Discovered via https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/82743 which
improved option checking, causing an evaluation error that was
hard to understand without running the evaluation manually.
We set stateVersion to `mkDefault 18.03` in
`nixos/modules/testing/test-instrumentation.nix` and in
`modules/installer/cd-dvd/installation-cd-base.nix`.
Accessing the stateVersion in the module system from within the tests
results in the following error:
> The unique option `system.stateVersion' is defined multiple times, in
> `nixpkgs/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/installation-cd-base.nix' and
> `nixpkgs/nixos/modules/testing/test-instrumentation.nix'.
There are other tests that use it as well. Namely the radicale test also
verifies behaviour between state versions is as expected. It switches a
package default value. Others switched on the state directory default.
It seems like having the timesyncd switch as part of every rendered
activationScript might cause this weird error.
Removing this line seems like a reasonable thing to do since we actually
set the default to the very same value in the module system. This line
should have been no-op besides the issue that we've two statements
setting it in this very specific case.
DefaultTimeoutStartSec is normally set to 90 seconds and works fine. But
when running NixOS tests on a very slow machine (like a VM without
nested virtualisation support) this default is to low and causes
systemd units to fail spuriously. One symptom of this issue are tests
at times failing with "timed out waiting for the VM to connect".
Since the VM connect timeout is 300 seconds I also set
DefaultTimeoutStartSec to this which is ridiculously high.
This reverts commit 095fe5b43d.
Pointless renames considered harmful. All they do is force people to
spend extra work updating their configs for no benefit, and hindering
the ability to switch between unstable and stable versions of NixOS.
Like, what was the value of having the "nixos." there? I mean, by
definition anything in a NixOS module has something to do with NixOS...
Regression introduced by d4468bedb5.
No systemd messages are shown anymore during VM test runs, which is not
very helpful if you want to find out about failures.
There is a bit of a conflict between testing and the change that
introduced the regression. While the mentioned commit makes sure that
the primary console is tty0 for virtualisation.graphics = false, our VM
tests need to have the serial console as primary console.
So in order to support both, I added a new virtualisation.qemu.consoles
option, which allows to specify those options using the module system.
The default of this option is to use the changes that were introduced
and in test-instrumentation.nix we use only the serial console the same
way as before.
For test-instrumentation.nix I didn't add a baudrate to the serial
console because I can't find a reason on top of my head why it should
need it. There also wasn't a reason stated when that was introduced in
7499e4a5b9.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
Cc: @flokli, @dezgeg, @edolstra
The boot tests import test-instrumentation.nix directly to create a VM
image that only contains things such as the backdoor and serial console
the same way as used by other NixOS VM tests.
With one difference though: It doesn't need nor want to have 9p
filesystems mounted, because we actually want to test an image rather
than re-using most stuff from the host's store.
Change tested against the boot.uefiUsb and ipv6 tests, just that it
becomes clear we don't break either the tests with 9p nor the boot
tests (which were already broken but now succeed).
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The reason to patch QEMU is that with latest Nix, tests like "printing"
or "misc" fail because they expect the store paths to be owned by uid 0
and gid 0.
Starting with NixOS/nix@5e51ffb1c2, Nix
builds inside of a new user namespace. Unfortunately this also means
that bind-mounted store paths that are part of the derivation's inputs
are no longer owned by uid 0 and gid 0 but by uid 65534 and gid 65534.
This in turn causes things like sudo or cups to fail with errors about
insecure file permissions.
So in order to avoid that, let's make sure the VM always gets files
owned by uid 0 and gid 0 and does a no-op when doing a chmod on a store
path.
In addition, this adds a virtualisation.qemu.program option so that we
can make sure that we only use the patched version if we're *really*
running NixOS VM tests (that is, whenever we have imported
test-instrumentation.nix).
Tested against the "misc" and "printing" tests.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
... rather than ~/.xsession-errors. It might make sense to make this
the default, in order to eliminate ad hoc, uncentralised, poorly
discoverable log files.
This hopefully fixes intermittent test failures like
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/29962437
router# [ 240.128835] INFO: task mke2fs:99 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
router# [ 240.130135] Not tainted 3.18.25 #1-NixOS
router# [ 240.131110] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
assuming that these are caused by high load on the host.
This reverts commit 02b568414d.
With a5bc11f and 6353f58 in place, we really don't need this anymore.
After running about 500 VM tests on my Hydra, it still didn't improve
very much.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
We hit page allocation failures a lot at random for VM tests, in case of
my own Hydra when it comes to the installer tests. The reason for this
is that once the memory of the VM gets heavily fragmented the kernel is
unable to allocate new pages.
Setting vm.min_free_kbytes to 16MB forces the kernel to keep a minimum
of 16 MB free.
I've done some testing accross repeated runs of the installer tests with
and without vm.min_free_kbytes set. So accross 30 test runs for each
settings, all of the tests with the option being set passed while 14
tests without that sysctl option triggered page allocation failures.
Sure, running 30 tests is not a guarantee that 16MB is enough, but we'll
see how it turns out in the long run across all VM tests.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Regression introduced in f496c3cbe4.
Previously when we used security.initialRootPassword, the default
priority for this option was 1001, because it was a default value set by
the option itself.
With the mentioned commit, it is no longer an option default but a
mkDefault, which is priority 1000.
I'm setting this to 150 now, as test-instrumentation.nix is using this
for overriding other options and because I think it still makes it
possible to simple-override it, because if no priority is given, we get
priority 100.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Using pkgs.lib on the spine of module evaluation is problematic
because the pkgs argument depends on the result of module
evaluation. To prevent an infinite recursion, pkgs and some of the
modules are evaluated twice, which is inefficient. Using ‘with lib’
prevents this problem.
The attribute ‘config.systemd.services.<service-name>.runner’
generates a script that runs the service outside of systemd. This is
useful for testing, and also allows NixOS services to be used outside
of NixOS. For instance, given a configuration file foo.nix:
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{ services.postgresql.enable = true;
services.postgresql.package = pkgs.postgresql92;
services.postgresql.dataDir = "/tmp/postgres";
}
you can build and run PostgreSQL as follows:
$ nix-build -A config.systemd.services.postgresql.runner -I nixos-config=./foo.nix
$ ./result
This will run the service's ExecStartPre, ExecStart, ExecStartPost and
ExecStopPost commands in an appropriate environment. It doesn't work
well yet for "forking" services, since it can't track the main
process. It also doesn't work for services that assume they're always
executed by root.
