Firstly I apologize. I have read the documentation but am still a noob and I hope this isn’t a dumb issue.
I have been planning to make the jump to NixOS on my Surface Pro 4. Since my hardware is unusual I had been planning to use the nixos-hardware GitHub repository. I recently began my attempt at using the nixos-hardware channel and importing the surface common module in my configuration.nix as presented on the page. Despite my research I have managed to run into an error when I try to use nixos-rebuild and I am still running into trouble.
I searched around on various websites about potential causes of this issue but found none and racked my brain so either its not been encountered previously or I really dropped the ball. The only suspicion I have is that maybe I need to implement this pre-installation instead of post installation but honestly I am stumped.
Edit: Upgraded my kernel to latest version and that did no favors either. The same error occurred.
Any with this is greatly appreciated.
My attempt with nixos-rebuild:
[radocruz@nixos:~]$ sudo nixos-rebuild test
[sudo] password for radocruz:
building Nix...
building the system configuration...
these 8 derivations will be built:
/nix/store/gpsrz7zpm8vk4zyffja4lfbywd63iyp8-linux-config-6.0.17.drv
/nix/store/287sgispsg2wl7w1bgaav4gf4hkjhly9-linux-6.0.17.drv
/nix/store/c8v25ckni5qlims9aayjmw0ynwnhz05p-kernel-modules.drv
/nix/store/pik6c4w9k55qb52w22fiyc8gns96zrdh-linux-6.0.17-modules.drv
/nix/store/hkl8l22fs0znhb4qmhiy3gxmp4kda0gb-linux-6.0.17-modules-shrunk.drv
/nix/store/i2kmcb2wip69x2r8qrq6qs6qzfnyrvjb-stage-1-init.sh.drv
/nix/store/gj78a0251li427r9zjq5vr8gh214q17p-initrd-linux-6.0.17.drv
/nix/store/rsp3l62g08n8gjrjrlrjr7w2hhk9g9j9-nixos-system-nixos-22.11.3567.0040164e473.drv
building '/nix/store/gpsrz7zpm8vk4zyffja4lfbywd63iyp8-linux-config-6.0.17.drv'...
unpacking sources
unpacking source archive /nix/store/3wws6yppyww6fxdl1sdnnchq9pr7apvn-linux-6.0.17.tar.xz
source root is linux-6.0.17
setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to timestamp 1672827992 of file linux-6.0.17/virt/lib/irqbypass.c
patching sources
applying patch /nix/store/mibwk9p63p9pv0ps54s93ycyav20g1k2-source/patches/6.0/0001-surface3-oemb.patch
/nix/store/ifiygfv17dzpbssxwrld6a57iclzrb09-stdenv-linux/setup: line 1002: /nix/store/mibwk9p63p9pv0ps54s93ycyav20g1k2-source/patches/6.0/0001-surface3-oemb.patch: No such file or directory
error: builder for '/nix/store/gpsrz7zpm8vk4zyffja4lfbywd63iyp8-linux-config-6.0.17.drv' failed with exit code 1
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/287sgispsg2wl7w1bgaav4gf4hkjhly9-linux-6.0.17.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/c8v25ckni5qlims9aayjmw0ynwnhz05p-kernel-modules.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/pik6c4w9k55qb52w22fiyc8gns96zrdh-linux-6.0.17-modules.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/hkl8l22fs0znhb4qmhiy3gxmp4kda0gb-linux-6.0.17-modules-shrunk.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/i2kmcb2wip69x2r8qrq6qs6qzfnyrvjb-stage-1-init.sh.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/gj78a0251li427r9zjq5vr8gh214q17p-initrd-linux-6.0.17.drv' failed to build
error: 3 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/rsp3l62g08n8gjrjrlrjr7w2hhk9g9j9-nixos-system-nixos-22.11.3567.0040164e473.drv' failed to build
My barebones configuration.nix:
# Edit this configuration file to define what should be installed on
# your system. Help is available in the configuration.nix(5) man page
# and in the NixOS manual (accessible by running ‘nixos-help’).
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{
imports =
[ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
<nixos-hardware/microsoft/surface/common>
./hardware-configuration.nix
# "${builtins.fetchGit { url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware.git"; }}/microsoft/surface/common"
];
# Bootloader.
boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;
boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
boot.loader.efi.efiSysMountPoint = "/boot/efi";
networking.hostName = "nixos"; # Define your hostname.
# networking.wireless.enable = true; # Enables wireless support via wpa_supplicant.
# Configure network proxy if necessary
# networking.proxy.default = "http://user:password@proxy:port/";
# networking.proxy.noProxy = "127.0.0.1,localhost,internal.domain";
# Enable networking
networking.networkmanager.enable = true;
# Set your time zone.
time.timeZone = "America/Denver";
# Select internationalisation properties.
i18n.defaultLocale = "en_US.UTF-8";
i18n.extraLocaleSettings = {
LC_ADDRESS = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_MONETARY = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_NAME = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_NUMERIC = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_PAPER = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_TELEPHONE = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_TIME = "en_US.UTF-8";
};
# Enable the X11 windowing system.
services.xserver.enable = true;
# Enable the GNOME Desktop Environment.
services.xserver.displayManager.gdm.enable = true;
services.xserver.desktopManager.gnome.enable = true;
# Configure keymap in X11
services.xserver = {
layout = "us";
xkbVariant = "";
};
# Enable CUPS to print documents.
services.printing.enable = true;
# Enable sound with pipewire.
sound.enable = true;
hardware.pulseaudio.enable = false;
security.rtkit.enable = true;
services.pipewire = {
enable = true;
alsa.enable = true;
alsa.support32Bit = true;
pulse.enable = true;
# If you want to use JACK applications, uncomment this
#jack.enable = true;
# use the example session manager (no others are packaged yet so this is enabled by default,
# no need to redefine it in your config for now)
#media-session.enable = true;
};
# Enable touchpad support (enabled default in most desktopManager).
# services.xserver.libinput.enable = true;
# Define a user account. Don't forget to set a password with ‘passwd’.
users.users.radocruz = {
isNormalUser = true;
description = "**** ****";
extraGroups = [ "networkmanager" "wheel" ];
packages = with pkgs; [
firefox
git
# thunderbird
];
};
# Allow unfree packages
nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
# List packages installed in system profile. To search, run:
# $ nix search wget
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
# vim # Do not forget to add an editor to edit configuration.nix! The Nano editor is also installed by default.
# wget
];
# Some programs need SUID wrappers, can be configured further or are
# started in user sessions.
# programs.mtr.enable = true;
# programs.gnupg.agent = {
# enable = true;
# enableSSHSupport = true;
# };
# List services that you want to enable:
# Enable the OpenSSH daemon.
# services.openssh.enable = true;
# Open ports in the firewall.
# networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ ... ];
# networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ ... ];
# Or disable the firewall altogether.
# networking.firewall.enable = false;
# This value determines the NixOS release from which the default
# settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions
# on your system were taken. It‘s perfectly fine and recommended to leave
# this value at the release version of the first install of this system.
# Before changing this value read the documentation for this option
# (e.g. man configuration.nix or on https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html).
system.stateVersion = "22.11"; # Did you read the comment?
}