Symlinks have been causing me grief lately.  Our build tool, buck, loves creating symlinks but publishes corrupt cache artefacts for any build rule that includes a symlink amongst it’s output.

We also wind up calling out to npm to manage JavaScript dependencies and it has an annoying (for us) habit of resolving symlinks when processing files and then failing to find required libraries because the node_modules folder was back where the symlink was, not with the original file. Mostly this problem is caused by buck creating so many symlinks.

After any major Fedora upgrade my system loses the proprietary nvidia drivers that make X actually work (I’ve never successfully gotten the nouveau drivers to handle my card and multi-monitor setup) so the system reboots and simply presents an “oops, something went wrong” screen.

The issue seems to be that the nvidia driver doesn’t recompile for the new kernel, despite the fact that I’m using akmod packages which should in theory automatically recompile for new kernels.

I have a dual monitor setup with Linux where one display is connected via DisplayPort and the other via DVI, both from an Nvidia graphics card. When the screen is locked both displays go black, the DVI monitor says it’s entering power save mode and the DisplayPort monitor says “No input” at which point both monitors turn back on displaying the unlock screen.

Playing with xset dpms force standby|suspend|off gave a variety of effects, sometimes the DisplayPort stayed off but the DVI turned back on, sometimes the DisplayPort went black but didn’t turn off etc.