| 29 Apr 2023 |
 @aktaboot:tchncs.de | * the problem I encountered was that efi partition was full, so I could not rebuild, and therefore I also could not empty the efi with nix tooling, cleaning the efi manually isn't very user friendly or desirable | 17:52:48 |
 @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | systemd-boot-builder.py is supposed to clear old generations before it adds new ones, so running out of space isn't supposed to be a problem if you've garbage collected | 17:53:51 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | (in actuality it deletes the entire nixos folder in the ESP before recreating it, because of a bug, but the effect is the same) | 17:54:53 |
| 30 Apr 2023 |
 @janne.hess:helsinki-systems.de | ElvishJerricco: what do you think about a single option that disables timeout behaviour for crypto? I wouldn't want to enable it by default but I think it's not as uncommon to have issues as-is. For example, I reboot my computer and go fetch a coffee while it does it's thing, just to see that it rebooted and timed out into a recovery shell | 11:30:54 |
 oddlama | I just ran into this, too. I'd love an option to disable the timeout. | 13:58:58 |
| oddlama | Also not sure if this is related, but sometimes when I am in the middle of entering the password via ssh and systemd-tty-ask-password-agent, the agent seems to be reset and the prompt exits. | 14:02:05 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | Janne Heß: By default, JobTimeoutSec is set to 0 for crypttab stuff. So there should already be no timeout | 20:01:20 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | (I believe we do not do this for zfs's import service, so zfs native encryption will timeout; we should change that) | 20:02:25 |
 @lily:lily.flowers | In reply to @elvishjerricco:matrix.org
Janne Heß: By default, JobTimeoutSec is set to 0 for crypttab stuff. So there should already be no timeout There definitely is one. I'll see if I can figure out why in a bit | 20:04:25 |
| @lily:lily.flowers | (I do the same reboot computer and go fetch a coffee thing and occasionally come back to it timed out) | 20:05:04 |
| @janne.hess:helsinki-systems.de | In reply to @elvishjerricco:matrix.org
Janne Heß: By default, JobTimeoutSec is set to 0 for crypttab stuff. So there should already be no timeout That's true but then waiting for the decrypted device times out | 20:05:12 |
| @janne.hess:helsinki-systems.de | 
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| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | Hmm ok | 20:05:44 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | Well there's fstab options for that | 20:05:54 |
| @janne.hess:helsinki-systems.de | Oh there is? I will check once I find the time | 20:06:12 |
| @janne.hess:helsinki-systems.de | Thanks for the pointer :) | 20:06:23 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | Hm but that says the device job timed out.... | 20:06:38 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | Oh I see | 20:08:01 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | Cryptsetup-generator probably sets the timeout for the physical device to zero, but leaves it default for the mapper device and the FS itself | 20:08:41 |
| 2 May 2023 |
 Arian | ElvishJerricco: could you open a nixpkgs issue about systemd-repart in initrd being borked and assign it to me? | 20:59:48 |
| Arian | I can make some time tomorrow to fix it | 21:00:00 |
| Arian | though i do think it can be a matter of opinion https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blame/main/units/systemd-repart.service.in#L25 | 21:02:47 |
| Arian | upstream runs after /sysusr is mounted (which will become /usr after switchroot) so it definitely expects the main software to already be mounted and only add additional partitions for storage not software | 21:03:29 |
| Arian | I think for us that'd mean run before root but after nix.mount | 21:03:52 |
| Arian | I think that makes sense for the nixos case if /nix is on separate partition | 21:05:10 |
| Arian | but not sure.... | 21:05:19 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | Arian: Yea I was looking into this last night, and there isn't really a clean answer without patching systemd or something. It really expects at least an OS to be installed on a disk, but in NixOS we go even further and don't even have an OS on a disk. The other thing is that we actually can't just use /sysroot; we would have to wait for nixos-activation.service to run so that /etc is set up | 21:19:39 |
| Arian | I think doing systemd-repart --empty=allow /dev/vda is the way to go | 21:20:17 |
| Arian | for nixos | 21:20:24 |
| Arian | that will re-partition the disk even if it doesnt have a GPT partition table | 21:20:42 |
