Michael Weiss
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Problem: Restarting (stopping) system.slice would not only stop X11 but also most system units/services. We obviously don't want this happening to users when they switch from 18.03 to 18.09 or nixos-unstable. Reason: The following change in systemd: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/d8e5a9338278d6602a0c552f01f298771a384798 The commit adds system.slice to the perpetual units, which means removing the unit file and adding it to the source code. This is done so that system.slice can't be stopped anymore but in our case it ironically would cause this script to stop system.slice because the unit file was removed (and an older systemd version is still running). Related issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/39791
Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the Nix package manager. It is periodically built and tested by the Hydra build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add nixpkgs-channels as a remote:
% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git
For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. nixos-18.03 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-18.03
For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.
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