Bjørn Forsman schreef op 5-4-2014 23:25: > On 5 April 2014 22:41, Roelof Wobben <[email protected]> wrote: >> Roelof Wobben schreef op 5-4-2014 18:27: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I booted from the minmal cd and installed according to the manual, >>> >>> On the configuration.nix I enabled X and KDE. >>> >>> But after the reboot it started up and I see the prompt. >>> I tried startx but then I see a message file not found. > What exactly was the error message? Or do you mean "command not found" > when you tried to run startx?
yep, that was it. > > Could you post your configuration.nix file? yes, I could as soon as I find out how I can pastebin that one from the prompt. > >> It looks if kde is not installed at all. >> >> systemctl kdm.service start gives a message that the kdm.service is not >> found. > AFAIK, there is no kdm.service. If you enabled KDM in > configuration.nix and did "nixos-rebuild switch" then you should see > that KDM is being run: i enabled kdm and did nixos-install because the install manual says to do that step. > $ systemctl status display-manager.service > display-manager.service - X11 Server > Loaded: loaded > (/nix/store/csbc3rnpq5c15399mkif6q4c4lqcvdph-unit/display-manager.service) > Active: active (running) since Sat 2014-04-05 15:11:04 CEST; 8h ago > Main PID: 2039 (kdm) > CGroup: name=systemd:/system/display-manager.service > ├─2039 > /nix/store/5vb0lf54bcbnzgzyd98xgd23fl047935-kde-workspace-4.11.5/bin/kdm > -config /nix/store/71q80m00cq1lg5bxn3dxcq7d4vwgj9ci-kdmrc -nodaemon > └─2149 > /nix/store/rlvgd37g39qk4i1xn3i18m0r1wv5k72f-xorg-server-1.14.5/bin/X > -ac -logverbose -verbose -terminate -logfile /var/log/X.0.log -config > /nix/store/akcpdfvrzfbcrr70f662drxp1d2gihhp-xserver.conf :0 vt7 > -xkbdir /nix/store/46kmqqa76k81rfrfk3sn86pc57d8... > >> Is there a way I can install kde manually > I'm pretty sure installing KDE with nix-env doesn't work, there are > too many system wide dependencies. It has to be enabled in > configuration.nix. > >> nix-env -i kde fails because there is not derivation called kde. > Try "nix-env -qaP | grep kde" to get a list of packages. The first > column is the attribute name, the second is the package name. You > install stuff with "nix-env -i package-name" or "nix-env -iA > attrname". > > Best regards, > Bjørn Forsman > _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
