[cfarm-users] [cfarm-announces] New M1 machine running Linux natively: gcc103

[Zach van Rijn]

On Sun, 2022-03-13 at 10:32 -0400, Christopher Sean Morrison via
cfarm-users wrote:
> Started yesterday afternoon (EDT).  I was on the machine when
> it seemingly went down abruptly (connection terminated, no
> hang, precisely as I did a file-save but probably
> coincidental), then a brief no-response to ping (presumably
> rebooting or network resetting), and it’s been hanging on the
> key exchange ever since it became accessible.

The /home directory is mounted from an external USB-C NVMe drive
because the internal storage is quite limited. Note that it does
run at USB2 speeds because there is not kernel support *yet* for
USB3. This will come in due course.

Yesterday we noticed some errors, the type that normally appear
when a cable is loose or connection is bad. Rebooting fixed it.

Then again today, the device was reset but with no other errors:

[ 2542.731446] usb 3-1: reset high-speed USB device number 2
using xhci-hcd

It did not come back online after a reboot.

I'll drive over there soon to reseat the cable and hopefully it
comes back up after that.

For now, please be patient with the machine as it's running
bleeding-edge code, some of which was written this week.


ZV