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 .plg hardcoded the flash path and runs every boot, so an appdata node served a stale copy that never receives pulls — fixes appeared to do nothing, indefinitely.
With nothing blocking but optional keys unfilled the banner rendered an empty string, so a finished onboard showed a blank panel beside a Join button still greyed at Running.
The phase-2 branch of the mirror panel returned the same Join partnership / Onboard block as the not-started state, so a finished onboard read as one that never ran.
The guard tested Tier 1 only, so onboard Step 1d's posture — Tier 1 open, every Tier 2 closed — made a healthy partner climb toward auto-offboard every 30 minutes. The counter holds intervals, not days, and was rendered raw.
HOST<n>_PHASE*_DONE only ever describe the mirror, so on the mirror the owner's card computed phase 0 and offered to onboard the host that had just onboarded it.
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.
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