[Nix-dev] Broken xserve after update to nix-1.2 persists in nix-1.3

[Patrick Wheeler]

On vmware 4.1.3
Starting with nixos and nix 1.1

My problem is that after trying to update from nix 1.1 to nix 1.2 or 1.3 I
was not longer able to get xserver/X11 to work.  If you have any insight to
a solution please let me know below is a very rough time line, additional
information and some failed attempted solutions/experiments.

Patrick Wheeler

Starting from nix 1.1, after trying to update with

nix-channel --update
nixos-rebuild switch

The graphical interface did not load like normal and boot in to the shell.

after another round of rebuilding I am in nix-1.3 but the problem persists.

ls -l $(which X) reports I am using xorg-server-1.12.4
xserve reports that it can not find a display.

Other information:

systemctl

reports only one service witha failure:

                                     Load    Active Sub
display -manager.service loaded failed    failed

Trying to start x while providing a logfile

X -logfile xerrors.txt

Log: http://pastebin.com/bahfVjJy

Attempts:

* Rebooting
* Starting over from a snapshot some variblity in the errors encountered
but it has the same effect.
* I have tried setting:
hardware.enableAllFirmware= true;, there are many dead sources.
* futher nixos-rebuild switch result in an error:

building Nix...
building the system configuration...
updating GRUB 2 menu...
Use of uninitialized value $_[0] in substitution (s///) at
/nix/store/v4m3gahx1iz53v51rdinh0lcmipn1p4j-perl-5.14.2/lib/perl5/5.14.2/File/Basename.pm
line 341.
fileparse(): need a valid pathname at /nix/store/
g3km71vgk5pc9g6cbslh5bra73q3sh3z-install-grub.pl line 209

* I also tried truing on or off some of the xserver flags in
configurations.nix but to no avail.


-- 
Patrick Wheeler
Patrick.John.Wheeler at gmail.com
Patrick.J.Wheeler at rice.edu
Patrick.Wheeler at colorado.edu
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