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

[shea at shealevy.com]

Generally any broken paths is a bad sign, the fact that there are quite 
a few is more troubling... Did you have a disk failure at any point? If 
you don't mind the time involved in doing the build, I'd consider 
switching to stdenv-updates, rebuilding, and garbage collecting your old 
profiles (once the X server issue is resolved), as that will let you 
clean up all the broken paths.

No red flags in the configuration.nix that I can see.

The xserver journal logs look fine to me, was that log file from a boot 
when X didn't start?

On 2013-02-25 15:52, Patrick Wheeler wrote:
> `nix-stor --verify --check-contents`
>
> http://pastebin.com/EezSb9NU [6]
>
> Thanks for taking a look at it.
>
> Patrick
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Patrick Wheeler
> <patrick.john.wheeler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> configuration.nix:
>> http://pastebin.com/Mfam4J07 [4]
>>
>> journalctl -bu ...
>> http://pastebin.com/vrLchuDT [5]
>>
>>  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] [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] 
>>> [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:
>>> > ------
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>>> > [2] http://g3km71vgk5pc9g6cbslh5bra73q3sh3z-install-grub.pl [2]
>>> >
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>> Patrick Wheeler
>> Patrick.John.Wheeler at gmail.com
>> Patrick.J.Wheeler at rice.edu
>> Patrick.Wheeler at colorado.edu
>
> --
> Patrick Wheeler
> Patrick.John.Wheeler at gmail.com
> Patrick.J.Wheeler at rice.edu
>  Patrick.Wheeler at colorado.edu
>
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> [1] http://pastebin.com/bahfVjJy
> [2] http://g3km71vgk5pc9g6cbslh5bra73q3sh3z-install-grub.pl
> [3] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
> [4] http://pastebin.com/Mfam4J07
> [5] http://pastebin.com/vrLchuDT
> [6] http://pastebin.com/EezSb9NU