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suspend-then-hibernate on Ubuntu 22.04

Recently I have had the opportunity/necessity to use Windows for a bit. Windows, expecially with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is much better than it used to be. One thing that I really liked was "susped to hibernate".

When closing the lid on the laptop, the system would suspend, and then after some time it would power off. This is really nice behavior for someone who often comes to find a laptop they've suspended a couple days ago and that they have no power.

So... How to do that on linux? Specifically Ubuntu 22.04

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subp - a python subprocess wrapper

This is just a wrapper around python subprocess that I like to use. It originated during cloud-init development.

Some things that I like about it:

• SubpResult prints well.
• times how long subpocesses take, that is available in the SubpResult.
• takes a timeout and a signal to send to the subprocess. The python standard library will only ever send SIGKILL which does not give the process time to cleanup.

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Example ginkgo test

Setup

Setup for this was like:

$ mkdir superdude
$ cd superdude
$ go mod init example.com/superdude
$ go get -u github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2

$ go get -u "github.com/onsi/gomega"

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deb-artifactory - publish a deb to artifactory

This is an example client to upload debs to artifactory.

Example usage is pretty simple:

$ export ARTIFACTORY_CREDS=AKCp.........BuV
$ ./deb-artifactory https://smoser0.jfrog.io/artifactory/test1 my.deb

Things this does:

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Minimal initramfs

If you are playing around with qemu, sometimes it is useful to have a kernel and initrd easily available to play with. Cirros provides kernel and initramfs that can be used for this purpose.

This init script here provides a initramfs /init that will do nothing but write the kernel command line and then power the system off. You can adjust it to your needs.

The get-krd script will:

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Creating an esp image is a pain. The gen-esp here tries to make it less painful.

Would like to use diskfs, but some things broke #132

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Boot Ubuntu MAAS kernel, initrd and squashfs with cloud-init seed data.

The demo-it script here will do the following:

• download kernel and initrd from published MAAS images
• download the minimal squashfs image from cloud-images.ubuntu.com.
  We use the minimal image just because it is smaller than the maas provided ephemeral image. We could use that just as well.
• create cloud-init 'user-data' and 'meta-data'
• boot qemu with the provided kernel and initrd use the kernel command line to:
  • provide it with a 'rooturl` to the squashfs image
  • use overlayfs to give writable space

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xrdp and lxc

This is a half-done attempt at making a rdp server in lxc. It was largely based on ubuntu-xrdp. I'm not sure all of the things are necessary, but the result is a functional xrdp server.

I did this to see if it is feasible to host remote development system for students.

At least one annoyance is that on linux you cannot install "for all users", so each user would end up with ~2.6G of ~/wpilib. That also manifests itself in updating dev tools.

build container

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Byting Irish Programming Assignment number 2

The idea behind this is that students understand the interplay between commands and subsystems. Once the subsystems are well defined with RobotBuilder (i.e., we have all our parts), the primary work will be:

• creating public methods that control the private subsystem components (e.g., ControllerGroup or PWMSparkMax) and
• creating commands that (a) identify the subsystem(s) that they need (via a call to addRequirements) and (b) use the accessor methods in the subsystem class to make the robot do things. By creating lots of small, simple commands as "modules," we can then build up to more complex sequential or parallel commands for complex actions

Assignment number 1 has some information on setting up wpilib.