[Nix-dev] after install problem

Bjørn Forsman bjorn.forsman at gmail.com
Sun Apr 6 10:18:42 CEST 2014


On 6 April 2014 09:26, Roelof Wobben <r.wobben at home.nl> wrote:
> Bjørn Forsman schreef op 5-4-2014 23:25:
>> On 5 April 2014 22:41, Roelof Wobben <r.wobben at home.nl> wrote:
>>> Roelof Wobben schreef op 5-4-2014 18:27:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I booted from the minmal cd and installed according to the manual,
>>>>
>>>> On the configuration.nix I enabled X and KDE.
>>>>
>>>> But after the reboot it started up and I see the prompt.
>>>> I tried startx but then I see a message file not found.
>> What exactly was the error message? Or do you mean "command not found"
>> when you tried to run startx?
>
> yep, that was it.
>
>>
>> Could you post your configuration.nix file?
>
> yes, I could as soon as I find out how I can pastebin that one from the
> prompt.

Try "wgetpaste /etc/nixos/configuration.nix".

>>> It looks if kde is not installed at all.
>>>
>>> systemctl kdm.service start gives a message that the kdm.service is not
>>> found.
>> AFAIK, there is no kdm.service. If you enabled KDM in
>> configuration.nix and did "nixos-rebuild switch" then you should see
>> that KDM is being run:
>
> i enabled kdm and did nixos-install because the install manual says to
> do that step.

So what does "systemctl status display-manager.service" say?


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