This is mainly useful for specifying mounts that depend on other
units. For example sshfs or davfs need network (and possibly
nameservices).
While systemd makes a distinction between local and remote
filesystems, this only works for in-kernel filesystems such as
nfs and cifs.
fuse-based filesystems (such as sshfs and davs) are classified as
local, so they fail without networking. By explicitly declaring these
mounts as full systemd units (as opposed to having systemd generate
them automatically from /etc/fstab), dependencies can be specified as
on every other unit.
In the future, we can probably port NixOS' filesystems handling to use
these native systemd.mount units and skip /etc/fstab altogether, but
this probably requires additional changes, such as starting systemd
even earlier during boot (stage 1).
I'm not any good at perl, and I only came up with this after many
slow attempts. Any review welcome.
But until this, memtest was broken, and extraPrepareConfig as well, in grub.
Having all services with DefaultDependencies=yes depend on
local-fs.target is annoying, because some of those services might be
necessary to mount local filesystems. For instance, Charon's
send-keys feature requires sshd to be running in order to receive LUKS
encryption keys, which in turn requires dhcpcd, and so on. So we drop
this dependency (and swap.target as well for consistency). If
services require a specific mount, they should use RequiresMountsFor
in any case.
This has rendered my system unbootable, because I forgot to enable AUTOFS4 in my
custom kernel. In addition to AUTOFS4, this includes (hopefully) all other
kernel features needed by systemd, as listed in the README:
REQUIREMENTS:
Linux kernel >= 2.6.39
with devtmpfs
with cgroups (but it's OK to disable all controllers)
optional but strongly recommended: autofs4, ipv6
Autofs4 is not a requirement here, but in our case it turns out that the system
is not able to boot properly with a LUKS-enabled system (or at least not on _my_
system).
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Running agetty on ttyS0 interferes with the backdoor, which uses ttyS0
as its standard error. After agetty starts, writes to the stderr file
descriptor will return EIO (though doing "exec 2>/proc/self/fd/2" will
miracuously fix this).
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3252782
‘systemd-vconsole-setup’ by default operates on /dev/tty0, the
currently active tty. Since it puts /dev/tty0 in Unicode or ASCII
mode, if the X server is currently active when it runs, keys such as
Alt-F4 won't reach the X server anymore. So use /dev/tty1 instead.
The triggers are just arbitrary strings that are included in the unit
under X-Restart-Triggers. The idea is that if they change between
reconfigurations, switch-to-configuration will restart the unit
because its store path changed. This is mostly useful for services
that implicitly depend on generated files in /etc. Thus you can say
restartTriggers = [ confFile ];
where ‘confFile’ is the derivation that generated the /etc file in
question.
For each statically configured interface, we now create a unit
‘<interface>-cfg.service’ which gets started as soon as the network
device comes up. Similarly, each bridge defined in
‘networking.bridges’ and virtual interface in ‘networking.interfaces’
is created by a service ‘<interface>.service’.
So if we have
networking.bridges.br0.interfaces = [ "eth0" "eth1" ];
networking.interfaces =
[ { name = "br0";
ipAddress = "192.168.1.1";
}
];
then there will be a unit ‘br0.service’ that depends on
‘sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device’ and
‘sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth1.device’, and a unit ‘br0-cfg.service’
that depends on ‘sys-subsystem-net-devices-br0.device’.
It's not enough to say "after udev-settle.service" since
udev-settle.service is not wanted/required anywhere - we need to say
"wants udev-settle.service" as well.
This should fix problems with ALSA and X11 initialisation that people
have been seeing.
