cproudlock 974accf98a blancco: fix silent prefs fallback, suspend trap, display blank + add View ...

End-to-end fixes for Blancco Drive Eraser PXE flow uncovered by chasing
"reports never reach SMB share" across two air-gapped sites:

playbook/blancco-init.sh:
  * Drop silent || true on wget of preferences.xml + config.xml. Fail
    loud with shell-drop if download or marker grep fails. Background:
    airootfs /opt/scripts/validate_preferences.sh restores
    /albus/preferences.save (factory defaults, empty network_share) if
    xmllint fails. wget failure made every report silently land nowhere.
  * Clobber /albus/preferences.save with the same served file so even if
    the validator fallback fires, the SMB target survives.
  * Bind-mount /dev/null over /sys/power/{state,disk,mem_sleep,autosleep}
    before switch_root. Albus's license-retry path writes /sys/power/state
    directly (bypassing systemd targets); this is the last-line block.
  * /dev/null symlinks for sleep/suspend/hibernate systemd targets in the
    airootfs overlay + logind drop-in with IdleAction/Handle*=ignore.
    Three independent layers because cmdline systemd.mask alone is bypassed
    by direct /sys/power/state writes.
  * xinitrc.d/00-no-screen-blank.sh runs xset s off -dpms + setterm
    -blank 0 -powerdown 0 so the Blancco GUI doesn't blank during long
    erasures.
  * Removed the 20-failsafeDriver.conf "modesetting" pin. modesetting
    needs DRM/KMS which we disable on kernel cmdline; "vesa" also failed
    on NVIDIA. With the pin gone Xorg auto-picks fbdev which uses the
    kernel framebuffer from vga=normal - works across Intel, AMD, and
    older NVIDIA without nouveau.

playbook/pxe_server_setup.yml:
  * dnsmasq.conf: explicit empty-value dhcp-option=3 + dhcp-option=6.
    Without them, dnsmasq defaults to sending its own IP as router AND
    DNS. Commenting the configured-value lines did NOT disable the push
    (root cause of "wired keeps picking up 10.9.100.1 as gateway").
  * Split the Blancco config.img extraction and preferences.xml deploy
    into separate tasks. The previous shell-with-creates: gate caused
    playbook re-runs to skip the prefs deploy entirely after first run.
  * Added a validation task that runs python3 xml parse + grep on the
    deployed preferences.xml to fail the playbook at deploy time if the
    SMB markers are missing.
  * Added Environment=TZ=America/New_York to the pxe-webapp systemd
    service so report mtimes and audit log render in Eastern time even
    if the Python process is started before timedatectl converges.

webapp:
  * services/blancco_report.py: parse Blancco's XML report format
    (recursive <entries name="..."> walker) into a friendly dict.
  * templates/report_view.html: Bootstrap "Drive Erasure Certificate"
    layout - hero summary, customer + system cards, per-drive cards with
    step-by-step erasure timeline, document signing footer with
    integrity hash detail.
  * /reports/view/<filename> route + View button on the reports list
    (XML reports only; PDFs still download).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-05-13 07:38:54 -04:00

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