[Nix-dev] Problem with nixos-rebuild and Setup Virtual Console

[x1n4u]

Hello Again,
i forgot to append the journalctl -xe

so here it is:
Feb 14 12:59:23 citadel sudo[14517]:    x1n4u : TTY=pts/1 ;
PWD=/home/x1n4u ; USER=root ;
COMMAND=/run/current-system/sw/bin/systemctl restart
systemd-vconsole-setup.service
Feb 14 12:59:23 citadel sudo[14517]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session
opened for user root by (uid=0)
Feb 14 12:59:23 citadel systemd[1]: Starting Setup Virtual Console...
-- Subject: Unit systemd-vconsole-setup.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit systemd-vconsole-setup.service has begun starting up.
Feb 14 12:59:23 citadel systemd-vconsole-setup[14548]: Virtual console
/dev/tty0 is not in K_XLATE or K_UNICODE.
Feb 14 12:59:23 citadel systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Main
process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 14 12:59:23 citadel systemd[1]: Failed to start Setup Virtual Console.
-- Subject: Unit systemd-vconsole-setup.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit systemd-vconsole-setup.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
Feb 14 12:59:23 citadel systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Unit
entered failed state.
Feb 14 12:59:23 citadel systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service:
Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 14 12:59:23 citadel sudo[14517]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session
closed for user root

the red highlighted line being:
Feb 14 12:59:23 citadel systemd-vconsole-setup[14548]: Virtual console
/dev/tty0 is not in K_XLATE or K_UNICODE.
Feb 14 12:59:23 citadel systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Main
process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 14 12:59:23 citadel systemd[1]: Failed to start Setup Virtual

Hope this helps some more

Greez Felix


On 02/14/2017 09:25 AM, x1n4u wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> i have a problem with my nixos-rebuild,
> i am not able to to switch after rebuild due to
> systemd-vconsole-setup.service failing.
> 
> I get following error message from the nixos-rebuild :
>> sudo nixos-rebuild switch
> created 5 symlinks in user environment
> building Nix...
> building the system configuration...
> activating the configuration...
> setting up /etc...
> readlink: missing operand
> Try 'readlink --help' for more information.
> warning: the following units failed: systemd-vconsole-setup.service
> 
> ● systemd-vconsole-setup.service - Setup Virtual Console
>    Loaded: loaded
> (/nix/store/06qsviqz8c0d268jgjan3lf34mmrzrf2-systemd-232/example/systemd/system/systemd-vconsole-setup.service;
> enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
>   Drop-In:
> /nix/store/7p8cfjzzm845f262gxm1ix21sy3jah4v-system-units/systemd-vconsole-setup.service.d
>            └─overrides.conf
>    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2017-02-14 09:13:21 CET;
> 16ms ago
>      Docs: man:systemd-vconsole-setup.service(8)
>            man:vconsole.conf(5)
>   Process: 32176
> ExecStart=/nix/store/06qsviqz8c0d268jgjan3lf34mmrzrf2-systemd-232/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup
> (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>  Main PID: 32176 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>       CPU: 2ms
> 
> Feb 14 09:13:21 citadel systemd[1]: Starting Setup Virtual Console...
> Feb 14 09:13:21 citadel systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Main
> process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Feb 14 09:13:21 citadel systemd[1]: Failed to start Setup Virtual Console.
> Feb 14 09:13:21 citadel systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Unit
> entered failed state.
> Feb 14 09:13:21 citadel systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service:
> Failed with result 'exit-code'.
> warning: error(s) occurred while switching to the new configuration
> 
> I'm using the nixos-unstable channel.
> 
> I hope someone can help me, cause i've got no clue whats going on.
> 
> 
> Greez Felix
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