.
Don't build with GSSAPI by default;
the patchset is large and a bit hairy,
and it is reasonable to follow upstream who has not merged it
in not enabling it by default.
`nixos-generate-config` detects the `cpuFreqGovernor` suited best for my
machine, e.g. `powerManagement.cpuFreqGovernor = lib.mkDefault "powersave";`.
However the `powerManagement` module sets a sensitive default for
`cpuFreqGovernor` using `mkDefault` to avoid breackage with older
setups. Since 140ac2f1 the `hardware-configuration.nix` sets the
gorvernor with `mkDefault` as well which causes evaluation errors if the
powermanagement module is enabled:
```
error: The unique option `powerManagement.cpuFreqGovernor' is defined multiple times, in `/home/ma27/Projects/nixos-config/hardware-configuration.nix' and `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/config/power-management.nix'.
```
Using `mkOptionDefault` rather than `mkDefault` in the powermanagement
module fixes this issue as it decreases the priority of the module and
prefers the value set in `hardware-configuration.nix`.
I have confirmed the change using the following VM declaration:
```
{
cpuFreq = { lib, ... }: {
powerManagement.cpuFreqGovernor = lib.mkDefault "powersave";
powerManagement.enable = true;
};
}
```
`services.postfix.config` is now correctly merged with the default attrset
specified in the module. Some options that are lists in postfix also
have to be lists in nix to be merged correctly. Other default options are
now set with `mkDefault` so they can be overridden via the module system.
- Add a new parameter `imageType` that can specify either "efi" or
"legacy" (the default which should see no change in behaviour by
this patch).
- EFI images get a GPT partition table (instead of msdos) with a
mandatory ESP partition (so we add an assert that `partitioned`
is true).
- Use the partx tool from util-linux to determine exact start + size
of the root partition. This is required because GPT stores a secondary
partition table at the end of the disk, so we can't just have
mkfs.ext4 create the filesystem until the end of the disk.
- (Unrelated to any EFI changes) Since we're depending on the
`-E offset=X` option to mkfs which is only supported by e2fsprogs,
disallow any attempts of creating partitioned disk images where
the root filesystem is not ext4.
The default cache directory set by oh-my-zsh is $ohMyZsh/cache which
lives in the Nix store in our case. This causes issues with several
completion plugins provided by oh-my-zsh.
This was only applicable to very specific hardware, and the only person
with an apparent interest in maintaining it (me) no longer uses the
hardware in question.
When a domain has a lot of subdomains, it is quite easy to hit the rate limit:
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/
Instead you can define the certificate manually in `security.acme.certs` and list the subdomains in the `extraDomains` option.
sg and newgrp only changes the current user session and should be
available to users even if the "users.mutableUsers" option is set.
These are common, useful commands.
chfn does modify the /etc/passwd GECOS field which is also controlled
by the option "users.users.<name?>.description", so it's less
appropriate to make it available when "users.mutableUsers" is set.
However, because CHFN_RESTRICT in login.defs is never set in current
NixOS the chfn functionality is never available to users anyway and
may as well have its SUID disabled, as only root is able to use it.
This is recommended in the chfn man page in this case.
This makes memoization of Nixpkgs evaluation less effective, since
some Nixpkgs invocations may have 'config = {}' while others may have
'config = { xorg = {}; }'.
Instead set 'config = {}'.
This reverts commit 45c5a915980fbe1fa6f0ff80ab2d11b60b844d9e.
This breaks PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames on systems without networkd.
We should only include this file from systemd, when networkd is enabled.
