On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 02:35:46PM +0100, Felix Breuer wrote: > Okay, with the help of Michael and Marc, I was able to get live-dvd.nix to > build. The next step was to try live-dvd-X.nix. Here I needed to fix two > things: > > 1) Disable gw6c service. Otherwise building fails as the gw6c derivation > complains that the paths > > private = "/var/elliptic-keys/private"; > > public = /var/elliptic-keys/private; > are missing. Which of course they are, as gw6c does not run on my build > system. > > 2) Update SHA256 sum of flashplayer 10. The tarball distributed by Adobe > seems to have changed. > > Diffs of these two changes are attached. After these two changes, I could > build live-dvd-X.nix sucessfully. > > > > Now I would like to run X from withing the live DVD. This I did not manage > yet. I guess because I do not comprehend nix yet. I booted nixos > successfully inside VirtualBox, selecting Rescue X with vesa at the grub > prompt. The system started just fine and I could login as root. > > After that, I tried something as naive as "startx" resulting in "command not > found". :-) I'm glad you've asked. You're not alone: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/1002/match=newcomer ( -> "Q: How to start Xorg ?")
If you really want to start X from console manually you should have a a look at xlaunch or use this script: It extracts teh important information form the /etc/event.d/xserver file and writes a launch script with the same setup contents to /tmp/script2. I'm using it currently to trouble shoot xorg-git so that I can keep my normal X session running. (You can do this yourself. Just follow the slim configuration file which contains the X org setup settings) #!/bin/sh SLIM_CONFIG="$(sed -n 's...@.*slim_cfgfile=\(/.*\)@\...@p' /etc/event.d/xserver)" echo echo "SLIM_CONFIG is $SLIM_CONFIG" xserver_arguments="$(sed -n 's...@.*xserver_arguments \(.*\)@\...@p' "$SLIM_CONFIG" | sed -e 's/vt7/vt9/' -e 's/:0/:9/' -e 's@/var/log/X.[0123456789].log@/var/log/X-test.log@' )" echo echo "xserver_arguments: $xserver_arguments" default_xserver="$(sed -n 's...@.*default_xserver \(.*\)@\...@p' "$SLIM_CONFIG")" echo echo "default_xserver: $default_xserver" cat > /tmp/script2 << EOF #/bin/sh $default_xserver $xserver_arguments EOF chmod +x /tmp/script2 Sincerly Marc Weber _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@cs.uu.nl https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
