nixos-install bind-mounts /dev, /proc, /sys (and usually /run) into
/mnt to run the target's activation script in a chroot, and doesn't
unmount them again afterward. Left in place, those nested mounts made
ZFS refuse to unmount its own root dataset at /mnt: zpool export
failed with "cannot unmount '/mnt': pool or dataset busy", and because
of this script's set -e, that killed the script before it ever reached
reboot -- silently defeating the export-before-reboot fix from #40 on
every real run, which is why the ZFS-import stall kept recurring.
The systemd-based initrd (default here, since this host has a ZFS
root) locks the root account by default, so sulogin refuses a shell
if something in the initrd fails and it drops to emergency mode --
confirmed live: it just loops re-entering the target instead of
prompting, making an initrd-level ZFS import failure impossible to
diagnose from the console. Only affects the pre-switch-root initrd
shell, not the installed system's own login.
disko's --mode ...,mount leaves the pool imported (needed for
nixos-install to write into /mnt), and the script rebooted straight
into the newly-installed system without exporting it. That pool is
still stamped with the live installer's own hostid, which never
matches the target host's declared networking.hostId, and since
boot.zfs.forceImportRoot is false (the recommended setting, not a bug),
the first real boot refuses to force-import an unexported pool from a
different hostid -- which is exactly the ZFS-import stall baremetal-gui
was hitting after install. Exporting all pools right before reboot (a
no-op for non-ZFS hosts) clears the in-use state so import succeeds
regardless of hostid.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
If neither /etc/host-keys nor /root/host-keys has the target's SSH
host key, auto-install.sh previously went straight to "continue
without one anyway?". Added a third option in between, gated on
[[ -t 0 ]] (only offered when there's an actual operator at stdin, never
in an unattended/non-interactive run): prompt for an arbitrary
directory (USB stick, other mount, etc.), and if the key pair is
there, copy it into /root/host-keys and install it to /mnt same as the
existing pre-seeded-key path. Falls through to the original
warning+confirm if the prompt is skipped, the path doesn't have the
key, or the run isn't interactive at all.
docs/auto-installer.md updated to mention the new fallback. Quick
bash -n + shellcheck pass only, per request.
Running the script standalone (its whole point per the last commit)
failed with "disko: command not found" -- jq/disko/nixos-install are
only guaranteed present via the built installer image's
environment.systemPackages, not on a plain checkout.
Added a #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell / #!nix-shell -i bash -p jq disko
nixos-install-tools shebang instead of a per-tool fallback: disko's own
generated scripts already hardcode absolute Nix store paths for
everything they shell out to internally (parted/sgdisk/mkfs.*/zfs/...
confirmed by inspecting a generated system.build.formatScript earlier),
so these three are the only genuinely external dependencies the script
itself has. This is a fast no-op on the built installer image (already
has all three) and what makes it also work standalone.
Quick syntax + shellcheck pass only this round (bash -n, shellcheck
with a `shellcheck shell=bash` directive since it doesn't recognize
nix-shell shebangs natively) -- skipping the full codex-maintenance.sh
sweep per request, to get this out for a real hardware test.
Two real bugs, both hit live:
1. Shebang: #!/run/current-system/sw/bin/bash only resolves on an
already-activated NixOS system -- running the checked-out script
directly (e.g. from a stock ISO, cloned repo) failed with "cannot
execute: required file not found" on a non-NixOS box. Switched to
#!/usr/bin/env bash, which resolves identically on NixOS
(environment.usrbinenv's own default) and any normal Linux distro.
Also fixed the file's missing executable bit.
2. FLAKE_BASE_URL: previously depended on pkgs.replaceVars substituting
a Nix-templated @lanDomain@ placeholder at build time -- meaning it
only ever worked when baked into the built installer image, not when
run straight from a checkout (the literal, unexpanded "@lanDomain@"
string reached git as a bogus hostname). Replaced with LAN_DOMAIN in
scripts/env.sh (manually kept in sync with variables.nix's lanDomain,
same pattern as NIX_CACHE_HOST/nixCacheHost already), sourced by the
script itself like every other script in scripts/. Dropped
pkgs.replaceVars from modules/installer/common.nix entirely --
scripts/env.sh is now baked into the image alongside auto-install.sh
at a matching relative path (/etc/nixos-installer/env.sh next to
/etc/nixos-installer/installer/auto-install.sh) so the script's own
relative `source` line resolves the same way in both contexts.
loginShellInit's invocation path and docs/auto-installer.md updated to
match. Verified: shellcheck clean on both scripts, the baked files are
byte-identical to their checked-in sources (no templating left to
verify), and codex-maintenance.sh (secret grep, fmt, statix, full eval
of every host/package including the installer/pxe artifacts) passes
clean.
These were dropped from variables.nix by a stash/merge conflict
resolution on main (commit fb6ee27) that kept the new wifiSsid value
but discarded the two disk-path variables entirely, leaving unresolved
`<<<<<<< Updated upstream` markers in an intermediate commit before
being cleaned up. modules/disko/baremetal.nix references both directly
with no fallback, so baremetal-gui has been failing to evaluate on main
since that commit ("attribute 'guiRootDisk1' missing") -- confirmed by
cloning main fresh and evaluating config.disko.devices.disk.disk1.device
directly.
This commit is rebased onto latest main (through "updated secrets",
which registered baremetal-gui's real sops recipient) rather than the
older base this branch started from.
Moves the auto-installer's shell script from an inline Nix string in
modules/installer/common.nix to scripts/installer/auto-install.sh, a
real, version-controlled, directly-editable/shellcheck-able file.
common.nix now wires it in with pkgs.replaceVars, substituting the one
value that actually needs to come from variables.nix (lanDomain) --
every other `${...}` in the script is a literal bash reference, left
untouched. replaceVars fails the build if any @name@-shaped placeholder
is left unsubstituted, so a typo'd or renamed variable is caught at
eval time rather than silently shipping broken.
Verified: built the substituted derivation and diffed it against the
source template -- identical except for the one substituted line, no
leftover unsubstituted placeholders. Full codex-maintenance.sh (secret
grep, fmt, statix, full eval of every host/package including the
installer/pxe artifacts that consume this) passes clean.
codex-maintenance.sh evaluated each affected host/package one at a time,
even though those calls are independent. Added scripts/lib/nix-parallel.sh
(run_nix_parallel) and wired it into the host-eval, package-eval, and
dry-run-build loops.
Concurrency defaults to core count capped by available memory (~1GB/job)
rather than plain nproc: empirically, nproc-many concurrent full-flake
evals OOM-killed each other on a 4GB/6-core box, while 3-4 ran clean and
were still ~2x faster than serial. Override via NIX_PARALLEL_JOBS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wires everything staged so far into a real flake target:
- modules/platforms/baremetal.nix (new): the bare-metal platform module,
composed from a real nixos-generate-config run on the actual gui-host
hardware (AMD CPU, ahci/xhci/usb storage -- modules/hardware-configuration/baremetal.nix).
Enables hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware (real wifi/GPU/microcode
firmware VMs never needed), amdgpu as the Xorg video driver plus
hardware.graphics for Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan, and imports the ZFS RAID0 disko
layout + modules/services/zfs/enable-service.nix for root-on-ZFS boot
support.
- flake.nix: new baremetal-gui target, reusing hosts/nixos/host.nix (same
identity already shared across linode/proxmox/lxc-gui).
- hosts/nixos/host.nix: added networking.hostId, required now that a ZFS
root pool is in the picture.
- variables.nix: guiRootDisk1/guiRootDisk2 filled in (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb --
only used transiently at disko-format time, same as modules/disko/proxmox.nix's
own plain device path). wifiPassword removed.
- modules/networking/wifi.nix: reworked to pull the wifi password from a
new sops secret (secrets/gui.yaml, wifi-password) instead of a plaintext
variable -- NetworkManager's ensureProfiles renders `psk = "$WIFI_PASSWORD"`
literally (nixpkgs' own documented pattern for this) and envsubst-expands
it from a sops-rendered EnvironmentFile at activation, so the real value
never touches the Nix store, only /run.
- .sops.yaml: new secrets/gui\.yaml rule, admin + the currently-registered
lxc-gui recipient (the only gui variant with a provisioned host key so
far -- whichever variant is actually deployed next still needs
scripts/secrets/sync-host-keys.sh run for its own recipient).
- README.md/CLAUDE.md: documented the new platform/target and its module
layout, per this repo's own drift-prevention note.
Verified end-to-end: nix eval of every existing target (nothing broke),
a temporary real nixosSystem build against the actual disko.nixosModules.disko
confirming the generated zpool create has no mirror/raidz keyword (genuine
stripe), and a temporary test SSID confirming the sops secret/template/
ensureProfiles chain renders correctly before reverting to blank/real values.
Full scripts/codex-maintenance.sh (secret-grep, fmt, statix, full-fallback
eval of every host/package) passes clean.
Adds modules/disko/baremetal.nix: two disks, each its own top-level
zpool vdev with no mirror/raidz between them (disko's zpool `mode`
defaults to "" for a plain stripe), ESP + systemd-boot on disk1. Device
paths are placeholders in variables.nix (guiRootDisk1/guiRootDisk2)
until the real hardware profile arrives.
Verified structurally by building a throwaway nixosSystem with the
actual disko.nixosModules.disko and reading the generated
system.build.formatScript: it emits `zpool create rpool ... disk1
disk2` with no mirror/raidz keyword, confirming a genuine stripe.
Not yet wired into any flake target -- that happens once the hardware
config lands and a new bare-metal platform module is added, per the
agreed sequencing.
Adds modules/networking/wifi.nix using NetworkManager's ensureProfiles
mechanism so the gui host associates to a known SSID on first boot with
no manual nmtui step. Credentials are placeholders in variables.nix
(wifiSsid/wifiPassword, both empty) to be filled in once the bare-metal
hardware profile is wired up — the module is a no-op until then.
The iPXE menu's "nixos" entry actually chain-loads this flake's own
custom auto-installer image, not a stock NixOS image — rename it to
"auto-installer" (label "NixOS Auto-Installer") so the menu says what it
boots, and set networking.hostName on netbootSystem to match, so the
generated system name (nixos-system-auto-installer-*) and staged
directory (/srv/pxe/http/auto-installer) agree with the menu entry too.
Add a second, genuinely vanilla NixOS minimal netboot image
(netbootMinimalSystem in flake.nix — nixpkgs' netboot-minimal.nix on its
own, none of modules/installer/common.nix's auto-installer wiring),
built from source the same way as the auto-installer image and exposed
as packages.x86_64-linux.pxe-minimal. Staged and menu-wired the same
way, as "nixos-minimal" (item, hostname, and directory all matching).
modules/pxe-boot/stage-installer-artifacts.nix is generalized to stage
both images via a shared rule-builder instead of one hardcoded set of
paths.
Verified: nix eval confirms both images' config.system.name matches
their menu entry/directory names, the pxe-boot host itself builds
clean with the new menu.ipxe, and the new pxe-minimal image was booted
directly under QEMU (kernel+initrd, no KVM) to a working login shell
with hostname nixos-minimal, no hang.
The netboot build composed ./modules/installer/iso.nix (which pulls in
nixpkgs' installation-cd-minimal.nix) together with nixpkgs'
netboot-minimal.nix. Both installation-cd-base.nix and netboot.nix set
fileSystems."/" via the identical lib.mkImageMediaOverride (mkOverride
60) priority - genuinely conflicting root-filesystem strategies
(ISO-by-label vs. netboot-tmpfs) at the same priority, and the ISO one
was winning. Every netboot boot hung waiting for a device that can
never exist outside a real CD/USB:
A start job is running for /dev/disk/by-label/nixos-minimal-...
Reproduced live: deployed a scratch lxc-pxe-boot on pve-test, pulled its
built kernel/initrd, and booted them directly with QEMU to confirm the
hang and capture full console output. netboot-minimal.nix's own chain
(netboot-base.nix) already imports profiles/installation-device.nix
independently, so common.nix's initialHashedPassword override still
applies correctly with iso.nix removed from this composition. Rebuilt
and re-booted the same way after the fix - full boot to a working shell
with SSH up, no hang.
Backs up a VM/CT on pve1 (snapshot mode by default, so the source stays
online), relays the archive to pve-test, restores it there with fresh
MAC addresses (--unique), and deletes both the source and relayed
backup copies afterward -- no ad hoc backup files left behind on
either node.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
pve1.sweet.home is production; scripts/env.sh now also defines
PVE_TEST_HOST for a separate sandbox node, individually targetable via
--node/PROXMOX_HOST. Tooling defaults are unchanged (still pve1) -- the
new restriction (Claude defaults to pve-test unless explicitly told to
use pve1) is documented as policy in CLAUDE.md, not enforced in the
scripts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The kernel's NFS client filesystem doesn't set FS_USERNS_MOUNT, so mounting
NFS from inside any non-init user namespace -- exactly what an unprivileged
LXC container's UID-mapped root runs in -- is rejected at the VFS layer
with EPERM, regardless of Proxmox's mount=nfs;nfs4 container feature (which
only patches the AppArmor layer). Confirmed live on the redeployed lxc-docker
container: TCP to the NFS server's port 2049 succeeds, the server's export
table matches the container's IP, and mount.nfs: Operation not permitted
still fires immediately with no corresponding denial anywhere in the
server's own logs -- a kernel-level rejection that no amount of DNS/
automount/export tweaking (this branch's earlier commits) could ever fix.
modules/platforms/lxc.nix now keys proxmoxLXC.privileged off hostName
("docker" -> true) rather than a blanket false, since build-types/docker.nix
is also composed for linode-docker/proxmox-docker, which don't import
proxmox-lxc.nix at all -- setting this option there would break their eval.
create-proxmox-resource.sh reads the value back via a new
flake_target_lxc_privileged helper instead of hardcoding --unprivileged 1,
so the two stay in sync automatically for every lxc-* target.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T48qgH3VTvs8wvwj44FEbE
Codifies read-only access to existing Proxmox config/VMs/containers,
allows scratch test VMs/containers as long as they're torn down again,
and forbids any change to production on the node.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
create-proxmox-resource.sh's `qm create` never passed --agent, so despite
services.qemuGuest.enable = true being set on every host, Proxmox never
created the virtio-serial channel the guest agent needs -- qm guest exec
and the UI's IP-address display silently never worked for any VM this
script created. Found while live-testing every lxc-*/proxmox-* build type
against pve.sweet.home for an end-to-end flake audit.
Also registers a fresh sops age key for lxc-gui (no prior registration
existed), generated while testing that target live -- needed before
lxc-gui can be deployed with working secrets.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CZHwwAM7cacQKkqKfQ5e8a
The previous commit's networking.search fix was wrong. Confirmed live
on lxc-docker (vmid 105) after redeploying with it: `resolvectl query
server.sweet.home` started failing again, even though
`resolvectl query --interface=eth0 server.sweet.home` still resolved
correctly to the right IP via the LAN's real DNS server. The debug log
showed why -- adding a *global* search domain via networking.search
gave systemd-resolved a domain-matched but server-less "global" scope,
which it now prioritizes over eth0's correctly-configured scope for
every "*.sweet.home" query, silently sending them to public fallback
DNS (1.1.1.1 et al) instead, which of course returns NXDOMAIN for an
internal-only name. Bare single-label names (e.g. "server") were never
going to work either way -- systemd-resolved only ever tries LLMNR for
those, never DNS search-suffixing, regardless of configuration.
Reverts the networking.search addition and instead has
modules/docker/mount-data.nix build each NFS device string from
"${vars.nfsServerHost}.${vars.homeDomain}" (a plain FQDN, no dependency
on search-domain behavior at all) -- the same pattern
modules/raspi/mount-data.nix already uses for the Raspberry Pi's share
and for the identical reason.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T48qgH3VTvs8wvwj44FEbE
Cross-host references throughout this repo (vars.nfsServerHost,
vars.nixCacheHost, vars.dockerHost) are bare short names, not FQDNs.
Resolving them has always depended on whatever network stack happens
to be in play picking up the DHCP-advertised domain as a search
suffix -- NetworkManager does this by default, which is why it went
unnoticed everywhere else, but LXC containers force-disable
NetworkManager and get their systemd-networkd config written directly
by Proxmox instead, which never sets one.
Confirmed live on lxc-docker (vmid 105) after today's earlier fix for
the automount/mount=nfs bugs: systemd-resolved had no search domain
for eth0, so "server" failed to resolve ("Name or service not known")
while "server.sweet.home" resolved fine via the same DNS server --
every NFS mount in modules/docker/mount-data.nix was still failing.
networking.search sets systemd-resolved's own Domains= globally
rather than depending on the per-link DHCP path, so it isn't at the
mercy of whichever component owns a given host's interface file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T48qgH3VTvs8wvwj44FEbE
CI was running a full eval of every host + package on every push/PR,
which was slow enough to routinely time out the Gitea runner. Default
mode now diffs against a base ref and scopes nixpkgs-fmt/statix/eval to
the files that changed and the hosts/packages they can affect; a change
to flake.nix/flake.lock/variables.nix/modules/common/* (or any other
modules/*.nix outside platforms//build-types, whose blast radius isn't
inferable from the path) falls back to evaluating everything. The old
full sweep moves behind --full-check, which CI never passes; --dry-run
adds build-planning on top of whichever scope is active.
Also trims codex-setup.sh's redundant full host eval loop -- that's
what codex-maintenance.sh is for; setup should just install tooling.
variables.nix's nixCacheHostKey no longer matched nix-cache's actual SSH
host key (confirmed via ssh-keyscan against the live container), so every
declaratively-configured client's programs.ssh.knownHosts trusted the
wrong key -- distributed builds would fail host-key verification. Also,
modules/nix-cache/remote-builder-client.nix hardcoded sshKey to
/root/.ssh/nixremote, but the `server` host only has its own default
/root/.ssh/id_ed25519 installed (confirmed live via qm guest-agent) --
that file was never even present, so the build machine config pointed at
nothing. Standardize on each client's own default identity, matching the
per-host-key pattern vars.remoteBuilderAuthorizedKeys already uses instead
of a shared/differently-named keypair, and add
scripts/secrets/sync-nix-cache-host-key.sh (wired into
codex-maintenance.sh's --check) so the host-key drift doesn't silently
recur next time nix-cache is rebuilt or recreated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V7yVH71vGrDVzovh9UaMu8
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