[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 18:09:35 CET 2013 

Yes that is when it is not booting in graphical mode and anything that
depends on X server will report not finding a screen.

It also reports success to me as it is booting up so it does
not surprise me that it is logged that way. As it is booting up it give a
green completed checkmark for X11 and after it has already offered a place
to login does it check off 9 more completions including "Reached target
graphical  interface".

Here is a screen shot where it has offered me login line, upper left, and
then continues, after a half second, to check off reaching the graphical
interface as successful.

http://imgur.com/M8sERV0




On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> No, there's no need to switch. When you ran the journalctl command, was
> that during a boot where the X server failed? The log you shared looked
> like everything was working.
>
> ~Shea
>
> On Feb 26, 2013, at 1:01, Patrick Wheeler <patrick.john.wheeler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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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Patrick Wheeler
Patrick.John.Wheeler at gmail.com
Patrick.J.Wheeler at rice.edu
Patrick.Wheeler at colorado.edu
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