Comments asserting a partner is down, being rebuilt or not yet installed are true on the day they are written and wrong afterwards, and nothing prompts anyone to revisit them. Behaviour is described generically; current state belongs in operator memory, not in tracked files.
A fresh install reproduced the single lump folder because Step 12 only ever called fallback_folder.php; it now mirrors the owner's layout first and hands the fallback folder just what is left.
Step 1b ran the owner's SCRIPTS_ROOT path over SSH on the mirror, so it failed on every appdata install; the wizard poll expired at 5 minutes against a Phase 2 that takes over 4.
The lookup grepped for a quoted container name that appears in no Unraid template, so every offboard reported four WebUIs it could not reconfigure. The final sync counted a share synced whenever Tier 1 was on, ignoring rsync.sh's status entirely.
The scp reused the local absolute path on the remote, so an appdata-mode mirror never received it, and nothing wrote the mirror's own state file at all — a fully onboarded mirror rendered as having no partnership.
grep -v > tmp && mv keeps the temp file's umask mode, so an offboard left authorized_keys 0666 and sshd StrictModes silently refused every key in it — including the one the next onboard installs.
A previous offboard blocklists the mirror and rsync.sh refuses blocklisted hosts, so on a re-onboard Step 1e was being refused and the auth stack would have deployed against empty directories.
Onboard now ends at Phase 2: connected, running, and saying so. Phase 3 sets the seeding gate posture and dispatches the seed. With MEDIA_SEED_ENABLED false there is no Phase 3 and the model is two phases.
Deploying first meant Authelia, Lldap, NPM and both databases initialised themselves against empty directories. The gate arming moves to Step 1d for the same reason: the provisioning sync is an rsync, and Tier 1 stops every rsync. Tier 2 now ends the onboard off rather than as-found.
Step 1 printed 'Rsync stopped' over a file-not-found, and the closing block asserted a clean separation and a synced auth config regardless of what happened.
A first seed is ~28 TB behind a 12.5 MB/s bwlimit, and it ran inline as Step 9d, so the
phase-2 flag every status reader depends on was written only after it finished.
Phase 1 exists to hand the partner its identity before the install, but the push refused any
host without varaverk.cfg — so the conf could only ever reach a node that no longer needed it
to be told who it was. It now resolves the remote's conf directory across both install layouts
and creates the internal one when neither exists.
Finishes the pass: every script now documents its safeguards, and the deliberate absences
in the sourced libraries are recorded so they are not "corrected" later.
Codebase-wide audit pass: fixed real bugs (SSH hangs missing BatchMode,
local-outside-function no-ops, variable name collisions, a truncated
ratio calc, wrong state-dir path, DARK vs NO_INTERNET drift, and more),
then pulled logic that was duplicated across multiple scripts — arr
cleanup safety gates, docker restart ordering, container maintenance
stop/restart, watchdog state-file helpers, partnership role resolution,
cert expiry checks, remote node discovery, and TMDB discovery scoring —
into common.sh so each now has a single implementation.
Same audit as the orchestrator standardization pass (2a062e5), extended to
every remaining script. Found the same class of bug independently recurring:
ramdisk_stop.sh checked $LOG (nothing assigns it, should be $ENABLE_LOGGING),
partnership_onboard.sh checked $LOG_MODE (same issue), emby_session_report.sh
checked $TRANSCODE_PCT which was never computed so the high-transcode alert
could never fire, and storage_migrate.sh never called detect_hosts() so
$MY_ID was empty, silently breaking the post-migration host*.conf update.
partnership_manager.sh used `local` at top-level script scope (invalid outside
a function) and had two master.conf path references missing "Configurations/".
Along the way: several scripts (share_setup.sh, conf_sync.sh,
downloaders_reset.sh, transcode_cleanup.sh, transcode_manager.sh,
remote_arr_cache_writer.sh, upgrade_webhook_handler.sh) had no explicit
trailing exit code, so they always reported success regardless of real
failures. play_state_sync.sh was missing the partnership gate its own header
documented, so remote play-state sync ran even with PARTNERSHIP_ENABLED=false;
it also always exited 0 on sync errors. arr_profile_enforcer.sh and
webhook_setup.sh hand-rolled their own flag parsing instead of common.sh's
parse_args, so --log silently did nothing on either.
system_watchdog.sh was itself an un-standardized mini-orchestrator — converted
to the shared run_orch_child()/JOB_PASS/JOB_FAIL pattern, added the missing
failure notification, and fixed dry-run to pass --dry-run down to children
instead of skipping them outright. Also fixed a stale webgui_watchdog.sh path
in master.conf.template that would break system_watchdog.sh on any fresh
install.
Closed a sibling-drift gap: radarr_cleanup.sh and sonarr_cleanup.sh were
missing lidarr_cleanup.sh's tracked-count percentage-drop safety gate and its
"not configured on this host, skip cleanly" guard — both now match Lidarr's
7-gate model.
Unraid API returns fsUsed=0 when a disk's filesystem is unmounted (spun
down). disks.ini keeps the last-known value in KB even after spindown —
use it as fallback when isSpinning=false and fsUsed=0. Also remove the
mounted-only guard in the ini fallback path (vv_disk_entry) for the same
reason. Stale comments in user_script_plug-in.sh and partnership_manager.sh
also cleaned up.
Media/ now holds only media-level scripts (cleaner, permissions, play_state_sync).
All arr management scripts (cleanup, discovery, sync, webhooks, release fixer) live in Arrs_Stack/.
All state/data file paths in scripts and PHP now resolve via STATE_DIR / DATA_DIR /
PERSISTENT_CONF_CACHE instead of hardcoded /boot/config/ or /tmp/ paths, so the
ecosystem works in both internal and appdata storage modes.
PHP layer (watchdog.php, partnership.php, fallback.php, monitor.php, snapshot.php,
config.php): all state reads switched to STATE_DIR constant; remote state reads use
the new vv_remote_state_cmd() helper which resolves the remote's SCRIPTS_DIR via
their varaverk.cfg before building the path.
conf_sync.sh: fixed SCRIPTS_ROOT → SCRIPTS_DIR bug on MY_CONF path; added
_remote_scripts_dir() to resolve partner's SCRIPTS_DIR before SCP pull.
fallback.php page: added controls card (PARTNERSHIP_ENABLED, FALLBACK_ENABLED,
FALLBACK_RSYNC_ENABLED toggles), status grid, and settings card.
README and Manual updated for System_Essentials, Watchdogs, Fallback, Rsync,
Media, Monitors, Orchestrators, Partnership: added new scripts (conf_sync,
conf_cache_save/restore, conf_cache_watchdog, play_state_sync, start_webhook_listener,
upgrade_webhook_handler), corrected all stale /boot/config/ state file paths to
$STATE_DIR/$DATA_DIR, noted webgui/php_fpm/mover/user_scripts scripts moved to
Plugin/unraid/System_Essentials, fixed start_webhook_listener.sh header (Node.js,
not PHP -S).
All FALLBACK_${MY_ID}_COVERS_${REMOTE_ID}_TIER* references updated to
FALLBACK_${REMOTE_ID}_TIER* across fallback_test.sh, partnership_manager.sh,
docker_update.sh, mesh_monitor.sh, and monitor.php. mesh_monitor.sh drops
the inner covering-host loop — tier data now lives in the covered host's own
conf so no cross-host scan is needed. monitor.php reads from the covered
host's conf file rather than the local host's.
Web files now served via symlink to the git repo so git pull changes survive
reboots without rebuilding the txz. Also includes: docker pull/rebuild/restart
with live log streaming, arr_profile_enforcer for Sonarr/Radarr quality
profiles, monitor page cache fix (background writer now in cron), and
ARR_KIDS/SONARR/RADARR profile name vars in master.conf.
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