Marc Weber wrote:
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 02:35:46PM +0100, Felix Breuer wrote:
Okay, with the help of Michael and Marc, I was able to get live-dvd.nix to
build. The next step was to try live-dvd-X.nix. Here I needed to fix two
things:
1) Disable gw6c service. Otherwise building fails as the gw6c derivation
complains that the paths
private = "/var/elliptic-keys/private";
public = /var/elliptic-keys/private;
are missing. Which of course they are, as gw6c does not run on my build
system.
2) Update SHA256 sum of flashplayer 10. The tarball distributed by Adobe
seems to have changed.
Diffs of these two changes are attached. After these two changes, I could
build live-dvd-X.nix sucessfully.
Now I would like to run X from withing the live DVD. This I did not manage
yet. I guess because I do not comprehend nix yet. I booted nixos
successfully inside VirtualBox, selecting Rescue X with vesa at the grub
prompt. The system started just fine and I could login as root.
After that, I tried something as naive as "startx" resulting in "command not
found".
:-) I'm glad you've asked. You're not alone:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/1002/match=newcomer
( -> "Q: How to start Xorg ?")
If you really want to start X from console manually you should have a
a look at xlaunch or use this script:
It extracts teh important information form the /etc/event.d/xserver file
and writes a launch script with the same setup contents to /tmp/script2.
I'm using it currently to trouble shoot xorg-git so that I can keep my
normal X session running. (You can do this yourself. Just follow the
slim configuration file which contains the X org setup settings)
I have the impression that there are some live-DVD related issues here.
What puzzles me (and at least some of the scripts), is that the files
/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
/etc/event.d/xserver
do *not* exist. (However I am running live-dvd-X.nix and
xorg-server-1.4.2 is in the store.) Nonetheless I tried both initctl and
xlaunch without success:
$ initctl start xserver
initctl: unknown job: xserver
$ xlaunch
Using :0
egrep: /etc/event.d/xserver: No such file or directory
export _XARGS_=[snip]
/nix/store/[snip]-xorg-server-1.4.2/bin/X $_XARGS_
At that point xlaunch gets stuck and does not do anything anymore.
I have not tried Marc's script yet. But is there any hope for that
script to work if /etc/event.d/xserver does not exist?
Felix
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