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| author | Craig Jennings <c@cjennings.net> | 2026-09-13 09:23:39 -0500 |
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| committer | Craig Jennings <c@cjennings.net> | 2026-09-13 09:23:39 -0500 |
| commit | 2f81174b1de13d9148113fb9f3d389ca6c61ac5c (patch) | |
| tree | 3fe538bd1b43364ccfd0a1de2107ac5171423aee /working/velox-reinstall/2026-08-14-emacsd-velox-reinstall-gaps-2.org | |
| parent | c9f9a9881548114e49752d5bc4feba4a83ed4d84 (diff) | |
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chore(tasks): close the velox reinstall drill and the lock-clock bug
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.
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diff --git a/working/velox-reinstall/2026-08-14-emacsd-velox-reinstall-gaps-2.org b/working/velox-reinstall/2026-08-14-emacsd-velox-reinstall-gaps-2.org deleted file mode 100644 index 27f0da8..0000000 --- a/working/velox-reinstall/2026-08-14-emacsd-velox-reinstall-gaps-2.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,63 +0,0 @@ -#+TITLE: Fifth reinstall gap — machine-local .local.el config, and a general shape -#+AUTHOR: Craig Jennings - -* Follow-up to this morning's handoff - -Sent you four gaps an hour ago -([[file:2026-08-14-emacsd-velox-reinstall-gaps-1.org][the first report]]). Here is a fifth, -found straight afterwards when I noticed calendar sync was dead on velox. - -* What was broken - -=calendar-sync.timer= was enabled and firing every fifteen minutes, and failing -every time with exit 255: - -: calendar-sync: No calendars configured (set calendar-sync-calendars) - -The three output files sat at zero bytes. The cause is that -=~/.emacs.d/calendar-sync.local.el= is gitignored, so the reinstall deleted it -along with everything else untracked, and the module's loader treats a missing -file as a *silent* no-op. So the config vanished quietly and the only symptom -was a failing unit nobody was watching. - -Cheap to fix once found: the repo tracks =calendar-sync.local.el.example=, and -that template already encodes the shape velox uses — feeds resolved by -=:secret-host= against =authinfo.gpg= rather than inlined. The authinfo entries -had survived, because =~/.authinfo.gpg= is a stow symlink into the dotfiles repo. -So rebuilding was one copy, and all three feeds now sync clean and land -byte-identical to ratio's. - -* The general shape, which is the part worth acting on - -This is the same failure as gap 1, one layer down, and it is worth stating -generally because the install can act on it: - -- A tracked =*.local.el.example= template plus a gitignored =*.local.el= is a - deliberate pattern in this config, not a one-off. =.gitignore= lines 56-58 - list three of them: =calendar-sync.local.el=, =signal-config.local.el=, - =google-keep.local.el=. Every one of those is gone on velox right now. I have - only repaired the calendar one. -- Secrets held *by reference* survive a rebuild; secrets held *inline* do not. - The calendar config came back for free because the tokens were in - =authinfo.gpg=, which is stow-managed and therefore travels. Ratio's copy of - the same file inlines its URLs, and had ratio been the machine rebuilt, those - three feed tokens would simply have been gone. -- The failure was silent by design. A missing local config is a no-op, which is - right for a machine that never configured the feature and wrong for one that - just lost it. - -* What the install could do - -- After a rebuild, enumerate every tracked =*.local.el.example= in a project and - report which have no corresponding =*.local.el=. That is a one-line find and it - turns a silent no-op into a visible checklist item. -- Same for any =*.local.*= convention elsewhere in the fleet — the pattern is not - specific to Emacs. -- Worth pairing with gap 2: a unit that is enabled and failing every fifteen - minutes for two days is its own signal. A post-rebuild pass over - =systemctl --user list-units --state=failed= would have caught this one - without knowing anything about calendars. - -That last one generalizes best. Of the five gaps I have sent you, three were -things that *looked* fine — a stowed unit file, an enabled timer, a present -clone — and were not. |
