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.
- 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.
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>
This fixes a failing assert in systemd-timesyncd (issue #5913) as it
expects the directory /run/systemd/netif/links/ to exist, and nothing in
NixOS currently creates it.
Also we get a net reduction in our code as rules for /run/utmp and
/var/log/journal are also provided by the same upstream file.
(cherry picked from commit a278a9224a)
Many bus clients get hopelessly confused when dbus-daemon is
restarted. So let's not do that.
Of course, this is not ideal either, because we end up stuck with a
possibly outdated dbus-daemon. But that issue will become irrelevant
in the glorious kdbus-based future.
Hopefully this also gets rid of systemd getting stuck after
dbus-daemon is restarted:
Apr 01 15:37:50 mandark systemd[1]: Failed to register match for Disconnected message: Connection timed out
Apr 01 15:37:50 mandark systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
Apr 01 15:37:51 mandark systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
...
Since we restart all active target units (of which there are many),
it's hard to see the units that actually matter. So don't print that
we're starting target units that are already active.
‘nixos-rebuild dry-activate’ builds the new configuration and then
prints what systemd services would be stopped, restarted etc. if the
configuration were actually activated. This could be extended later to
show other activation actions (like uids being deleted).
To prevent confusion, ‘nixos-rebuild dry-run’ has been renamed to
‘nixos-rebuild dry-build’.
Now that dbus reload has been moved before restarting units,
the reload may fail if dbus has been stopped before.
The reload-or-restart will reload dbus if it's active,
otherwise start it.
Otherwise, when switching from systemd 203 to 212, you get errors like:
Failed to stop remote-fs.target: Bad message
Failed to stop systemd-udevd-control.socket: Bad message
...
This seems to have combined badly with the systemd upgrade, we'll revert
for now and revisit after the 14.04 branch.
This reverts commit ad80532881, reversing
changes made to 1c5d3c7883.
If you define a unit, and either systemd or a package in
systemd.packages already provides that unit, then we now generate a
file /etc/systemd/system/<unit>.d/overrides.conf. This makes it
possible to use upstream units, while allowing them to be customised
from the NixOS configuration. For instance, the module nix-daemon.nix
now uses the units provided by the Nix package. And all unit
definitions that duplicated upstream systemd units are finally gone.
This makes the baseUnit option unnecessary, so I've removed it.
Using pkgs.lib on the spine of module evaluation is problematic
because the pkgs argument depends on the result of module
evaluation. To prevent an infinite recursion, pkgs and some of the
modules are evaluated twice, which is inefficient. Using ‘with lib’
prevents this problem.
switch-to-configuration.pl is currently hard-coded to assume that if a
unit is in the "auto-restart" state that something has gone wrong, but
this is not strictly true. For example, I run offlineimap as a oneshot
service restarting itself every minute (on success). NixOS currently
thinks that offlineimap has failed to start as it enters the
auto-restart state, because it doesn't consider why the unit failed.
This commit changes switch-to-configuration.pl to inspect the full
status of a unit in auto-restart state, and now only considers it failed
if the ExecMainStatus is non-zero.
Currently switch-to-configuration.pl uses system() calls to interact
with DBus. This can be error prone, especially when we are parsing
output that could change. In this commit, almost all calls to the
systemctl binary have been replaced with equivalent operations via DBus.
You can now say:
systemd.containers.foo.config =
{ services.openssh.enable = true;
services.openssh.ports = [ 2022 ];
users.extraUsers.root.openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [ "ssh-dss ..." ];
};
which defines a NixOS instance with the given configuration running
inside a lightweight container.
You can also manage the configuration of the container independently
from the host:
systemd.containers.foo.path = "/nix/var/nix/profiles/containers/foo";
where "path" is a NixOS system profile. It can be created/updated by
doing:
$ nix-env --set -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/containers/foo \
-f '<nixos>' -A system -I nixos-config=foo.nix
The container configuration (foo.nix) should define
boot.isContainer = true;
to optimise away the building of a kernel and initrd. This is done
automatically when using the "config" route.
On the host, a lightweight container appears as the service
"container-<name>.service". The container is like a regular NixOS
(virtual) machine, except that it doesn't have its own kernel. It has
its own root file system (by default /var/lib/containers/<name>), but
shares the Nix store of the host (as a read-only bind mount). It also
has access to the network devices of the host.
Currently, if the configuration of the container changes, running
"nixos-rebuild switch" on the host will cause the container to be
rebooted. In the future we may want to send some message to the
container so that it can activate the new container configuration
without rebooting.
Containers are not perfectly isolated yet. In particular, the host's
/sys/fs/cgroup is mounted (writable!) in the guest.
