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beatzaplentyandClaude Sonnet 5 120240f14a Fix LXC deployment path and clean up remaining eval warnings
LXC hosts (device busy fix):

modules/platforms/lxc.nix now imports nixpkgs' own
virtualisation/proxmox-lxc.nix, giving every lxc-* host a real
config.system.build.tarball output — a directly `pct restore`-able
Proxmox container image. This is the actual bug fix behind the
"cannot remove real root directory: device busy or in use" error:
lxc-* targets were only reachable through nixos-install, which
bind-mounts / onto /mnt for containers (no raw disk to partition)
and then correctly refuses to modify the filesystem it's currently
running on. auto-install.sh's menu now excludes lxc-* targets
entirely (they deploy via nix build + pct restore instead, see
docs/auto-installer.md) — and, on the same reasoning, also excludes
`installer`/`proxmox-lxc`, which are the installer image's own flake
targets, not deployable hosts.

manageHostName = true keeps host.nix's declared hostnames (upstream's
default would let Proxmox's ambient container config win instead);
privileged = false matches how these containers are actually created.

Eval warnings, now zero across all 19 nixosConfigurations + 4 packages:

- Multiple password options (root/nixos in the installer): nixpkgs'
  own installer profile sets initialHashedPassword = "" for
  passwordless login, conflicting with our explicit hashedPassword.
  Force-nulled the upstream option rather than adopting passwordless
  login, since this image now also boots over LAN PXE with
  PasswordAuthentication enabled.
- boot.zfs.forceImportRoot default value: set explicitly to false
  (matching the two places that already did) in
  modules/common/configuration.nix and modules/installer/common.nix,
  covering every host and the installer alike.
- Deprecated pkgs.system in modules/build-types/gui.nix: switched to
  pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system.

All confirmed non-behavioral where it matters: unrelated hosts'
drvPaths are byte-identical to their pre-existing baselines throughout.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01La55Nsss8jZ7ZuzUV9mfot
2026-07-20 05:58:56 +10:00

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{ pkgs, lib, vars, ... }:
{
imports = [
./host-keys.nix
];
networking.useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
# Recommended over the true default (bypasses ZFS's own import safeguards)
# per the option's own docs. This installer environment has no ZFS pools
# of its own to import, so this is a no-op here — just silences the
# eval-time warning, matching modules/common/configuration.nix.
boot.zfs.forceImportRoot = false;
time.timeZone = vars.timeZone;
# Without this, the installer only ever sees cache.nixos.org, which
# doesn't carry sops-install-secrets (it's built straight from the
# sops-nix flake's own Go source, not part of nixpkgs) — every install
# would otherwise compile it from scratch, which is what ran an 8GB LXC
# container's disk out of space. Push a built copy to nix-cache once
# (from a machine with real disk headroom) and every future install,
# of any type, fetches instead of rebuilding.
nix.settings = {
substituters = [
"http://nix-cache"
"https://cache.nixos.org/"
];
trusted-public-keys = [
"cache.local-1:usoWYanY3Kpq2+kDIS2nhWoLZiRxanmdysdzqCFBHW4="
"cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY="
];
};
environment = {
systemPackages = with pkgs; [
git
curl
jq
parted
e2fsprogs
btrfs-progs
util-linux
disko
];
# Write auto-install script to /root
etc."auto-install.sh" = {
text = ''
#!/run/current-system/sw/bin/bash
set -eux
set -euo pipefail
export FLAKE_BASE_URL="git+https://${vars.lanDomain}/beatzaplenty/nixos.git"
echo "Fetching available NixOS hosts from flake..."
# Two categories deliberately excluded from the menu:
# lxc-* — these build a config.system.build.tarball
# meant for `pct restore` on Proxmox
# directly, not an install. Running
# nixos-install against one here would
# bind-mount / onto /mnt and then refuse to
# touch the filesystem it's currently
# running on — see docs/auto-installer.md.
# installer/proxmox-lxc — these *are* the installer image's own
# flake targets, not deployable hosts;
# "installing" one means nixos-install-ing
# a copy of the installer into itself.
mapfile -t options < <(
nix eval --json --no-use-registries --no-accept-flake-config --extra-experimental-features "flakes nix-command" \
"''${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#nixosConfigurations" \
--apply builtins.attrNames \
| jq -r '.[]
| select(startswith("lxc-") | not)
| select(. != "installer")
| select(. != "proxmox-lxc")'
)
if [[ ''${#options[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "ERROR: No NixOS hosts found in ''${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#nixosConfigurations" >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "Note: lxc-* targets aren't installed this way — build them with"
echo " nix build .#nixosConfigurations.<name>.config.system.build.tarball"
echo "and 'pct restore' the result on Proxmox directly. See docs/auto-installer.md."
echo "Choose the flake profile to install:"
select choice in "''${options[@]}"; do
if [[ -n "$choice" ]]; then
echo "You selected: $choice"
break
else
echo "Invalid selection. Try again."
fi
done
echo "Starting install with flake: ''${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#''${choice}"
# Optional: confirm before proceeding
read -rp "Proceed with installation? (y/N): " confirm
if [[ ! "$confirm" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
echo "Aborted."
exit 1
fi
# A nix-cache host is *the* substituter/remote-builder for every other
# host once installed (its own config explicitly excludes itself from
# using either — see buildType != "nix-cache" in the nixos flake.nix).
# Installing one shouldn't depend on a nix-cache substituter either,
# for the same reason — plus in practice "nix-cache" only resolves over
# Tailscale, which a fresh installer environment was never connected to
# anyway, so it's dead weight even for non-nix-cache installs until
# that's sorted out. Override it away here specifically for nix-cache
# targets to keep install-time behaviour consistent with run-time.
nix_extra_opts=()
if [[ "''${choice}" == *-nix-cache ]]; then
echo "Installing a nix-cache host — skipping the nix-cache substituter."
nix_extra_opts+=(--option substituters "https://cache.nixos.org/")
fi
if nix eval --refresh --json --extra-experimental-features "flakes nix-command" "''${nix_extra_opts[@]}" "''${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#nixosConfigurations.''${choice}.config.disko.devices.disk.main.device" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
disko --mode destroy,format,mount \
--flake "''${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#''${choice}" "''${nix_extra_opts[@]}" --yes
else
# No raw disk to partition — true for every LXC container, which has
# no block device visible from inside it, only its already-mounted
# root filesystem. nixos-install defaults to installing into /mnt; if
# nothing points /mnt at the real root, the new system gets built and
# written to a disconnected empty directory, never actually becomes
# bootable, and the container silently keeps running this installer
# environment forever. Bind-mount / onto /mnt so the install actually
# lands on the filesystem this container boots from.
echo "Selected host has no Disko configuration — installing in place via bind mount."
mount --bind / /mnt
fi
# sops-nix derives this host's decryption key from its own SSH host key
# at *activation* time, which runs before systemd would otherwise
# generate one on first boot. Without pre-seeding it here, secrets
# (including the login password) fail to decrypt on first boot.
# Generate the key with scripts/prepare-host-key.sh first.
#
# Two places a key can come from, checked in order:
# /etc/host-keys — baked into this image at build time (see
# modules/installer/host-keys.nix; only present
# if built with NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR set)
# /root/host-keys — scp'd in manually after boot (older fallback,
# still supported for images built without keys)
mkdir -p /root/host-keys
if [[ -f "/etc/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" ]]; then
echo "Found baked-in SSH host key for ''${choice}, installing to target..."
install -D -m 0600 "/etc/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" /mnt/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
install -D -m 0644 "/etc/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub" /mnt/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub
elif [[ -f "/root/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" ]]; then
echo "Found pre-seeded SSH host key for ''${choice}, installing to target..."
install -D -m 0600 "/root/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" /mnt/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
install -D -m 0644 "/root/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub" /mnt/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub
else
echo "WARNING: no SSH host key found for ''${choice} (checked /etc/host-keys and /root/host-keys)"
echo "sops-nix secrets (including the login password) will NOT decrypt on first boot."
echo "Run scripts/prepare-host-key.sh for host ''${choice} on your admin workstation first,"
echo "then either rebuild this image with NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR set, or scp the result to"
echo "/root/host-keys/ on this machine."
read -rp "Continue without a pre-seeded key anyway? (y/N): " skip_key
if [[ ! "$skip_key" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
echo "Aborted."
exit 1
fi
fi
mkdir -p /mnt/install-tmp
export TMPDIR=/mnt/install-tmp
nixos-install \
--flake "''${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#''${choice}" \
"''${nix_extra_opts[@]}" \
--no-root-password
rm -rf /mnt/install-tmp
# Redundant copy of the host's private key — the real one is now at
# /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key. Nothing NixOS-managed ever cleans this
# up on its own since it was written imperatively, not declaratively.
rm -rf /root/host-keys
sleep 10
reboot
'';
mode = "0755";
};
};
programs.git.enable = true;
# Run the installer on first login. Previously this copied an /etc file
# into the nixos user's ~/.bash_profile via an activation script that
# got dropped in a refactor (and only ever worked for that one user
# anyway) — loginShellInit is NixOS's native hook for this, applies to
# any user's login shell (root included), and needs no home-directory
# file-copying/chown.
programs.bash.loginShellInit = ''
if [ -n "$PS1" ] && [ ! -e "$HOME/.auto_install_ran" ]; then
sudo /etc/auto-install.sh
touch "$HOME/.auto_install_ran"
fi
'';
services.openssh.enable = true;
services.openssh.settings = {
PermitRootLogin = "yes";
PasswordAuthentication = true;
};
# nixpkgs' own installer profile (profiles/installation-device.nix, pulled
# in via installation-cd-minimal.nix) sets initialHashedPassword = "" for
# both users — its own passwordless-login convention for install media.
# That's a second, non-null password option alongside our hashedPassword
# below, which NixOS warns about as ambiguous precedence. Force it null
# rather than adopting passwordless login: this image now also boots over
# LAN PXE with PasswordAuthentication enabled, so passwordless root SSH
# would be reachable by anyone on the LAN, not just local console.
users.users.root = {
hashedPassword =
"$6$Kwv9KAyvcurAViQF$H4.u3feqGE7lVoNgkFXhE3n2Pmo//9JYDTCz8ifrVHBxPjwa1xMby7tEZ8Bpt5MXs9Rkx6/YbZWxs5CpH0s/70";
initialHashedPassword = lib.mkForce null;
};
users.users.${vars.primaryUser} = {
isNormalUser = true;
extraGroups = [
"wheel"
];
shell = pkgs.bashInteractive;
hashedPassword =
"$6$Kwv9KAyvcurAViQF$H4.u3feqGE7lVoNgkFXhE3n2Pmo//9JYDTCz8ifrVHBxPjwa1xMby7tEZ8Bpt5MXs9Rkx6/YbZWxs5CpH0s/70";
initialHashedPassword = lib.mkForce null;
openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [
vars.adminSshKey
];
};
system.stateVersion = "26.05";
}