NixOS 20.03 BETA

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I’ve set aside Wednesday this week for an hour at 1700 UTC to be on IRC in #nixos to help anyone interested in participating in helping with this release and learning how to diagnose/fix ZHF issues that doesn’t know how to get started. Please if you want to help and need some guidance hop on iRC!

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In a similar vein, I’ll be available on discord (unofficial) 2hrs every work day (and probably more). Details https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/f2uryn/nixpkgs_office_hours_for_discord

Feel free to ask about anything relating to nixpkgs.

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I see that the 20.03 channel is available now \o/

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related issue Hydra: nixos/release-20.03 and unstable fails to evaluate · Issue #79907 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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There’s a list of things to be careful about before upgrading, I haven’t spent time finding the link for 19.09 but most of them relate to staetVersion and I think there was one related to redshift location and, another to ntp, and such?

Where can I find that list for this version? I guess I can try to upgrade first and then fix errors but probably better to have the list…

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Release notes always have a section “Backward Incompatibilities”; I expect you want that?

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Thanks, I did want that (Release notes!) (couldn’t search on mobile and desktop internet not working, hence the intent to upgrade :)). That said, I don’t think they have been populated for 20.03 yet…

Release notes: NixOS 23.11 manual | Nix & NixOS

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You can look at the latest Hydra output for the manual. E.g.:

https://hydra.nixos.org/build/113296287/download/2/nixos/release-notes.html#sec-release-20.03

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Thank you. Also linking the github file Release 20.03 (“Markhor”, 2020.04/20)

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My experience- changes in configuration.nix were minimal for me. Mental effort to decide whether to upgrade was 0, since I knew I could always roll back quickly. Update was butter smooth.

Issues:

  1. Reboot takes more than a minute after Reached target reboot.
  2. Wifi Dongle speed has become worse it feels, and detection hasn’t improved… I’m also seeing increased computer load likely because of the same…
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Same here. “Waiting for rngd service to stop” or something like that. It hangs until some timeout, I suspect.

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My experience- changes in configuration.nix were minimal for me. Mental effort to decide whether to upgrade was 0, since I knew I could always roll back quickly. Update was butter smooth.

Issues:

  1. Reboot takes more than a minute after Reached target reboot.

Checkout nixos/rngd: fix clean shutdown by worldofpeace · Pull Request #80920 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

  1. Wifi Dongle speed has become worse it feels, and detection hasn’t
    improved… I’m also seeing increased computer load likely because of
    the same…

Can you share what wifi hardware that is? It might be that the driver
is (now?) just a softmac driver or similar because another one was
removed/replace. The default kernel version in 20.03 changed to 5.5
IIRC.

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Unfortunate regression for me: No input devices available · Issue #80960 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
If anyone has any insight it would be much appreciated.

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It’s a DLink N300. When I wake up from hibernation or after a reboot my device would just not be recognized.

The following line is something I think I’ve activated at times and deactivated on others (sorry I haven’t kept track)
boot.extraModulePackages = [ config.boot.kernelPackages.rtl8192eu ];

Hmmmm.

Anyway I’m not too worried about this right now because my workaround is a wired connection…

I will report back on reboots again…

I just want to thank @worldofpeace and @disassembler for all the hard work you guys are doing for this release. Looking at every minor bug is a herculean task…

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I have tried upgrading my configuration to NixOS 20.03 but I keep getting a recurring error.

it is always the same error, but don’t happen always on the same derivation. It complains:
#include <sys/stropts.h> is not found.

So I could not generate the generation for my configuration based on 20.03
Is it due to 20.03 ?

I haven’t investigated further. Below two error logs, (of two different nixos-rebuild) of this same error.

building ‘/nix/store/54k7apfrgmsq2w042i5093r070blxaim-xcompmgr-1.1.8_fish-completions.drv’…
…/build/…/ex/ex_script.c:27:10: fatal error: sys/stropts.h: No such file or directory
27 | #include <sys/stropts.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Makefile:335: ex_script.o] Error 1
builder for ‘/nix/store/9zda73xqp62qgs23v0l656z2hszaymjz-nvi-1.79.drv’ failed with exit code 2
cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/vmy4pyscvbcmnrlpxxnnd4w3hk2bpdnc-nvi-1.79_fish-completions.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn’t be built
cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/c0fbsgaf56h5y1dis1ny1qhqy0cvszd1-system-path.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn’t be built
building ‘/nix/store/rjjchjldlkbwb9qcs32jh3i0lhf4yd9z-xdg-utils-1.1.3_fish-completions.drv’…
building ‘/nix/store/6gnc1nj4hvrgbnxk02g5g13qcbfm5rcr-xf86-input-evdev-2.10.6_fish-completions.drv’…
building ‘/nix/store/9h2b3zrciqvrfmj33rv4qn5q9wbx3dh5-xf86-input-libinput-0.28.2_fish-completions.drv’…
building ‘/nix/store/06wpgxk5bqgsgyqzjfgzz652kb43qqk1-xf86-input-wacom-0.36.0_fish-completions.drv’…
cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/…-nixos-system-…-20.03beta335.89536cd763c.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn’t be built

…/build/…/ex/ex_script.c:27:10: fatal error: sys/stropts.h: No such file or directory
27 | #include <sys/stropts.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Makefile:335: ex_script.o] Error 1
building ‘/nix/store/1mix61909dwcgr4qmjkdz2pr6vvjamhl-unit-systemd-journald.service.drv’…
builder for ‘/nix/store/9zda73xqp62qgs23v0l656z2hszaymjz-nvi-1.79.drv’ failed with exit code 2
cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/vmy4pyscvbcmnrlpxxnnd4w3hk2bpdnc-nvi-1.79_fish-completions.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn’t be built
cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/c0fbsgaf56h5y1dis1ny1qhqy0cvszd1-system-path.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn’t be built
building ‘/nix/store/2fmx2jjsxhjv0gpznq7da4ldfla65bn0-unit-systemd-logind.service.drv’…
building ‘/nix/store/5kr1i9h8ncrl310vsl2mn8sj824wyr8v-unit-systemd-modules-load.service.drv’…
building ‘/nix/store/8vsaka3yml0ajiarmhnahb4hl4qq2qp7-unit-systemd-nspawn-.service.drv’…
building ‘/nix/store/6jjvchlka7pph133brr4xl0lir3mdhlx-unit-systemd-random-seed.service.drv’…
cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/…-nixos-system-…-20.03beta335.89536cd763c.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn’t be built
error: build of ‘/nix/store/…-nixos-system-…-20.03beta335.89536cd763c.drv’ failed

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These were probably uncovered by glibc update; I think it’s correct for this header not to exist (it’s optional). In any case… feel free to find fixes as a part of ZHF; it’s possible that simple updates of the packages are sufficient for that.

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I tested the beta, and it broke my grub. How do I report this in an informative way?

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It might have sense to include in 20.03 upgraded versions of

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I switched to 20.03 this WE and it works like a charm!
Thanks all of you!

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