nixpkgs/nixos/modules/system/etc/etc-activation.nix
Ilan Joselevich f61ff68f63
nixos-init: skip the etc overlay for a non-NixOS init=
find-etc verified the init= was inside a NixOS toplevel and bailed otherwise,
failing initrd-find-etc.service. The etc-overlay mounts require it, so for a
non-NixOS init= (e.g. init=/bin/sh) the initrd dropped to emergency mode before
initrd-init could switch-root into the target.

Make find-etc skip silently for a non-NixOS init=, leaving the /etc-basedir and
/etc-metadata-image symlinks uncreated, and gate the etc-metadata mount, the
/sysroot/etc overlay and the rw-etc service on those symlinks with
ConditionPathExists so they skip instead of fail. initrd-init then switch-roots
into the non-NixOS init directly. The NixOS path is unchanged: the symlinks
exist, so the conditions hold.

Extend the systemd-initrd-non-nixos test with a second node enabling
system.nixos-init.enable, so both the bash initrd-nixos-activation path and the
nixos-init path are covered.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
2026-06-16 17:32:17 +03:00

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{
config,
lib,
...
}:
{
imports = [ ./etc.nix ];
config = lib.mkMerge [
{
system.activationScripts.etc = lib.stringAfter [
"users"
"groups"
"specialfs"
] config.system.build.etcActivationCommands;
}
(lib.mkIf config.system.etc.overlay.enable {
assertions = [
{
assertion = config.boot.initrd.systemd.enable;
message = "`system.etc.overlay.enable` requires `boot.initrd.systemd.enable`";
}
{
assertion =
(!config.system.etc.overlay.mutable)
-> (config.systemd.sysusers.enable || config.services.userborn.enable);
message = "`!system.etc.overlay.mutable` requires `systemd.sysusers.enable` or `services.userborn.enable`";
}
{
assertion =
(config.system.switch.enable)
-> (lib.versionAtLeast config.boot.kernelPackages.kernel.version "6.6");
message = "switchable systems with `system.etc.overlay.enable` require a newer kernel, at least version 6.6";
}
];
boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [
"loop"
"erofs"
"overlay"
];
system.requiredKernelConfig = with config.lib.kernelConfig; [
(isEnabled "EROFS_FS")
];
boot.initrd.systemd = {
storePaths = lib.mkIf config.system.etc.overlay.mutable [
"${config.system.nixos-init.package}/bin/clear-etc-opaque"
];
mounts = [
{
where = "/run/nixos-etc-metadata";
what = "/etc-metadata-image";
type = "erofs";
options = "loop,ro,nodev,nosuid";
unitConfig = {
# Since this unit depends on the nix store being mounted, it cannot
# be a dependency of local-fs.target, because if it did, we'd have
# local-fs.target ordered after the nix store mount which would cause
# things like network.target to only become active after the nix store
# has been mounted.
# This breaks for instance setups where sshd needs to be up before
# any encrypted disks can be mounted.
DefaultDependencies = false;
RequiresMountsFor = [
"/sysroot/nix/store"
];
# find-etc only creates this symlink for a NixOS init. For a
# non-NixOS init= (e.g. init=/bin/sh) it is absent, so skip the
# mount instead of failing the whole initrd.
ConditionPathExists = "/etc-metadata-image";
};
requires = [
config.boot.initrd.systemd.services.initrd-find-etc.name
];
after = [
config.boot.initrd.systemd.services.initrd-find-etc.name
];
requiredBy = [ "initrd-fs.target" ];
before = [ "initrd-fs.target" ];
}
{
where = "/sysroot/etc";
what = "overlay";
type = "overlay";
options = lib.concatStringsSep "," (
[
"nodev"
"nosuid"
"relatime"
"redirect_dir=on"
"metacopy=on"
"lowerdir=/run/nixos-etc-metadata::/etc-basedir"
]
++ lib.optionals config.system.etc.overlay.mutable [
"rw"
"upperdir=/sysroot/.rw-etc/upper"
"workdir=/sysroot/.rw-etc/work"
]
++ lib.optionals (!config.system.etc.overlay.mutable) [
"ro"
]
);
requiredBy = [ "initrd-fs.target" ];
before = [ "initrd-fs.target" ];
requires = [
config.boot.initrd.systemd.services.initrd-find-etc.name
]
++ lib.optionals config.system.etc.overlay.mutable [
config.boot.initrd.systemd.services."rw-etc".name
];
after = [
config.boot.initrd.systemd.services.initrd-find-etc.name
]
++ lib.optionals config.system.etc.overlay.mutable [
config.boot.initrd.systemd.services."rw-etc".name
];
unitConfig = {
RequiresMountsFor = [
"/sysroot/nix/store"
"/run/nixos-etc-metadata"
];
DefaultDependencies = false;
# Skip for a non-NixOS init=, see the metadata mount above.
ConditionPathExists = "/etc-basedir";
};
}
];
services = lib.mkMerge [
(lib.mkIf config.system.etc.overlay.mutable {
rw-etc = {
requiredBy = [ "initrd-fs.target" ];
before = [ "initrd-fs.target" ];
unitConfig = {
DefaultDependencies = false;
RequiresMountsFor = [
"/sysroot"
# Needed so we can clear stale opaque markers from the
# upperdir based on the contents of the new metadata layer
# before the overlay is mounted.
"/run/nixos-etc-metadata"
];
# Skip for a non-NixOS init=, see the metadata mount above.
ConditionPathExists = "/etc-metadata-image";
};
serviceConfig = {
Type = "oneshot";
ExecStart = [
"/bin/mkdir -p -m 0755 /sysroot/.rw-etc/upper /sysroot/.rw-etc/work"
"${config.system.nixos-init.package}/bin/clear-etc-opaque /run/nixos-etc-metadata /sysroot/.rw-etc/upper"
];
};
};
})
{
initrd-find-etc = {
description = "Find the path to the etc metadata image and based dir";
before = [ "shutdown.target" ];
conflicts = [ "shutdown.target" ];
requiredBy = [ "initrd.target" ];
path = [ config.system.nixos-init.package ];
unitConfig = {
DefaultDependencies = false;
RequiresMountsFor = "/sysroot/nix/store";
};
serviceConfig = {
Type = "oneshot";
RemainAfterExit = true;
ExecStart = "${config.system.nixos-init.package}/bin/find-etc";
};
};
}
];
};
})
(lib.mkIf (config.system.etc.overlay.enable && !config.system.etc.overlay.mutable) {
# Systemd requires /etc/machine-id exists or can be initialized on first
# boot. This file should not be part of an image or system config because
# it is unique to the machine, so it is initialized at first boot and
# persisted in the system state directory, /var/lib/nixos.
environment.etc."machine-id".source = lib.mkDefault "/var/lib/nixos/machine-id";
boot.initrd.systemd.tmpfiles.settings.machine-id."/sysroot/var/lib/nixos/machine-id".f =
lib.mkDefault
{
argument = "uninitialized";
};
})
];
}