[Nix-dev] Failure to boot after hibernate

[Bas van Dijk]

I made a few pictures and a video of the boot process:
https://goo.gl/photos/vrAkb5TFmZZ1J9kn9. In the video you can see that
after I've input my passphrase the following lines are printed before
the blinking cursor appears:

  killall: cryptsetup: no process killed
  starting device mapper and LVM...
    2 logical volume(s) in volume group "MyStorage" now active
  _

Bas


On 24 April 2017 at 00:48, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> Two weeks ago I installed NixOS natively on my Mac Book Pro (I was
> running NixOS in virtualbox before that). It ren well for two weeks
> but today I hit a snag.
>
> I was doing some work when my battery power became too low. Then I
> believe my system hibernated (suspended to disk) before it shut down.
> Note that I've set:
>
>   powerManagement.enable = true;
>
> Now when I boot my system it asks me for the encryption passphrase for
> my LUKS drive. After I enter it I see a cursor blinking for a few
> seconds before it freezes. After that my system is unresponsive.
>
> As mentioned I have an encrypted LUKS drive. On top of that I have a
> LVM root and swap volume. So what I believe has happened is that my
> system saved its memory to the encrypted swap before it shut down. Now
> when it boots up it tries to load that memory back in but fails for
> some reason. I guess the trouble starts somewhere here:
>
>   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/system/boot/stage-1-init.sh#L407
>
> Note that I have not set: boot.resumeDevice. Also note that I have set:
>
>   swapDevices = [ { device = "/dev/disk/by-label/swap"; } ];
>
> Any idea how to fix this?
>
> Bas