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

[Patrick Wheeler]

configuration.nix:
http://pastebin.com/Mfam4J07

journalctl -bu ...
http://pastebin.com/vrLchuDT

 I had been using it nix-store --verify --check-contents night but must
have gotten impatient and canceled half way so the file I was using as a
log only had a few entries. I will can tell you though that there are a few
"...user-environment" paths and a Haskell package that it is complaining
about everything else it was complaining about I already fixed with
repair-path. I will post the full results in a few minutes when it finishs.



On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:50 PM, <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> To help debug, can you:
>
> a) paste configuration.nix
> b) paste the output of 'journalctl -bu display-manager.service'
> c) run, as root, 'nix-store --verify --check-contents' (will take some
> time!) and report the output?
>
> Thanks,
> Shea
>
> On 2013-02-25 14:43, Patrick Wheeler wrote:
> > 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 [1]
> >
> > 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 [2] 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
> >
> > Links:
> > ------
> > [1] http://pastebin.com/bahfVjJy
> > [2] http://g3km71vgk5pc9g6cbslh5bra73q3sh3z-install-grub.pl
> >
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Patrick Wheeler
Patrick.John.Wheeler at gmail.com
Patrick.J.Wheeler at rice.edu
Patrick.Wheeler at colorado.edu
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