Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS on MacBook: freeze at bootloader

2014-02-27 Thread Johannes Raggam
ha, found the problem! somehow the partition numbers of my harddrive were renumbered, and i wasn't using UIDs. 'nixos-option --install' didn't work, so it the hardware-configuration.nix wasn't updated. (if i understood the process correctly). after booting from sdcard and mounting the drives to

[Nix-dev] anyone up for a NixOS talk @ linuxtage graz?

2014-02-27 Thread Johannes Raggam
hey all, here in my hometown graz/austria, there is the linuxtage mini conference on 4th and 5th april, organised by the creator of the GRML distribution. it would be great to have a NixOS talk there, to have this topic covered! I'm not up for this, since i'm new to NixOS and have no experience.

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS on MacBook: freeze at bootloader

2014-02-27 Thread Aristid Breitkreuz
A good habit to always use labels or uuids where possible. :) Am 27.02.2014 11:22 schrieb Johannes Raggam raggam...@adm.at: ha, found the problem! somehow the partition numbers of my harddrive were renumbered, and i wasn't using UIDs. 'nixos-option --install' didn't work, so it the

[Nix-dev] Help creating a custom app with Nix package manager

2014-02-27 Thread Asus Ceaser
I did a fresh install and started following the Nixpkgs manual to create a custom package. I want to use the web browser luakit. So I cloned the git repository and changed directory into it. I then created the directory luakit under /pkgs/applications/network/browsers/ I created a default.nix

Re: [Nix-dev] build-chroot-dirs mount problem

2014-02-27 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 26/02/14 23:53, Federico Sacerdoti wrote: 26146 lstat(/dev/shm, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=200, ...}) = 0 You're probably on a system where /dev/shm is a symlink to /run/shm or something like that. Nix's chroot currently cannot handle that: mounting a new tmpfs on /dev/shm

Re: [Nix-dev] build-chroot-dirs mount problem

2014-02-27 Thread Federico Sacerdoti
Hello, For the record I replicated the problem with the latest nix-1.6.1. From my reading of the man 2 mount page the first argument should be /dev/shm not none. Thanks, FDS From: Federico Sacerdoti Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 5:53 PM To: 'nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl' Subject: