Hi Shea, > In the future, can you please bring up an issue like this on the > mailing list before just reverting another developer's work?
you are right, I should have just posted to the list instead of reverting the commits. I was too impatient, and I overestimated the severity of the problem. What happened from my perspective is that I ran nixos-rebuild, and then left the computer for something else. When I came back after a while, the system had become nearly unusable. Resurrecting the machine was a bit of an effort, and eventually I had to reboot, even. Then I spent the better part of an hour watching "top" output, trying to debug what was happening. I even downgraded to the previous Nix version without success. So I started switching back to old revisions of Nixos. I tried to build revision 30076, and that worked fine. Then I tried the next revision -- yours -- and that didn't evaluate. So it seemed quite clear to me that the change you made triggered the bug I'm seeing. I realize that you must have tested that change before committing it, so apparently the problem has something to do with my configuration.nix. Still, my configuration.nix is not particularly unusual, and I felt that other users shouldn't run into the same problem I did. I decided to revert the change -- to fix my system -- and to post to this list. I surely could have handled that in a better way. Well, what can I say? I am sorry. Peter _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
