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>
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>
1. FIPS auto-activate at server startup only fires if fips_key already
exists on disk, which on a fresh install is never true until AFTER
onboarding. By the time the user completes seed-generate/restore,
archipelago has been running for minutes and the startup task has
long since exited. User still had to hit Activate.
Fix: call spawn_post_onboarding_fips_activate() from the tail of
handle_seed_generate and handle_seed_restore — the moment the
fips_key materialises, a detached task runs `fips::config::install`
+ `archipelago-fips.service activate`. Logged only, never blocks
the onboarding RPC.
2. Kiosk health-poll window was 30 × 2s (configs/ copy was 60 × 2s
but unused — the heredoc in build-auto-installer-iso.sh is what
actually lands on disk). On .198's slower hardware archipelago
/health wasn't ready within 60s, so Chromium launched against a
not-yet-running backend → blank window until manual reboot. Bumped
to 150 × 2s (5 min) + TimeoutStartSec=360. .253 was already well
within the window; this protects the slower box too. Standalone
configs/archipelago-kiosk.service updated in lockstep so the two
copies don't drift.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
1. nostr-vpn still failing despite last mask attempt — confirmed in
the 6th ISO's rootfs.tar: the .service file was present but
not in multi-user.target.wants. Previous `systemctl mask` silently
no-oped because the real file was already there. Fixed properly
with explicit `rm -f` + `ln -sf /dev/null` for nostr-vpn,
archipelago-wg, and archipelago-wg-address — same /dev/null
symlink state that `mask` would produce on a clean install.
2. Kiosk didn't come up on first boot, only on reboot. Extended the
ExecStartPre health-poll from 30s → 120s (unbundled ISO takes
longer to settle on first boot: archipelago initializes state,
pulls FileBrowser, frontend settles), raised TimeoutStartSec to
180s, and added After=systemd-user-sessions.service +
After=network-online.target so X / Chromium aren't racing.
3. /init: line 29: can't create /root/etc/network/interfaces error
on installer boot — debootstrap --variant=minbase omits ifupdown
so the target has no /etc/network/ directory, and live-boot's
init tries to seed it. Non-fatal but noisy. Added ifupdown +
isc-dhcp-client to the debootstrap --include list.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Added new dependencies: `adler2`, `crc32fast`, `flate2`, `miniz_oxide`, and `libredox`.
- Updated existing dependencies: `tokio-rustls` to version 0.26.4 and `filetime` to version 0.2.27.
- Removed the `backup.rs` file as it is no longer needed.
- Introduced tests for configuration and credential management.
- Enhanced the `identity` module to generate W3C compliant DID documents.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>