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# Development log
## legolas: NVMe (Corsair MP600 ELITE / Phison E21) suspend/resume crashes
The drive hung on resume from S3 (deep) suspend — boot logs ended at `PM: suspend entry (deep)` with no resume, followed by a hard reboot. The Phison E21 can't recover from the D3 transition that S3 forces.
Investigation also found two existing workarounds were doing nothing:
- The udev rule `ATTR{d3cold_allowed}="0"` was a no-op — that sysfs attribute doesn't exist on this Phison endpoint or its parent root port (`0000:00:1d.0`).
- The `nvme-resume-fix` service was broken: `ExecStart` used `>` redirection without a shell, so `echo` just printed the string and never wrote to the `rescan` sysfs file. It never actually rescanned.
Changes (`hosts/legolas/hardware-configuration.nix`):
- Switched `mem_sleep_default` from `deep` (S3) to `s2idle` (modern standby). s2idle avoids the deep D3 path that hangs the drive.
- Removed the no-op `d3cold_allowed` rule and the broken rescan service.
- Added a correct runtime-PM-off udev rule on both the NVMe endpoint (`0000:6e:00.0`) and its parent root port (`0000:00:1d.0`), keeping the PCIe wakeup disable.
Note: runtime PM was already off on the endpoint (`power/control=on`); that alone never fixed the crash because system suspend uses a separate code path. Verify after rebuild that the cmdline has `mem_sleep_default=s2idle` (the running generation showed a stale duplicate `deep`).
## Headless home-manager configs (galadriel, elros, elrond)
Added minimal home-manager configs for `gunalx` and `root` on headless hosts. These skip all GUI/desktop modules (niri, stylix, foot, noctalia, etc.) and keep only CLI tools: bash (with sops AI keys), git, nixvim (full config reused), opencode, atuin, sshconfig, sops.
Files:
- `home/gunalx-headless.nix` — gunalx's minimal config, same module set as `gunalx.nix` minus all GUI imports.
- `home/root.nix` — identical CLI stack, explicitly sets `home.username`/`home.homeDirectory` to root.
- `home/sops.nix` — parameterized age key paths to use `config.home.homeDirectory` so both users work without duplication.
- `home/sshconfig.nix` — removed `ssh-askpass-fullscreen` (unwired GUI dependency, was dead weight).
- `flake.nix` — added `headlessHmModules` let binding (shared by all three hosts) wiring `home-manager.users.gunalx` + `home-manager.users.root`.
Manual step: root needs the sops age key at `/root/.config/sops/age/key.txt` (or SSH key at `/root/.ssh/nixos`) to decrypt AI API secrets. `age.generateKey = true` will create a new key, but it won't match the encrypted secrets — copy gunalx's age key to root's path, or re-encrypt the secrets with root's age public key.
## galadriel: kernel 7.0 EOL
Linux 7.0 was removed from nixpkgs (EOL). `pkgs.zfs` (stable) is now 2.4.2, same version previously pulled from unstable. Switched `boot.kernelPackages` to the default (6.18) and `boot.zfs.package` to `pkgs.zfs`. No pool compatibility concern since ZFS version is unchanged.
## legolas: lid-close still killing the NVMe — stale `deep` + logind suspend
Root cause of the recurring "SSD dies when lid closed": the *booted* generation carried a duplicate `mem_sleep_default=deep` after `mem_sleep_default=s2idle` (last wins), so `/sys/power/mem_sleep` was `s2idle [deep]` — every suspend went to S3. The source config only had `s2idle`; the stale param lived in the old generation. ACPI advertises S3 (`supports S0 S3 S4 S5`) but S3 is broken for the Phison E21 on this Skylake-era Intel platform, so only s0/s2idle is reliable. Separately, `HandleLidSwitch` was unset → defaulted to `suspend`, which was the actual lid-close trigger.
Changes (`hosts/legolas/hardware-configuration.nix`):
- `services.logind.lidSwitch`/`lidSwitchExternalPower`/`lidSwitchDocked` = `ignore`. Lid close no longer suspends; niri's `switch-events` still locks via noctalia, so the laptop stays on (RAM powered) but can't enter the S3 path.
- `systemd.services.force-s2idle` writes `s2idle` to `/sys/power/mem_sleep` at boot — guarantees the active mode is s2idle even if a future cmdline carries a stray `deep`.
- Suspend (s2idle) remains available via `systemctl suspend`; hibernation stays disabled.
Also fixed `home/niri.nix` lid-close command from the undocumented `lockScreen lock` to the v5-canonical `session lock` (matching the `Mod+M` binding).
Verify after rebuild+reboot: `/proc/cmdline` has no `deep`, and `/sys/power/mem_sleep` shows `[s2idle] deep`.