Remove four stale age key anchors from .sops.yaml that correspond to
non-lxc build-type variants that were never deployed (or are now
superseded by their lxc-* counterparts):
&docker → superseded by &lxc-docker (active running host)
&server → superseded by &lxc-server (active running host)
&nix-cache → superseded by &lxc-nix-cache (active running host)
&nix-minimal → superseded by &lxc-minimal (active running host)
Also remove the secrets/docker.yaml creation_rules block entirely since
that file does not exist.
Re-encrypt secrets/common.yaml, secrets/nix-cache.yaml, and
secrets/server.yaml with sops updatekeys to drop the stale recipients.
The four removed keys can no longer decrypt these files.
Update README.md and CLAUDE.md to clarify that deployed lxc-* hosts
now use clan vars (vars/per-machine/<target>/openssh/) rather than the
gitignored host-keys/ directory.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01B2EJ4qTsM5KUqhS5c3GAwx
All actively deployed lxc-* hosts now have clan vars. Remove the legacy
scp -pr host-keys/ fallback in sync_remote_host_keys(): instead of
silently copying the gitignored directory, error clearly if no clan var
exists for the target and tell the operator how to generate one.
Also extend the uncommitted-changes check to cover vars/per-machine/ in
addition to .sops.yaml and secrets/, since clan vars must be committed
before the remote build git-pulls them.
Update the script header and sync_remote_host_keys comment to reflect
the new clan-only key flow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01B2EJ4qTsM5KUqhS5c3GAwx
Encrypted private key matches the running container's key and the
vars.nixCacheHostKey in variables.nix (no rotation). Age fingerprint
age1ufg390... matches the &lxc-nix-cache anchor in .sops.yaml.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01B2EJ4qTsM5KUqhS5c3GAwx
nixos-lxc-sops-reinstall.service called switch-to-configuration test at
sysinit.target time (DefaultDependencies=false), before D-Bus was up.
D-Bus is required to restart systemd targets after activation scripts
run. The service reported failure on every boot (exit 1: "Failed to open
dbus connection") even though secrets were correctly installed, because
the D-Bus call happens after activation scripts complete.
Move the service to network.target so basic.target (which includes
dbus-broker.service) runs first. Also drop DefaultDependencies=false so
systemd auto-adds After=basic.target. Add SuccessExitStatus=11 to handle
the edge case where switch-to-configuration holds the lock during a
concurrent rebuild (exit 11 = "Could not acquire lock" -- the rebuild's
own activation already installed the secrets, so treating it as success
is correct).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01B2EJ4qTsM5KUqhS5c3GAwx
The key was generated in a prior session but not committed — the clan vars
files existed only in that session's working tree. Recovered the original
private key from pve1's host-keys/ backup (fingerprint age16kqf... matches
the &lxc-tor-relay anchor already in .sops.yaml), re-encrypted for admin
age key only, and stored in the canonical clan vars layout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01B2EJ4qTsM5KUqhS5c3GAwx
Two bugs prevented nixos-rebuild switch from working on lxc-* hosts after
first boot, both confirmed live on a deployed lxc-tor-relay container:
1. Ordering bug: preserveSshHostKey had no explicit deps, so the topological
sort placed it at position 7 — after etc at position 5. By the time it
tried to save the SSH key, etc had already removed it as "obsolete"
(absent from the current generation's environment.etc when built without
NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR). Consolidate all four system.activationScripts entries
into one block and add etc = { deps = ["preserveSshHostKey"]; } and
setupSecrets = { deps = ["restoreSshHostKey"]; } to enforce the correct
save→etc→restore→sops chain.
2. No boot-time secrets: /run/secrets is a tmpfs cleared on every reboot, and
sops-nix does NOT generate a boot-time service in this configuration
(confirmed live: no sops-nix.service in systemctl list-unit-files).
Add nixos-lxc-sops-reinstall.service, modelled after sops-nix's own service
placement (wantedBy/before sysinit.target, DefaultDependencies=false), so
secrets are reinstalled before basic.target on every non-first boot.
ConditionPathExists skips it on first boot; nixos-lxc-first-boot-activate
handles that case.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01B2EJ4qTsM5KUqhS5c3GAwx
Replaces the gitignored host-keys/ directory with clan vars as the
authoritative storage for SSH host keys. Keys are now generated as
sops-binary-encrypted clan var files (admin-key only) and checked into
vars/per-machine/<target>/openssh/, eliminating the plaintext private
key that previously had to live outside the repo.
Changes:
- modules/clan/ssh-host-key.nix: clan vars generator for the ed25519
SSH host key pair (neededFor="activation" — not mapped to sops.secrets,
delivered via tarball baking for LXC or --pre-format-files for VMs)
- flake.nix: add clanCore module + required settings to every mkTarget;
deduplicate bundled disko/sops-nix via follows; all 27 hosts eval clean
- flake.lock: updated to reflect the new follows constraints
- scripts/lib/clan-vars.sh: new helper library with
clan_ssh_key_exists / clan_ssh_pubkey_path / clan_decrypt_ssh_key /
clan_generate_ssh_key for use by the provisioning and sync scripts
- scripts/secrets/sync-host-keys.sh: queue_host_sync() now checks clan
vars first; generates via clan_generate_ssh_key if no key exists;
derives age fingerprint from clan pub key for .sops.yaml registration
- scripts/proxmox/create-proxmox-resource.sh: key management simplified
(sync-host-keys.sh now generates the key if missing, so the inline
prepare-host-key.sh call is gone); sync_remote_host_keys() decrypts
the clan key into a temp dir and scps just the two files to the node
when a clan key exists, falling back to the old host-keys/ scp for
any remaining legacy entries
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01B2EJ4qTsM5KUqhS5c3GAwx
Introduces clan-core pinned to its 26.05 release alongside the existing nixpkgs
26.05 input. No host configuration is changed — this is a pure dependency
addition so Phase 2 (per-host vars/secret management migration) has the input
available without a separate flake.lock bump.
clan-core.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs" keeps a single nixpkgs closure.
sops-nix remains as a flake input; vars layers on top of it rather than
replacing it (clan's sops storage backend still needs sops-nix).
All hosts evaluate cleanly (codex-maintenance.sh --full-check equivalent
triggered by the flake.nix change).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three ordering-related fixes to the Proxmox provisioning flow:
1. prepare-host-key.sh: make idempotent -- if the key already exists, print
a note and exit 0 instead of erroring. The caller (create-proxmox-resource.sh)
already guards standalone calls, but the script itself should be safe to
run directly on a host that was already keyed.
2. create-proxmox-resource.sh: after sync-host-keys.sh updates .sops.yaml /
secrets/, detect uncommitted changes and block with a prompt until the
operator confirms they've committed and pushed. The PVE node's git pull
only picks up committed+pushed state; without this gate, a new host's sops
recipient is missing from the secrets files the image build uses, so the
host can't decrypt secrets on first boot.
3. create-proxmox-resource.sh: add an explicit existence check for the host
key in both the LXC and VM remote build heredocs, before it's passed as
--pre-format-files / NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR input. Gives a clear error
pointing at sync-host-keys.sh instead of a raw `cp: cannot stat` from
disko deep in the build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The disko images script does `cd "$TMPDIR"` before parsing its arguments,
so relative paths passed to --pre-format-files resolve against the temp
dir instead of the repo root. Use $(pwd) to capture the absolute repo
path before the disko script changes directory.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Complete the rename so all identifiers match networking.hostName:
- flake.nix: attribute names and buildType strings
(linode/proxmox/lxc-tailscale-subnet-router → *-tailscale-router)
- modules/build-types/tailscale-subnet-router.nix → tailscale-router.nix
- .sops.yaml: anchor and alias names (age keys unchanged, no re-encrypt needed)
- host-keys/: local gitignored key files renamed (not committed)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
If host-keys/<target>_ssh_host_ed25519_key doesn't exist, run
prepare-host-key.sh to generate it before sync-host-keys.sh runs.
Prevents sync-host-keys.sh from hitting its SKIP/exit-1 path (anchor
in .sops.yaml but no local key) and the downstream disko build failure
when --pre-format-files can't find the key file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The directory name was tailscale-subnet-router but networking.hostName
was already tailscale-router, causing a mismatch that confused scripts
comparing directory paths against actual hostnames. Flake attribute
names (linode/proxmox/lxc-tailscale-subnet-router) and .sops.yaml
anchors are unchanged — they describe the build type, not the hostname.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
systemd-resolved only uses LLMNR for single-label hostnames, never DNS —
same issue mount-data.nix already documented and fixed for NFS by switching
to server.sweet.home. Change the substituter URL, SSH knownHosts, and
remote-builder hostName from bare "nix-cache" to "nix-cache.sweet.home",
and update nginx's virtualHost to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
read exits non-zero when stdin is not a terminal (set -e killed the
script silently). Catch that and emit a clear error pointing to the
SUDO_PASS environment variable rather than crashing with no output.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
/dev/tty exists as a device node even without a controlling terminal,
so -r/-w tests pass but opening it fails. Plain 'read -r -s' from stdin
is enough: works interactively from a real terminal, and from a non-tty
context the caller should set SUDO_PASS in the environment instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Environments without a controlling terminal (containers, CI agents)
don't have /dev/tty. Try it first for the sudo password prompt, fall
back to plain stdin so the script works in both contexts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Instead of ssh -t (requires PTY on both sides), prompt for the sudo
password once at startup and pipe it to each remote invocation via
sudo -S. This works from any context -- interactive terminal, background
agent, or script -- with no PTY needed on either end.
Also accepts SUDO_PASS from the environment for non-interactive callers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ssh -t won't allocate a PTY when its own stdin is redirected (by a
heredoc). Replaced the heredoc-fed 'sudo bash -s' with commands passed
as an argument string so stdin stays free and -t can properly allocate
a PTY for the sudo password prompt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New script: scripts/secrets/push-host-keys.sh
- Pushes newly-generated SSH host keys from host-keys/ to already-running
NixOS hosts after sync-host-keys.sh --regenerate-all-keys.
- Before pushing any key, checks that .sops.yaml and secrets/*.yaml are
committed and pushed to the remote Gitea flake (hosts rebuild from there,
so recipient changes must land first); offers to auto-commit/push if not.
- Reads /etc/flake-target from each host to confirm which key to install,
handling the case where multiple flake targets share a hostname.
- Deduplicates by hostname in --all mode; skips hand-registered targets
that have no host-keys/ entry.
- --dry-run, --skip-git-check, SSH_USER override (default: nixos).
sync-host-keys.sh --regenerate-all-keys:
- Updated pre-confirmation warning to distinguish already-running hosts
(need push-host-keys.sh) from not-yet-deployed hosts (need installer
image rebuild).
- Added next-steps block after regeneration completes pointing to
push-host-keys.sh --all.
recover-hosts.sh:
- Header and SSH host key mismatch warn now cross-reference
push-host-keys.sh as the proactive (pre-drift) alternative.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The host was always intended as a LAN subnet router (--advertise-routes),
not a full exit node (--advertise-exit-node). Rename every trace of
"exit-node" to "subnet-router" and remove the --advertise-exit-node flag
from extraSetFlags; the operator supplies --advertise-routes at first
tailscale up and Tailscale persists it in state across reboots.
Routing sysctls (useRoutingFeatures = "server"), openFirewall, and
trustedInterfaces = ["tailscale0"] are still required for subnet routing
to work, so the module is kept — just correctly named.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TF2dsuKZAiyZWQ1D7CuHJm
- Add hosts/tor-relay/host.nix import of host-token.nix so the agent
gets its TOKEN from a sops-managed environment file
- Add secrets/tor-relay.yaml (encrypted beszel token for this host)
- Add creation_rules entry for secrets/tor-relay.yaml in .sops.yaml
- Update &lxc-tor-relay age key to the host's actual current key
(old key was from a prior LXC incarnation; new key extracted from
Switch-nix output: age1gl5ujmhd2pe37...)
- Re-encrypt secrets/common.yaml via sops updatekeys to swap in the
new key, so the host can decrypt its password hash on next boot
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
NixOS's etc activation removes files that were in a previous generation's
environment.etc but absent from the current one -- even real copies, not
only symlinks. LXC tarballs bake the host key into environment.etc (via
NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR), but every subsequent nixos-rebuild switch lacks that
env var, so the key is removed as "obsolete". sops-nix derives its age
decryption key from /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key, so deletion cascades
into "Error getting data key: 0 successful groups required, got 0" for
every sops secret on the host.
Fix: two activation scripts bracket the etc step.
preserveSshHostKey (no deps, runs before etc): copies the live key to
/run (tmpfs) before etc can delete it.
restoreSshHostKey (deps=[etc], runs after etc): reinstalls via `install`
if etc removed the key. The resulting file is not tracked in either
generation's environment.etc, so subsequent rebuilds leave it alone.
scripts/recover-hosts.sh: restore both private and public key files (not
just the private key), use install(1) for atomic mode setting, and add a
post-rebuild sops-nix verification step to confirm success.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014zT1L6hmsq6i1evAEH7dmi
A fresh proxmox-server deploy has a blank scsi1 disk, so
zfs-import-tank.service spun 60 s then failed with no pool found.
Add zfs-init-tank.service that runs before the import: exits immediately
if the pool already exists, imports it if it exists but isn't imported
yet, or creates it on /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-*drive-scsi1 (Proxmox's
virtio-scsi naming for the second disk) with all required NFS datasets
if the disk is blank.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The post-build cp/mv into /var/lib/vz/template/cache (LXC) and
/var/lib/vz/import (VM) are Proxmox-owned root directories -- they need
sudo_pfx just like pct/qm/pvesh do. nix build writes to the nix store
as the SSH user, but staging into /var/lib/vz/ requires root.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The script was root-only and hard-coded /etc/nix/nix.conf and
/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts, making it always fail (non-fatally) when
called as a non-root SSH user from create-proxmox-resource.sh.
Add dual-mode detection based on EUID:
- root (multi-user/daemon): existing behavior unchanged -- writes
/etc/nix/nix.conf, /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts, restarts nix-daemon
- non-root (single-user): writes ~/.config/nix/nix.conf and
~/.ssh/known_hosts, creates the config file if missing, skips the
daemon restart (single-user has no daemon), defaults REMOTE_BUILDER_KEY
to ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 instead of /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
create-proxmox-resource.sh already calls the script without sudo (as the
SSH user), so no change is needed there -- the script now handles both
cases on its own.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
nix was installed as root on pve1 (the codex-setup.sh root path, meant
for container/Codex environments), making nix build require sudo there.
After cleaning up the root install and reinstalling as the SSH user
(wayne), nix is owned by that user and runs directly without sudo.
create-proxmox-resource.sh: drop sudo_pfx from nix build in both
remote scripts. The SSH user owns the store after reinstall; nix build
goes through the nix daemon-or-store directly. sudo stays on pct/qm/pvesh
(cluster IPC) and the disko image-writer script (writes to disk).
codex-setup.sh: add build-users-group = (empty) to the user nix.conf
written by the non-root install path. Guards against a stale
/etc/nix/nix.conf from a prior root install (which sets
build-users-group = nixbld) silently breaking single-user builds.
Manual cleanup required once on each Proxmox node that had root's nix:
sudo rm -rf /nix /etc/nix
sudo rm -f /etc/profile.d/nix.sh /etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh
for i in $(seq 1 10); do sudo userdel nixbld$i 2>/dev/null||true; done
sudo groupdel nixbld 2>/dev/null || true
After that, the next create-proxmox-resource.sh run auto-reinstalls
nix as the SSH user via codex-setup.sh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
nix on pve1 was installed as root (single-user), so wayne can't access
/nix/var/nix/db/big-lock without root -- nix build genuinely needs sudo
there. The previous fix to drop sudo_pfx was wrong.
The real fix is node config: add nix to wayne's NOPASSWD rules in
sudoers on pve1 (see below). pct/qm/pvesh already have NOPASSWD and
work fine in non-interactive SSH heredocs; nix was just missing from
that list.
On pve1 as root:
echo 'wayne ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: ALL' | tee /etc/sudoers.d/wayne-nopasswd
chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/wayne-nopasswd
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
nix build runs through the nix daemon and doesn't need root; the
tooling-check step already confirms the SSH user can run nix directly
(ensure_nix_profile + command -v nix). sudo without a TTY blocks
non-interactive SSH heredoc sessions with "a terminal is required".
Keep sudo on pct/qm/pvesh (cluster IPC) and the disko image-writer
script (writes to block devices) -- those actually require root.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Single-user Nix installations are owned by root. When PROXMOX_SSH_USER
is not root, prefix the remote nix build command with sudo_prefix, same
as the Proxmox tool invocations. Passes sudo_prefix as an extra arg to
both the LXC tarball and VM disko image build heredocs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
/root/nixos was only correct when PROXMOX_SSH_USER=root. Now that it
defaults to wayne, use /home/${PROXMOX_SSH_USER}/nixos so git clone
goes somewhere the SSH user can actually write to.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PROXMOX_SSH_USER was changed from root to wayne, but all remote pvesh/qm/pct
invocations assumed root. When run as a non-root user these commands fail with
ipcc_send_rec errors because they can't reach the pve-cluster IPC socket.
Adds a global sudo_prefix (empty when PROXMOX_SSH_USER=root, "sudo" otherwise)
and applies it to every remote Proxmox command in the script, including the
duplicate-host heredoc check, pvesh nextid, vmid existence checks, resource
destruction, and all create/start commands. Removes the now-redundant local
sudo_prefix definition that was previously only in the VM image build branch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous fix (#42) only unmounted /mnt/{dev,proc,sys,run}, but disko
also mounts the ESP at /mnt/boot (modules/disko/baremetal.nix) -- another
nested mount blocking ZFS from unmounting its own root dataset at /mnt
the same way. Confirmed live: zpool export still failed with "cannot
unmount '/mnt': pool or dataset busy" after the chroot-only fix.
Replace the manual dev/proc/sys/run list with a single recursive
`umount -R /mnt`, which clears everything nested under /mnt -- current
and future mountpoints alike -- rather than needing to keep enumerating
whatever nixos-install/disko happen to leave mounted.
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.
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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.
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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>
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