Re: [Nix-dev] LVM troubles

2013-04-21 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 07:29:22PM +0200, Rickard Nilsson wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed today that my NixOS system that uses LVM on top of mdadm RAID > doesn't boot. It seems the LVM volumes are not activated. The NixOS init > says something about "starting LVM" and then it immediately starts loo

[Nix-dev] nixos/nixpkgs source used by iso installer?

2013-04-21 Thread Marc Weber
Does it make sense to use the nixos/nixpkgs version distributed with the live cd: - yes - installation might be faster Does it make sense to always use latest: - yes - for security reasons - and because user will update soon anyway? Wich argument is stronger? So should nixos-install found on the

Re: [Nix-dev] kbuildsococa4 & calligra

2013-04-21 Thread Jonas Hörsch
confronted with the same problem in a different variation (being stubborn about wanting to use okular and gwenview from a non-kde desktop environment), i came up with a slight variation: add kde4.oxygen_icons and shared_mime_info in x11Packages and environment.pathsToLink = [ "/share/mime" ];

Re: [Nix-dev] guile 2.0.7 test suite fails without IPv6 support

2013-04-21 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Ludo, > Can you try with the just-released Guile 2.0.9, which contains a > correct fix AFAICS? the new version works fine: http://hydra.cryp.to:8080/build/14869/nixlog/3 Thanks for the fix! Peter ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu

Re: [Nix-dev] comments about nixos's documentation

2013-04-21 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 04/21/2013 09:16 PM, Marc Weber wrote: I didn't find the doc source (?) - so I'm not sure how to improve it other then notifying about it. It's in nix's tree, in docbook format: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tree/master/doc/manual Vlada smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signatu

[Nix-dev] comments about nixos's documentation

2013-04-21 Thread Marc Weber
comments about installation: nixos.org -> nixos -> Documentation -> "Nixpkgs manual" link. - typo: "Thus, installation from binaries falls back on nstallation from source" - (channels stable): is just outdated: That's correct. eventually it should also be noted that its more likely to contain

[Nix-dev] LVM troubles

2013-04-21 Thread Rickard Nilsson
Hi, I noticed today that my NixOS system that uses LVM on top of mdadm RAID doesn't boot. It seems the LVM volumes are not activated. The NixOS init says something about "starting LVM" and then it immediately starts looking for the root device, which fails. If I try booting an older generati

Re: [Nix-dev] Binary cache failures

2013-04-21 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 04/20/2013 08:36 PM, Peter Simons wrote: This looks like the information served by nixos.org is incoherent. Does anyone know where these errors come from? It seems that there are some paths which are missing despite hydra thinking otherwise. I think it also causes "build errors without a