vh 1a5bc2ddf1 Land the MeroMero v2-31B NVFP4A16 quant and record the pinned-transformers trap
The v2 dense quant had failed four times. Attempt 5 lands it at 19 G.

The blocker was not what it looked like. `AmbiguousGlobalPerLayerAttributeError`
on `head_dim` read as a malformed upload -- DogOnKeyboard's config carries a
`per_layer_config` key zerofata's canonical one lacks -- and the standing fix was
to force `allow_global_per_layer_attribute_access=True`. Both halves were wrong.

`pip install llmcompressor==0.13.0` downgrades transformers 5.16.1 -> 5.14.1. The
config was serialized by 5.16.1, which materializes `per_layer_config` from
`global_head_dim` + `layer_types`; 5.14.1 carries the heterogeneity guard but not
the gemma4 resolver. Under the image's own transformers the same config loads
fine. `:latest` was also re-pulled during attempt 4 and no earlier run, so the
toolchain moved mid-diagnosis. Two things separated "malformed upload" from
"moved toolchain": reproducing the real failing call (a bare AutoConfig load does
not reproduce it; the trigger is reached through AutoTokenizer) and keeping
zerofata's canonical tree, quantized cleanly on 2026-08-21, as a positive control.

The fix drops `per_layer_config` rather than forcing global access. It is exactly
redundant -- keys are precisely the ten full_attention layer indices, sole value
(512, 4), verbatim the global fields -- and forcing instead would make
`config.head_dim` answer 256 to the callers building the 512-wide layers.
patch_perlayer.py re-proves that redundancy at apply time and refuses if it ever
stops holding.

Verified on the tensor table rather than the exit code: the output is identical
family-for-family and count-for-count to the August canonical quant, with 356
BF16 vision-tower tensors preserved and input_activations=None. A GPU-free load
leaves 0 tensors on meta and generates coherent prose. The section 4.4 serve test
has NOT run -- GPU1 has 19.9 GB free against 19.5 GB of weights, so it needs a
live seat displaced.

Also fixes the A4B output, which had a truncation cap baked into its tokenizer
(max_length 8192) from being quantized with the calibration corpus.

Playbook gains section 3.17 for the pinned-transformers class and sharpens 3.16
to say drop the dataset outright for any A16 scheme.
2026-09-10 10:56:16 -07:00

eshpfi-management

Infrastructure management workspace for the PFI fleet (plus the ESH home-lab host). Tracks server state, canonical Docker Compose stacks, per-host configs, and the tooling that moves them around.

See CLAUDE.md for the full set of conventions and the rules Claude Code sessions follow when working here.

The fleet

Docker hosts:

Host IP Site Role
ana-ml2 10.250.50.54 Anaheim (10.250.0.0/16) GPU / AI inference (bare metal)
ana-docker 10.250.50.70 Anaheim General-purpose Docker + cross-site hubs (VM on pfi-pve)
nh3-docker 10.100.50.40 NH3 (10.100.0.0/16) General-purpose Docker (VM on nh3-pve)
esh-docker-vm 10.0.50.45 ESH home lab (esteban.net) Home-lab Docker (VM on esh-pve, non-PFI scope)
vm-esh-nas 10.0.50.154 ESH home lab NAS-adjacent Docker, NFS-mounted shares (VM on esh-pve-nas, non-PFI scope)

Proxmox hypervisors (tracked for inventory; not Docker targets):

Host IP Site Role
pfi-pve 10.250.250.31 Anaheim Proxmox VE (188 GB / Xeon Silver 4310)
nh3-pve 10.100.250.60 NH3 Proxmox VE (62 GB / i9-13900H)
esh-pve 10.0.250.35 ESH home lab Proxmox VE (62 GB / i9-13900H)
esh-pve-nas 10.0.50.55 ESH home lab Proxmox VE, storage-dedicated (125 GB / Xeon W-1250)

Per-host snapshots of the running system live under servers/<host>/system-details.txt, refreshed via scripts/refresh-server-info.sh.

Layout

.
├── CLAUDE.md                     # conventions; loaded by Claude Code sessions
├── README.md                     # this file
├── scripts/                      # workstation tooling
│   ├── server_inspect.sh         # read-only diagnostic, runs on remote via stdin
│   ├── proxmox_inspect.sh        # Proxmox-aware probe (VMs, LXCs, storage, backup coverage)
│   ├── refresh-server-info.sh    # pull fresh system-details.txt for one/all hosts
│   ├── refresh-proxmox-info.sh   # pull fresh proxmox-details.txt for one/all PVE nodes
│   ├── add-host.sh               # register a new server (writes servers/<name>/ssh-target)
│   ├── sync-stacks.sh            # pull /opt/docker/{compose,conf}/ → stacks-mirror/
│   ├── deploy-stack.sh           # push stacks-mirror/<host>/<stack>/ with diff + prompt
│   ├── discover-fortigate.sh     # DHCP lease list from a FortiGate via SSH
│   ├── discover-unifi.sh         # client list from a UniFi Controller via REST
│   └── discover-gaps.sh          # find IPs in discovery TSVs not tracked in servers/
├── servers/                      # per-host notes + latest snapshot + ssh-target fallback
│   └── <host>/
│       ├── README.md
│       ├── system-details.txt    # regenerate on demand
│       └── ssh-target            # <ip> or <user>@<ip>, used when DNS fails
├── stacks/                       # canonical compose files (source of truth)
│   └── <stack>/
│       ├── compose.yaml
│       ├── .env.example
│       └── README.md
├── stacks-mirror/                # gitignored — live mirror from sync-stacks.sh
├── configs/                      # host-level config files that aren't docker-compose
│   ├── homepage/                 # canonical config for the fleet dashboard (on esh-docker-vm)
│   └── restic/<host>/            # resticprofile configs + pre-backup hooks
└── docs/                         # general reference (network, models, proxmox, etc.)
    └── pfi/

Current stacks

GPU (ana-ml2):

  • llama-swap — GGUF model swapper via llama.cpp (port 9292)
  • vllm — embeddings (8001) + reranker (8002) + Skywork reward classifier (8003) via vLLM

Anaheim non-GPU (ana-docker):

  • traefik, crowdsec, gitea, vaultwarden, synapse, seafile, searxng, openwebui, sillytavern, mailrise, rustdesk, dockge, it-tools
  • (mattermost retired 2026-04-21 — compose dir may still linger, containers gone)
  • Notes / feeds: miniflux (RSS, 8080), nevermore (twice-daily LLM-curated brief, 8181, multi-tenant — extracted to its own repo at vh/nevermore), memos (note server, 5230)
  • Assistant tooling: task-board (MCP + dashboard for assistant task state, 7878)
  • Fleet services: beszel (metrics hub, port 8090), dozzle-hub (log viewer, 8088), backrest (restic UI, 9898)
  • Backup target: rest-server-ana on port 8000

GPU ana-ml2 (non-canonical for now):

  • comfyui, kokoro, parakeet, vibevoice alongside the canonical llama-swap + vllm

NH3 (nh3-docker):

  • adguard, dockge, plus Beszel/Dozzle agents

NH3 (Synology 10.100.50.50):

  • rest-server-nh3 — restic backup target (port 8000)

ESH home lab (esh-docker-vm):

  • adguard, homeassistant (macvlan), esphome, mosquitto, paperless-ngx, pgadmin, calibre-web-automated, drawio, traefik, homepage, uptime-kuma, plus Beszel/Dozzle agents

ESH home lab (vm-esh-nas):

  • filezilla (web UI on port 5800), dockge, plus Beszel/Dozzle agents. Mounts /mnt/{share,music,books,media} from the Debian NAS at 10.0.50.50.

Common tasks

Refresh one host's snapshot:

scripts/refresh-server-info.sh ana-docker

Refresh all hosts:

scripts/refresh-server-info.sh all

Refresh all Proxmox nodes (separate flow — captures VM/LXC/backup-coverage):

scripts/refresh-proxmox-info.sh all

Add a new host:

scripts/add-host.sh <name> <ip-or-user@ip>
scripts/refresh-server-info.sh <name>

Validate discovery (without hitting the network):

scripts/refresh-server-info.sh --validate-only all

Push a stack to a host (with diff + confirm):

scripts/deploy-stack.sh <host> <stack>

Pull every server's compose/conf trees into stacks-mirror/ (not committed — see .gitignore):

scripts/sync-stacks.sh all

Bootstrap a new fleet repo from this one:

scripts/fork-fleet.sh ~/development/<other-fleet>-management
# optional: override the fleet-name baked into the skeleton CLAUDE.md / README
scripts/fork-fleet.sh ~/development/<dest> <fleet-name>

Mirrors the reusable tooling (everything under scripts/, the generic playbook templates, .gitignore, conventions section of CLAUDE.md) into the destination dir, strips fleet-specific content (servers/, stacks/, configs/, fleet-named playbooks (deploy-*, decouple-*), docs/orientation.md, docs/runbooks/, docs/pfi/, STATUS.md, host-pinned helper scripts), regenerates skeleton CLAUDE.md / README.md / STATUS.md with the new fleet name, and initializes a fresh git history with one "Initial commit".

The script does not create a gitea remote or push — namespace + repo name are an explicit manual step. The "next steps" output prints the exact tea repo create + git remote add + git push commands to wire it up when ready.

Backup pipeline

Backups are driven by per-host resticprofile configs under configs/restic/<host>/, scheduled via systemd timers on each host:

  • Writes: each host backs up to its site-local rest-server (rest-server-ana or rest-server-nh3), over HTTP basic-auth.
  • Authentication: shared .htpasswd file on both rest-servers, one entry per host; credentials stored in /etc/restic/restic.env on each client host.
  • Encryption: per-host client-side passphrase in /etc/restic/password (unique per repo; losing it = losing that host's backups).
  • Visibility: Backrest (http://10.250.50.70:9898) shows every repo for browsing/restore.
  • Schedule: backup at 01:00 daily, forget at 03:00 daily, weekly check --read-data-subset 10% on Sundays.
  • Prune: manual ceremony (rest-server runs with --append-only, which blocks destructive prune ops).
  • Off-site: cross-site rsync between the two rest-server data dirs is planned (not yet implemented).

Coverage status (as of 2026-04-29)

Goal: every Docker host + configs + every database covered, not just VM images.

Layer State
VM-level (Proxmox vzdump) All running guests covered across pfi-pve / nh3-pve / esh-pve-nas; esh-pve has VMID 108 uncovered
ana-docker restic (host files + DBs) configs/restic/ana-docker/ with pre-backup hooks for synapse / seafile / vaultwarden-pg / gitea (native dump) / openwebui
ana-ml2 restic configs/restic/ana-ml2/ — bare-metal host files (no DB hooks needed)
nh3-docker restic Light — no DB hooks needed
esh-docker-vm restic With DB hooks for paperless-postgres (external), home-assistant + pgadmin + uptime-kuma (host-side sqlite3), calibre-web-automated (in-container sqlite3)
vm-esh-nas restic Light — NFS mounts explicitly excluded
nh3-dev (workstation) restic /home/lkraven + /etc with language-toolchain and build-output excludes
irv-ml1 restic Cross-site to rest-server-nh3 via WireGuard
esh-vm-db restic With pg_dumpall + mongodump pre-backup hooks
Cross-site redundancy ana-nas → nh3-nas rsync at 04:00 daily; nh3-nas → ana-nas at 05:00 daily (configs/rsync/)
Prune ceremony Quarterly manual ritual documented in docs/runbooks/nh3-prune-ritual.md (DSM-mediated --append-only toggle)
offen/docker-volume-backup sidecars on esh-docker-vm Remove once restic proves itself (~1 week of clean runs)

Authoritative vs. mirror

  • Authoritative: files on each server under /opt/docker/compose/<stack>/ and /opt/docker/conf/<stack>/.
  • This workspace: source-of-truth copies under stacks/<name>/ (hand-curated), and a gitignored mirror under stacks-mirror/ pulled by sync-stacks.sh.

Edit in stacks/, push with deploy-stack.sh. Never commit stacks-mirror/ — it can contain embedded plaintext secrets from upstream compose files that haven't been audited yet.

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