[cfarm-users] cfarm103 maintenance

[Zach van Rijn]

On Thu, 2026-09-10 at 05:33 -0500, Zach van Rijn via cfarm-users
wrote:
> The cfarm103 Mac Mini Linux machine has been updated and
> rebooted but failed to come back online this time.
> 
> I will look at it in the next day or so.

It's online now. There is some kind of race condition with the
startup scripts, so rebooting it twice (manually) is what was
required. I tested it two more times for confirmation.

Unfortunately the display switches over early in the boot
process and I'm not able to use the usual shortcuts to watch in
realtime what is happening during boot. I will look at logs.

A remote KVM apparatus might be a good idea for some of these
machines. The /home is also not automatically mounting anymore
but works fine. All of the CFarm machines we host at the moment
do not have remote management capabilities built in.

> 
> I am also planning to update the kernel but I need to look at
> whether special handling is required before making changes.
> 
> This will hopefully happen in the next few weeks.

More investigation is needed, but I have a spare machine that I
can test with so this shouldn't be a big deal.


Zach