Using the --force option on GRUB isn't recommended, but there are very
specific instances where it makes sense. One example is installing on a
partitionless disk.
Thanks to @NeQuissimus in a5c1985fef for
updating busybox, which since version 1.25 doesn't allow local variables
outside of functions anymore (which is the desired behaviour).
See the following upstream commit of busybox which is the change that
let's this problem surface:
https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=ef2386b80abfb22ccb697ddbdd4047aacc395c50
So this has been an error I've made on my end in
67223ee205, because I originally had a
function for killing the processes but desired to inline it because it's
only used in one place.
This fixes the boot-stage1 NixOS test.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
For some reason, between Linux 4.4.19 and 4.4.20, the atkbd and libps2
kernel modules lost their dependency on i8042 in modules.dep, causing
i8042 not to be included in the initrd. This breaks keyboard in the
initrd, in turn breaking LUKS.
This only happens on the 16.03 branch; on 16.09, it appears i8042 is
pulled into the initrd anyway (through some other dependency,
presumably). But let's include it explicitly.
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/40468431
This makes it easy to specify kernel patches:
boot.kernelPatches = [ pkgs.kernelPatches.ubuntu_fan_4_4 ];
To make the `boot.kernelPatches` option possible, this also makes it
easy to extend and/or modify the kernel packages within a linuxPackages
set. For example:
pkgs.linuxPackages.extend (self: super: {
kernel = super.kernel.override {
kernelPatches = super.kernel.kernelPatches ++ [
pkgs.kernelPatches.ubuntu_fan_4_4
];
};
});
Closes#15095
This fixes two bugs:
* When socket activation is detected, the service itself is added to stop-start list instead of its sockets.
* When service is marked to restart instead of stop (`StopIfChanged = no`) we don't need to restart sockets.
This ensures that most "trivial" derivations used to build NixOS
configurations no longer depend on GCC. For commands that do invoke
gcc, there is runCommandCC.
This is a standard environment that doesn't contain a C/C++
compiler. This is mostly to prevent trivial builders like runCommand
and substituteAll from pulling in gcc for simple configuration changes
on NixOS.
This allows us to define system user targets in addition to the existing
services, timers and sockets.
Furthermore, we add a top-level configuration keyword:
- Documentation
Using "tmpfs" as a script part for system.activationScripts is a bit
misleading since 6efcfe03ae.
We no longer solely mount tmpfs within this script, so using "specialfs"
fits more nicely in terms of naming.
Tested against the "simple" NixOS installer test.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Regression introduced by 79d4636d50.
The mentioned commit moves /run/keys from stage 2 to
boot.specialFileSystems, the latter being remounted during system
activation.
Unfortunately, the specialMount function in the activation script does
this unconditionally and thus will fail if it can't be remounted because
the mount point simply doesn't exist.
We now check the mount point for existance and only remount if it exists
but mkdir + mount it if it doesn't.
Tested against the "simple" NixOS installer test.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
When Grub is to be used with UEFI, it is not going to write to any MBR
of any disk. As such, it is safe to use multiple "nodev" device entries
when mirroring the ESP partition to multiple disks.
E.g.:
```
boot.loader.grub = {
enable = true;
version = 2;
zfsSupport = true;
efiSupport = true;
mirroredBoots = [
{ devices = [ "nodev" ]; path = "/boot1"; efiSysMountPoint = "/boot1"; }
{ devices = [ "nodev" ]; path = "/boot2"; efiSysMountPoint = "/boot2"; }
{ devices = [ "nodev" ]; path = "/boot3"; efiSysMountPoint = "/boot3"; }
];
};
boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
```
Fixes#18584
All swap device option sets "have" a label, it's just that sometimes it's
undefined. Because we set a `device` attribute when we have a label anyway it's
ok to just check device prefix.
Fixes#18891.
See #18319 for details. Starting network-online.target manually does not
work as it hangs indefinitely.
Additionally, don't treat avahi and dhcpcd special and sync their systemd units
with the respective upstream suggestion.
Systemd upstream provides targets for networking. This also includes a target network-online.target.
In this PR I remove / replace most occurrences since some of them were even wrong and could delay startup.
This partially reverts commit ab9537ca22.
From the manpage of systemd-nspawn(1):
Note that systemd-nspawn will mount file systems private to the
container to /dev, /run and similar.
Testing this in a shell turns out:
$ sudo systemd-nspawn --bind-ro=/nix/store "$(readlink "$(which ls)")" /proc
Spawning container aszlig on /home/aszlig.
Press ^] three times within 1s to kill container.
/etc/localtime does not point into /usr/share/zoneinfo/, not updating
container timezone.
1 execdomains kpageflags stat
acpi fb loadavg swaps
asound filesystems locks sys
buddyinfo fs meminfo sysrq-trigger
bus interrupts misc sysvipc
cgroups iomem modules thread-self
cmdline ioports mounts timer_list
config.gz irq mtrr timer_stats
consoles kallsyms net tty
cpuinfo kcore pagetypeinfo uptime
crypto key-users partitions version
devices keys scsi vmallocinfo
diskstats kmsg self vmstat
dma kpagecgroup slabinfo zoneinfo
driver kpagecount softirqs
Container aszlig exited successfully.
So the test on whether PID 1 exists in /proc is enough, because if we
use PID namespaces there actually _is_ a PID 1 (as shown above) and the
special file systems are already mounted. A test on the $containers
variable actually mounts them twice.
This unbreaks NixOS containers and I've tested this against the
containers-imperative NixOS test.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Cc: @rickynils, @shlevy, @edolstra
Before this commit updating /var/setuid-wrappers/ folder introduced
a small window where NixOS activation scripts could be terminated
and resulted into empty /var/setuid-wrappers/ folder.
That's very unfortunate because one might lose sudo binary.
Instead we use two atomic operations mv and ln (as described in
https://axialcorps.com/2013/07/03/atomically-replacing-files-and-directories/)
to achieve atomicity.
Since /var/setuid-wrappers is not a directory anymore, tmpfs mountpoints
were removed in installation scripts and in boot process.
Tested:
- upgrade /var/setuid-wrappers/ from folder to a symlink
- make sure /run/setuid-wrappers-dirs/ legacy symlink is really deleted
Both btrfs-progs and utillinux are ~5MB, we may discuss in future
to handle this better but I see no better way at the moment than
increaing purity in the install process.
OnCalendar entrys can be specified multiple times in a systemd timer, to
make more complex scheduling possible.
Tested by manually checking the timer generated by the following:
systemd = {
services.huhu = {
description = "meh";
wantedBy = [ "default.target" ];
serviceConfig.ExecStart = "/bin/sh -c 'printf HUHU!'";
startAt = [ "*:*:0/30" "*:0/1:15" ];
};
};
It prints HUHU to the log at seconds 0, 15 and 30 of each minute.
A new internal config option `fileSystems.<name>.early` is added to indicate
that the filesystem needs to be loaded very early (i.e. in initrd). They are
transformed to a shell script in `system.build.earlyMountScript` with calls to
an undefined `specialMount` function, which is expected to be caller-specific.
This option is used by stage-1, stage-2 and activation script to set up and
remount those filesystems. Options for them are updated according to systemd
defaults.
lustrate /ˈlʌstreɪt/ verb.
purify by expiatory sacrifice, ceremonial washing, or some other
ritual action.
- sudo touch /etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE
⇒ on next reboot, during stage 1, everything but /nix and /boot
is moved to /old-root
- echo "etc/passwd" | sudo tee -a /etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE
⇒ on next reboot, during stage 1, everything but /nix and /boot
is moved to /old-root; except /etc/passwd is copied back.
Useful for installing NixOS in place on another distro. For instance:
$ nix-env -iE '_: with import <nixpkgs/nixos> { configuration = {}; }; with config.system.build; [ nixos-generate-config manual.manpages ]'
$ sudo mkdir /etc/nixos
$ sudo `which nixos-generate-config`
… edit the configuration files in /etc/nixos using man configuration.nix
if needed
maybe add: users.extraUsers.root.initialHashedPassword = "" ?
… Build the entire NixOS system and link it to the system profile:
$ nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/system -f '<nixpkgs/nixos>' -A system --set
… If you were using a single user install:
$ sudo chown -R 0.0 /nix
… NixOS is about to take over
$ sudo touch /etc/NIXOS
$ sudo touch /etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE
… Let's keep the configuration files we just created
$ echo etc/nixos | sudo tee -a /etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE
$ sudo mv -v /boot /boot.bak &&
sudo /nix/var/nix/profiles/system/bin/switch-to-configuration boot
$ sudo reboot
… NixOS boots, Stage 1 moves all the old distro stuff in /old-root.
The builder has this convoluted `while` loop which just replicates
`readlink -e`. I'm sure there was a reason at one point, because the
loop has been there since time immemorial. It kept getting copied
around, I suspect because nobody bothered to understand what it actually
did.
Incidentally, this fixes#17513, but I have no idea why.
This patch adds handling of a directory becoming a symlink in
/etc. Before this patch, the directory wasn't removed and then
symlinking failed, which caused directory not being updated at all.
The idea for the patch goes to @abbradar at
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/16978#issuecomment-232921903:
> A heuristic idea for this -- a function `isStatic :: Path -> Bool`:
>
> * if path `/etc/foo` is a file, return True iff it's a symlink to `/etc/static/foo`.
> * if path is a directory, return True iff for all items in it `isStatic` is True.
>
> On any conflicts, if old path is static, it's safe to replace and/or
> delete stale. Otherwise make a backup and notify the user via a
> journal entry and console output.
The only difference here -- it will not replace user configs.
This also fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/16978.
We currently only allow upstream's default of "reboot.target" due to the
way the symlinks are initialized. I made this configurable similar to the
default unit.
This reverts commit c69c76ca7e.
This patch was messed up during a rebase -- the commit title doesn't match what
it really does at all (it is actually a broken attempt to get LUKS passphrase
prompts in Plymouth).
A disabled systemd service with a "startAt" attribute, like this:
systemd.services.foo-service = {
enable = false;
startAt = "*-*-* 05:15:00";
...
};
will cause the following errors in the system journal:
systemd[1]: foo-service.timer: Refusing to start, unit to trigger not loaded.
systemd[1]: Failed to start foo-service.timer.
Fix it by not generating the corresponding timer unit when the service
is disabled.
Previously, the value from stdenv.platform.kernelDTB was used. That
doesn't work well if both kinds (DTB and non-DTB) of generations exist
in the system profile.
':' is currently used as separator in /boot/grub/state for the list of
devices GRUB should be installed to. The problem is that ':' itself may
appear in a device path:
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk_Cruzer_20043512300546C0B317-0:0
With such a path, NixOS will install GRUB *every* time, because it
thinks the configuration differs from the state file (due to the wrong
list split). Fix it by using ',' as separator.
For existing systems with GRUB installed on multiple devices, this
change means that GRUB will be installed one extra time.
Fixes issue when upgrading from very old NixOS systems that don't have
systemd-escape in $PATH:
$ sudo nixos-rebuild switch
...
building the system configuration...
updating GRUB 2 menu...
Can't exec "systemd-escape": No such file or directory at /nix/var/nix/profiles/system/bin/switch-to-configuration line 264.
Unable to escape /!
When displaying a warning about a removed Option we should always
include reasoning why it was removed and how to get the same
functionality without it.
Introduces such a description argument and patches occurences (mostly
with an empty string).
startGnuPGAgent: further notes on replacement
This allows setting options for the same LUKS device in different
modules. For example, the auto-generated hardware-configuration.nix
can contain
boot.initrd.luks.devices.crypted.device = "/dev/disk/...";
while configuration.nix can add
boot.initrd.luks.devices.crypted.allowDiscards = true;
Also updated the examples/docs to use /disk/disk/by-uuid instead of
/dev/sda, since we shouldn't promote the use of the latter.
Unfortunately, pkill doesn't distinguish between kernel and user space
processes, so we need to make sure we don't accidentally kill kernel
threads.
Normally, a kernel thread ignores all signals, but there are a few that
do. A quick grep on the kernel source tree (as of kernel 4.6.0) shows
the following source files which use allow_signal():
drivers/isdn/mISDN/l1oip_core.c
drivers/md/md.c
drivers/misc/mic/cosm/cosm_scif_server.c
drivers/misc/mic/cosm_client/cosm_scif_client.c
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_cmd.c
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c
drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c
drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_mass_storage.c
fs/jffs2/background.c
fs/lockd/clntlock.c
fs/lockd/svc.c
fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
While not all of these are necessarily kthreads and some functionality
may still be unimpeded, it's still quite harmful and can cause
unexpected side-effects, especially because some of these kthreads are
storage-related (which we obviously don't want to kill during bootup).
During discussion at #15226, @dezgeg suggested the following
implementation:
for pid in $(pgrep -v -f '@'); do
if [ "$(cat /proc/$pid/cmdline)" != "" ]; then
kill -9 "$pid"
fi
done
This has a few downsides:
* User space processes which use an empty string in their command line
won't be killed.
* It results in errors during bootup because some shell-related
processes are already terminated (maybe it's pgrep itself, haven't
checked).
* The @ is searched within the full command line, not just at the
beginning of the string. Of course, we already had this until now, so
it's not a problem of his implementation.
I posted an alternative implementation which doesn't suffer from the
first point, but even that one wasn't sufficient:
for pid in $(pgrep -v -f '^@'); do
readlink "/proc/$pid/exe" &> /dev/null || continue
echo "$pid"
done | xargs kill -9
This one spawns a subshell, which would be included in the processes to
kill and actually kills itself during the process.
So what we have now is even checking whether the shell process itself is
in the list to kill and avoids killing it just to be sure.
Also, we don't spawn a subshell anymore and use /proc/$pid/exe to
distinguish between user space and kernel processes like in the comments
of the following StackOverflow answer:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/12231039
We don't need to take care of terminating processes, because what we
actually want IS to terminate the processes.
The only point where this (and any previous) approach falls short if we
have processes that act like fork bombs, because they might spawn
additional processes between the pgrep and the killing. We can only
address this with process/control groups and this still won't save us
because the root user can escape from that as well.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Fixes: #15226
A user noticed the example for `hosts`, took the `mode` permissions literally, and ended up with surprising behavior on their system. Updating the documentation to not reference a real config file which might have real permissions requirements.
Continuation of 79c3c16dcbb3b45c0f108550cb89ccd4fc855e3b. Systemd 229
sets the default RLIMIT_CORE to infinity, causing systems to be
littered with core dumps when systemd.coredump.enable is disabled.
This restores the 15.09 soft limit of 0 and hard limit of infinity.
This reverts commit 45c218f893.
Busybox's modprobe causes numerous "Unknown symbol" errors in the
kernel log, even though the modules do appear to load correctly.
Systemd 229 sets kernel.core_pattern to "|/bin/false" by default,
unless systemd-coredump is enabled. Revert back to the default of
writing "core" in the current directory.
Also add required systemd services for starting/stopping mdmon.
Closes#13447.
abbradar: fixed `mdadmShutdown` service name according to de facto conventions.
Since we don't restart sysinit.service in switch-to-configuration, this
additionally overrides systemd-binfmt.service to depend on
proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount, which is normally provided by
sysinit.service.
- Enforce that an option declaration has a "defaultText" if and only if the
type of the option derives from "package", "packageSet" or "nixpkgsConfig"
and if a "default" attribute is defined.
- Enforce that the value of the "example" attribute is wrapped with "literalExample"
if the type of the option derives from "package", "packageSet" or "nixpkgsConfig".
- Warn if a "defaultText" is defined in an option declaration if the type of
the option does not derive from "package", "packageSet" or "nixpkgsConfig".
- Warn if no "type" is defined in an option declaration.
This reverts commit b861bf8ddf, because according to @mdorman [1] this
change rendered his NixOS systems unbootable, and we probably don't want that.
[1] b861bf8ddf (commitcomment-16058598)
Allow usage of list of strings instead of a comma-separated string
for filesystem options. Deprecate the comma-separated string style
with a warning message; convert this to a hard error after 16.09.
15.09 was just released, so this provides a deprecation period during
the 16.03 release.
closes#10518
Signed-off-by: Robin Gloster <mail@glob.in>
It's not entirely clear why this happens, but sometimes /proc/1/exe
returns a bogus value, like
/ar3a3j6b9livhy5fcfv69izslhgk4gcz-systemd-217/lib/systemd/systemd. In
any case, we can just conservatively assume that we need to restart
systemd when this happens.
Fixes#10261.
Fixes references coming from the mdadm udev rules.
This addresses #12722 (mdadm udev rules have references to /usr/bin) but
still won't fix the warning, though (if we want to fix the warnings, we
will have to patch the udev rules generater in services/hardware/udev).
For common mdraid functionality, this shouldn't fix anything, because
the wrong references seem to only apply to containers, see these
(wrapped) lines from ${mdadm}/lib/udev/rules.d/63-md-raid-arrays.rules:
# Tell systemd to run mdmon for our container, if we need it.
ENV{MD_LEVEL}=="raid[1-9]*",
ENV{MD_CONTAINER}=="?*",
PROGRAM="/usr/bin/readlink $env{MD_CONTAINER}",
ENV{MD_MON_THIS}="%c"
ENV{MD_MON_THIS}=="?*",
PROGRAM="/usr/bin/basename $env{MD_MON_THIS}",
ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}+="mdmon@%c.service"
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Partially reverts commit 901163c0c7.
This has broken remote SSH into initrd because ${cfg.shell} is not
expanded. Also, nsswitch is useless without libnss_files.so which
are installed by initrd-ssh.
- add missing types in module definitions
- add missing 'defaultText' in module definitions
- wrap example with 'literalExample' where necessary in module definitions
Setting nixosVersion to something custom is useful for meaningful GRUB
menus and /nix/store paths, but actuallly changing it rebulids the
whole system path (because of `nixos-version` script and manual
pages). Also, changing it is not a particularly good idea because you
can then be differentitated from other NixOS users by a lot of
programs that read /etc/os-release.
This patch introduces an alternative option that does all you want
from nixosVersion, but rebuilds only the very top system level and
/etc while using your label in the names of system /nix/store paths,
GRUB and other boot loaders' menus, getty greetings and so on.
This hopefully fixes intermittent initrd failures where udevd cannot
create a Unix domain socket:
machine# running udev...
machine# error getting socket: Address family not supported by protocol
machine# error initializing udev control socket
machine# error getting socket: Address family not supported by protocol
The "unix" kernel module is supposed to be loaded automatically, and
clearly that works most of the time, but maybe there is a race
somewhere. In any case, no sane person would run a kernel without Unix
domain sockets, so we may as well make it builtin.
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/30001448
This hopefully fixes intermittent test failures like
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/29962437
router# [ 240.128835] INFO: task mke2fs:99 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
router# [ 240.130135] Not tainted 3.18.25 #1-NixOS
router# [ 240.131110] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
assuming that these are caused by high load on the host.
... because we make it built-in by default.
I can't imagine anyone who wanted to purge this module from his/her system,
so let's keep it simple, at least for now.
Previously this barfed with:
updating GRUB 2 menu...
fileparse(): need a valid pathname at /nix/store/zldbbngl0f8g5iv4rslygxwp0dbg1624-install-grub.pl line 391.
warning: error(s) occured while switching to the new configuration
The most complex problems were from dealing with switches reverted in
the meantime (gcc5, gmp6, ncurses6).
It's likely that darwin is (still) broken nontrivially.
Clearly it would be the best if we'd directly generate mount units
instead of converting /etc/fstab. But in order to do that we need to
test it throughly so this approach is for the next stable release.
This fix however is intended for inclusion into release-14.12 and
release-15.09.
Using a simple regular expression unfortunately isn't sufficient for
proper mount unit name quoting/escaping and there is a utility in
systemd called systemd-escape which does nothing less than that.
Of course, using an external program to escape the unit name is way more
expensive and causes us to fork for each mount point.
But given that we already do quite a lot of forks just for unit starting
and stopping, I think it doesn't matter that much. Well, except if you
have a whole bunch of mount points.
However, if the latter is the case and you have thousands of mount
points, you probably have stumbled over this already if your mount point
contains a dash.
As for my motivation to fix this: I've stumbled on this while trying to
fix the "none" backend test for NixOps (see NixOS/nixops#350), where the
target machines use /nix/.ro-store and /nix/.rw-store as mount points.
The implementation we had so far did improperly escape it so those mount
points got the following unit files:
* nix-.ro-store.mount
* nix-.rw-store.mount
The correct names for these units are however:
* nix-.ro\x2dstore.mount
* nix-.rw\x2dstore.mount
So using systemd-escape now properly generates these names.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
mmc_block and sdhci_acpi are both necessary for a Bay Trail Chromebook with an
internal eMMC drive. The sdhci_acpi module is detectable but I can not figure
out a way to check whether the mmc_block module is needed by just looking at
/sys/
Option aliases/deprecations can now be declared in any NixOS module,
not just in nixos/modules/rename.nix. This is more modular (since it
allows for example grub-related aliases to be declared in the grub
module), and allows aliases outside of NixOS (e.g. in NixOps modules).
The syntax is a bit funky. Ideally we'd have something like:
options = {
foo.bar.newOption = mkOption { ... };
foo.bar.oldOption = mkAliasOption [ "foo" "bar" "newOption" ];
};
but that's not possible because options cannot define values in
*other* options - you need to have a "config" for that. So instead we
have functions that return a *module*: mkRemovedOptionModule,
mkRenamedOptionModule and mkAliasOptionModule. These can be used via
"imports", e.g.
imports = [
(mkAliasOptionModule [ "foo" "bar" "oldOption" ] [ "foo" "bar" "newOption" ]);
];
As an added bonus, deprecation warnings now show the file name of the
offending module.
Fixes#10385.
- systemd puts all into one output now (except for man),
because I wasn't able to fix all systemd/udev refernces
for NixOS to work well
- libudev is now by default *copied* into another path,
which is what most packages will use as build input :-)
- pkgs.udev = [ libudev.out libudev.dev ]; because there are too many
references that just put `udev` into build inputs (to rewrite them all),
also this made "${udev}/foo" fail at *evaluation* time
so it's easier to catch and change to something more specific
This way the binary gets stripped & rpath-shrinked etc. as usual.
We'd seem to get a runtime reference to gcc otherwise.
TODO: Maybe we should be able to set e.g. 'dontUnpack = true;'
to make this more pretty.
