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 79c3c16dcb. 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
