[Nix-dev] Broken xserve after update to nix-1.2 persists in nix-1.3
shea at shealevy.com
shea at shealevy.com
Thu Feb 28 14:18:25 CET 2013
Sorry we're having such a hard time figuring out this issue... I
suspect it's an X driver problem and the nix-1.2 change is unrelated.
Just to double check, you said when you ran systemctl it showed that
display-manager.service had failed? If it's not too much of a hassle can
you paste the output of running journalctl -bu display-manager.service
AFTER seeing the failure notice in systemctl?
Thanks,
Shea
On 2013-02-26 15:05, Patrick Wheeler wrote:
> I just wanted to update with that the graphical live cd for the
> latest nixos when installed through VMware also does not boot into
> the
> graphical interface and hast the same behavior as my installation.
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Patrick Wheeler
> <patrick.john.wheeler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 [7]
>>
>> 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] [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] [4]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> journalctl -bu ...
>>>>>>> http://pastebin.com/vrLchuDT [5] [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] [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] [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] [1]
>>>>>>>> > [2] http://g3km71vgk5pc9g6cbslh5bra73q3sh3z-install-grub.pl
>>>>>>>> [2] [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 [1]
>>>>>> [2] http://g3km71vgk5pc9g6cbslh5bra73q3sh3z-install-grub.pl [2]
>>>>>> [3] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev [3]
>>>>>> [4] http://pastebin.com/Mfam4J07 [4]
>>>>>> [5] http://pastebin.com/vrLchuDT [5]
>>>>>> [6] http://pastebin.com/EezSb9NU [6]
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 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
>
> --
> 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
> [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
> [7] http://imgur.com/M8sERV0
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