The media jobs row I just added formats durations with _dur(), which the rsync
page defines locally and js/varaverk.js does not export at all. The reference
threw inside _render(), the fetch's catch reported it as "Error loading arrs
status", and the whole page went blank — nothing to do with the API, which was
returning valid JSON throughout.
play_state_sync, media_shares_permissions and media_cleaner work on the same
files the arrs manage and were visible only by opening the Scheduler and reading
an orchestrator's log. Readable at all because run_orch_child() now writes a run
record and a per-script log for its children — this could not have been written
yesterday. Each card shows the sentence the script itself ended on rather than a
count re-derived here, since the three word their outcome differently and the
wording is the part worth reading.
The arr cleanups are entries in DAILY_MAINTENANCE_SCRIPTS, which the orchestrator
invokes with plain bash, so they never get the run record the primary parse needs
— every payload has come from the daily aggregate db. That path read every column
except the byte counts, leaving orphans_sz at its "0B" default, which is
invisible at zero orphans and would have read "12 orphans (0B)" the first time
there were any. 'total' had no source there and no reader anywhere, so it is gone.
Arr Sync now reads "disabled" rather than "never run" when its switch is off.
Health messages go straight from each arr's API into innerHTML and quote things
nobody here controls — indexer names from Prowlarr, import-list names, release
titles. The page used no escaping at all. _sz() was also binary while labelling
its output TB, so /tv read 86.9 TB here and 95.6 TB on every other tab; it has
one caller and that caller is disk capacity, so it now matches the rest.
Retyping two paths and nine checkboxes correctly every time is where the
mistakes come from, and "one-off" described how a transfer is scheduled rather
than how often it is run. Pinned entries are exempt from the rotation — the
command used twice a year is both the most worth keeping and the first that ten
ordinary runs evict. Stored server-side, so the list is there from any screen,
and loading one fills the form and stops rather than running it.
The preview ended in the literal text "…src host:dst", so the one thing worth
checking before pressing Run — the real source and destination, and which of
them has the trailing slash — was the one thing never shown. --delete sat
unmarked among nine checkboxes with no confirmation on a card that can remove
data on the far host. Confirm fires only for --delete without --dry-run, so it
stays worth reading.
last_sync reads the maintenance orchestrators' run records, and those do git
pull, permissions, cleaners and docker updates on schedule whether or not the
global gate is open — so the page reported a healthy 56-minute "daily sync"
while nothing had transferred since 16 July. Both cards also compared status
against 'success' while being fed 'ok', so every clean run rendered in the
failure colour. Adds the assistant, scoped to the tab.
Every existing exemption lasts until someone remembers to undo it, and nobody
does — Healarr has sat in a pressure list since it was uninstalled and seven
ignore entries name containers that are gone. A mute states when it ends and
then ends, capped by WATCHDOG_MUTE_MAX_HOURS so temporary is enforced rather
than intended. Applied where IGNORE_MAP is built, so all five check sites
inherit it, and shown with its countdown because an invisible suppression is
the thing being fixed.
Without it the page renders zeros, all-clear pills and green dots when the
orchestrator has stopped entirely — its healthiest appearance describing a
machine with no watchdogs, against a header promising absence is never drawn as
an all-clear. The heartbeat already existed; overdue is measured against the
cron schedule rather than an assumed fifteen minutes.
Half the hard-pressure stop list is containers that are not installed, so at
level 3 it sheds half the memory the card implies. Badged on the lists where a
dead entry costs something and deliberately not on Scan ignore, where ignoring
something already gone is the point — a card of dashed pills by design would
teach the eye to skip the badge where it has to be believed.
A fourth candidate source beside the arrs, the system log and container logs:
skip-listed containers, strikes past their limit, repeated restarts, unattended
reboots and sustained pressure become findings. The kind is deliberately not
conf-bound, so it cannot autofix by construction rather than by a switch — and
WATCHDOG_SCAN_IGNORE suppresses it, so a knowingly broken container stays quiet.
First consumer AI_ASSIST_WATCHDOG has ever had.
Both the reader and the writer ran to the first closing paren, which is only the
array's own close if nothing inside contains one. HOST1_WATCHDOG_SCAN_IGNORE has
carried "(exit 127 — bad image)" for weeks: writes spliced into the middle of it
and were refused by bash -n with a bare false, and reads returned the entries
above it — the Rsync tab showed no intermediate scripts at all and 10 of 17
daily. Arrays now close on a ) that starts its own line, as confform already did.
It is the setting people arrive looking for — the one that takes a container out
of the watchdog's hands rather than tuning what it does with it. Its hint says
so, because it silences a real fault as readily as a noisy one.
Tier 1 limits, both pressure lists and Required get add, remove and adjust on
the page that shows what they did. Per-entry comments are carried through the
rebuild rather than regenerated — they hold the reason for every number.
The tab collected over SSH on every 30s poll — 8.3s a load with HOST2 down.
vv_parse_conf_scalar() captured to end of line, so a commented toggle parsed as
"true # HOST2 back online": every threshold read right because (int) stops at
the first non-digit, and 38 booleans read wrong. The Fallback tab has been
showing failover disabled while it was on.
The page states what struck but never why, and the log that would say is the
orchestrator's, not one per watchdog. Why? opens troubleshoot against it —
read-only, because the page's contract is that it changes nothing.
.vv-ai-chat transitions its height, so measuring the dock straight after setting
it returns the height it is animating away from — the view was cut short for a
dock that had already shrunk, leaving the difference as dead panel underneath.
The API mixes units per field — memory in bytes, disk size in KiB, fsSize and
fsUsed in kB — and one helper was guessing which from the magnitude of the
number, which also read any memory total under 100 GB as KB.
The detector answers no to "why is my array so slow", so claiming that meant a
question about the wider world would have answered it from general web pages.
A paragraph beside the rule did not shift it; the ready-made refusal was simply
the nearest thing to hand, so the correction goes next to the question instead.
Chat was told it could not look anything up, which is true of this machine and
false the moment a search succeeds, so it deflected while holding six sources.
The map documents 447 settings, so without this every question about where a
control lives earns a proposal that costs a dismissal and teaches nothing.
Only the array name was taken from the orchestrator; the enabled flag still came
from the first-match map, so every orchestrator showed the first list's state.
docker_update.sh runs bare in daily, --weekly in weekly and --remainder in
monthly, so switching it off in monthly disabled the daily run and reported
success.
An undefined variable reaching a by-reference array parameter is a TypeError
under PHP 8, so every save through this endpoint died before writing anything.
The comments above a setting already state its choices, units and bounds, so the
form can read them instead of asking for the file to be annotated first.