We already have separate tests for checking whether the ISO boots
correctly, so it's not necessary to do that here. So now
tests/installer.nix just tests nixos-install, from a regular NixOS VM
that uses the host's Nix store. This makes running the tests more
convenient because we don't have to build a new ISO after every
change.
install-cd: Include nixos-artwork to fix installer tests
With the move from storing grub images in the nixpkgs repo to storing them in the nix store, we broke the installer tests as the iso does not contain the artwork needed for the grub splash. This commit fixes the inclusion of the artwork in the iso.
Should fix at least nixos.tests.installer.simple.x86_64-linux
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/23001712:
machine# error: cannot download Encode-Locale-1.03.tar.gz from any mirror
machine# builder for ‘/nix/store/y8gbx2d2fdcvvjy1z53xksfgq66ydlx0-Encode-Locale-1.03.tar.gz.drv’ failed with exit code 1
machine# cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/y1knci7rix3asnh2b4kfv8jhl2j99xih-perl-Encode-Locale-1.03.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
machine# cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/7xspjwh48kg16drv1jjg5cffaqbxbp8p-perl-libwww-perl-6.05.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
machine# cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/8qsmz3bbk1jwhh50c3i9700bkmn8ns5c-nss-cacert-3.19.1.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
machine# cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/0rgf2l3mdszs4a989ympwc9gk2k8wq6z-nixos-artwork-e71b684.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
...
This solves the problem of e.g. mutt not finding mail unless the user
sets MAIL=/var/spool/mail/$USER.
The default MAIL variable seems come from bash. Reasons for adding
symlink instead of changing MAIL default in bash:
- No need to rebuild world
- FHS recommends /var/mail over /var/spool/mail anyway[1]. Better fix
NixOS mail location than change MAIL in bash to something that doesn't
work on non-NixOS (however unlikely that users run nixpkgs bash on a
non-NixOS distro...).
[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARMAILUSERMAILBOXFILES
Commit 159fed47bc (nixos/grub: Fix video display on efi) changed BIOS
systems to start in non-text mode as well. Enable FB_VESA to get a
framebuffer console on BIOS systems. Change FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE to 'y'
instead of the default 'm' to so the user doesn't need to manually load
the fbcon module anymore.
Other distros have similar defaults, at least on Arch:
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
and on Ubuntu (12.04):
CONFIG_FB_VESA=m
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
Fixes#8139
Better replace the double quotes in 'echo "${commands}"' with single
quotes, to prevent the shell from doing command substitution etc. at
configuration build time.
The issue was that grub was not building the default entry which would
leave systems unbootable. This can now be safely reverted as the default
entry is being built once again.
This reverts commit fd1fb0403c.
Currently the module hardcodes the systemd service user to "marathon".
With this change one would not need to create an extra systemd config to
override the user.
So why would one need to override the Marathon user? Some apps require
root access to run. You can't run those with Marathon unless you
override the default user to root. Marathon also provides a
`--mesos_user` command line flag which allows you to run apps using
arbitrary users. You need to run the framework as root to enable this
functionality.
JVMs exit with exit code 128+signal when receiving a (terminating)
signal. This means graceful termination of a JVM will result in 143, so
add that to `SuccessExitStatus` in systemd service unit.
- Usage of docker containerizer is currently hardcoded, this PR makes it
optional. Default is to enable it if docker is enabled.
- Make IP address to listen on part of service configuration.
The man page for ssh-keygen(1) has a section "MODULI GENERATION" that describes
how to generate your own moduli file. The following script might also be helpful:
| #! /usr/bin/env bash
|
| moduliFiles=()
|
| generateModuli()
| {
| ssh-keygen -G "moduli-$1.candidates" -b "$1"
| ssh-keygen -T "moduli-$1" -f "moduli-$1.candidates"
| rm "moduli-$1.candidates"
| }
|
| for (( i=0 ; i <= 16 ; ++i )); do
| let bitSize="2048 + i * 128"
| generateModuli "$bitSize" &
| moduliFiles+=( "moduli-$bitSize" )
| done
| wait
|
| echo >moduli "# Time Type Tests Tries Size Generator Modulus"
| cat >>moduli "${moduliFiles[@]}"
| rm "${moduliFiles[@]}"
Note that generating moduli takes a long time, i.e. several hours on a fast
machine!
This patch resolves https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/5870.
This module generates a /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf bootloader
configuration file that is supported by e.g. U-Boot:
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=doc/README.distro;hb=refs/heads/master
With this, all ARM boards supported by U-Boot can be booted in a common
way (a single boot file generator, all boards booting via initrd like
x86) and with same boot menu functionality as GRUB has.
-- sample extlinux.conf file --
# Generated file, all changes will be lost on nixos-rebuild!
# Change this to e.g. nixos-42 to temporarily boot to an older configuration.
DEFAULT nixos-default
TIMEOUT 50
LABEL nixos-default
MENU LABEL NixOS - Default
LINUX ../nixos/n7vxfk60nb5h0mcbhkwwxhcz2q2nvxzv-linux-4.1.0-rc3-cpufreq-zImage
INITRD ../nixos/0ss2zs8sb6d1qn4gblxpwlxkfjsgs5f0-initrd-initrd
FDTDIR ../nixos/n7vxfk60nb5h0mcbhkwwxhcz2q2nvxzv-linux-4.1.0-rc3-cpufreq-dtbs
APPEND systemConfig=/nix/store/469qvr43ln8bfsnk5lzcz6m6jfcgdd4r-nixos-15.06.git.0b7a7a6M init=/nix/store/469qvr43ln8bfsnk5lzcz6m6jfcgdd4r-nixos-15.06.git.0b7a7a6M/init loglevel=8 console=ttyS0,115200n8 drm.debug=0xf
LABEL nixos-71
MENU LABEL NixOS - Configuration 71 (2015-05-17 21:32 - 15.06.git.0b7a7a6M)
LINUX ../nixos/n7vxfk60nb5h0mcbhkwwxhcz2q2nvxzv-linux-4.1.0-rc3-cpufreq-zImage
INITRD ../nixos/0ss2zs8sb6d1qn4gblxpwlxkfjsgs5f0-initrd-initrd
FDTDIR ../nixos/n7vxfk60nb5h0mcbhkwwxhcz2q2nvxzv-linux-4.1.0-rc3-cpufreq-dtbs
APPEND systemConfig=/nix/store/469qvr43ln8bfsnk5lzcz6m6jfcgdd4r-nixos-15.06.git.0b7a7a6M init=/nix/store/469qvr43ln8bfsnk5lzcz6m6jfcgdd4r-nixos-15.06.git.0b7a7a6M/init loglevel=8 console=ttyS0,115200n8 drm.debug=0xf
This reverts commit d170c98d13.
niksnut argues that we need smaller system closures, not bigger.
So users facing the trouble of getting gcc rebuilds after nix-collect-garbage
for any minimal nixos configuration change should use other means of
not losing the stdenv output.
One way is to keep one somewhere: nix-build -A stdenv -o stdenv '<nixpkgs>'.
Another may be to use nix.conf options like gc-keep-outputs, gc-keep-derivations
or env-keep-derivations.
This will help a lot on ARM, where nix-collect-garbage erases gcc; then, any
change to a small system config file requires rebuilding gcc again.
I don't know why it does not happen on x86. Maybe it just pulls the gcc from
hydra, if garbage is collected.
It boots, but some things still don't work:
1) Installation of DTBs
2) Boot of initrd
Booting still needs a proper config.txt in /boot, which could probably be
managed by NixOS.
