Root cause of 'server starting up' forever / crash-on-install
(framework-pt, v1.7.114->115, 2026-07-26): on a node with many stacks,
the synchronous boot recovery (recover + start_stopped_containers) runs
BEFORE sd_notify(Ready), so the unit sits in 'activating' for minutes.
Anything touching the service in that window — a superseding
start/restart, an install-time reconcile churn — killed a half-started
instance; it exits 0 on SIGTERM and Restart=on-failure then never
restarts it. Node dead behind 'server starting up'.
Fixes:
- signal READY (+ start the watchdog keepalive) BEFORE boot recovery, so
the unit reaches 'active' in seconds; recovery/reconcile/listener
continue after. No more minutes-long activating window.
- Restart=always (was on-failure): a clean-exit SIGTERM must still bring
the daemon back. Manual is still honored.
- OTA restart via a PID1-owned transient timer (systemd-run --on-active=2)
instead of a tokio-sleep child of the process being stopped, whose
start-half was being lost.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- scripts/build-iso-release.sh: single gated command from signed release
to tested ISO (preflight version/signature parity, release gate harness,
strict catalog drift, full Rust suite, artifact version checks, build,
mount smoke, best-effort QEMU boot)
- scripts/iso-smoke-test.sh: standalone mount-level ISO verification incl.
stale-binary version assertion inside the payload
- .gitea/workflows/build-iso.yml: resurrected ISO CI as dispatch-only job
calling the gated orchestrator (old one was stranded in _archived/)
- tests/release/run.sh: catalog drift now runs --strict (was silently
always-pass)
- test-iso-qemu.sh: headless mode used -append without -kernel, which
QEMU rejects; use -display none so -serial file: capture works
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phones on the FIPS mesh reach the node at http://[<fips0 ULA>], but every
shipped nginx config listened on IPv4 only — nothing answered [::]:80/443,
so mesh HTTP failed with the tunnel fully healthy (found live on
framework-pt during the vc24 5G session, 2026-07-23). Canonical conf gains
listen [::] lines and patch_nginx_conf self-heals deployed nodes (covers
the sites-enabled -> archipelago-http dev variant via the existing
canonicalize pass); validated by the existing nginx -t + rollback flow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- archipelago-gamepad-keys: evdev->uinput daemon (pure python3 stdlib) that
mirrors any attached controller as a virtual keyboard — D-pad/stick to
arrows, A/B to Enter/Escape, X/Y to Space/f, shoulders to Tab/Shift+Tab.
The browser sees real keys, so controllers work inside EVERY app iframe
(IndeeHub, Jellyfin…) with zero per-app code. Ships via the ISO splice and
bootstrap self-heal (kiosk nodes only), hotplug via 5s rescans.
Implements docs/tv-input-iframe-apps.md.
- useControllerNav: an open [role=dialog][aria-modal] owns navigation —
focus is pulled inside, arrows move spatially between its controls, Enter
activates, Escape stays with the modal's own close handling. One standard
mapping for every modal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
--enable-features=OverlayScrollbar gives the thin auto-hiding scrollbars a
remote browser shows (Peers view had a permanent classic scrollbar on the
TV). Rides the existing kiosk self-heal + ISO splice.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause of silent HDMI on kiosk TVs (framework-pt, LG TV):
1) fresh ISOs installed NO audio stack even though the kiosk launcher
expects PipeWire-Pulse — add pipewire/pipewire-pulse/pipewire-alsa/
wireplumber/alsa-utils to the rootfs and put the archipelago user in
'audio' (linger user manager gets no logind seat ACLs on /dev/snd);
2) the kiosk's boot-time Xorg modeset races the i915→HDA audio-component
bind, the ELD notify is lost, and every HDMI profile stays
'available: no' forever. Verified live: one off/on modeset re-delivers
the ELD and WirePlumber immediately switches to HDMI.
New archipelago-audio-router daemon (same splice-from-configs pattern as
the kiosk, ISO + include_str! self-heal): routes the card to the best
available HDMI profile, keeps the default sink on it, migrates live
streams on hot-plug, unmutes (HDMI forced 100% — the TV owns volume), and
re-modesets a connected external output once when no ELD reports a
monitor. bootstrap::ensure_audio_stack() installs packages + router on
already-deployed kiosk nodes via OTA (apt through systemd-run — the
service sandbox keeps /usr and dpkg read-only). main.rs also spawns the
pine satellite keeper.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The mesh listener spawns /usr/local/bin/archy-reticulum-daemon for
Reticulum sticks, but the ISO never shipped it (framework-pt connected
its RNode only after a hand-copy, 2026-07-22). Bundled from the build
host with a loud warning when absent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- GET /api/pine/status: public tier (version/uptime/bitcoin/mesh facts) for
the Pine page; bearer-token tier (Lightning balances, latest mesh message)
for the seeded Home Assistant sensors. Token minted 0600 at
secrets/pine-status-token; nginx location ships via the bootstrap
self-heal + canonical ISO conf. Replaces the per-node socat forwarder and
bitcoind RPC credentials living in HA's configuration.yaml.
- pine_ha seeder: REST sensors + four ask-Archy intents (block height,
peers, sync %, Lightning balance) with LLM tool descriptions; Claude
conversation agent (anthropic entry from the node's claude-api-key) set as
pipeline default with prefer_local_intents so exact phrases stay local and
fuzzy ones tool-route through Claude; mesh-message announce automation on
every Assist satellite; bounded config markers with legacy-block migration.
- pine-openwakeword joins the pine stack (all lifecycle sites) — on-node
wake-word engine groundwork for the custom "Yo Archy" model.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The kiosk image ships no color-emoji font, so the wallet card's 🥜 and ⚓
drew as empty squares on TVs. Swap them for inline stroke SVGs matching
the neighbouring rows (wallet card + scan modal), and add
fonts-noto-color-emoji to the ISO package set so remaining emoji across
the UI (peer files, chat, content) render on future installs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The kiosk window was sized in physical pixels, but Chromium interprets
--window-size in DIPs: with any device-scale > 1 the window painted
scale-times larger than the panel, and with no window manager in the
kiosk X session --kiosk/--start-fullscreen could not snap it back. On a
4K TV at scale 3 that meant an 11520x6480 window — 9x the panel area —
which blew the compositor tile-memory budget ("tile memory limits
exceeded, some content may not draw") and froze the screen on the last
painted frame; smaller scales cropped content off the right/bottom.
- Size the window in DIPs (panel / scale) so DIPs x scale = the panel.
- Panels >=2560 wide now target a 1920-wide layout (4K -> scale 2.0,
validated on the Framework's 72" 4K TV: spacious desktop layout at 2x
sharpness); smaller panels keep the 1280 target (1080p TV -> 1.5).
- Optional ARCHIPELAGO_KIOSK_MAX_WIDTH cap: drop to the best <=N-wide
xrandr mode for weak hardware (TV upscales instead of us rasterizing).
- Source /etc/archipelago/kiosk-display.conf so the upcoming Settings
display-resolution picker can manage these knobs per node.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three fresh-install kiosk issues found on a Framework node:
- MOTD said 'Ctrl+Alt+F7 for kiosk' / 'F1 for terminal', but the kiosk's
Xorg runs on vt1 — so F7 was an empty black VT (the reported black screen
and the failed 'return to kiosk'). Corrected: kiosk=F1, terminal=F2.
- The UTF-8 block-glyph logo corrupted intermittently because returning from
the kiosk can leave the console VT out of UTF-8 mode; force it with ESC%G.
- A short power-button press shut the node down instantly. Ignore the short
press, keep long-press poweroff, so accidental brushes don't kill the node.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
AIUI themes via @media (prefers-color-scheme) and falls back to its light
variant (white panels) when the browser reports no preference — which the
minimal kiosk X session does, so AIUI came up light instead of its designed
dark. The main UI hardcodes dark and is unaffected. Push two independent
dark signals on the kiosk Chromium: GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark (version-
independent, can never force light) and --blink-settings=preferredColorScheme=0
(0 = kDark in modern Chromium). Needs on-device kiosk verification.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The relay image was rebuilt to the standard nostr-rs-relay layout — WORKDIR
/usr/src/app, execs ./nostr-rs-relay — but the build still cp'd from the old
/usr/local/bin path, so extraction silently produced nothing. Once the
missing-binary guard was added, that silent miss became a hard build
failure. Verified the binary is a valid amd64 ELF (GLIBC 2.34, under Debian
13's 2.40) at /usr/src/app/nostr-rs-relay.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ISO build hard-failed at 'Required binaries not extracted: nvpn'
because it still pulled 146.59.87.168:3000/lfg2025/nostr-vpn:v0.3.7 — an
image that was deleted from the registry when NostrVPN was removed from
the product. The native nvpn daemon is already masked here (ln -sf
/dev/null nostr-vpn.service) and is never spawned at runtime (core vpn.rs
manages WireGuard/Tailscale, only reading a legacy nvpn config as
fallback), so extracting its binary was dead weight that bricked every
build once the image went away.
Drop the nvpn extraction and remove it from the missing-binary guard.
nostr-rs-relay stays required — its nostr-relay unit is still enabled and
the image still pulls. Change is in STEP 3, so the cached rootfs is
unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ISO built FIPS from an unpinned --depth 1 clone of upstream main, so
every build shipped whatever happened to be on main that day. Pin to
v0.4.1 via a FIPS_VERSION build arg — the version fips/config.rs renders
its typed config against, and the one validated in the field on .198 and
the thinkpad. The pin lands inside the STEP 1 recipe-hash range, so the
cached rootfs correctly invalidates on the next build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Backend: tor.list-services now hides services whose name maps to a
known-but-uninstalled catalog app (aliases covered: bitcoin/knots/core,
electrumx/electrs, btcpay, mempool). The node's own service, the relay,
and custom user services always show.
ISO: first-boot tor setup no longer pre-creates hidden services for six
apps that may never be installed — only the node's own onion is baked.
It also only seeds services.json/torrc on FIRST boot instead of
clobbering backend-managed services on every boot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
v1.7.104 shipped ISOs whose units crash-looped (nostr-relay 3s loop,
archipelago-diag 203/EXEC) because build-time extraction failures were mere
warnings and the cached rootfs never tracked its recipe:
- hash the rootfs-defining region of the build script and rebuild when it
changes (stale cache shipped ISOs without wpasupplicant/iw/rfkill)
- refuse to build without nvpn / nostr-rs-relay unless
ALLOW_MISSING_VPN_BINARIES=1
- ConditionPathExists on nostr-relay/nostr-vpn/diag units so a stripped
image skips them instead of crash-looping
- post-install test: every enabled archipelago*/nostr* unit must have an
existing ExecStart payload
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
.198 crash-looped 236x on a truncated OTA binary with a good backup
sitting in update-backup/ — verify_pending_update() can't help when
the new binary never runs. New scripts/ota-crash-guard.sh runs as
root from ExecStartPre: while the post-OTA pending-verify marker
exists it counts start attempts, and after 5 failures restores the
backup binary (atomic rename), replaces the marker with an
update-rolled-back.json tombstone, and lets the service come back
on the previous version.
Wiring: fresh ISOs get the ExecStartPre line in the unit file;
existing nodes get a drop-in installed by apply_update's runtime
component step on their next OTA. '+-' prefix so a missing or
failing guard can never block the service.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bundling fmcd for offline installs (6dcdada3) shipped the raw
uncompressed podman save tar and grew the ISO ~220MB (2.3G -> 2.5G in
RC6-RC9). Save the core bundle as .tar.zst instead — podman load
auto-detects compression, verified locally against the RC9 fmcd.tar
(228M -> 65M, loads cleanly into rootless storage). The first-boot
loader and installer copy globs now pick up .tar.zst too.
Also trims the installer's USB->disk image copy and first-boot load
time on fresh installs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Chromium's SingletonLock is a symlink encoding <hostname>-<pid>. After a
node rename changes the OS hostname, the lock left from the previous
boot reads as "another computer" holding the profile; Chromium refuses
to start, --noerrdialogs hides the only dialog, and the kiosk
black-screens forever.
Two layers:
- kiosk launcher removes Singleton{Lock,Cookie,Socket} before every
Chromium start (any prior owner is dead at that point — pkill at
session start / loop respawn). Ships via ISO splice AND the binary's
include_str! self-heal, so existing nodes get it with the next OTA.
- the rename handler clears the lock immediately as a hostname
side-effect, covering nodes still running a pre-fix launcher.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The 454c4bb2 kiosk flattening only covered the Dashboard's background
stack, but the kiosk boots into the login/onboarding screen —
OnboardingWrapper.vue — whose scoped 3D stack (perspective +
preserve-3d bg layers + mix-blend-mode glitch overlays) has the exact
compositing pattern that fails to repaint under the kiosk's software
compositor, leaving the black body fill visible. Extend the same
html.kiosk-mode flattening to this screen via :global() rules: 2D
opacity crossfades stay, 3D transforms / blur filters / blend-mode
glitch layers go.
Also raise the kiosk chromium JS heap cap 128→256MB: the intro
cinematic (video + audio + app) inside a 128MB V8 old-space risks
renderer OOM, and a crashed kiosk tab auto-reloads — indistinguishable
from the reported "flickers and refreshes".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rebuilds of the same version overwrote the previous ISO under an
identical filename, making a flashed stick indistinguishable from a
newer build. The builder now keeps a per-version RC counter (next to
the build counter) and names outputs like
archipelago-installer-1.7.101-alpha-unbundled-x86_64_RC2.iso.
Override with RC=n env when re-cutting a specific candidate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fresh offline installs came up without fedimint-clientd and filebrowser
(they only appeared after connecting internet). Three root causes:
- archipelago-load-images.service ran 'podman load' as root, but every
container runs rootless as archipelago — bundled images landed in
root's storage where the rootless runtime can't see them, so all
container creation silently depended on registry pulls. The loader now
loads into the archipelago user's storage (with linger + runtime-dir
wait + system migrate).
- The unbundled ISO bundled only filebrowser.tar; fmcd (fedimint-clientd)
is a baseline first-boot app too and is now part of the unbundled core
bundle.
- first-boot's pull_with_fallback always hit the network; it now uses an
already-loaded local image first and skips the pull entirely.
Also: fedimint-clientd added to the UI's hardcoded curated-app fallback
list (it was missing when all catalog fetches fail offline), plus its
INSTALLED_ALIASES entry, and the stale fmcd bundling comment in
image-versions.sh corrected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The unit's ExecStartPre baked the first hostname -I token into
host-ip.env, which config.rs prefers over its own detection — once a
VPN/bridge interface existed (netbird's wg tunnel), every host_ip
consumer (install configs, VPN, mint URLs) got the tunnel IP. Read the
main-table default route's src address instead, falling back to
hostname -I on routeless hosts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fresh ISO installs had ZERO disk manifests: auto-install.sh copied
apps/ to /etc/archipelago/apps but the backend/orchestrator loads
/opt/archipelago/apps — so any app not overlaid by the signed catalog
(netbird: 'manifests not available on this node') could never install.
- installer now also populates /mnt/target/opt/archipelago/apps
- bootstrap gains run_apps_dir_repair(): when /opt/archipelago/apps is
empty and the installer copy exists, populate it at startup — heals
already-deployed ISO nodes via OTA without reinstalling
- bootstrap's bitcoin.conf repair now also ensures rpcbind=0.0.0.0
(same fix as install.rs; duplicate rpcbind with a manifest command
line is harmless — bitcoind binds the first and logs the rest)
Verified live on the framework node: /opt populated (56 dirs), backend
restart loaded '50 app manifest(s) (disk + registry catalog)', all
containers kept running (they live in user.slice, not the service
cgroup).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
484.kitchen, Arch Presentation, Call the Operator, Next Web News
Network, Syntropy Institute, and T-0 were hardcoded web-only bookmark
apps (no manifests/containers). Removed across the frontend app grid /
curated / marketplace / session / launcher data, the backend
AppMetadata table, their icons, and the nginx /ext/ proxy blocks
(external-app-proxies.conf deleted — nothing installed it anymore).
botfights/nostrudel/gitea keep the shared external-app code paths.
Frontend: vue-tsc clean, 672 tests pass, production build verified
clean of the removed slugs. Backend: cargo check clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ISO's rootfs tar is a cached build artifact (currently 2026-04-20) and
its baked-in archipelago.service predates the B17 fix — no
RequiresMountsFor=/var/lib/archipelago — while auto-install.sh only copied
the configs/ unit when the rootfs had none. Every fresh install therefore
raced the LUKS data mount on cold boot and looped
'[FAILED] Failed to start archipelago.service' for minutes (seen on the
1.7.99-alpha ISO).
Ship configs/archipelago.service on the ISO at archipelago/configs/ and
make the installer overwrite the rootfs copy unconditionally. Also add
RequiresMountsFor to the legacy install-to-disk.sh inline unit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The X250 symptom was the UI rendered at a hardcoded 1920x1080 and clipped
on the 1366x768 panel (fixed in 7e996d6), not eDP corruption. Keep RC2
minimal: no speculative kernel params.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ThinkPad X250 (Broadwell HD 5500) internal panels show horizontal corruption
bands at the kiosk; known i915 eDP power-feature issue. Boot installed and
live systems with i915.enable_ips=0 enable_psr=0 enable_fbc=0 (no-ops off
Intel, nothing lost on a kiosk). Debug boot entries stay stock for A/B.
Also size the Chromium kiosk window from the detected mode instead of a
hardcoded 1920x1080 that clips on 1366x768 panels.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The insecure-registry config was written to /etc unconditionally; as the
archipelago build user the redirection fails and set -e aborts check_tools
before Step 1. Write to the rootless podman per-user config dir when not
root, tolerate failure (nodes may already carry the config), and drop the
duplicated 146.59.87.168:3000 entry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
b8002885 moved the archived builder's repo-root refs to ../../ (correct for
direct _archived/ execution) but the wrapper pins SCRIPT_DIR to image-recipe/
and only rewrote the ../../scripts form. core, neode-ui, docker, apps, demo,
web and the $(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/../..") expressions all resolved one level
above the repo, so wrapper builds ran with an empty BUILD_VERSION and would
have failed at the backend/web-UI steps. Rewrite the ../../ prefix generically.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Kiosk (backgrounds + FIPS mismatch, one root cause each):
- kiosk service now also waits for the web-ui asset swap (probes a large
bg asset, bounded 60s) — it launched mid-rsync and CSS background 404s
are never refetched, hence blank backgrounds on first boot
- FipsNetworkCard polls every 15s instead of fetching once on mount
- PWA updates auto-apply on the kiosk (localStorage kiosk flag) — an
unattended kiosk could never click 'Update Now' and ran stale bundles
LND App Store:
- catalog icon pointed at lnd.svg which doesn't exist (lnd.png does);
store card also retries the sibling extension before the placeholder
- image pulls retry once after fast transient failures (<30s) — fresh
first-boot networks reset connections; slow failures aren't retried
so the UI never waits longer than before
Mesh detection:
- mesh.status now always reports device_present + detected_devices
(previously only when the service wasn't running, so the UI couldn't
tell 'no radio' from 'radio present, session connecting')
- Mesh page shows 'Mesh device detected' badge + 'Device detected —
connecting' status for present-but-not-connected radios
- the 99-mesh-radio.rules udev rule was never staged into the ISO tree
(installer searched for it and found nothing) — ship it at the media
root and install it from install-to-disk.sh too
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- image: create archipelago user with dialout so the backend can open
/dev/ttyUSB*/ttyACM* LoRa radios; doctor Fix 14 heals existing nodes
(verified live on the .65 RC install — device detected after the fix)
- Web5Federation.vue called nonexistent federation.list (Unknown method);
now uses federation.list-nodes + federation.list-pending-requests with
a last-seen-based online count
- sanitizer: let app-install dependency errors through — 'LND requires a
running Bitcoin node' was masked as 'Check server logs', so install
failures on fresh nodes looked random
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
BUILD_VERSION/EXPECTED_VERSION/LOCAL_RELEASE, the backend container build
context, and the neode-ui/web-dist/apps/demo/docker copies all resolved
one level short (image-recipe/ instead of the repo root), so the builder
never found the prebuilt binary and its container fallback died on
'COPY core ./core'. configs/ references were already correct.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- archipelago-first-boot-secrets.service regenerates the self-signed TLS
keypair (device hostname in SAN) and all SSH host keys on the installed
system's first boot, before ssh/nginx start — the squashfs bakes one
key set at build time, so every flashed device shared them (§F 🔴)
- staging-first swaps: a failed regeneration keeps the baked keys rather
than leaving the device keyless
- the builder now emits <iso>.sha256 next to the ISO, and
scripts/sign-iso-checksums.sh signs {artifact,sha256,size} as a JSON
doc with the release-root ceremony (verify: ceremony verify) (§F 🟠)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Conflict resolution: keep the branch's CPUQuota=200% (75% was the proven
cause of choppy HDMI audio — the file's own comment says so; the 75% on main
was an accidental regression bundled into an unrelated UI commit) and keep
main's newer MemoryMax=2800M/MemoryHigh=2200M tuning.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The tx1138 Gitea was retired as a release server 2026-06-13 and its registry
frontend is fully dead (500 on every /v2 manifest read, observed 2026-07-10).
Nothing may reference it anymore:
- registry.rs: no longer a default registry, no longer force-enabled on
load; saved configs are stripped of it on load (same one-time migration
treatment as the decommissioned Hetzner mirror), with a regression test.
- image_policy.rs: removed from TRUSTED_REGISTRIES — refs through the dead
host are now refused at the pull site (rejection test added).
- api/handler: dropped the legacy catalog-proxy fallback URL.
- .gitmodules: indeedhub submodule repointed to the OVH Gitea.
- scripts, image-recipe, app-catalog data, neode-ui strings, docs, and all
test fixtures repointed to 146.59.87.168:3000 (or neutral example hosts).
- image-versions.sh: ARCHY_REGISTRY_FALLBACK emptied (guarded consumers
skip it); reconcile-containers.sh candidate guard hardened.
The only remaining occurrences of the host string are the strip/reject
enforcement paths and their regression tests — the code that guarantees it
is never used again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes from real fresh-install feedback (Framework node .81) + its log bundle:
Backend:
- websocket: subscribe before initial snapshot — broadcasts in the gap were
silently lost, stranding clients on stale state until a hard refresh
(the "everything needs ctrl-r" bug: My Apps stuck Loading, App Store
stuck Checking, containers-scanned never arriving)
- crash recovery: check the crash marker BEFORE writing our own PID —
recovery had never run on any node (always saw its own PID and skipped);
PID-reuse guard via /proc cmdline
- boot status: pending-boot-starts registry (recovery, stack recovery,
reconciler, adoption) — scanner overlays queued-but-down apps as
Restarting instead of Stopped after a reboot; scanner-authored
Restarting resolves immediately on a settled scan (no transitional wedge)
- install deps: bounded wait (36x5s) when a dependency is installed but
still starting ("Waiting for Bitcoin to start…") instead of instant
rejection; dependency-gate rejections remove the optimistic entry (no
phantom Stopped tile) and surface as a notification
- seed backup: auth.setup persists the onboarding mnemonic as the
encrypted seed backup (reveal previously failed on EVERY node — nothing
ever wrote master_seed.enc); seed.restore stashes too; error sanitizer
lets seed/2FA errors through instead of "Check server logs"
- lnd: bitcoind.rpchost resolved from the running Bitcoin variant
(hardcoded bitcoin-knots broke Core nodes); manifest uses derived_env
- bitcoin status: clean human message for connection-reset/startup; raw
URLs + os-error chains no longer reach the app card
- fedimint-clientd: chown /var/lib/archipelago/fmcd to 1000:1000 (root-
created dir crash-looped the rootless container, EACCES) — first-boot
script + pre-start self-heal
- log volume (>1GB/day on a day-old node): journald caps drop-in (ISO +
bootstrap self-heal), bitcoind -printtoconsole=0 everywhere (90% of the
journal was IBD UpdateTip spam), tracing default debug→info
Frontend:
- Login: Enter advances to confirm field then submits; submit always
clickable with inline errors (was silently disabled on mismatch);
Restart Onboarding needs a confirming second click (the mismatch →
"onboarding restarted" trap)
- sync store: 30s state reconciliation + refetch on re-entrant connect;
20s containers-scanned escape hatch so Checking can never show forever;
fresh empty node reaches the real "no apps yet" state
- intro video: CRF20 re-encode (SSIM 0.988) + faststart — moov was at EOF
so playback needed the full 15MB first (the intro lag)
- backgrounds: 10 heaviest JPEGs → WebP q90 (9.4MB→6.6MB); 7 stayed JPEG
(WebP larger on noisy sources)
- Web5ConnectedNodes: drop unused template ref that failed vue-tsc -b
ISO/kiosk:
- nginx: /assets/ 404s no longer cached immutable for a year; HTTPS block
gained the missing /assets/ location (served index.html as images)
- kiosk: launcher/service spliced from configs/ at ISO build (stale
heredoc force-disabled GPU); MemoryHigh/Max 1200/1500→2200/2800M (kiosk
rode the reclaim throttle = the lag); firmware-intel-graphics +
firmware-amd-graphics (trixie split DMC blobs out of misc-nonfree)
Verified: cargo test 898/898 green, npm run build green with dist
contents confirmed (webp refs, lnd.png, faststart video, new strings).
Handover for ISO build + deploy: docs/HANDOVER-2026-07-02-iso-feedback.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Routes ALSA's "default" device through PulseAudio/PipeWire. Was a manual,
untracked fix living only on archy-x250-exp — a reprovision or fresh image
would silently lose it, same failure mode that already bit the GPU-flags
and CPUQuota fixes. Wired into deploy-to-target.sh (both the primary --live
path and the .198/.253 secondary-copy path) and deploy-tailscale.sh, mirroring
the existing 99-mesh-radio.rules udev sync pattern (diff-check, copy if changed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both had regressed back to the pre-2026-06-28-incident state: GPU_FLAGS used
--enable-gpu-rasterization on any node with a GPU, and CPUQuota was 75%.
On archy-x250-exp (Intel HD 5500 under X11) this spins a dedicated GPU
process at 55-92% CPU (falls back to software compositing anyway), and the
75% cgroup quota throttled the kiosk unit ~81% of the time (nr_throttled
4856/6005) — the exact CPU-starvation signature documented as the choppy-
audio root cause. Restores the validated fix: --in-process-gpu,
--num-raster-threads=1, GpuRasterization disabled via --disable-features,
CPUQuota=200%. Verified on archy-x250-exp: no separate gpu-process, throttling
dropped to ~3% (nr_throttled 14/503).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The launcher's sudo -u archipelago invocation set DISPLAY/HOME but not
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, so Chromium's audio backend couldn't find the PipeWire-Pulse
socket at /run/user/<uid>/pulse/native. It silently fell back to raw ALSA
"default", which also failed ("Connection refused"), producing no HDMI audio
at all with no visible error since --noerrdialogs suppresses it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- reticulum.rs: send_text_msg was lossy-UTF8-mangling binary CBOR control
envelopes (ReadReceipt etc.) before sending as LXMF text; base64-encode
with a marker instead, decoded losslessly on receive.
- typed_messages.rs: mesh.send-read-receipt fired automatically on every
chat view with no is_archy_peer gate, so viewing a message from a stock
(non-archy) LXMF peer auto-sent it an undecodable control envelope,
surfacing as garbage text right after whatever it just sent. Now a no-op
for non-archy peers.
- mesh/listener/mod.rs: RX_STALL_TIMEOUT was 300s and forced a full
auto-detect reconnect on any otherwise-healthy but quiet mesh link
(visible as "Connecting..." flapping); this also wiped Reticulum's
in-memory peer-address table every cycle, breaking messaging with peers
who hadn't re-announced in the window. Bumped to 1800s.
- reticulum.rs: persist the peer prefix/dest-hash/display-name table to
disk so a restart doesn't force every peer back to "Anonymous Peer"
until they re-announce.
- decode.rs/frames.rs: Meshcore was discarding the SNR its wire format
carries; wire it onto the peer record. Mesh.vue's signalBars() now falls
back to SNR-based bars when RSSI is unavailable (always true for
Meshcore); Reticulum has neither and correctly stays at 0/"no data".
- system/handlers.rs, dispatcher.rs: new system.get-hostname RPC + cert
regeneration (with a proper SAN) whenever server.set-name changes the
hostname, so HTTPS doesn't add a mismatch warning on top of the
self-signed one after a rename.
- AccountInfoSection.vue: surface the mDNS hostname + http/https links in
Settings (HTTPS needed for mic/camera secure-context features) — never
forced, both keep working.
- build-auto-installer-iso.sh: ship avahi-daemon so .local names actually
resolve on the LAN, and give the self-signed cert a real SAN instead of
a bare CN, both at image-build and install-time-fallback.
- Mesh.vue/MediaLightbox.vue/mesh-styles.css: mic/attach-stack no longer
closes on a plain hover-past; mesh images open in the shared lightbox
and have a real download button; lightbox close button moves to
bottom-center on mobile instead of under the status bar; mesh device
panel gets the same height/padding as its sibling tabs.
Verified: 108/108 mesh unit tests, deployed + confirmed healthy on
.116/.198/.228 (matching binary hash across all three), live Reticulum
messaging confirmed working end-to-end post-deploy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
configure_display picked whichever mode was already "active" on the HDMI
output, so if X ever booted cloned to the laptop panel's resolution it
would keep re-confirming that wrong mode forever instead of self-healing
to the display's native mode.
PyInstaller-based daemons (e.g. the Reticulum mesh daemon) self-extract
to /tmp on every launch and leak their extraction dir on abnormal exit;
combined with release-build staging dirs this exhausted the default cap
on .116 and silently broke Reticulum ("no space left on device" during
self-extraction, masquerading as a connect failure). Ship a tmp.mount.d
override (75% of RAM) in the installer image so fresh installs don't
inherit the same ceiling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The kiosk chromium pinned ~92% of a core (software-compositing spin from
--enable-gpu-rasterization on a GPU-less/headless node), saturating the machine
and starving the backend + container builds — it caused the .198 receive timeout
and the deploy storms.
- archipelago-kiosk.service: CPUQuota=75% + MemoryMax/High + Delegate, so a
runaway kiosk can never take the whole node down.
- archipelago-kiosk-launcher.sh: detect /dev/dri — use GPU rasterization only
when a GPU exists, else --disable-gpu (avoids the headless spin).
- bootstrap::ensure_kiosk_hardened: OTA self-heal that installs the updated
unit+launcher on already-deployed nodes, daemon-reloads, and only try-restarts
a *running* kiosk (never re-enables an operator-disabled one).
cargo check clean; launcher bash -n clean; unit syntax valid.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
