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.
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>
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