Fixes this:
Nov 09 16:18:54 nixos-laptop systemd[1]: Starting Libvirt Virtual Machine Management Daemon...
Nov 09 16:18:54 nixos-laptop dnsmasq[15809]: read /etc/hosts - 2 addresses
Nov 09 16:18:54 nixos-laptop dnsmasq[15809]: failed to load names from /var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.addnhosts: Permission denied
Nov 09 16:18:54 nixos-laptop dnsmasq[15809]: cannot read /var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.hostsfile: Permission denied
Nov 09 16:18:55 nixos-laptop systemd[1]: Started Libvirt Virtual Machine Management Daemon.
I don't understand the reason for the original 700 permission bits.
Apparently read-access is needed and Ubuntu also use 755 perms.
Use "chmod" instead of "mkdir -m" to set permissions because mkdir doesn't
modify permissions on existing directories.
(systemd service descriptions that is, not service descriptions in "man
configuration.nix".)
Capitalizing each word in the description seems to be the accepted
standard.
Also shorten these descriptions:
* "Munin node, the agent process" => "Munin Node"
* "Planet Venus, an awesome ‘river of news’ feed reader" => "Planet Venus Feed Reader"
- It now uses JavaScript for configuration (only),
so I had to "convert" config for NetworkManager.
- I tested suspend/restart/(un)mount on KDE/Xfce,
Phreedom tested NetworkManager config conversion.
* Use smaller instances to generate HVM images
* Use HVM base image that has 4 ephemeral disks in device mapping
* As grub is not on the base images anymore, install it first before copying parts of its contents
Gnome doesn't work at least since I started using NixOS half a year
ago, let's not give wrong impressions to newcomers. Packaging gnome3
is still something on horizon.
A null password allows logging into local PAM services such as "login"
(agetty) and KDM. That's not actually a security problem for EC2
machines, since they do not have "local" logins; for VirtualBox
machines, if you local access, you can do anything anyway. But it's
better to be on the safe side and disable password-based logins for
root.
E.g.
The unique option `fileSystems./.device' is defined multiple times, in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' and `/etc/nixos/foo.nix'.
This requires passing file/value tuples to the merge functions.
They fail randomly due to a hard-coded 30-second timeout in udev
waiting for /dev/sda1 to appear:
systemd-udevd[1151]: worker [1168] /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1 timeout; kill it
systemd-udevd[1151]: seq 1059 '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1' killed
Hopefully we can use virtio in the future for the EFI tests.
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/6695897
Now that overriding fileSystems in qemu-vm.nix works again, it's
important that the VM tests that add additional file systems use the
same override priority. Instead of using the same magic constant
everywhere, they can now use mkVMOverride.
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/6695561
For instance, if time.timeZone is defined multiple times, you now get
the error message:
error: user-thrown exception: The unique option `time.timeZone' is defined multiple times, in `/etc/nixos/configurations/misc/eelco/x11vnc.nix' and `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix'.
while previously you got:
error: user-thrown exception: Multiple definitions of string. Only one is allowed for this option.
and only an inspection of the stack trace gave a clue as to what
option caused the problem.
The major changes are:
* The evaluation is now driven by the declared options. In
particular, this fixes the long-standing problem with lack of
laziness of disabled option definitions. Thus, a configuration like
config = mkIf false {
environment.systemPackages = throw "bla";
};
will now evaluate without throwing an error. This also improves
performance since we're not evaluating unused option definitions.
* The implementation of properties is greatly simplified.
* There is a new type constructor "submodule" that replaces
"optionSet". Unlike "optionSet", "submodule" gets its option
declarations as an argument, making it more like "listOf" and other
type constructors. A typical use is:
foo = mkOption {
type = type.attrsOf (type.submodule (
{ config, ... }:
{ bar = mkOption { ... };
xyzzy = mkOption { ... };
}));
};
Existing uses of "optionSet" are automatically mapped to
"submodule".
* Modules are now checked for unsupported attributes: you get an error
if a module contains an attribute other than "config", "options" or
"imports".
* The new implementation is faster and uses much less memory.
Virsh/virt-manager uses ssh to connect to master, there it expects openbsd netcat(which
has support for unix sockets) to be avalible, to make a tunnel.
Close#1087.
It's already set in hardware-configuration.nix so this just confuses
people.
Also get rid of boot.initrd.kernelModules, since
hardware-configuration.nix is supposed to figure that out as well.
Commit 31203732b3 dropped the reference to
<nixos> from NIX_PATH (nixos/modules/programs/environment.nix) and thus
prevents systems that are not using channels from rebuilding.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
So, we get the old behaviour of nixos-hardware-scane if we run the
following command:
nixos-generate-config --no-filesystems --show-hardware-config
This allows to use scripts in order to fetch NixOS specific hardware
information, without the need to duplicate code elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The attributes swapDevices and imports add a space character after the
eqals sign, which is unnecessary. I know, I'm a pedantic douche bag but
it hurts my eyes.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
This is to get back the old behavior of nixos-hardware-scan, which
didn't include fileSystems and swapDevices.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
* simplify directory layout
* clean up option descriptions
* let the user override Firebird package
* create firebird user
* clarify TODO comment
Close # 1061.
This enables to override which plugins to include with nginx by allowing to change
nginx package. I also removed webdav option in nginx nixos module, because you
can now specify this by overriding nginx package.
Those tests are flapping and redundant to some degree, as two
configurations are tested in NixOps as well. So, let's deactivate them
until the 1.0 release of nixpart, which has a more general approach for
automatically partitioning NixOS installations.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Previously changing the value of certain options in configuration.nix
would cause the manual to be regenerated, because some option defaults
depend on the configuration. This is undesirable because rebuilding
the manual is kind of slow. So now the manual reflects an empty
configuration.
The downside is that this requires another call to fixMergeModules,
which adds about 14% to evaluation time. Probably worth it.
It requires a writable /nix/store to store the build result. Also,
wait until we've reached multi-user.target before doing the build, and
do a sync at the end to ensure all data to $out is properly written.
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/6496716
Suggested by Marc Weber. Fixes#1059.
Generate /etc/nix.machines only if buildMachines is not empty. Thus,
if you want to manage /etc/nix.machines in some other way, you can set
nix.distributedBuilds to true but not set nix.buildMachines.
Note that there is a subtle difference in Nix that causes
nixos-rebuild to work and NixOps to fail:
$ nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A config.system.nixosVersion --eval-only
"13.10pre34915.50f4822"
$ nix-instantiate '<nixos/default.nix>' -A config.system.nixosVersion --eval-only
error: opening file `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/.version': No such file or directory
FixesNixOS/nixops#145.
Sshd *must* use PAM because we depend on it for proper session
management. The original goal of this option (disabling password
logins) can also be implemented by removing pam_auth authentication
from sshd's PAM service.
That is, you can say
security.pam.services.sshd = { options... };
instead of
security.pam.services = [ { name = "sshd"; options... } ];
making it easier to override PAM settings from other modules.
