@poettering decided we only need a limited number of inodes in our /tmp,
so why not limit that for every systemd user? That makes medium-sized nix
builds impossible so this commit restores the old behaviour which is the
kernel default of half the number of physical RAM pages which does not
seem too unreasonable to me.
... build-vm-with-bootloader" for EFI systems
This reverts commit 20257280d9, reversing
changes made to 926a1b2094.
It broke nixosTests.installer.simpleUefiSystemdBoot
and right now channel is lagging behing for two weeks.
This reverts commit 8f177612b1.
Attempting to start any service from udev when systemd-udev-settle is
used at all hangs the boot for 2min. See issue #107341.
Prior to this commit, installation over serial console would requiring
manually having to modify the kernel modeline, as described in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/58198 .
This is unnecessarily fiddly, so this commit adds a syslinux boot
entry that has serial enabled.
GRUB already has a serial console entry:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/2c07a0800a76be01a3c255f39e21877a9a389f84/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/iso-image.nix#L311-L317
Why 115200 bps? This is already used in other places, e.g. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/58196
I tested this change by building the image, booting the image, and
observing the boot process over serial:
$ cd nixos/
$ nix-build -A config.system.build.isoImage -I nixos-config=modules/installer/cd-dvd/installation-cd-minimal.nix default.nix
$ sudo cp /nix/store/arcl702c3z8xlndlvnfplq9yhixjvs9k-nixos-20.09pre-git-x86_64-linux.iso/iso/nixos-20.09pre-git-x86_64-linux.iso /dev/sdb
$ picocom -b 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0
`nixos-rebuild build-vm-with-bootloader` currently fails with the
default NixOS EFI configuration:
$ cat >configuration.nix <<EOF
{
fileSystems."/".device = "/dev/sda1";
boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;
boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
}
EOF
$ nixos-rebuild build-vm-with-bootloader -I nixos-config=$PWD/configuration.nix -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/nixos-20.09.tar.gz
[...]
insmod: ERROR: could not insert module /nix/store/1ibmgfr13r8b6xyn4f0wj115819f359c-linux-5.4.83/lib/modules/5.4.83/kernel/fs/efivarfs/efivarfs.ko.xz: No such device
mount: /sys/firmware/efi/efivars: mount point does not exist.
[ 1.908328] reboot: Power down
builder for '/nix/store/dx2ycclyknvibrskwmii42sgyalagjxa-nixos-boot-disk.drv' failed with exit code 32
[...]
Fix it by setting virtualisation.useEFIBoot = true in qemu-vm.nix, when
efi is needed.
And remove the now unneeded configuration in
./nixos/tests/systemd-boot.nix, since it's handled globally.
Before:
* release-20.03: successful build, unsuccessful run
* release-20.09 (and master): unsuccessful build
After:
* Successful build and run.
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/107255
Janne Heß