possibility that a udevd process survives, preventing udevd from
starting in stage 2:
machine# udevd[1421]: bind failed: Address already in use
machine# udevd[1421]: error binding udev control socket
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directory. This happened with /etc/polkit-1, which used to be a
symlink to /etc/static/polkit-1, which was itself a symlink but now
is a directory. Not handling this correctly led to /etc/static
being clobbered with symlinks pointing to themselves.
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was already the case on Linux 2.6.32, but in newer kernels the CFQ
scheduler is built as a module, so all block devices got the ‘none’
scheduler instead.
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then every unshare(CLONE_NEWNS) system call causes a new entry to be
created in /dev/cgroup/<pid>, which is not removed automatically.
This can cause subsequent calls to unshare() to fail if the PID has
wrapped around. Worse, a large number of entries in /dev/cgroup
causes a very substantial system slowdown: doing 10,000
fork()/unshare(CLONE_NEWNS)/exit() calls took 21s without the "ns"
subsystem, but 2m43s with it, and the system slows down permanently
until the entries in /dev/cgroup are removed (going to a load of > 6
on my laptop).
This is particularly important for Nix because its chroot feature
uses unshare(CLONE_NEWNS). (http://yellowgrass.org/issue/Nix/219)
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be set when udevd calls external programs. (The udev manpage claims
that udevd passes its own environment variables, but this is not the
case.)
* Get rid of some udev rule hacks that no longer seem needed.
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problem is that configuration values below a mkIf are evaluated
strictly even if the condition is false. Thus "${luksRoot}" causes
an evaluation error. As a workaround, use the empty string instead
of `null' as the default value. However, we should really fix the
laziness of mkIf. It's likely that NixOS evaluation would be much
faster if it didn't have to evaluate disabled configuration values.
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in /etc/xen/auto at boot time, to save all running domains during
shutdown, and to restore all saved domains at boot time.
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init script. This removes the need for the `systemConfig' boot
parameter; `init=<stage-2-init>' is enough. However, the GRUB menu
builder still needs to add `systemConfig' to the kernel command line
for compatibility with old configurations.
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* Moved some scriptlets to the appropriate modules.
* Put the scriptlet that sets the default path at the start, since it
never makes sense not to have it there. It no longer needs to be
declared as a dependency.
* If a scriptlet has no dependencies, it can be denoted as a plain
string (i.e., `noDepEntry' is not needed anymore).
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like `build-vm', but boots using the regular boot loader (i.e. GRUB
1 or 2) rather than booting directly from the kernel/initrd. Thus
it allows testing of GRUB.
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build hook uses this directory to store temporary GC roots. (It
creates it if it doesn't exist, but it's better to do it here as
well to ensure the right ownership and permissions.)
* Clear /nix/var/nix/gcroots/tmp and /nix/var/nix/temproots at boot
time.
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root=... kernel command line parameter, instead of hard-coding it in
`fileSystems'. This is to allow CD-to-USB converters such as
UNetbootin to rewrite the kernel command line to the label or UUID
of the USB stick.
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we want to generate the GRUB menu without actually installing GRUB
(because Amazon supplies its own pv-grub), and each menu entry
requires "root (hd0)". For the first, allow boot.loader.grub.device
to be set to "nodev" to indicate that the GRUB menu should be
generated without installing GRUB. For the second, add an option
boot.loader.grub.extraPerEntryConfig to allow commands to be added
to each GRUB menu entry (in this case, "root (hd0)").
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