From fb939d1acf2d677d4404452f072bb0fe3ae4417d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thibault Lemaire <thibault.lemaire@protonmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:19:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs: note how to get status of activation service

Add a note explaining how to get the output of the Home Manager
activation script when it's used as a NixOS module.
---
 docs/installation.adoc | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/installation.adoc b/docs/installation.adoc
index fe07e416f..5044c384b 100644
--- a/docs/installation.adoc
+++ b/docs/installation.adoc
@@ -167,6 +167,15 @@ home-manager.users.eve = { pkgs, ... }: {
 and after a `nixos-rebuild switch` the user eve's environment should
 include a basic Bash configuration and the packages atool and httpie.
 
+[NOTE]
+====
+If `nixos-rebuild switch` does not result in the environment you expect,
+you can take a look at the output of the Home Manager activation script output using
+
+[source,console]
+$ systemctl status "home-manager-$USER.service"
+====
+
 If you do not plan on having Home Manager manage your shell
 configuration then you must add either