[Nix-dev] Debugging NixOS login problems

[Rickard Nilsson]

 Hi!

 I hope that I some day soon will start contributing useful feedback and 
 patches to the Nix project. Until that day, I will keep spamming this 
 list with getting-started questions :)

 I have a sort-of working NixOS installation booting from an NFS root 
 with only minor manual interventions. I pass init stage 1 and 2 just 
 fine, and then get a login prompt. Now if I try to login with root or 
 any other user, absolutely nothing happens. The login process just 
 hangs, and nothing happens if I press Ctrl-C. I can switch to another 
 tty and try to login there too, but nothing happens there either.

 Does anyone have a suggestion on how to debug this?


 Best regards,
   Rickard Nilsson