[cfarm-users] cfarm109 maintenance, other news

[Zach van Rijn]

On Wed, 2026-10-28 at 14:22 -0500, Zach van Rijn via cfarm-users
wrote:
> > ...
> > cfarm104 (Apple M1 macOS) will be updated next week. I tried
> > to do this recently but disk space remains too low to
> > update.
> > I'll go in and move some data around to make room for it.
> 
> In progress.
> 
> I moved some data around, and the update is in progress. It
> failed (expected, because it's failed every single time). I
> need to go back tomorrow or another day this week to finish
> the update and then fix all the user accounts.

The updates continue to fail and the machine will not come up.
This is a departure from the "usual" update behavior.

However I have a copy of all the SSH keys and user account data
(external storage is also not affected), so I will do a clean
installation and restore the data manually, and there should be
little or no visible differences to users once this is done.

Maybe some homebrew packages will be different, but that's easy.

> 
> I also acquired a pretty beefy 2020-era Intel iMac which I may
> set up for CFarm use. 10 cores, 128GB memory, 1TB NVMe.
> Details to follow once I find a place to host it.

I think I will set this up as a new machine alongside cfarm104
since I already have both of them in my lab here. I'll set it up
the same and it will also run macOS. I am not sure how long it
will continue to receive updates but hopefully for a while.

If we're lucky, both machines will be ready/online tomorrow.


Zach