Both STOPs cleared by the operator. No code changed; documentation only.
STEP 3 (the run's primary deliverable): the full changelog range 4.2.2-1 ->
4.2.5-1 was read (128 lines, all three entries) and swept for
connection-handling vocabulary. Exactly one keyword hit, a false positive
("S3 ... honor the node's proxy settings" = HTTP proxy config for S3, not the
PBS proxy daemon). 4.2.5-1 is a manifest-hardening security release; 4.2.4-1
is S3 rate limits and a locking cache; 4.2.3-1 is UI/LDAP/tape. NOTHING
addresses descriptor lifetime or connection reaping. Recommendation was: do
not upgrade for this reason.
STOP 1: operator ruled to upgrade anyway for rehearsal value. Recorded as a
practice run, not a fix -- and the interpretation was fixed IN WRITING BEFORE
any numbers existed (stop1-ruling.txt): unchanged = expected; changed =
surprise. Neither outcome could then be rationalised into a success.
STOP 2: Hetzner snapshot 421440873, Available. Documented that it covers
/dev/sda ONLY -- /mnt/pbs-datastore is a separate Volume and is NOT in it, so
it is a software rollback and not a backup of the backup data.
UPGRADE: simulated first (0 to remove), then installed 09:51:00->09:51:06Z,
exit 0. Verified: 4.2.5-1 installed, both daemons active, effective open
files still 65536 (the drop-in survived the new package), Recv-Q 0, loopback
200, 200 from BOTH boxes over the tunnel with felhom-pbs active, and the hub
gauge refreshed post-upgrade at 11:59:31.
SLOPE: before +4 fd/1885 s = 183/day; after +5 fd/1919 s = 225/day. NOT
distinguishable -- one descriptor apart, Poisson +/-2 on such counts. The
higher after-figure is noise, not a regression and not an improvement. 30
minutes cannot settle it; R-341 files the +24 h and +7 d checks.
CORRECTIONS to this morning's own report, both published rather than quietly
fixed:
- the "~85/day, ~2 years of runway" figures were WRONG. They came from a
single 17-minute window with a delta of ONE descriptor. Real rate is
183-200/day over two independent windows; runway ~357 days, not 2 years.
- the leak was attributed to CLOSE-WAIT. It is mostly ESTAB: CLOSE-WAIT held
flat at 1 while ESTAB grew 45->49, and at the wedge it was 1011 ESTAB vs
543 CLOSE-WAIT. R-336's fix must target unreaped connections.
- "proxmox-backup-api" reported inactive during verification; that unit does
not exist. Bad query, not a fault, written down because it looked like one.
R-336 stays open: even a fixed leak would not make ~85k requests/day to a
weekly-write DR endpoint correct.
golden-currency still convicts (inherited R-334, controller 0.216.0 vs golden
0.214.0, untouched by this run), so this push is --no-verify per
.claude/rules/gates.md.
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.
-
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.