41.6 Kadesh Upgrades
20250516
Kadesh is a Dell Latitude 7440 Desktop. See Section 41.2 for details.
Firmware Upgrades 20251115 Upgrade the Dell dock firmware from 01.01.00.01 to 01.01.01.01 and various dock components (RTS5413 to 01.23, RTS5487 to 01.62, VMM5331 05.07.08, WD22TB4 from 01.01.00.14 to 01.01.00.15, USB4 to 41.81) as well as upgrade KEK CA from 2011 to 2023, upgrade UEFI dbx from 20250507 to 20250902.
Upgrade Ubuntu 25.04 to 25.10 20251114 The upgrade completed
just fine. I am using the mainline kernel 6.15.11 and all was okay. On
login the magnus app was autostarting. So mv
/etc/xdg/autostart/magnus-autostart.desktop to home and that stopped
it. The nexcloud certificate was failing - but that may be
unrelated. And Emacs seems sluggish.
Upgrade Ubuntu 24.10 to 25.04 20250516 The upgrade completed just fine. I need to use kernel 6.9 though, since 6.11 and 6.10 result in a frozen login screen. (Fixed after some kernel upgrades.)
Firmware Upgrades 20241227 Upgrade the Dell dock firmware from 01.00.36.01 to 01.00.44.0 nd various dock components (RTS5413 01.22 to 01.23, RTS5487 01.57 to 01.59, VMM5331 05.07.04 to 05.07.07, WD22TB4 from 01.01.00.07 to 01.01.00.10, USB4 to 41.81) as well as the system firmware from 1.14.1 to 1.19.1.
Upgrade Ubuntu 24.04 to 24.10 20241031 The upgrade completed just fine. I need to use kernel 6.9 though, since 6.11 and 6.10 result in a frozen login screen. (Fixed after some kernel upgrades.)
Upgrade Ubuntu 23.10 to 24.04 20240525 The upgrade completed just fine. Tried Wayland X2Go not supported so revert to Xorg.
Firmware Upgrades 20231030
- System Firmware from 1.11.0 to 1.17.0
- UEFI dbx from 261 to 371
Upgrade Ubuntu 23.04 to 23.10 20231022 All went smoothly. Zoom install using snap is required for Ubuntu 23.10 but better to get the .deb from https://zoom.us/download as the snap version freezes when you blur or change to a virtual background.
Unfortunately the server is now suffering a Gnome Shell crash when displaying video full screen from totem or from youtube. Removing the Media Controls Gnome Shell extension fixed this.
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