adding xkbVariant workman not working

[ghost]

Not sure how to change to workman layout. Modified the system.nix with:

xkbOptions = "caps:escape";
layout = "us";
xkbVariant = "workman,";

but it is not picking up. Any ideas?

localectl status is showing X11 Variant: workman,

2. Also If I make a change in i3 config like setting a longer time for xautlock -locker it is not picked up by the system, reloading i3, reboot or i3-msg reload is not making any changes.

Note: Thanks for making this, looks super interesting, pretty excited to learn from this config, this is the first reproducible config I found that works out of the box.

update:

3. after ./make.sh update I am getting

! nix build --no-link -f ./nix/default.nix -o /tmp/tmp.OJQStGgQP8/result --keep-going
cannot build on 'ssh://build@utdemir.com': cannot connect to 'build@utdemir.com': Warning: Identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa not accessible: No such file or directory.
Host key verification failed.

update

resolved the 3rd issue by commenting out the

 nix = {
    distributedBuilds = true;
    buildMachines = [
      { hostName = "nxb-4";
        system = "x86_64-linux";
        maxJobs = 100;
        supportedFeatures = [ "benchmark" ];
      }
      { hostName = "nxb-16";
        system = "x86_64-linux";
        maxJobs = 100;
        supportedFeatures = [ "benchmark" ];
        mandatoryFeatures = [ "big-parallel" ];
      }
    ];
    extraOptions = ''
      builders-use-substitutes = true
    '';
  };

from hardware.nix

Note: learning about distributed builds!

update:

4. ./make.sh switch fails to start Home Manager

home-manager-dooygoy.service - Home Manager environment for dooygoy
   Loaded: loaded (/nix/store/gsnpvv4qrk8kimck2ys4az5miayfiqlz-unit-home-manager-dooygoy.service/home-manager-dooygoy.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2020-04-19 03:43:12 NZST; 4s ago
  Process: 22490 ExecStart=/nix/store/wrh4vvp6d23prlnk9v2g174a49zqarga-activate-dooygoy (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 22490 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
       IP: 0B in, 0B out
      CPU: 40ms

Apr 19 03:43:12 unimatrix systemd[1]: Starting Home Manager environment for dooygoy...
Apr 19 03:43:12 unimatrix hm-activate-dooygoy[22490]: Activating home-manager configuration for dooygoy
Apr 19 03:43:12 unimatrix hm-activate-dooygoy[22490]: Starting home manager activation
Apr 19 03:43:12 unimatrix hm-activate-dooygoy[22490]: Activating checkFilesChanged
Apr 19 03:43:12 unimatrix hm-activate-dooygoy[22490]: Activating checkLinkTargets
Apr 19 03:43:12 unimatrix hm-activate-dooygoy[22490]: Existing file '/home/dooygoy/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini' is in the way
Apr 19 03:43:12 unimatrix hm-activate-dooygoy[22490]: Please move the above files and try again or use -b <ext> to move automatically.
Apr 19 03:43:12 unimatrix systemd[1]: home-manager-dooygoy.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 19 03:43:12 unimatrix systemd[1]: home-manager-dooygoy.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 19 03:43:12 unimatrix systemd[1]: Failed to start Home Manager environment for dooygoy.

reason:

Existing file '/home/dooygoy/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini' is in the way
Apr 19 03:43:12 unimatrix hm-activate-dooygoy[22490]: Please move the above files and try again or use -b <ext> to move automatically.

I deleted it and then invoked ./make.sh again but no home manager environment was initialized, at least no report of success or fail. Running ./make.sh update again.

Note: Why this issue with firefox?

Update:

after 2+ hours still updating, fetching firefox-75.0.source.tar.xz from https://cache.nixos.org then building firefox-unwrapped-75.0 from source which did not happen the first time, not sure if home-manager failed setup is the reason.

NOTE: reading why building firefox from source is so slow

Why the Build System is Slow

Aborted compilation, reboot, then ./make.sh cleanup and ./make.sh switch

Update:

1. Decided to reinstall NixOS just with git installed without firefox, without xserver
2. Installed cachix and cloned the forked repo
3. ./make.sh switch works! home-manager initialized
4. the first reboot hanged for 1.30min while A stop job is running for IPFS Daemon
5. then hanged on

[   OK   ] Reached target Reboot.
[   400.4050221] systemd-shutdown[1]: Waiting for process: rngd

Note: next reboot does not hang on IPFS or rngd

6. Reboot works with a new generation, dotfiles are picked up but workman layout still not able to load

Note: In the dotfiles repo there is an exclamation mark next to the prompt. Does this mean there are untracked files? git ls-files --others --exclude-standard returns empty

7. Firefox is not syncing my addons or from utdemir

dotfiles folder showing dotfile on master [!?]

Trying ./make.sh update, then it begins to download the whole tree, 16395MBs

./make.sh update
! nixpkgs-firefox-addons firefox-addons.json nix/firefox-addons.nix
Fetched https-everywhere version 2020.3.16
Fetched privacy-badger17 version 2020.2.19
Fetched vimium-ff version 1.66
Fetched i-hate-tabs-sdi-for-firefox version 0.1
Fetched ublock-origin version 1.26.0
Fetched matte-black-red version 2019.12.27
Fetched ipfs-companion version 2.11.0
! niv update
Updating all packages
  Package: nixos-hardware
  Package: nixpkgs
  Package: NUR
  Package: h
  Package: home-manager
Done: Updating all packages
! nix build --no-link -f ./nix/default.nix -o /tmp/tmp.cn9XBtg7IH/result --keep-going

why is the script downloading the whole tree?

Libreoffice fails

builder for '/nix/store/s4ifww7ywx4fvihbn1c8pm2vk0g6ddrn-libreoffice-6.3.5.2.drv' failed with exit code 2; last 10 log lines:
        |                                                                ^~
  [ECH] CustomTarget/testtools/bridgetest/bridgetest_javaserver
  [ECH] CustomTarget/testtools/bridgetest/bridgetest_inprocess_java
  [CXX] tools/source/misc/pathutils.cxx
  [C  ] vcl/unx/gtk/xid_fullscreen_on_all_monitors.c
  [SED] CustomTarget/wizards/share/dialog.xlc
  [SED] CustomTarget/wizards/share/script.xlc
  make[1]: *** [/build/libreoffice-6.3.5.2/solenv/gbuild/LinkTarget.mk:291: /build/libreoffice-6.3.5.2/workdir/CxxObject/sdext/source/pdfimport/xpdfwrapper/pdfioutdev_gpl.o] Error 1
  make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  make: *** [Makefile:284: build] Error 2
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/85yfjvh688qnqr8vipaihx13bgkbs8b1-libreoffice-6.3.5.2.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built

Then:

[2/362/570 built (1 failed), 3191 copied (16416.8 MiB), 4239.2 MiB DL] building these-0builder for '/nix/store/k2zjccqx44ljrma0gcmx6pwx4h74szvp-hnix-0.7.1.drv' failed with exit code 1; last 10 log lines:
    die', called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Configure.hs:1022:20 in Cabal-3.0.1.0:Distribution.Simple.Configure
    configureFinalizedPackage, called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Configure.hs:475:12 in Cabal-3.0.1.0:Distribution.Simple.Configure
    configure, called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple.hs:625:20 in Cabal-3.0.1.0:Distribution.Simple
    confHook, called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/UserHooks.hs:65:5 in Cabal-3.0.1.0:Distribution.Simple.UserHooks
    configureAction, called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple.hs:180:19 in Cabal-3.0.1.0:Distribution.Simple
    defaultMainHelper, called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple.hs:116:27 in Cabal-3.0.1.0:Distribution.Simple
    defaultMain, called at Setup.hs:2:8 in main:Main
  Setup: Encountered missing or private dependencies:
  pretty-show >=1.9.5 && <1.10
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/hsr88x394bwlz9dr666i3hbs4dggppx5-nixpkgs-firefox-addons-0.5.0.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
waiting for locks or build slots...

It finished with

cannot build derivation '/nix/store/1j7z6wmz5fnn3i32pmqs1hfskygx44mb-home-manager-path.drv': 2 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/38lgs46j84544zldpikdy2nn81a91q26-activation-script.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/f5ibn3ix61n77sj0xvw46ji3nzv5c8q6-home-manager-generation.drv': 2 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/3pwfpszj27z2b5v9jyz57xxyv2l04k81-activate-dooygoy.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/483m2pqm5pncrrf8rbf409j8ffn0sp9b-unit-home-manager-dooygoy.service.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/x6bm8b9yrv7j4782gkiqzx9yzsykg7yl-system-units.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/6wi88sb90pgfc82q7a0hgsnl4hykcfa3-etc.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/c3yybsbs31l4112h900qaqavvl29pnla-nixos-system-unimatrix-20.09pre-git.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
[559 built (2 failed), 3191 copied (16416.8 MiB), 4239.2 MiB DL]
error: build of '/nix/store/c3yybsbs31l4112h900qaqavvl29pnla-nixos-system-unimatrix-20.09pre-git.drv' failed
./make.sh update  84.45s user 63.84s system 4% cpu 1:01:21.94 total
dotfiles on  master [!?] took 1h1m21s 

update:

Decided not to go through with your repo so I did a fresh install just with one file configuration.nix and i3wm and some of your dotfiles. Need to learn more about home-manager to try this setup again. Thanks for great learning experience!

[utdemir]

Sorry about not noticing this earlier! Not sure why I didn't get notified.

Not sure how to change to workman layout.

Me neither! I mostly use the defaults, so I don't have any experience on picking a layout; sorry!

Also If I make a change in i3 config like setting a longer time for xautlock -locker it is not picked up by the system, reloading i3, reboot or i3-msg reload is not making any changes.

If you make a change in i3's configuration, running ./make.sh switch and reloading i3 would apply it. Except autostart.sh, that requires restarting i3 since it's only executed on the beginning of a session.

cannot build on 'ssh://build@utdemir.com': cannot connect to 'build@utdemir.com': Warning: Identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa not accessible: No such file or directory.

Yeah, I meant that hardware-configuration.nix file to contain configuration specific to my hardware. I should've clarified it somewhere, sorry!

re. Firefox related stuff:

Yeah, Firefox both takes a long time to compile, and handling of its addons and configurations is finnicky. I reverted those commits and started using qutebrowser recently.

re. ./make.sh update

This one updates all the packages. If nixpkgs is not built and cached by Hydra yet, it takes a long time to build, and things might be broken. I think I recently started using nixpkgs-unstable, which should cause less compilations (it might still break, hence the name "unstable). I prefer having an up-to-date system and am willing to debug the failures & create issues. If you need more stable system, you can use nixos-20.03 branch (with something like niv update nixpkgs -b nixos-20.03). There is a chance that it's missing some packages, so you might need to delete some.

Decided not to go through with your repo so I did a fresh install just with one file configuration.nix and i3wm and some of your dotfiles. Need to learn more about home-manager to try this setup again. Thanks for great learning experience!

Your issue was really useful! Always good to know what's the pain points on a fresh install. To be honest, installing this repository from scratch likely won't be a click&forget experience, since I do not routinely test installing from scratch and using other machines other than mine. Let me know if I can help with anything (even if you're not using this repo).

[ghost]

Thank you! Honestly just going through the pain points I learned a lot. There are more reproducible setups/configs floating around but they still need tinkering or manually connecting them.

This made me think of making a web based NixOS configuration manager, an online nix store, where a user/company could just "point and click" pick the components, wm's, and download a configuration.nix with all the extra nix. files creating a specific reproducible nix distro. There could even be some back engine that would test it.

My question is what do you think about something like this? I am a beginner haskeller/nixer and this seems to me like a really nice idea for a project.

I will study your setup more, and let you know if I learn something new. Thanks a bunch!

[utdemir]

My question is what do you think about something like this? I am a beginner haskeller/nixer and this seems to me like a really nice idea for a project.

It definitely sounds like an interesting project. As far as I know there's current attempts for creating a graphical NixOS installer that you can steal some ideas from.

I also want to mention that nixpkgs also comes with various utilities for creating system images with different formats (virtual machine images, iso's etc). At one point I was thinking about publishing a live-cd/installer image from this repository, so your project can just be a web service where you create a point-and-click NixOS image and download an ISO image as a result.

Good luck, let me know if you have a question! :)