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>
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