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  26.20-alpha Pre-release

  daniel released this 2026-08-25 17:12:48 +02:00 | 9 commits to main since this release

  First release shaped by a real-hardware install (old laptop mainboard, BIOS boot,
  SSD with a previous Proxmox VE on it). All four fixes are things an empty
  Proxmox VM never shows.

  Fixed

  • First catalog sync no longer dies silently at boot. On dual-stack
    LANs network-online.target is satisfied by the IPv6 SLAAC address a
    second before DHCPv4 lands, so furtka-catalog-sync.service ran into
    Network is unreachable, exited, and the next attempt was the daily timer
    — up to 6 h of jitter later. Meanwhile catalog-state.json stayed on
    checking and the apps page showed "checking…" with nothing running
    (first hardware bench, 2026-08-25). The service now retries on failure
    (every 20 s, up to 8 times in 15 min), a failed sync is recorded as stage
    error with the message, and the apps page shows "last sync failed: …"
    instead of a fake in-progress state.
  • Installer frees the target disk before partitioning. The live ISO
    auto-activates whatever an attached drive carries (LVM volume groups, md
    arrays, swap) — the first hardware bench's SSD still had a Proxmox VE
    pve VG on it — and archinstall then failed at 12 % with unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use.
    install_run now runs diskprep.release_disk() first: swapoff/umount
    leaves-first, dmsetup remove / mdadm --stop for every dm/md node
    stacked on the disk, wipefs -a on partitions + disk, then
    blockdev --rereadpt. Every step is written to the top of the install
    log. The progress page also names this failure explicitly instead of a
    bare "hit a snag" if it does still happen.
  • Console banner always shows the IP fallback. On both the live ISO and
    the installed system the /etc/issue welcome was written once, after
    network-online.target, and simply omitted the http://<ip> line when no
    address existed yet — so on a slow-DHCP NIC (first hardware bench,
    2026-08-24) the screen only ever offered proksi.local. The banner script
    now runs from a timer (furtka-issue.timer on the ISO,
    furtka-welcome.timer on the installed box, every 5 s) and always prints
    a fallback line: every global IPv4 address once there is one, or a
    "no IP address yet — check the cable / DHCP" hint until then. It only
    rewrites /etc/issue and nudges agetty when the text changed, so the
    login prompt doesn't flicker. The live ISO no longer auto-logs root in
    on tty1 (releng default) — that handed the console to a shell before the
    banner could update; tty1 now stays at the login prompt with a live
    banner, and the banner tells you a shell is root + Enter away. Boxes
    that self-update get the new timer linked + enabled automatically; the
    refresh loop takes effect after their next reboot.

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