Upgrading to 19.09 failed

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Hello,

I’m getting a failure with nvidia drivers

patching file kernel/common/inc/nv-linux.h
patching file kernel/conftest.sh
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1948 (offset 42 lines).
applying patch /nix/store/h6lvgraa2v6qjvb5kd0rbz3r2pmgylm3-kernel-5.1.patch?h=42d50ef8d6048608d18bdf2c296dd335260c5a1a
patching file kernel/common/inc/nv-list-helpers.h
Hunk #2 FAILED at 93.
1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file kernel/common/inc/nv-list-helpers.h.rej
patching file kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-connector.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 30.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-connector.c.rej
patching file kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 41.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c.rej
patching file kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-encoder.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 31.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-encoder.c.rej
patching file kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem-nvkms-memory.c
Hunk #2 FAILED at 270.
1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem-nvkms-memory.c.rej
patching file kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8.c

Here is how I have it configured:

   hardware.nvidia.modesetting.enable = true;                                    
   hardware.nvidia.optimus_prime = {                                             
     enable = true;                                                              
     intelBusId = "PCI:0:2:0";                                                   
     nvidiaBusId = "PCI:1:0:0";                                                  
   };                                                                            
                                                                                 
   services.xserver.videoDrivers = ["nvidiaLegacy390"];

In 19.03 this worked but not anymore. Could there be a problem with the driver I’m using?

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Kernel and driver version?

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I’m not sure what the default kernel is for 19.09 but searching for the nvidia driver it looks like the package has changed to linuxPackages.nvidia_x11_legacy390. Maybe this is what I should use instead of nvidiaLegacy390.

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I changed xserver to use the new name. Now I’m getting an error with systemd.

warning: the following units failed: systemd-timesyncd.service
  
● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
   Loaded: loaded (/nix/store/6snycpaz9zrs5m7xz6dixl1nl0ngdrma-systemd-243/example/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
  Drop-In: /nix/store/rli8cm5f5qki5w3w3wbzhh1f3n9g5d3i-system-units/systemd-timesyncd.service.d
           └─overrides.conf
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2019-10-11 17:45:03 EDT; 35ms ago
     Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
  Process: 1219 ExecStart=/nix/store/6snycpaz9zrs5m7xz6dixl1nl0ngdrma-systemd-243/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd (code=exited, status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY)
 Main PID: 1219 (code=exited, status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY)
       IP: 0B in, 0B out
      CPU: 832us
  
Oct 11 17:45:03 n1 systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Service has no hold-off time (RestartSec=0), scheduling restart.
Oct 11 17:45:03 n1 systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5. 
Oct 11 17:45:03 n1 systemd[1]: Stopped Network Time Synchronization.
Oct 11 17:45:03 n1 systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Oct 11 17:45:03 n1 systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 11 17:45:03 n1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Network Time Synchronization.
warning: error(s) occurred while switching to the new configuration
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Actually this is not an issue. I just restarted and everything seems fine!

6

unless you absolutely require the legacy version, you should bump it to:

services.xserver.videoDrivers = ["nvidia"];
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I’m not sure how exactly you resolved the problems with the patches – maybe some kind of naming confusion? Anyway, I pushed a fix in nvidia-x11: Remove patches from the 390 version. (#69851) · NixOS/nixpkgs@9ce5780 · GitHub

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I’m not sure either but this is what I have:

  hardware.nvidia.modesetting.enable = true;                                    
  hardware.nvidia.optimus_prime = {                                             
    enable = true;                                                              
    intelBusId = "PCI:0:2:0";                                                   
    nvidiaBusId = "PCI:1:0:0";                                                  
  };                                                                            
                                                                                
  services.xserver.videoDrivers = ["linuxPackages.nvidia_x11_legacy390"];

I’m going to try switching to “nvidia”.

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I don’t think that got you any of the official drivers. The list isn’t checked for typos etc. (that’s hard, as different drivers are handled by different parts of code)

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Yup it looks like I am using nouveau with ‘nvidia’.

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That is weird, but I’ve never used switchable HW (optimus) and I don’t know its implementation. Actually, most people writing our nvidia tickets/issues seem to have problems with switchable setups; my feeling certainly is that it seems less reliable (on NixOS).

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“nvidia” shouldn’t give you nouveau, you’re probably including the driver somewhere else. If you need a reference for the nvidia configuration, you can try looking at my configuration [1], though it’s messy but that should be where the bulk of the nvidia configuration is.

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~eadwu/nixos-configuration/tree/master/hardware/gpu/nvidia

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It turns out I do need to use nvidiaLegacy390. My computer is old and this seems to work now. Maybe the patches fix helped? When I switched to nvidia or anything else nouveau would be used instead.

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Yes, the errors shown in your original post should be fixed now in 19.09.

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