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

Patrick Wheeler patrick.john.wheeler at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 07:01:29 CET 2013 

I garbage collected all of the paths that verify had problems, while
staying on the same channel. Grub with nixos-rebuild seems to be in working
order but the display-manager is still not up and running however.

Is there still any advantage to trying stdenv-updates still? Any
other suggestions?

Patrick


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:16 PM, <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:

> 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 <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 <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/**v4m3gahx1iz53v51rdinh0lcmipn1p**
>>>> 4j-perl-5.14.2/lib/perl5/5.14.**2/File/Basename.pm
>>>> > line 341.
>>>> > fileparse(): need a valid pathname at
>>>> > /nix/store/g3km71vgk5pc9g6cbsl**h5bra73q3sh3z-install-grub.pl<http://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:
>>>> > ------
>>>> > [1] http://pastebin.com/bahfVjJy [1]
>>>> > [2] http://**g3km71vgk5pc9g6cbslh5bra73q3sh**3z-install-grub.pl<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
>>
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1] http://pastebin.com/bahfVjJy
>> [2] http://**g3km71vgk5pc9g6cbslh5bra73q3sh**3z-install-grub.pl<http://g3km71vgk5pc9g6cbslh5bra73q3sh3z-install-grub.pl>
>> [3] http://lists.science.uu.nl/**mailman/listinfo/nix-dev<http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev>
>> [4] http://pastebin.com/Mfam4J07
>> [5] http://pastebin.com/vrLchuDT
>> [6] http://pastebin.com/EezSb9NU
>>
>
>


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