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[CWM] My Genera inspired Unix machine (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Presenting my new setup :)

Applications Xclock, xterm, qutebrowser, vim, mandocs, pfetch

Vim theme: Default quiet theme with modified background

Font: Iosevka SS13 E X T E N D E D, Iosveka Aile

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

cwm
ksh
doas

I take it you're an OpenBSD user?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I wish haha. I love their work and philosophy but kept getting kernel panics when using OpenBSD. Support told me it's a harddrive failure, but my system works just fine with Linux. Oh well, Alpine is nice in that loksh, doas, cwm are all well supported and the installer feels very similar to OpenBSD

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Alpine's good, though I would do some additional investigation into the integrity of your hardware if kernel devs (?) are telling you it's your harddrive failing (maybe your device supports SMART?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It was suggestions from the subreddit and irc that it's probably a harddrive failure. The kernel devs wanted some more details, but at that point I had already deleted OpenBSD and gone back to Alpine. I might give it a spin again later and if the error happens, I'll be sure to include the full panic report.

Thanks for suggesting smart, I gave it a spin and it seems the harddrive is healthy?

$ doas smartctl -H /dev/nvme0n1
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

My new suspicion is that I did something funky with the kernel parameters and fstab to try and speed up the system which made it panic.

EDIT: Welp, the issue was with the RAM. Now that's replaced, all is well.