Re: [Nix-dev] nvidia proprietary / i7 notebook - does not start
On 09/05/17 20:29, Marc Weber wrote: > Desktop: Everything is fine, the way it should > > Laptop: > lspci: 03:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce 940MX] > (rev a2) > => Ubuntu -> fine > => Nixos -> black -> then blinking cursor, no (EE) lines in X log I know own a graphics card nor a NVIDIA chipset, but you will have to at least post the logs on the journald/xsession.errors/dmesg . Probably a module isn't being loaded by the kernel ? -- -- Ruben ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
[Nix-dev] X11 rtkit.service and failing nixos-rebuild
Hi all On nixos-16.09, in two different machines, the nixos-rebuild test command fails with the following error cannot open `/nix/store/cjj8nc08bc799w4c6a4lw7r2z25q2jya-xorg-server-1.18.3/share/X11/xkb/compiled/systemd-private-0bc0e7c988b74d5ba0c9927a95747999-rtkit-daemon.service-iJMQaO': Permission denied at /nix/store/9g4wc31j7a2xp22xpgwr0qssfxahxdzl-builder.pl line 58. checking such file, it doesn't seem different in permissions than the rest of them. Anybody with a similar experience on recent builds? -- -- Ruben ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] truly persistent nix-shell
On 20/11/16 16:30, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> Is there any reason why it is not mentioned in the man-page, yet?
Probably because is a combination of two independent tricks that don't
only concern nix-shell. For protection against updates in the
nix-channel, you have to craft a default.nix/shell.nix (as cabal2nix
does) and force the derivation be an environment (irrespective of
nix-shell)
... common cabal2nix output
drv = haskellPackages.callPackage f {};
in
## if pkgs.lib.inNixShell then drv.env else drv
drv.env # this change
then you instantiate such derivation (really an environment)
$ nix-instantiate ./shell.nix --indirect --add-root $PWD/shell.drv
Now this .drv will persist between channel updates. Yet still remains
how to persist between garbage collection, for this you make the
nix-shell trick described above in the thread
$ mkdir gcroots
$ nix-shell $(pwd)/shell-main.drv --indirect --add-root gcroots/dep
For the complete trick.
Admittedly as a combination of two hacks, it shouldn't belong on a
single manpage, yet it should be in the manual (as the wiki is getting
deprecated). I would like this for now remain on record on this mailing
list and investigate possibly edge cases (or maybe hacking nix-shell for
a persistent flag) and submit this to the manual.
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Re: [Nix-dev] truly persistent nix-shell
On 20/11/16 10:41, Andreas Herrmann wrote: > It is possible to avoid this issue by creating a gc-root for every package that the nix-shell pulls in: > > $ nix-store -r $(nix-store --query --references $PWD/shell.drv) \ > --indirect --add-root $PWD/shell.dep > > Best, Andreas > > > [1]: https://gist.github.com/aherrmann/51b56283f9ed5853747908fbab907316 > [2]: https://nixos.org/wiki/Development_Environments#Making_a_Persistent_nix-shell_Environment I've also searched for ways to persist gc on environments. This works!, I read the links you posted, and seeing the comments and references they provide the following answer [3] $ cd $ mkdir gcroots $ nix-shell ./shell.nix --pure --indirect --add-root gcroots/dep $ exit $ nix-collect-garbage $ nix-shell ./shell.nix So this maybe makes you command redundant (although less obsucure than this commands). Maybe is worthwhile document this behaviour & simplify the flags to nix-shell to obtain this result? [3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/5623#issuecomment-74048047 -- -- Ruben ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] DBus and XMonad
On 08/11/16 16:40, Profpatsch wrote: > I stopped using taffybar for that reason, and actually quite like my > fullscreen-by-default system as it is now. How do you know if you have a hogging process then?. Do you have a open htop? (I am tempted about having a xmonad fullscreen-by-default). -- -- Ruben ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Install texlive on 16.09
On 05/11/16 12:20, laverne wrote:
> How do I install LaTeX on NixOS 16.09?
The other replies answered that, I want to address how to deal with
"subhierarchies" in nixpkgs. You could clone the nixpkgs repo and search
from there, but it is easy to get lost. The alternative I like is
getting familiar with nix-repl, available with `nix-shell -p nix-repl`
slack@eureka> nix-repl
Welcome to Nix version 1.11.4. Type :? for help.
nix-repl> pkgs = import {}
nix-repl> builtins.attrNames pkgs.texlive.combined
[ "recurseForDerivations" "scheme-basic" "scheme-context"
"scheme-full" "scheme-gust" "scheme-medium" "scheme-minimal"
"scheme-small" "scheme-tetex" "scheme-xml" ]
nix-repl>
where the schemes seems to be mandated by the source. Anyways, that also
will help you to look for packages in `haskellPackages` and
`python35Packages`.
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Re: [Nix-dev] buildFHSUserEnv and matlab impure install
On 20/10/16 09:31, Roger Qiu wrote: > That error looks like it has to do with setuid, is matlab meant to be > launched with root privileges? At least the install script does. I haven't really checkout why (probably because it populated /opt, but I intended to change that). -- Ruben ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
[Nix-dev] buildFHSUserEnv and matlab impure install
Hello Nix'ers I recently got a copy of (unix) matlab. The usual method of install includes running as root a install script, this will launch a popup dialog which you can "next next" until the installation is finished. Matlab assumes in various part a FHS structure, so I've meant to not bother with patching and use buildFHSUserEnv to replicate that hierarchy. I can launch a nix-shell such structure, yet I have doubts on how to proceed, should I * Try writing a default.nix for matlab, and somehow fill the interactive parts on a script? * Try to install all the parts on a folder under $HOME, such that each time I want to use it, I must be in the correct nix-shell? As I didn't care much, I wanted to follow the 2ª option, yet trying to run with sudo gets the following error sudo: setuid-wrapper.c:47: main: Assertion `(st.st_mode & S_ISUID) == 0 || (st.st_uid == geteuid())' failed Thus I think this isn't how is supposed to be used. Anybody with an idea on how to use the second method? Ideally I would like to this to work, so I can `nix-build` such hierarchy and use matlab from there... -- Ruben ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] DBus and XMonad
On 19/10/16 08:19, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Rodney Lorrimar writes: >> >> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-jp8hFEY1dV,guid=c6e01dc144bda2ae4ca47c84580747a5;unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-BjlHWWC2xz,guid=3733c1a431ad4cb309cc622a580747a5 >> >> I'm not quite sure why the dbus socket was unavailable, but my solution >> was to enable services.dbus.socketActivated in configuration.nix. > > I have seen this, too---manifesting as an taffybar not starting---though > I was doing some more investigation before I enquired. > > I was able to roll back to a version that worked, and the clearly > distinguishing feature was that there was only one listing in > DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS; and indeed, if I set the environment variable > when starting taffybar, it works fine. > > $ > DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-jp8hFEY1dV,guid=c6e01dc144bda2ae4ca47c84580747a5 > taffybar > > Works just fine. > > I guess the question I'm left with is whether the error is in the nix > configuration providing us with two entries in the variable, or in the > haskell dbus package in not handling it properly? I've noticed this too (and fixed the same way). Before in 16.03 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS only listed one abstract path, thus I it isn't a fault on the haskell side of things. -- -- Ruben ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] How do I know I can enableParallelBuilding?
On 15/10/16 18:21, Vladimír Čunát wrote: > For example, I personally think we could have `build-cores = 0` by > default, as we only leave enableParallelBuilding = true for packages > that don't fail because of it. btw, do you have that option set up? If so, what is your general experience with it? how is the stability of the system, etc. -- Ruben ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
[Nix-dev] nix.buildCores and determinism
On reading `nixos-option nix.buildCores`, it says that this option can affect the determinism of the build. I don't understand how is important as the hash of the package depends on the default.nix file, not the build process. What does it mean to be non-deterministic in this case? -- Ruben Astudillo ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] nix-shell and persistent environment
On 01/10/16 04:03, Daniel Hlynskyi wrote: > To complete previous answer. > > I create a separate directory .nix-gc-roots, because nix-shell produces > many roots. You do this for keep things in order or because it buys you functionality? > Also, I haven't found yet a way to get nix root for nixpkgs imported as > external derivation, so after garbage collect I still have to > redownload some sources This is basically my experience. The method on the old wiki makes the environment survive `nix-channel --update` but not `nix-collect-garbage` which is weird because (as in the wiki) I explicitly asked for the .drv be a '--indirect --add-root' on $PWD. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
[Nix-dev] nix-shell and persistent environment
hi
nix-shell is great, but when I update the nixpkgs or nix-collect-garbage
I lose the cache of those packages. I've thinking on do a special profile
that I could switch to per shell instance with nix-{shell,env}, but I
also found references to a deprecated buildEnv function for this. What is
the common alternative for this?
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Re: [Nix-dev] Remove Python 2.6 and 3.3
On 26/09/16 08:43, Kevin Cox wrote: > On 26/09/16 12:29, Matthias Beyer wrote: >> I have 702 paths in /nix/store which contain the string "python2" >> >> Can you tell me how to check properly whether I need python2 >> support/packages? I'm not so familiar with the python infrastructure. > I believe a lot of the "python2*" packages will be python libraries that > are dependencies, so I would suspect that a vast minority would actually > be the CPython interpreter. > > For determining what needs those paths you can use the nix-store --query > (-q) to find out. I'm not on a machine right now but something like > `nix-store -q --requisites` will give you everything that depends on a > packages. I always get the actual wording confused but the man page has > excellent descriptions in the query section. I don't even use python, but this is exactly what I was going to propose. This pipeline that would sort of do what the grand-parent wanted find /nix/store -maxdepth 1 -iname '*python-2.6*' -type d | \ xargs nix-store -q --referrers | uniq possibly with a `grep -v python` somewhere to avoid obvious dependencies. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
[Nix-dev] texlive.scheme-full and texdoc
Hi all Asking on freenode #latex somebody told me that texdoc geometry ought to show the official documentation for the geometry package. On nixos with the scheme-full package that is not the case. What can I do to have official documentation locally? -- Ruben Astudillo ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Intermittent Blank Screen upon Opening Laptop Lid
I got the same problem. I think I know the conditions that trigger the bug, it has to do with both power sources on my laptop (BAT0 ADP1) being online as per-said on /sys/class/power_supply at the same time. To avoid this I just suspend (to mem) and open the netbook without the adapter conected. -- -- Ruben Astudillo ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
[Nix-dev] cabal2nix, nix-shell and persistence trick
Hi all. When using `cabal2nix --shell . > shell.nix` and the persistent environment trick[1] as shown in the wiki, the resulting environment correspond to the actual one. Instead if I just launch `nix-shell` with the output of cabal2nix --shell I get the correct setup. Anybody with experience on this?. How do you set-up persistent environment with cabal2nix? [1]: https://nixos.org/wiki/Development_Environments#Making_a_Persistent_nix-shell_Environment -- -- Ruben Astudillo ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
[Nix-dev] bare XMonads environment and KDE5 programs
Hi all
I am recently changing from KDE4 -> KDE5 on my bare XMonad setup. I
didn't do it before because I was encountering a error with KIO-slaves
and icons no showing. I have basically this setup
-- /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
services.xserver = {
displayManager.lightdm.enable = true;
desktopManager.kde5.enable = true;
};
plus on my user profile I have installed (from nixos.kde5 attr):
breeze-5.5.5
dolphin-15.12.3
gwenview-15.12.3
I've got luck lunching dolphin as
slack@tapioca> XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=kde dolphin
yet it can't launch gwenview by clicking. Is there something obvious
missing from my setup?
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[Nix-dev] Contributing to nixpkgs and maintainers burden
Hi nixers. I have a couple of packages (hakuneko, haskell-related) on my local copy of the repo. Time to time I've thought of contributing back. But I think on the maintainers of nixpkgs and don't know if I am really making them favor. On the "commit access" thread I learned that nixpkgs on github is kind of a mess. I don't really want to put extra burden on somebody (who already are doing a wonderful job) with just a PR and want to actively work on updating my packages. Is there a hierarchy of people assigned different level of pkgs/ (so I can work with less full people) or is still the global "give commit acess" still around? What are the plans? -- -- Ruben Astudillo ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
[Nix-dev] ipython/jupyter no notebook command available
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[Nix-dev] Launching custom xsession
On other distros I defined a custom XMonad xsession on the following way. I put a xmonadCustom.desktop on /usr/share/xsessions like this [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Type=XSession Exec=/usr/local/bin/xmonadCustom TryExec=/usr/local/bin/xmonadCustom Name=XMonadCustom Where xmonadCustom was a script on /usr/local/bin that was of this form #!/bin/sh numlockx & taffybar & xfce4-clipman & redshift -l -33.03:-71.43 & taralli & pasystray & exec xmonad I know this was hacky and I would like to know the proper way to set something like this on NixOS. On IRC somebody mentioned using systemd units but I can't find further info on the wiki. Currently I am using a pure xmonad setup by using services.xserver.windowManager.xmonad.enable = true; As said on man configuration.nix. Still would appreciate feedback. -- Ruben Astudillo OpenPGP: 0x3C332311 Crear un haiku, en diecisiete silabas, es complica... ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
[Nix-dev] Unetbootin boot through Grub2 console
Hi all I got a tiny netbook on which I can't access the BIOS and can't find the CMOS button without dissemble it entirely. I can still boot to grub console of the previous distro and got a usb drive with a unetbootin copy of nixos. Is there any way I could boot up from the grub2 console? I tried booting from the .iso file through a loopback, that gives me the bzImage and the initrd file. But I also need the init file which is contained on the squashfs image of the nix-store. I could not put the whole store on a usb drive because it needs to be FAT and it doesn't seem to support symlinks which are many on the store. Ideally I would like to avoid all this if I could boot directly from a unetbootin drive but I am open to other suggestions. Thanks in advance -- Ruben Astudillo OpenPGP: 0x3C332311 Crear un haiku, en diecisiete silabas, es complica... ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
