Today I didn’t really have much to do.
No meetings, no emergencies, no client screaming through email.
Just a quiet day — or at least, that’s what I thought.
Somehow, it turned into one of those days where you do everything just because you can’t sit still.
I wrapped up a project I had half-finished for weeks. That alone felt good.
Then I switched to “house mode” — fixed the shutter on a window, repaired the kitchen cabinets, nailed down Kitchen paper roll holder under a shelf, and finally organized my desk, which had officially turned into a battlefield of cables and notes.
Four random maintenance jobs later, I was sweaty, satisfied… and clearly unable to stop.
So what do I do next?
I decide to upgrade CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux.
Because apparently, peace and sanity aren’t for me.
Oh, the pain.
At first, I thought it would be simple.
You know the kind of thought that always ages poorly.
“Just run the conversion tool, reboot, done.”
Famous last words.
The script started fine — updating, converting, doing its thing — until it didn’t.
YUM decided to throw a tantrum.
Dependencies screamed.
Old repos refused to cooperate.
Somewhere between kernel updates and GRUB tweaks, I realized I was already too deep to go back.
That’s when you get that sinking feeling —
that “maybe I should’ve just installed Alma fresh” kind of regret.
After a few hours, some angry Googling, some angry conversations with AI, multiple coffees, and two reboots later… it finally booted.
No fireworks, no “mission accomplished.”
Just a ssh login screen that looked at me like,
“You happy now?”
Well. Kind of.
Things I Learned (and Will Ignore Next Time)
- Don’t do major Linux upgrades out of boredom.
- Always, always snapshot or backup before you start.
- If it works, maybe… just let it work.
- And most importantly: one small update never stays small.
To be honest the above didn’t ring a bell at all this time as well
- I did an update … out of boredom.
- I took a file snapshot while i was updating the system!
- it worked! or i had other means to make things work (other servers).
- At least this one was a major update...
So yeah — I finished a project, fixed the house, and somehow survived a CentOS → AlmaLinux migration in the same day.
A productive day, if we’re being generous.
A painful one, if we’re being honest.
Tomorrow, I’ll probably say I’ll rest.
And then I’ll find something else that doesn’t need fixing — and fix it anyway.