This effectively fixes the majority of all VM tests which were broken
because `/dev/vda` (or any other block device) wasn't mountable:
machine # mounting /dev/vda on /...
machine # mount: mounting /dev/vda on /mnt-root/ failed: No such device[ 2.820976] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100
machine # [ 2.821757] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 5.10.72 #1-NixOS
machine # [ 2.821757] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
machine # [ 2.821757] Call Trace:
machine # [ 2.821757] dump_stack+0x6b/0x83
machine # [ 2.821757] panic+0x101/0x2c8
machine # [ 2.821757] do_exit.cold+0x14/0xb3
machine # [ 2.821757] do_group_exit+0x33/0xa0
machine # [ 2.821757] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x14/0x20
machine # [ 2.821757] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
machine # [ 2.821757] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
machine # [ 2.821757] RIP: 0033:0x7f67ec2800f6
machine # [ 2.821757] Code: 00 4c 8b 0d 2c 5d 11 00 eb 19 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 89 d7 89 f0 0f 05 48 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 22 f4 89 d7 44 89 c0 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 76 e2 f7 d8 64 41 89 01 eb da 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00
machine # [ 2.821757] RSP: 002b:00007fff8f5a71d8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e7
machine # [ 2.821757] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000699704 RCX: 00007f67ec2800f6
machine # [ 2.821757] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 000000000000003c RDI: 0000000000000001
machine # [ 2.821757] RBP: 0000000000000004 R08: 00000000000000e7 R09: ffffffffffffff80
machine # [ 2.821757] R10: 00007f67ec33f3e0 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 000000000000000b
machine # [ 2.821757] R13: 00007fff8f5a75a8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000004fc198
machine # [ 2.821757] Kernel Offset: 0x31e00000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
machine # [ 2.821757] Rebooting in 1 seconds..
This happened because the kernel failed to load modules such as `ext4`
from `boot.initrd.availableKernelModules`[1] on e.g. a `mount(2)` syscall.
The problem is that `kmod` isn't linked against `libpthread.so.0`
anymore because it got merged into `libc.so.6` (however, the .so still
exists), but still needs it:
machine # newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-2.34-36/lib/x86_64", 0x7ffd951114c0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
machine # openat(AT_FDCWD, "/nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-2.34-36/lib/x86_64/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
machine # newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-2.34-36/lib/x86_64", 0x7ffd951114c0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
machine # openat(AT_FDCWD, "/nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-2.34-36/lib/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
machine # newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-2.34-36/lib", 0x7ffd951114c0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
machine # openat(AT_FDCWD, "/nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-2.34-36/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
machine # writev(2, [{iov_base="/nix/store/kdc9n48ksdc1a8y8w512w"..., iov_len=69}, {iov_base=": ", iov_len=2}, {iov_base="error while loading shared libra"..., iov_len=36}, {iov_base=": ", iov_len=2}, {iov_base="libpthread.so.0", iov_len=15}, {iov_base=": ", iov_len=2}, {iov_base="cy
machine # ) = 184
machine # exit_group(127) = ?
machine # +++ exited with 127 +++
machine # mount: mounting /dev/vda on /mnt-root/ failed: No such device
machine # [ 19.167180] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100
machine # [ 19.167711] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 5.10.72 #1-NixOS
This is not a problem
* inside stage-1 because `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` points to `$out/lib` of
extra-utils where `libpthread.so.6` also exists.
* on a running system because `${pkgs.glibc}/lib` is part of kmod's
rpath.
However this is a problem inside the kernel which calls `modprobe` (in
our case `kmod`) to load modules and doesn't know about
`LD_LIBRARY_PATH`. Also, the rpath-reference was nuked.
To work around this, the kernel's `modprobe`
(i.e. `/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe`) now points to a wrapper which
explicitly declares `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`. We can't use `makeWrapper` here
because `modprobe` itself must not be renamed. Otherwise, `kmod` (which
is the link-target of `modprobe`) won't work because it expects
`argv[0] == "modprobe"` to perform modprobe's tasks.
[1] https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options.html#opt-boot.initrd.availableKernelModules
This modifies initialRamdiskSecretAppender to stage secrets in
/.initrd-secrets/ and stage-1-init to copy them into place after mounting
special file systems. This allows secrets to be copied into ramfs mounts
like /run/keys for use after stage-1 finishes without copying them to disk
(which would not be very secure).
This used to be done by udev, but that was removed in
systemd/systemd@6b2229c. The links are created by systemd at the end of
stage-2, but activation scripts might need them earlier.
When the stage-1 logs get imported in to the journal, they all get
loaded with the same timestamp. This makes it difficult to identify
what might be taking a long time in early boot.
Otherwise, stage-2-init.sh will complain about not having access to
/dev/fd/62 as of systemd v246.
On IRC, flokli said:
15:14 <flokli> cole-h: hmmm... I could imagine some of the setup inside /dev has been moved into other parts of systemd
15:14 <flokli> And given we run systemd much later (outside initramfs only) it doesn't work properly here
15:17 <flokli> We probably don't invoke udev correctly
This option allows replacing the tmpfs mounted on / by
the live CD's init script with a physical device
Since nixOS symlinks everything there's no trouble
at all.
That enables the user to easily use a nixOS live CD
as a portable installation.
Note that due to some limitations in how the store is mounted
currently only the non-store things are persisted.
This makes predictable interfaces names available as soon as possible
with udev by adding the default network link units to initrd which are read
by udev. Also adds some udev rules that are needed but which would normally
loaded from the udev store path which is not included in the initrd.
In 87a19e9048 I merged staging-next into master using the GitHub gui as intended.
In ac241fb7a5 I merged master into staging-next for the next staging cycle, however, I accidentally pushed it to master.
Thinking this may cause trouble, I reverted it in 0be87c7979. This was however wrong, as it "removed" master.
This reverts commit 0be87c7979.
I merged master into staging-next but accidentally pushed it to master.
This should get us back to 87a19e9048.
This reverts commit ac241fb7a5, reversing
changes made to 76a439239e.
The previous version contained a false positive case, where boot would
continue when the stage 2 init did not exist at all, and a false
negative case, where boot would stop if the stage 2 init was a symlink
which cannot be resolved in the initramfs root.
Fixes#49519.
Thanks @michas2 for finding and reporting the issue!
F2FS is used on Raspberry Pi-like devices to enhance SD card performance. Allowing F2FS resizing would help in automatic deploying of SD card images without a Linux box to resize the file system offline.
The message buffer of the kernel lists
> Please run 'e2fsck -f /dev/disk/by-label/nixos' first.
as the output of the command `resize2fs "$device"`.
This fixesNixOS/nixpkgs#26910.
This code in amazon-image.nix:
if mountFS "$device" "$mp" "" auto; then
if [ -z "$diskForUnionfs" ]; then diskForUnionfs="$mp"; fi
fi
relies on mountFS to return a zero exit status if mounting
succeeds. But the lustrateRoot check in mountFS was causing a non-zero
exit status. As a result /disk0 would be mounted, but not used for
/tmp.
(cherry picked from commit d082ed8c35dec48aee2afd1303b3c8b2a1b242b0)
Thanks to @NeQuissimus in a5c1985fef for
updating busybox, which since version 1.25 doesn't allow local variables
outside of functions anymore (which is the desired behaviour).
See the following upstream commit of busybox which is the change that
let's this problem surface:
https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=ef2386b80abfb22ccb697ddbdd4047aacc395c50
So this has been an error I've made on my end in
67223ee205, because I originally had a
function for killing the processes but desired to inline it because it's
only used in one place.
This fixes the boot-stage1 NixOS test.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
A new internal config option `fileSystems.<name>.early` is added to indicate
that the filesystem needs to be loaded very early (i.e. in initrd). They are
transformed to a shell script in `system.build.earlyMountScript` with calls to
an undefined `specialMount` function, which is expected to be caller-specific.
This option is used by stage-1, stage-2 and activation script to set up and
remount those filesystems. Options for them are updated according to systemd
defaults.
lustrate /ˈlʌstreɪt/ verb.
purify by expiatory sacrifice, ceremonial washing, or some other
ritual action.
- sudo touch /etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE
⇒ on next reboot, during stage 1, everything but /nix and /boot
is moved to /old-root
- echo "etc/passwd" | sudo tee -a /etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE
⇒ on next reboot, during stage 1, everything but /nix and /boot
is moved to /old-root; except /etc/passwd is copied back.
Useful for installing NixOS in place on another distro. For instance:
$ nix-env -iE '_: with import <nixpkgs/nixos> { configuration = {}; }; with config.system.build; [ nixos-generate-config manual.manpages ]'
$ sudo mkdir /etc/nixos
$ sudo `which nixos-generate-config`
… edit the configuration files in /etc/nixos using man configuration.nix
if needed
maybe add: users.extraUsers.root.initialHashedPassword = "" ?
… Build the entire NixOS system and link it to the system profile:
$ nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/system -f '<nixpkgs/nixos>' -A system --set
… If you were using a single user install:
$ sudo chown -R 0.0 /nix
… NixOS is about to take over
$ sudo touch /etc/NIXOS
$ sudo touch /etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE
… Let's keep the configuration files we just created
$ echo etc/nixos | sudo tee -a /etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE
$ sudo mv -v /boot /boot.bak &&
sudo /nix/var/nix/profiles/system/bin/switch-to-configuration boot
$ sudo reboot
… NixOS boots, Stage 1 moves all the old distro stuff in /old-root.
This reverts commit c69c76ca7e.
This patch was messed up during a rebase -- the commit title doesn't match what
it really does at all (it is actually a broken attempt to get LUKS passphrase
prompts in Plymouth).
