archsetup/working/velox-reinstall/velox-reinstall-runbook.org, branch claude/hungry-franklin-09fffcBuilds a full dev workstation from a bare Arch Linux install.
https://git.cjennings.net/archsetup/atom?h=claude%2Fhungry-franklin-09fffc2026-09-13T14:23:39+00:00chore(tasks): close the velox reinstall drill and the lock-clock bug2026-09-13T14:23:39+00:00Craig Jenningsc@cjennings.net2026-09-13T14:23:39+00:00urn:sha1:0e85fe37d4680492a6455672835cdd65901ad22c
The reinstall drill finished on 2026-08-14 and every finding it surfaced already has its own task, so what remained was the record. I filed its working-dir artifacts into permanent homes. The runbook went to docs/ with an Outcome section, since the checklist was never ticked as it ran. The UEFI boot-entry reference went to docs/ too. The three reinstall-gap reports went to docs/design/. The rescued wttrin bundle moved into its own working dir under the task that owns it. Every inbound link is repointed and working/velox-reinstall/ is gone.
The lock-screen clock bug is closed because it no longer happens on velox. I couldn't identify the commit that fixed it from the dotfiles or archsetup logs, and the note says so. Its manual-testing check retires with it.
fix(velox): trace the dead touchpad to its own connector, and repair two lost todo headings2026-08-20T16:46:19+00:00Craig Jenningsc@cjennings.net2026-08-20T16:46:19+00:00urn:sha1:fb13378559cdc6a9ef3b23883bcbda2937dc1195
The touchpad fault was an interrupt line that never fired: the device
enumerated, hid-multitouch bound, and the handler sat correctly on amd_gpio
pin 8, but the count stayed at zero across all 24 CPUs under active use and
the i2c-HID reset timed out at every boot. A live USB reproduced it exactly,
which ruled out software. The fix was the touchpad's own connector — the
input-cover ribbon I reseated first fixed the phantom power button and left
this untouched, and the 4-pin connector beside the silkscreen is GND and VCC
only, so it could never have carried i2c. Both faults from the mainboard swap
are now closed.
Two task headings had been overwritten by inserts at the top of Open Work, and
I recovered both verbatim from the commits that introduced them. One displaced
task had ridden an archived parent into Resolved, so an open bug had been
sitting outside Open Work for weeks.
Filed the install placeholder passwords still live on this laptop as an [#A],
graded on severity alone rather than the frequency matrix: full-disk encryption
protected by a dictionary word does no work at all on a machine that travels.
Corrected the ARCHSETUP_DIR line in the reinstall runbook. It carried a tilde on
the right-hand side of an assignment, which zsh does not expand, so following it
would have produced an ISO with the installer silently absent.
chore(todo): velox reinstall runbook and the tasks it surfaced2026-08-14T03:35:41+00:00Craig Jenningsc@cjennings.net2026-08-14T03:35:41+00:00urn:sha1:2e78f55638ee80da6ce4998d37996bea73076efa
The runbook drove today's rebuild: preflight, a required salvage pass, the install, and post-install verification. It stays as the working record until velox is settled.
Filed from the rebuild: reseating the input-cover ribbon, which is [#A] for tomorrow because phantom power-button presses have killed the machine four times and the last one cut power below systemd, where no setting can catch it. The rest are hibernate in the settings dial, a truenas VM for long-running sessions, the keyboard-backlight binding, and the screen-lock suite that fails 21 of 23 on ratio.