Re: [Nix-dev] LVM troubles

2013-04-26 Thread Rickard Nilsson
Den 2013-04-22 13:51:28 skrev Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:04:58PM +0200, Rickard Nilsson wrote: Den 2013-04-22 08:26:25 skrev Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name: Well, old generations did work, didn't they? Yep, but it took me a while to find an

Re: [Nix-dev] [NixOS/nixpkgs] e7124e: sqlite: Update to 3.7.16.1

2013-04-26 Thread Peter Simons
Hi guys, the update to sqlite 3.7.16.1 causes trouble with the builds of Dbix-class and of Hydra. Would anyone object if I downgrade the default version to 3.7.14.1 again for the time being, until those issues have been resolved? Take care, Peter ___

[Nix-dev] atd broken by hard-link security features

2013-04-26 Thread Peter Simons
Hi guys, the 'atd' daemon in NixOS doesn't work any more. The problem is that 'at' creates job files in /var/spool/atjobs that are owned by the user who submitted the job, but the daemon -- running as user 'atd' -- tries to lock that job by creating a hardlink to it, which the kernel won't allow:

Re: [Nix-dev] atd broken by hard-link security features

2013-04-26 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 04/26/2013 11:42 PM, Peter Simons wrote: the 'atd' daemon in NixOS doesn't work any more. The problem is that 'at' creates job files in /var/spool/atjobs that are owned by the user who submitted the job, but the daemon -- running as user 'atd' -- tries to lock that job by creating a hardlink

Re: [Nix-dev] atd broken by hard-link security features

2013-04-26 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Vladimír, I still don't see how hardlinking can lock a file, but never mind :-) link(2) is an atomic operation that fails with EEXIST if the target path exists already. If several processes call link(foo, foo.lck) at the same time, then only one of them will succeed. Take care, Peter

[Nix-dev] wacom users - pay attention to this pull request

2013-04-26 Thread Marc Weber
https://github.com/NixOS/nixos/pull/154 This drop all old config option, but also gets rid of all pain I had trying to make an Intuos 5 tablet work the way it should. I've only tested it with x-updates right now. Please report wether you have any issues If you need the old options back, you