[09:23:34] <akosiaris>	 that's wrong ^ btw. It's not effie, it's me that's oncall. We 've swapped 2 months ago, I had even set up the overrides, they magically vanished 
[09:23:42] <akosiaris>	 let's see if I can re set it up
[09:29:07] <akosiaris>	 supposedly, just {{done}}
[09:29:09] <akosiaris>	 let's see
[09:31:15] <akosiaris>	 perfect :-(
[09:31:48] <akosiaris>	 Amir1: fyi, you are not alone
[09:32:19] <akosiaris>	 !oncall-now 
[09:32:19] <sirenbot>	 Oncall now for team SRE, rotation business_hours:
[09:32:19] <sirenbot>	 A.mir1
[09:33:06] <akosiaris>	 !oncall-now 
[09:33:06] <sirenbot>	 Oncall now for team SRE, rotation business_hours:
[09:33:06] <sirenbot>	 A.mir1
[09:33:09] <akosiaris>	 pffff
[09:34:03] <akosiaris>	 !oncall-now 
[09:34:04] <sirenbot>	 Oncall now for team SRE, rotation business_hours:
[09:34:04] <sirenbot>	 a.kosiaris, A.mir1
[09:34:08] <akosiaris>	 aaaah, success!
[09:47:19] <Amir1>	 Thanks akosiaris !
[10:16:07] <elukey>	 I didn't get if akosiaris is on-call, can somebody tell me? 
[10:16:12] * elukey runs away
[10:18:28] <XioNoX>	 elukey: you can get the answer instantly as long as you ask 3 times
[10:19:40] <claime>	 instantly* (*conditions apply)
[10:22:40] <akosiaris>	 elukey: I had switched with effie since july
[10:22:52] <akosiaris>	 and had gone ahead and setup the overrides since then
[10:23:09] <akosiaris>	 it was a mutual exchange of oncall shifts 
[10:23:39] <akosiaris>	 and well today I went in, but found no override for effie. I did find one for me, telling me I was overriding myself
[10:24:01] <akosiaris>	 I have no idea what on earth, I am gonna pretend if was my fault, although it doesn't add up. 
[10:24:25] <elukey>	 akosiaris: I admire the fact that you answered to me in a very precise way without any swear words.
[10:24:48] <elukey>	 :D
[10:27:13] <XioNoX>	 did anyone tried any vscode plugin for gerrit? like https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SanderRonde.vscode--gerrit ?
[10:29:01] <claime>	 Yeah, I tried that one, didn't find it very useful but I may be holding it wrong
[10:29:29] <akosiaris>	 elukey: :D
[16:10:44] <andrewbogott>	 I'm reimaging a host and getting stuck at the partitioning stage; mdadm is trying to rebuild a raid and it appears that the rebuild will take days or weeks. The thing is, I don't /want/ to rebuild the raid, I just want to wipe it and start over.
[16:10:47] <andrewbogott>	 Has anyone encountered this?
[16:16:52] <andrewbogott>	 partman recipe is
[16:16:56] <andrewbogott>	     - partman/standard.cfg
[16:16:57] <andrewbogott>	     - partman/raid10-4dev.cfg
[16:17:03] <andrewbogott>	 which as I understand it should be giving me a fresh start
[16:31:22] <jynus>	 I don't know if it helps, but in the past I had to "wipe" with the same installer the software raid because, despite the disk being logically formatted, the installer wanted to be smart and "recover" from found metadata
[16:31:53] <jynus>	 I don't remember if I had to write some 0s at the start, in adition from the regular removal or something
[16:33:40] <andrewbogott>	 I can't figure out how to wipe, anytime I dry to remove the raid it tells me that it's in use
[16:33:50] <andrewbogott>	 But yes, wiping it is surely the right thing to do
[16:34:12] <andrewbogott>	 # mdadm --stop /dev/md0
[16:34:12] <andrewbogott>	 mdadm: Cannot get exclusive access to /dev/md0:Perhaps a running process, mounted
[16:34:52] <andrewbogott>	 jynus: do you remember what you did to clear it?
[16:35:26] <jynus>	 I think dd zero and kept for some time until it worked, but it was a long time ago, so I don't remember
[16:35:35] <jynus>	 either that or manually partition something else
[16:36:10] <andrewbogott>	 hm, I dd'd the partition table and that didn't seem to change anything
[16:36:13] * andrewbogott googles further
[16:36:27] <jynus>	 it is one of those things that you try stuff until it works, despite "what should be working" (manual removal) didn't
[16:36:33] * andrewbogott nods
[16:36:42] <andrewbogott>	 I've already tried a dozen things :(
[16:58:19] * andrewbogott dd's everything, yet the raid persists
[17:07:23] <inflatador>	 maybe `shred` would work? You may have to hack the preseed file to get the installer to drop into interactive mode
[17:07:48] <inflatador>	 and I guess that assumes `shred` exists in the installer, which is probably a bad assumption
[17:13:30] <andrewbogott>	 dd should work if I'm hitting the right place, but the metadata must be hiding someplace else
[17:13:42] <andrewbogott>	 Yeah, basically none of the tools that I want are present in this busybox installer though.
[17:14:14] * andrewbogott is going to eat a sandwich and hope that the sandwich has the answers
[17:15:44] <Reedy>	 only smarties have the answer
[17:16:14] <andrewbogott>	 I'm in the US, wrong kind of smarties :(
[17:19:57] <inflatador>	 maybe copy the `shred` binary into the directory that hosts TFTP from the installer servers? Of course that all depends on how crazy you wanna get 
[17:30:09] <andrewbogott>	 oh, it's moving past that step now! Maybe the dds fixed things but rebuilding took a few minutes
[17:30:36] <andrewbogott>	 hmmm that being the bookworm installer. We'll see if bullseye can do the same
[18:18:11] <jhathaway>	 andrewbogott: did you succeed, happy to help with ideas.
[18:18:42] <andrewbogott>	 going to work around it I think. It only installs with bookworm and I can maybe/sort of make that work
[18:22:27] <mutante>	 maybe you have to delete the superblock and could use mdadm itself for that.   mdadm --zero-superblock  
[18:23:32] <mutante>	 at least that's where the metadata should be
[19:24:10] <inflatador>	 FWiW, I was messing around with preseed/partman in my homelab this weekend and I discovered that neither Ubuntu and the Debian Cloud Team use preseed/partman. Debian Cloud Team uses https://fai-project.org/fai-guide/ , maybe something to look into at some point?
[19:24:41] <inflatador>	 neither Ubuntu **NOR** the Debian Cloud Team, that is
[19:31:09] <jhathaway>	 We don't have any plans at present inflatador, but I used FAI, many years ago, and really liked it
[19:32:08] <jhathaway>	 one nice feature of FAI is that it uses golden images, so you don't have to wait for packages to install, the files are just copied via nfs if I recall correctly
[19:41:09] <inflatador>	 jhathaway that's cool. I came from RHEL-world so I mostly know kickstart (and packer). I might play around with https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/debian-cloud-images/-/tree/master if I get bored next weekend
[19:43:13] <jhathaway>	 definitely worth looking at, I would love to find some time to take a look at it as well
[21:42:58] <inflatador>	 helmfile.d/admin_ng/helmfile.yaml