nas ran none: the script was deployed but never scheduled, while nuc
(lower stakes) upgraded nightly. Kept clear of the future 05:00 ks4
pull.
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Finished downloads stopped appearing in Jellyfin after the 2026-08-30
storage move, and everything looked healthy: the file was on nas, visible
through NFS inside the container, and /media/downloads is a configured
library. The cause is that Jellyfin watches libraries with inotify, which
only reports changes made through the local mount — transmission now
writes on nas while jellyfin-server reads over NFS on nuc, so no event
ever reaches it. EnableRealtimeMonitor is true and SupportsLibraryMonitor
reports true, which is why it looks fine. Previously both shared one local
dataset on nuc and it worked.
transmission now calls Jellyfin's /Library/Refresh via script-torrent-done.
The hook always exits 0 and never blocks (transmission runs it
synchronously; a hanging hook stalls the daemon), and both the success and
missing-key paths are tested. nuc is usually powered off, so a failed
request is expected and logged rather than treated as an error — the
scheduled scan catches up.
Also records that nuc's mount is read-only, so reorganising downloads into
movies/tv-shows must now happen on nas, and the ordered checklist for
"my download is not in Jellyfin" — the first three checks all passed when
this was hit, which is what made it confusing.
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Standardised 2026-08-31 on regular crontabs: nuc's push moved off its
systemd timer (units kept disabled on disk), and the cron.d files on
nuc and nas were folded into root's crontab. Notes the consequence
accepted for nuc: a night with the box powered off is skipped rather
than caught up after boot.
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Both hosts were powered off and brought back from a cold start, which is
the first real test of everything built on 2026-08-30.
nas: both pools imported from /etc/zfs/zpool.cache, all instances
autostarted, NFS exports republished, 0 failed units. nuc: /dev/dri
present with 0 i915 warnings (booted with the display unplugged), NFS
auto-remounted, VAAPI transcode at 9.5x realtime.
Records the ordering that actually cleared tank's inherited
<metadata>:<0x0> and <0x3d>: a scrub alone found 0 errors and repaired 0B
but left them, and a plain `zpool clear` afterwards did not drop them —
ZFS flushes the persistent error log on a scrub run *after* the clear.
That matters beyond tidiness, because while those entries stand
`zpool status -x` reports the pool unhealthy forever and zpool-health.sh
cannot signal anything new.
Two kiosk corrections, both from observed behaviour:
- the Pioneer DAC being switched off is the most likely cause of
"video, no sound" — asound.conf pins the ALSA default to it by card
name, so `default` fails to open outright and mpv falls back to null
silently. Adds the one-line aplay check.
- hotplugging the display makes cage exit once and Restart=on-failure
recovers it ~5s later. Do NOT restart it by hand; check
ActiveEnterTimestamp against the hotplug time first.
Also flags that the OS mirror is still untested with a disk physically
unplugged — it is a guess until then.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Builds the box that ends the usb4t dropouts: the JMicron bridge was the
least reliable device in the setup and it held the intended off-site copy
of ks4. The 4 TB now sits on direct SATA as pool `tank`.
- OS on mdraid RAID1 across two 120 GB SSDs (Intel 330 + Toshiba Q300),
both ESPs bootable; `incus` ZFS mirror on their tails, ~22% left
unallocated as over-provisioning
- media at /export/media, exported read-only over NFSv4 to nuc
- transmission-bt moves here (its WireGuard tunnel is in-container, so
ks4 needed no change) and writes to the dataset locally
- backup pools nucbackup / ks4backup / nasbackup
- monitoring live: msmtp (submission+auth, verified 250), zed with
NOTIFY_DATA, zpool-health.sh every 15 min, smartd on all three disks
Traps recorded because none of them point at their own cause: booting
with the display active kills the i915 probe and wedges incus; d-i picks
grub-pc vs grub-efi from how the installer booted; `incus storage create`
hangs forever on a mountpoint=none dataset; the BMC is deliberately never
cabled, so there is no out-of-band console.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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