In my quest to automate the testing of the Linux Kernel, I need to automate the build of the Linux Kernel. To build the Kernel, you need the requisite packages. What are they? Let’s find out.
Continue readingAmpere Computing chips run the ARM64 instruction set. My laptop is a Dell running x86_64. In order to edit locally, but build remotely, I make use of servers in our datacenter. These are the steps I am taking.
Continue readingOne of our ironic baremetal nodes was suffering a cleaing failure. Fixing it was easy…once we knew the cause/
Continue readingEnough of us are looking at the cluster that I want an easy to read snapshot of the node state. So, I convert the csv output of the openstack command into a simple HTML table.
Continue readingIf an OpenStack server (Ironic or Nova) has an error, it shows up in a nested field. That field is hard to read in its normal layout, due to JSON formatting. Using jq to strip the formatting helps a bunch
The nested field is fault.details.
The -r option strips off the quotes.
Continue readingMy team is running a small OpenStack cluster with reposnsibility for providing bare metal nodes via Ironic. Currently, we have a handful of nodes that are not usable. They show up as “Cleaning failed.” I’m learning how to debug this process.
Continue readingTime for a change, and a big one at that. As of September 20th, I am now a full time Employee of Ampere Computing. I am in the Software Development team, working on Open Source stuff. That means Linux Kernel and Open Stack, among other things.
I’ll post more on why in the future. Why I left Red Hat, and why I specifically chose Ampere. Both deserve a well formed explanation, as both are very important to me. My head is not there yet, it is in code and machines and processes.
I’m getting Amped.
Technical stuff has been hard to collect this summer. Having a couple weeks off hadn’t helped. So here are some pictures instead.
Continue readingTo reinstall a machine that is managed by IPMI, you tell it to PXE boot and then power cycle. Here are my notes.
Continue readingQT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb kdenlive |
I don’t understand, yet, why this works, but it does. Thanks to this post