Rebuild WSL - Post Windows Repave

[scottmuc]

Yay for Repaving!

As much as possible is documented inline in this issue template. In case of problems you may find help by viewing all the previous repave issues. Have fun!

Steps

• [x] Run repave script from windows host

  Instructions

  As an admin, run:

  Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExectionPolicy RemoteSigned

  Then run:

  ~/workspace/infrastructure/homedirs/windows/Repave-WSLInstance.ps

• [x] Clone and run coalesce script

  Instructions

  mkdir ~/workspace && cd ~/workspace
  git clone https://github.com/scottmuc/infrastructure.git
  cd infrastructure/homedirs/wsl
  ./coalesce_this_machine

  note this will need to be run twice for the python stuff to work

• [x] Reboot WSL Instance

  Instructions

  In order for /etc/wsl.conf to take effect we need to restart the WSL instance.

  wsl --shutdown Ubuntu

• [x] Initalize 1Password

  Instructions

  inialized-1password

• [x] Load GPG Keys

  Instructions

  opauth
  keys
  gpg-op restore -e scottATscottmuc.com

• [x] Bootstrap repository tools

  Instructions

  asdf plugin add python
  asdf plugin add terraform
  asdf plugin add gum
  asdf install
  pip install ansible
  ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.posix

Verification Steps

• [x] Decrypt Repository

  Instructions

  locksmith unlock

• [x] Attempt DNS Change

  Instructions

  cd dns
  terraform init
  # add TXT record to graffiti.scottmuc.com
  ./terraform_apply

• [x] Configure PI (tests ansible)

• [x] Clone all the repos (mr checkout)

• [x] Ensure tldr works

• [x] Ensure deploy.sh of goodenoughmoney.com works

• [x] Log OS release and kernel version

  Instructions

  cat /etc/os-release
  uname -a

• [x] Make this template slightly better

[scottmuc]

First Coalesce

• [x] Fix nvim scary error about the colorscheme NeoSolarized not being available. This doesn't break the script but it's jarring to read nevertheless.
• [x] Remove hint to run twice. With alacritty-colorscheme removed, the python bootstrapping issue no longer exists.
• [x] Add running background light to setup alacritty config in Windows

The script went to completion!

[scottmuc]

Fun! Installing the fonts had a breaking change. A new release was made a couple weeks ago and they did some font renames (for sake of consistency). I appreciate the consistent name change, but I wish they could have duplicated the fonts and had a deprecation warning (though I have no idea how I would be able to see that warning):

https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/tag/v3.0.0

[scottmuc]

~/workspace/infrastructure/pi ? cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy
~/workspace/infrastructure/pi ? uname -a
Linux wsl 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft #2311-Microsoft Tue Nov 08 17:09:00 PST 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[scottmuc]

• [x] Add running docker as a verification step.
• [x] Add step to ensure WSL version is 2.
• [x] Add enabling Virtual Machine Platform to Windows setup script

It appears docker cannot run. Looking at the kernel version of the previous repave (https://github.com/scottmuc/infrastructure/issues/54#issuecomment-1506770395) I can see I am running the old one. Running wsl --list --verbose shows that my instance is running version 1.

[scottmuc]

It turns out the BIOS upgrade reset some other settings. I now believe that CSM was something I may have disabled years ago! It also appears that SVM reverted back to disabled. This BIOS setting enables/disables the CPU virtualization features.

After enabling the windows feature Virtual Machine Platform and enabling SVM in the BIOS, I was able to recreate a WSL instance with the up-to-date kernel version:

~ ? uname -a
Linux wsl 5.15.90.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Fri Jan 27 02:56:13 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[scottmuc]

Repave Summary

This was more interesting that I was expecting! The breaking change with the font was fun. Happy that I was able to fix up a couple things.

The Windows repave brought forward some interesting pieces to fix. Thankfully the scope was pretty small. The BIOS update resulting in WSL issues was an unexpected issue, but easy to resolve.

Overall, this was a nice repave to tie up a lot of loose ends with the Windows and WSL integrations.