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Infrastructure happenings, second half of aug – first half of sept 2024

by on 2024/09/14 at 12:07 pm
Posted In: fedora, linux

So, I was going to try and do these posts more regularly, but of course thats hard to do. After flock there was a bunch of things I wanted to post, then a bunch of fires and so things got behind. Such is life, so here’s a few things I wanted to talk about in more detail from the last month or so. As always, I do still post on mastodon daily, happy to answer questions or comments there as things happen and expand on things in posts like this.

Fedora 41 branched off rawhide! This I think went much more smoothly than the last cycle. I like to hope it’s because we documented all the things that were not right last time and did them this time. There were a few more things to adjust, it wasn’t perfect, but it was much better!

We upgraded our OpenShift cluters from 4.15 to 4.16. I continue to be very happy how smooth OpenShift upgrades are. Not 100% seamless, but pretty good. This time we had some storage stuff that caused the upgrade to not finish, but it wasn’t too hard to work around. So much nicer than the old 3.x days.

We landed a bunch of koji/kiwi changes before Beta freeze. Kudos to Neal Gompa and Adam Williamson for working through all those. It was nice to mostly get everything lined up before Freeze so we didn’t have to be doing a lot of churn. We got everything working in rawhide first, then merged the f41 changes.

Had a really anoying IPA outage. I was running our main playbook (runs over everything) on a thursday night, just to make sure everything was in sync for the freeze, and… our playbook thought all our ipa servers were not configured right and tried to uninstall and resync them all. Luckily the server that was the CA master refused to uninstall, so we were still up on one server. From that we were able to reinstall/resync the other 2 and get things back up and working. I am still not sure why the playbook saw no dirserv running on the servers (and thus thought they were unconfigured). We are going to adjust that playbook to definitely not try and do that, and instead move setting up a replica to a manual playbook only run by humans as needed.

Thanks to a bunch of work from Stephen Gallagher and Carl George, eln and epel10 are now doing composes just like we do for rawhide and branched. This should allow us to retire our old ODCS (on demand compose service) setup, as its not really maintained upstream anymore and is on EOL os versions. Great to get things all running the same way, but of course we will probibly change everything next year or something.

We managed to sign off on Fedora 41 Beta being released next week. I was pretty amazed, as it didn’t seem like we had enough time to really shake out all the bugs, but testing coverage ended up being pretty good. Looking forward to Beta next week and end of Beta freeze.

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fun with laptops

by on 2024/09/18 at 7:12 pm
Posted In: fedora, linux

So, rewind to earlier this year: There were 2 laptop announcements of interest to me.

First was the snapdragon X arm laptops that were going to come out. qualcomm was touting that they would have great linux support and they were already working on merging things upstream. Nothing is ever that rosy, but I did pick up a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x that I have been playing with. Look for a more detailed review and status on that one in a bit. Short summary is that it’s a pretty cool laptop and mainstream linux support is coming along, but it’s not yet reading to be a daily laptop IMHO.

The second was framework announcing a new batch of laptops would be coming out with some nice upgrades, so I pre-ordered one of the ryzen ones. But reader, you may ask: “don’t you already have a framework ryzen laptop? and aren’t they supposed to be upgradable? So why would you order another one?”. To which I answer: yes, and yes, and… because I wanted so many new things it seemed easier to just order a new one and get a spare/second laptop out of it.

I have one of the very first generation framework 13 laptops. It was originally ordered as a intel 11th gen cpu/mb shipped in July of 2021, almost 3.5 years ago. So whats in the newer/latest version that I wanted?

  • Better hinges (the old ones are kinda weak and you can cause the display to ‘flop’ if you carry it by that.
  • New top cover. The old one is the old multipart one, the new ones have a one part aluminum one.
  • New camera thats supposedly better.
  • New battery (ok, I replaced the battery in my old one a while back, but always nice to have a new battery)
  • Replacement input cover (the thing with the keyboard/touchpad). After hammering mine for 3.5 years, the tab and/or alt keys stick and result in moving between windows being frustrating. Also, new one has no windows key, just a ‘super’ key.
  • Higher resolution / refresh rate display. (120hz and 2880×1920 and matte vs 60hz and 2256×1504 and glossy). In particular the glossy is very anoying in highly reflecting areas.

So, I could have replaced all those things, but at that point it seemed like it would be easier to just move to a new chassis and have a spare.

Of course things didn’t go as planned. The laptop arrived and I swapped my memory and nvme drive over to it and… it didn’t boot. Spend a fair bit of time with framework support back and forth. They wanted movies / pictures of most everything and had me do a bunch of things to isolate the problems. They decided it was a bad monitor/display cable and input cover. So, they shipped those replacements to me (they had to replace the display because the cable is attached to it). Unfortunately, they shipped them USPS, so it took about 9 days and because we don’t get USPS here I had to go rescue it from the local postoffice before they sent it back.Today I swapped in the display and input cover and everything worked like a charm. A quick switch of memory and nvme I am am now booted on the new laptop.

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