Currently it is only possible to add upstream _system_ units. The option
systemd.additionalUpstreamSystemUnits can be used for this.
However, this was not yet possible for systemd.user. In a similar
fashion this was added to systemd-user.nix.
This is intended to have other modules add upstream units.
Use a quoted heredoc to inject installBootLoader safely into the script,
and restore the previous invocation of `system` with a single argument so
that shell commands keep working.
As of systemd/systemd@e908434458,
systemd-networkd now automatically configures routes to addresses
specified in AllowedIPs unless explicitly disabled with
"RouteTable=off".
This bug is so obscure and unlikely that I was honestly not able to
properly write a test for it. What happens is that we are calling
handleModifiedUnit() with $unitsToStart=\%unitsToRestart. We do this to
make sure that the unit is stopped before it's started again which is
not possible by regular means because the stop phase is already done
when calling the activation script.
recordUnit() still gets $startListFile, however which is the wrong file.
The bug would be triggered if an activation script requests a service
restart for a service that has `stopIfChanged = true` and
switch-to-configuration is killed before the restart phase was run. If
the script is run again, but the activation script is not requesting
more restarts, the unit would be started instead of restarted.
When initializing a system (e.g. first boot / livecd) we have no good
reference source for time. systemd-timesyncd however would revert back
to its configured fallback time (in our case 01.01.1980). Since we
probably don't want to hardcode a specific date as fallback we are now
using the current system time (wherever that might have come from) to
initialize the reference clock file.
The only systems that might be remotely affected by this change are
machines that have highly unreliable RTCs or those where the battery
that backs the RTC is running empty.
Historically these systems always had a tough time with anything time
related and likely required manual intervention.
For stateless systems (those that wipe / between reboots or our
installer CDs) this has the consequence that time will always be reset
to whatever the system comes up with on boot. This is likely the correct
time coming from an RTC. No harm done here the situation is likely
unchanged for them.
For stateful systems (those that retain the / partition across reboots)
there shouldn't be a change at all. They'll provide an initial clock
value once on their lifetime (during first boot / after installation).
From then onwards systemd-timesyncd will update the file with the newer
fallback time (that will be picked up on the next boot).
This effectively fixes the majority of all VM tests which were broken
because `/dev/vda` (or any other block device) wasn't mountable:
machine # mounting /dev/vda on /...
machine # mount: mounting /dev/vda on /mnt-root/ failed: No such device[ 2.820976] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100
machine # [ 2.821757] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 5.10.72 #1-NixOS
machine # [ 2.821757] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
machine # [ 2.821757] Call Trace:
machine # [ 2.821757] dump_stack+0x6b/0x83
machine # [ 2.821757] panic+0x101/0x2c8
machine # [ 2.821757] do_exit.cold+0x14/0xb3
machine # [ 2.821757] do_group_exit+0x33/0xa0
machine # [ 2.821757] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x14/0x20
machine # [ 2.821757] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
machine # [ 2.821757] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
machine # [ 2.821757] RIP: 0033:0x7f67ec2800f6
machine # [ 2.821757] Code: 00 4c 8b 0d 2c 5d 11 00 eb 19 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 89 d7 89 f0 0f 05 48 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 22 f4 89 d7 44 89 c0 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 76 e2 f7 d8 64 41 89 01 eb da 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00
machine # [ 2.821757] RSP: 002b:00007fff8f5a71d8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e7
machine # [ 2.821757] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000699704 RCX: 00007f67ec2800f6
machine # [ 2.821757] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 000000000000003c RDI: 0000000000000001
machine # [ 2.821757] RBP: 0000000000000004 R08: 00000000000000e7 R09: ffffffffffffff80
machine # [ 2.821757] R10: 00007f67ec33f3e0 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 000000000000000b
machine # [ 2.821757] R13: 00007fff8f5a75a8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000004fc198
machine # [ 2.821757] Kernel Offset: 0x31e00000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
machine # [ 2.821757] Rebooting in 1 seconds..
This happened because the kernel failed to load modules such as `ext4`
from `boot.initrd.availableKernelModules`[1] on e.g. a `mount(2)` syscall.
The problem is that `kmod` isn't linked against `libpthread.so.0`
anymore because it got merged into `libc.so.6` (however, the .so still
exists), but still needs it:
machine # newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-2.34-36/lib/x86_64", 0x7ffd951114c0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
machine # openat(AT_FDCWD, "/nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-2.34-36/lib/x86_64/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
machine # newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-2.34-36/lib/x86_64", 0x7ffd951114c0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
machine # openat(AT_FDCWD, "/nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-2.34-36/lib/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
machine # newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-2.34-36/lib", 0x7ffd951114c0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
machine # openat(AT_FDCWD, "/nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-2.34-36/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
machine # writev(2, [{iov_base="/nix/store/kdc9n48ksdc1a8y8w512w"..., iov_len=69}, {iov_base=": ", iov_len=2}, {iov_base="error while loading shared libra"..., iov_len=36}, {iov_base=": ", iov_len=2}, {iov_base="libpthread.so.0", iov_len=15}, {iov_base=": ", iov_len=2}, {iov_base="cy
machine # ) = 184
machine # exit_group(127) = ?
machine # +++ exited with 127 +++
machine # mount: mounting /dev/vda on /mnt-root/ failed: No such device
machine # [ 19.167180] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100
machine # [ 19.167711] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 5.10.72 #1-NixOS
This is not a problem
* inside stage-1 because `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` points to `$out/lib` of
extra-utils where `libpthread.so.6` also exists.
* on a running system because `${pkgs.glibc}/lib` is part of kmod's
rpath.
However this is a problem inside the kernel which calls `modprobe` (in
our case `kmod`) to load modules and doesn't know about
`LD_LIBRARY_PATH`. Also, the rpath-reference was nuked.
To work around this, the kernel's `modprobe`
(i.e. `/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe`) now points to a wrapper which
explicitly declares `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`. We can't use `makeWrapper` here
because `modprobe` itself must not be renamed. Otherwise, `kmod` (which
is the link-target of `modprobe`) won't work because it expects
`argv[0] == "modprobe"` to perform modprobe's tasks.
[1] https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options.html#opt-boot.initrd.availableKernelModules
