v1.27.0's fix worked exactly once per machine. Measured on drill-r50 from virgin, on the PUBLISHED v1.27.0, before anything was changed: cycle 1 recorded 'no' and freed :53; cycle 2 recorded 'yes' and left dnsmasq running on 0.0.0.0:53; cycle 3 refused, exit 1. Every box already in the field is at cycle 2, and a reinstall onto a machine that has had Felhom is cycle 2 by definition. Why cycle 2 says yes: the preflight's ownership question is dpkg-query package presence and nothing else - not the absence of a record. Stopping the unit and leaving the package made our own package read as the household's one cycle later. Now the uninstall removes the package when the record says we installed it. Order unchanged and load-bearing: read the record, act, then delete the state file that holds it. TWO packages are recorded, because dnsmasq ships the unit and dnsmasq-base ships /usr/sbin/dnsmasq, and each is taken back only if we added it. The dependency check is a SIMULATION, not a guess: apt-get -s purge is asked what it would remove and the purge proceeds only if that set is a subset of ours; otherwise stop+disable, naming the package that blocked it. Never interactive, never fatal, and the success is re-queried rather than read off an exit code. Watched: three fixed cycles -> install 3 PASSES; a household resolver untouched; a dependent package not purged and named; no record -> untouched with the command named. Red-proofs with the mutation asserted applied: remove the purge -> cycle 3 refuses in those exact words; remove the ownership check -> a household resolver is purged; infer ownership -> the guess is taken. Also: R-317 (the agent stats a path dnsmasq-base owns to decide whether to install dnsmasq - pre-existing, now reachable), R-318 (no honest ownership marker exists for existing boxes; the preflight message is the mechanism), and the status page's decisions section rewritten to say what each decision costs and what doing nothing selects.
documentation/backlog/
OPEN-ITEMS.md is the register of open work and the file to read first — it holds only what is
open, one row per item, every row with a state and an owner. ROADMAP.md is the full history and
reasoning behind the R-n IDs, including shipped and killed items; an ID is minted there, and a new
instance of an existing item attaches to that ID rather than getting its own.
The rest of this folder: verified-LIVE findings with implementable fix plans that are not yet
implemented. Preserved here
(instead of on git branches) per the trunk-based, no-branches rule — the fix itself is implemented later
directly on main, during a normal/supervised session.
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FIX-M18-NOTES.md — dump re-validation runs every 5 min (perf). FIXED in controller v0.62.0 @
f8afe5c(2026-06-14). (was on the deletedfelhom-controllerbranchfix/m18-dump-validation-cache.) -
FIX-M19-NOTES.md —
deriveStackNamemisattribution edge (low-incidence correctness). FIXED in controller v0.62.0 @6bab68b(2026-06-14). (was on the deleted branchfix/m19-stackname-crossref.) -
FOLLOWUP-golden-default-controller-tag.md — the golden bakes a stale controller (
:0.43.0when queued; had rotted again to:0.85.1by resolution). FIXED in felhom-agent @ceca355(2026-07-03):build-golden.shv2.0.0 makes the controller tag a MANDATORY argument (a required arg cannot rot) and golden 0.98.3 was baked + clean-room-validated (bake → first-boot-current → self-manage → app deploy, on the drill VM — no supervised touch of live guests needed) + published + vouched. Evidence:../audits/DRILL-golden-098-2026-07-03.md.
Related: the live-drive fixspec (../audits/live-drive-fixspec-2026-06-14.md) carries the deferred
supervised items F9 (HDD provisioning/guest-attach), F20-BUG2 (durable_id scheme), F20-BUG3 (async
mkfs) — to be implemented in the agent/golden supervised session.