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-rw-r--r--nixos/modules/system/activation/switch-to-configuration.pl19
-rw-r--r--pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix2
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/modules/system/activation/switch-to-configuration.pl b/nixos/modules/system/activation/switch-to-configuration.pl
index 8ff00fa11dc..641cf9faadc 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/system/activation/switch-to-configuration.pl
+++ b/nixos/modules/system/activation/switch-to-configuration.pl
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ use Cwd 'abs_path';
 
 my $out = "@out@";
 
+# FIXME: maybe we should use /proc/1/exe to get the current systemd.
+my $curSystemd = abs_path("/run/current-system/sw/bin");
+
 # To be robust against interruption, record what units need to be started etc.
 my $startListFile = "/run/systemd/start-list";
 my $restartListFile = "/run/systemd/restart-list";
@@ -267,7 +270,7 @@ while (my ($unit, $state) = each %{$activePrev}) {
 sub pathToUnitName {
     my ($path) = @_;
     # Use current version of systemctl binary before daemon is reexeced.
-    open my $cmd, "-|", "/run/current-system/sw/bin/systemd-escape", "--suffix=mount", "-p", $path
+    open my $cmd, "-|", "$curSystemd/systemd-escape", "--suffix=mount", "-p", $path
         or die "Unable to escape $path!\n";
     my $escaped = join "", <$cmd>;
     chomp $escaped;
@@ -370,7 +373,7 @@ if (scalar (keys %unitsToStop) > 0) {
     print STDERR "stopping the following units: ", join(", ", @unitsToStopFiltered), "\n"
         if scalar @unitsToStopFiltered;
     # Use current version of systemctl binary before daemon is reexeced.
-    system("/run/current-system/sw/bin/systemctl", "stop", "--", sort(keys %unitsToStop)); # FIXME: ignore errors?
+    system("$curSystemd/systemctl", "stop", "--", sort(keys %unitsToStop)); # FIXME: ignore errors?
 }
 
 print STDERR "NOT restarting the following changed units: ", join(", ", sort(keys %unitsToSkip)), "\n"
@@ -382,10 +385,12 @@ my $res = 0;
 print STDERR "activating the configuration...\n";
 system("$out/activate", "$out") == 0 or $res = 2;
 
-# Restart systemd if necessary.
+# Restart systemd if necessary. Note that this is done using the
+# current version of systemd, just in case the new one has trouble
+# communicating with the running pid 1.
 if ($restartSystemd) {
     print STDERR "restarting systemd...\n";
-    system("@systemd@/bin/systemctl", "daemon-reexec") == 0 or $res = 2;
+    system("$curSystemd/systemctl", "daemon-reexec") == 0 or $res = 2;
 }
 
 # Forget about previously failed services.
@@ -401,8 +406,10 @@ while (my $f = <$listActiveUsers>) {
     my ($uid, $name) = ($+{uid}, $+{user});
     print STDERR "reloading user units for $name...\n";
 
-    system("@su@", "-s", "@shell@", "-l", $name, "-c", "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$uid @systemd@/bin/systemctl --user daemon-reload");
-    system("@su@", "-s", "@shell@", "-l", $name, "-c", "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$uid @systemd@/bin/systemctl --user start nixos-activation.service");
+    system("@su@", "-s", "@shell@", "-l", $name, "-c",
+           "export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$uid; " .
+           "$curSystemd/systemctl --user daemon-reexec; " .
+           "@systemd@/bin/systemctl --user start nixos-activation.service");
 }
 
 close $listActiveUsers;
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix
index 90b33e183ce..083166848f2 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
   # in a backwards-incompatible way.  If the interface version of two
   # systemd builds is the same, then we can switch between them at
   # runtime; otherwise we can't and we need to reboot.
-  passthru.interfaceVersion = 3;
+  passthru.interfaceVersion = 2;
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd;