Re: [Nix-dev] Disappearing X session on some systems

2017-05-29 Thread Evan Rowley
The issue on the ThinkPad E465 seems to have been fixed. No longer have I experienced a locked X session. The problem may have been related to GDM. It was some error messages received during nixos-rebuild switch which led me down this path. The fix was achieved after applying a workaround supplied

Re: [Nix-dev] Disappearing X session on some systems

2017-05-28 Thread Evan Rowley
Upon further inspection, it appears bug 24172, bug 22470, and pull request 25621 may be related to the X session problem I mentioned. Gdm on nvidia https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/25621 nixos-rebuild switch fails in X terminal https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/22470 systemd-vconsole-

Re: [Nix-dev] Disappearing X session on some systems

2017-05-28 Thread Linus Heckemann
On 28/05/17 07:17, Kirill Elagin wrote: > Is there anything noteworthy in the X log? dmesg? > Surely it doesn’t just disappear without saying anything at all, right? This stuff should be in the journal, but it isn't in the case of lightdm [26172]. The X server may also crash without any further i

Re: [Nix-dev] Disappearing X session on some systems

2017-05-27 Thread Kirill Elagin
Is there anything noteworthy in the X log? dmesg? Surely it doesn’t just disappear without saying anything at all, right? On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 6:57 PM Evan Rowley wrote: > Has anyone left their NixOS machine running for awhile, come back to it, > and saw a console on tty7 where X used to be r

[Nix-dev] Disappearing X session on some systems

2017-05-27 Thread Evan Rowley
Has anyone left their NixOS machine running for awhile, come back to it, and saw a console on tty7 where X used to be running? I experience this when I leave two of my NixOS systems alone for awhile. Both are using Gnome 3. It affects my ThinkPad E465 which is running an AMD A10-8700P & Radeon R6 M