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>
UI (this session):
- Global audio player now scales the whole interface into the space above it
on desktop (sidebar + main) and docks directly above the tab bar on mobile;
it stays visible while navigating.
- Mesh mobile redesign: floating Chat / BTC / Dead Man / AI / Map tab strip
with a single fixed, internally-scrolling pane (page no longer scrolls);
tabs hide while a conversation is open; floating back button; collapsible
Device panel (starts collapsed); keyboard-aware conversation sizing via
VisualViewport so the chat sits just above the keyboard.
- Cloud file grid: uniform 4/3 card heights (folders + images match).
- Swipe left/right switches tabs on the Apps and Web5 screens.
- Map tool fills its pane (no bottom gap); fix skewed Share Location toggle
on mobile (global min-height rule was deforming the switch).
- Trim redundant helper copy from the mesh AI tab.
Also bundles pre-existing in-progress work that was already in the tree:
mesh listener/session + wallet + container + bitcoin-status backend changes,
docker UI updates, and assorted other UI tweaks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sizes bitcoind -dbcache to host RAM (~1/16, floor 300MB, cap 4096) instead of a
fixed 2048/4096. A multi-GB UTXO cache on an 8GB node running the full app stack
pushed memory past physical RAM and triggered system-wide swap thrash: the disk
saturated, bitcoind could not answer its own RPC, and the dashboard backend's
sqlite reads stalled — surfacing as fleet-wide /rpc/v1 502s and a blank Bitcoin
UI. Applied in scripts/container-specs.sh (reconciler path) and the config.rs
bitcoin-core path.
Bitcoin status cache now polls every 5s (was 10/15) with an 8s timeout (was 20s)
and fetches the four RPCs concurrently, so the cached snapshot tracks bitcoind's
responsive windows during IBD and the UI stops dwelling on "reconnecting...".
Unifies the divergent discover AppGrid/FeaturedApps image-error handlers onto the
canonical placeholder fallback so missing app icons render the placeholder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 3a of the install path consolidation. Two coupled changes:
1. install.rs handle_package_install: gate the legacy "container exists →
adopt + return" probe on !orchestrator_managed. Apps the orchestrator
knows about (bitcoin-knots, bitcoin-core, lnd, electrumx, fedimint,
filebrowser, btcpay-server stack apps, mempool stack apps, plus the
companion UIs that just moved to Quadlet) skip the legacy probe and
fall straight into the orchestrator branch.
The legacy adopt block was returning success on a bare `podman start`
exit-0 — even when the process inside the container crashed seconds
later. That's the .228 "running but unreachable" failure mode. The
orchestrator's ensure_running honors the manifest's health check and
pre-start hooks (e.g. re-renders bitcoin-ui's nginx.conf if the RPC
password rotated), so this is a behavioral upgrade, not just a
refactor.
2. ProdContainerOrchestrator::install: make idempotent. Previously it
blindly called install_fresh which would fail on `podman create` if
the container name already existed. Now it delegates to ensure_running:
- Container Running + healthy → no-op (refresh hooks, restart if
config rewritten)
- Container Stopped/Exited → start (with hook refresh)
- Container missing → install_fresh
- Container in wedged state (Created/Paused/Unknown) → force-recreate
Without this, change #1 would regress every "container already exists"
case for the 18 orchestrator-managed app IDs. With it, install becomes
the single source of truth for "make app X be in the desired state."
Tests: 654 passed across the workspace (614 unit + 37 orchestration + 3
rpc), 0 failures. The 20 prod_orchestrator tests cover the install /
ensure_running / reconcile paths the new install delegates through.
Net delta: install.rs grows by ~30 lines (gating wrapper + comments),
prod_orchestrator.rs grows by ~30 lines (idempotent install body). Both
are temporary — the larger deletions (~1700 lines) come once every app
has been verified through the orchestrator path in subsequent phases.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
