[Nix-dev] after install problem

Roelof Wobben r.wobben at home.nl
Sun Apr 6 11:29:28 CEST 2014


Bjørn Forsman schreef op 6-4-2014 10:18:
> 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?


Here it is : https://gist.github/10003458

>> 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?
>

See here: https://gists.github.com/10003536

Roelof


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