Issue 1841 (note 10, AC17-AC19 in note 12). After upgrade safety's delivery (plan-1792694058124013462, 21:13), pacman's state directory with place "." resolved to /var/lib/pacman, the package manager's own database directory: the node-engine used it as found (root 0755) and reported pacman unhealthy on ace, g14, novox and shanks, and wrote keeper.json and broker-keeper.secret into it.
modules/pacman/module.json: the state directory takes place "mesh" (/var/lib/mesh/pacman, mesh-sdk dir_into.go:90-96, as docker does). Every keeper and root-helper path follows through PACMAN_KEEPER_CONFIG, PACMAN_KEEPER_BROKER and PACMAN_ROOT_SOCKET.
The old keeper.json and broker-keeper.secret are removed by the node-engine as former records (only while they hold what the mesh wrote); /var/lib/pacman itself is forgotten as found, never deleted. /var/lib/pacman/root (made by the root helper at run time) stays: noted on issue 1839 (zero residue).
checks/owned rule 5: refuses a resource that is, lies inside or holds a /var/lib directory a system package owns (checks/owned/system). checks/owned/system-known lists the known exceptions of issue 1873 (systemd state; postgres consumers, grants, state) and only shrinks.
After delivery the operator sees pacman's four 'pacman not working' alerts lose their directory part; the upgrade-order part stays until upgrade-order is set.
Reviewed-by: review-1841-state@shanks at 098c6d3ec7
Issue 1841 (note 10, AC17-AC19 in note 12). After upgrade safety's delivery (plan-1792694058124013462, 21:13), pacman's state directory with place "." resolved to /var/lib/pacman, the package manager's own database directory: the node-engine used it as found (root 0755) and reported pacman unhealthy on ace, g14, novox and shanks, and wrote keeper.json and broker-keeper.secret into it.
- modules/pacman/module.json: the state directory takes place "mesh" (/var/lib/mesh/pacman, mesh-sdk dir_into.go:90-96, as docker does). Every keeper and root-helper path follows through PACMAN_KEEPER_CONFIG, PACMAN_KEEPER_BROKER and PACMAN_ROOT_SOCKET.
- The old keeper.json and broker-keeper.secret are removed by the node-engine as former records (only while they hold what the mesh wrote); /var/lib/pacman itself is forgotten as found, never deleted. /var/lib/pacman/root (made by the root helper at run time) stays: noted on issue 1839 (zero residue).
- checks/owned rule 5: refuses a resource that is, lies inside or holds a /var/lib directory a system package owns (checks/owned/system). checks/owned/system-known lists the known exceptions of issue 1873 (systemd state; postgres consumers, grants, state) and only shrinks.
Tests failed first: 1841/AC17 (manifest), 1841/AC18 (rule 5). Try build-1792696760565205379 PASS.
After delivery the operator sees pacman's four 'pacman not working' alerts lose their directory part; the upgrade-order part stays until upgrade-order is set.
Reviewed-by: review-1841-state@shanks at 098c6d3ec70f43f0c008748f1ba6ef81382ce16d
mesh/check failed: unit: clipmenu/cmd/clipmenu-tools.TestTheLauncherWaitsQuietlyWhileAnotherClipmenudHoldsTheLock: manifest_test.go:199: the launcher …
mesh/merge-gate head 098c6d3ec70f merged into trunk 2f05e70734cd — pass: builds pacman → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with …
mesh/repo-check head 098c6d3ec70f merged into trunk 2f05e70734cd — pass: THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the ch…
pacman's state directory said place ".", which resolves to /var/lib/pacman: the
package manager's database directory. The node-engine used it as found and
reported it unhealthy on every machine, and wrote keeper.json into it. It is now
the mesh's directory for the module (place "mesh", /var/lib/mesh/pacman), as
docker's is; keeper.json, the keeper's bus secret and the root helper's socket
follow through ${dir:state}.
checks/owned rule 5 refuses a directory that is, lies in or holds a /var/lib
directory a system package owns (checks/owned/system, read from shanks through
pacman_owns and tmpfiles.d), and any resource inside one. systemd and postgres
collide today and are listed in checks/owned/system-known under issue 1873; that
list only shrinks.
Deliverynovox/mesh-catalog@098c6d3ec70f — delivered since 2026-10-22T19:39:45Z
Delivery plan — builds pacman → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step
tier 0: pacman
ace: receives pacman
g14: receives pacman
novox: receives pacman
shanks: receives pacman
grants step: if this changes what the bus's user list says (a new tool, subject or user), novox is sent that list alone, every build there kept, before pacman is judged on its first machine
Machines
pacman on every machine running it: sent
Transitions
2026-10-22 19:26 (new) → proposed (announced): novox/mesh-catalog#452's head announced
2026-10-22 19:30 proposed → checked (checked): a verdict names this commit and the trunk's head as its trunk commit
2026-10-22 19:30 checked → ready (accepted): the gate passed or warned, and the repository's own check did not fail
2026-10-22 19:31 ready → published (merged): on the trunk its modules follow: merged there, and its walk opened — or nothing for a walk to move
2026-10-22 19:31 published → delivering (go): its walk started: let go by this owner in its group's order, by a person, or on the controller's own path — not a failed walk that carried a later commit for it, after which it waits for a walk of its own commit
2026-10-22 19:39 delivering → delivered (done): its walk is done, carrying its own commit: every machine of its deploy plan passed, or was left as its policy says
The commit's note under refs/notes/mesh-plan keeps every transition: git log --notes=mesh-plan.
<!-- mesh-delivery:view -->
**Delivery** `novox/mesh-catalog@098c6d3ec70f` — **delivered** since 2026-10-22T19:39:45Z
**Delivery plan** — builds pacman → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step
- tier 0: pacman
- ace: receives pacman
- g14: receives pacman
- novox: receives pacman
- shanks: receives pacman
- grants step: if this changes what the bus's user list says (a new tool, subject or user), novox is sent that list alone, every build there kept, before pacman is judged on its first machine
**Machines**
- pacman on every machine running it: sent
**Transitions**
- 2026-10-22 19:26 (new) → proposed (announced): novox/mesh-catalog#452's head announced
- 2026-10-22 19:30 proposed → checked (checked): a verdict names this commit and the trunk's head as its trunk commit
- 2026-10-22 19:30 checked → ready (accepted): the gate passed or warned, and the repository's own check did not fail
- 2026-10-22 19:31 ready → published (merged): on the trunk its modules follow: merged there, and its walk opened — or nothing for a walk to move
- 2026-10-22 19:31 published → delivering (go): its walk started: let go by this owner in its group's order, by a person, or on the controller's own path — not a failed walk that carried a later commit for it, after which it waits for a walk of its own commit
- 2026-10-22 19:39 delivering → delivered (done): its walk is done, carrying its own commit: every machine of its deploy plan passed, or was left as its policy says
The commit's note under `refs/notes/mesh-plan` keeps every transition: `git log --notes=mesh-plan`.
Merge check at 098c6d3e
Judged: head 098c6d3ec70f merged into trunk 2f05e70734cd; read beside it: mesh-controller 96441ea28a84, mesh-controller-main 96441ea28a84, mesh-host 4065b45ae84f, mesh-tools e0fadc43d9dd
mesh/merge-gate: PASS — every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose) (modules: pacman)
mesh/repo-check: PASS — THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the change's judges the pull requests after it merges; its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-check-typescript.sh (typescript)
Delivery plan — builds pacman → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step
tier 0: pacman
ace: receives pacman
g14: receives pacman
novox: receives pacman
shanks: receives pacman
grants step: if this changes what the bus's user list says (a new tool, subject or user), novox is sent that list alone, every build there kept, before pacman is judged on its first machine
read by no module's build: checks/owned/main.go, checks/owned/main_test.go, checks/owned/system, checks/owned/system-known, merge-check.sh, modules/pacman/cmd/pacman-tools/keeper_manifest_test.go
Run by the build seat on ace as build-1792697166668370802 (builds --log build-1792697166668370802).
--- the gate: pacman
note: pacman uses the seat "operator-channel", which no module declares and the mesh does not define among the manifests given; registration judges it against the whole catalogue, and passing the declaring module's manifest too judges it here
pacman: ok, 20 tool(s), keeps state installed, updates, runs, records, rounds, asks, reads mesh-controller.declared-packages, ready: mirror-refresh by unit every 30s; cache-cleaning by unit every 30s; root-helper by unit every 30s; keeper by its tool pacman_upgrade_health every 1m0s
long-running resources without health: 0
files asking for a setting without saying whether it is trusted: 0
1 manifest(s) checked. Judged against the seats this binary carries; a claim on one of the mesh's own seats is judged fully at registration, and a seat declared by a module not given here reads as unknown. Identities judged on a 6-character machine name, against the bounds of the providers given here
judging 1 module(s) changed against 4 machine(s), as the snapshot of 2026-10-22T19:11:55Z says they run
composing every machine as the mesh is
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on f35; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/f35/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on idt; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/idt/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on ygcyr; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner, mesh-provisioner-client, nats — own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/nats/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
the bus's user list leaves out 12 user(s) the mesh has minted no credential for: controller, node.f35, f35.pacman.keeper, node.idt, idt.pacman.keeper, node.ygcyr, ygcyr.mesh-mail.send, ygcyr.only-office.converter, ygcyr.pacman.keeper, node.yvbpsm, yvbpsm.brother.device, yvbpsm.pacman.keeper. Each is a user that cannot connect until one is issued
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on yvbpsm; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/yvbpsm/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on f35; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/f35/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on idt; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/idt/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on ygcyr; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner, mesh-provisioner-client, nats — own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/nats/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
the bus's user list leaves out 12 user(s) the mesh has minted no credential for: controller, node.f35, f35.pacman.keeper, node.idt, idt.pacman.keeper, node.ygcyr, ygcyr.mesh-mail.send, ygcyr.only-office.converter, ygcyr.pacman.keeper, node.yvbpsm, yvbpsm.brother.device, yvbpsm.pacman.keeper. Each is a user that cannot connect until one is issued
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on yvbpsm; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/yvbpsm/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
composing every machine with the change
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on f35; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/f35/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on idt; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/idt/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on ygcyr; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner, mesh-provisioner-client, nats — own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/nats/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
the bus's user list leaves out 12 user(s) the mesh has minted no credential for: controller, node.f35, f35.pacman.keeper, node.idt, idt.pacman.keeper, node.ygcyr, ygcyr.mesh-mail.send, ygcyr.only-office.converter, ygcyr.pacman.keeper, node.yvbpsm, yvbpsm.brother.device, yvbpsm.pacman.keeper. Each is a user that cannot connect until one is issued
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on yvbpsm; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/yvbpsm/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on f35; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/f35/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on idt; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/idt/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on ygcyr; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner, mesh-provisioner-client, nats — own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/nats/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
the bus's user list leaves out 12 user(s) the mesh has minted no credential for: controller, node.f35, f35.pacman.keeper, node.idt, idt.pacman.keeper, node.ygcyr, ygcyr.mesh-mail.send, ygcyr.only-office.converter, ygcyr.pacman.keeper, node.yvbpsm, yvbpsm.brother.device, yvbpsm.pacman.keeper. Each is a user that cannot connect until one is issued
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on yvbpsm; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/yvbpsm/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
merge gate: PASS — every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
judged by controller development build against the facts of 2026-10-22T19:11:55Z
modules the change moves:
- pacman (changed)
machines:
- a machine (f35): composes
- holds mesh-dns-resolver (idt): composes
- holds git, holds mesh-artifact-store, holds mesh-broker, holds mesh-catalog, holds mesh-config, holds mesh-delivery, holds mesh-dns-resolver, holds mesh-provisioner, holds mesh-store, holds mesh-vault, holds npm-package-registry, the control node, the hub (ygcyr): composes
- a machine (yvbpsm): composes
a merge would rebuild 1 module(s) in 1 tier(s): pacman
notes:
- checks/owned/main.go, checks/owned/main_test.go, checks/owned/system, checks/owned/system-known, merge-check.sh and modules/pacman/cmd/pacman-tools/keeper_manifest_test.go read by no module's build, and rebuild nothing (issue 280)
--- THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the change's judges the pull requests after it merges
--- its merge-check.sh (go toolchain)
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/words 0.003s
words: 12 retired words and 70 daemons' lines, none in the 62033 strings of 959 files
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/particulars 0.006s
particulars: none of 4 node names in the 2 covered modules
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/toolchains 0.010s
toolchains: go, nodejs, npm and buildah are declared only by their owners
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/imagebuild 0.009s
imagebuild: rootless-image-build is provided only by buildah
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/imageplace 0.010s
imageplace: every image builds from a Dockerfile in its own module's directory
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/agenthome 0.012s
agent-home: no archive and no file written into under the agent's home
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/mailstore 0.008s
mail-store: claimed only by mesh-mail
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/sshdir 0.016s
~/.ssh: named only by ssh-client
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/owned 0.023s
owned paths: every directory and archive says how it treats unknown files; no module declares inside another's directory, or in a system package's
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/secrets 0.012s
secrets: no setting can replace a vault secret in a mergeable file (1 known, nested)
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/predefined 0.219s
predefined.json: 3 key(s), none removed that a module names
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/config 0.014s
config: no moved module says settings, takes-settings or ${setting:<key>}, or takes a whole layer (0 not yet moved)
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/templates 0.010s
templates: no module keeps a file's text inline but the 0 listed
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/paths 0.006s
paths: no module names another's state on its machine (3 known, listed to go)
long-running resources without health: 58, as kept
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/deps 0.195s
testing modules/pacman
ok pacman/cmd/pacman-tools 5.352s
--- its merge-check-typescript.sh (typescript toolchain)
**Merge check** at `098c6d3e`
Judged: head `098c6d3ec70f` merged into trunk `2f05e70734cd`; read beside it: mesh-controller `96441ea28a84`, mesh-controller-main `96441ea28a84`, mesh-host `4065b45ae84f`, mesh-tools `e0fadc43d9dd`
- `mesh/merge-gate`: **PASS** — every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose) (modules: pacman)
- `mesh/repo-check`: **PASS** — THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the change's judges the pull requests after it merges; its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-check-typescript.sh (typescript)
**Delivery plan** — builds pacman → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step
- tier 0: pacman
- ace: receives pacman
- g14: receives pacman
- novox: receives pacman
- shanks: receives pacman
- grants step: if this changes what the bus's user list says (a new tool, subject or user), novox is sent that list alone, every build there kept, before pacman is judged on its first machine
- read by no module's build: checks/owned/main.go, checks/owned/main_test.go, checks/owned/system, checks/owned/system-known, merge-check.sh, modules/pacman/cmd/pacman-tools/keeper_manifest_test.go
Run by the build seat on ace as `build-1792697166668370802` (`builds --log build-1792697166668370802`).
```
--- the gate: pacman
note: pacman uses the seat "operator-channel", which no module declares and the mesh does not define among the manifests given; registration judges it against the whole catalogue, and passing the declaring module's manifest too judges it here
pacman: ok, 20 tool(s), keeps state installed, updates, runs, records, rounds, asks, reads mesh-controller.declared-packages, ready: mirror-refresh by unit every 30s; cache-cleaning by unit every 30s; root-helper by unit every 30s; keeper by its tool pacman_upgrade_health every 1m0s
long-running resources without health: 0
files asking for a setting without saying whether it is trusted: 0
1 manifest(s) checked. Judged against the seats this binary carries; a claim on one of the mesh's own seats is judged fully at registration, and a seat declared by a module not given here reads as unknown. Identities judged on a 6-character machine name, against the bounds of the providers given here
judging 1 module(s) changed against 4 machine(s), as the snapshot of 2026-10-22T19:11:55Z says they run
composing every machine as the mesh is
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on f35; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/f35/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on idt; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/idt/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on ygcyr; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner, mesh-provisioner-client, nats — own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/nats/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
the bus's user list leaves out 12 user(s) the mesh has minted no credential for: controller, node.f35, f35.pacman.keeper, node.idt, idt.pacman.keeper, node.ygcyr, ygcyr.mesh-mail.send, ygcyr.only-office.converter, ygcyr.pacman.keeper, node.yvbpsm, yvbpsm.brother.device, yvbpsm.pacman.keeper. Each is a user that cannot connect until one is issued
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on yvbpsm; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/yvbpsm/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on f35; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/f35/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on idt; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/idt/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on ygcyr; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner, mesh-provisioner-client, nats — own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/nats/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
the bus's user list leaves out 12 user(s) the mesh has minted no credential for: controller, node.f35, f35.pacman.keeper, node.idt, idt.pacman.keeper, node.ygcyr, ygcyr.mesh-mail.send, ygcyr.only-office.converter, ygcyr.pacman.keeper, node.yvbpsm, yvbpsm.brother.device, yvbpsm.pacman.keeper. Each is a user that cannot connect until one is issued
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on yvbpsm; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/yvbpsm/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
composing every machine with the change
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on f35; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/f35/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on idt; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/idt/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on ygcyr; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner, mesh-provisioner-client, nats — own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/nats/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
the bus's user list leaves out 12 user(s) the mesh has minted no credential for: controller, node.f35, f35.pacman.keeper, node.idt, idt.pacman.keeper, node.ygcyr, ygcyr.mesh-mail.send, ygcyr.only-office.converter, ygcyr.pacman.keeper, node.yvbpsm, yvbpsm.brother.device, yvbpsm.pacman.keeper. Each is a user that cannot connect until one is issued
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on yvbpsm; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/yvbpsm/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on f35; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/f35/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on idt; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/idt/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on ygcyr; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner, mesh-provisioner-client, nats — own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus; own/ygcyr/nats/broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
the bus's user list leaves out 12 user(s) the mesh has minted no credential for: controller, node.f35, f35.pacman.keeper, node.idt, idt.pacman.keeper, node.ygcyr, ygcyr.mesh-mail.send, ygcyr.only-office.converter, ygcyr.pacman.keeper, node.yvbpsm, yvbpsm.brother.device, yvbpsm.pacman.keeper. Each is a user that cannot connect until one is issued
HELD: the vault did not answer for the core's credentials on yvbpsm; sealed by the controller until the vault holds it: mesh-provisioner-client — own/yvbpsm/mesh-provisioner-client/provisioner-broker: this control plane has no MESH_BUS_NATS, so it cannot reach the mesh's bus
merge gate: PASS — every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
judged by controller development build against the facts of 2026-10-22T19:11:55Z
modules the change moves:
- pacman (changed)
machines:
- a machine (f35): composes
- holds mesh-dns-resolver (idt): composes
- holds git, holds mesh-artifact-store, holds mesh-broker, holds mesh-catalog, holds mesh-config, holds mesh-delivery, holds mesh-dns-resolver, holds mesh-provisioner, holds mesh-store, holds mesh-vault, holds npm-package-registry, the control node, the hub (ygcyr): composes
- a machine (yvbpsm): composes
a merge would rebuild 1 module(s) in 1 tier(s): pacman
notes:
- checks/owned/main.go, checks/owned/main_test.go, checks/owned/system, checks/owned/system-known, merge-check.sh and modules/pacman/cmd/pacman-tools/keeper_manifest_test.go read by no module's build, and rebuild nothing (issue 280)
--- THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the change's judges the pull requests after it merges
--- its merge-check.sh (go toolchain)
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/words 0.003s
words: 12 retired words and 70 daemons' lines, none in the 62033 strings of 959 files
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/particulars 0.006s
particulars: none of 4 node names in the 2 covered modules
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/toolchains 0.010s
toolchains: go, nodejs, npm and buildah are declared only by their owners
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/imagebuild 0.009s
imagebuild: rootless-image-build is provided only by buildah
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/imageplace 0.010s
imageplace: every image builds from a Dockerfile in its own module's directory
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/agenthome 0.012s
agent-home: no archive and no file written into under the agent's home
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/mailstore 0.008s
mail-store: claimed only by mesh-mail
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/sshdir 0.016s
~/.ssh: named only by ssh-client
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/owned 0.023s
owned paths: every directory and archive says how it treats unknown files; no module declares inside another's directory, or in a system package's
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/secrets 0.012s
secrets: no setting can replace a vault secret in a mergeable file (1 known, nested)
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/predefined 0.219s
predefined.json: 3 key(s), none removed that a module names
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/config 0.014s
config: no moved module says settings, takes-settings or ${setting:<key>}, or takes a whole layer (0 not yet moved)
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/templates 0.010s
templates: no module keeps a file's text inline but the 0 listed
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/paths 0.006s
paths: no module names another's state on its machine (3 known, listed to go)
long-running resources without health: 58, as kept
ok git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/deps 0.195s
testing modules/pacman
ok pacman/cmd/pacman-tools 5.352s
--- its merge-check-typescript.sh (typescript toolchain)
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Issue 1841 (note 10, AC17-AC19 in note 12). After upgrade safety's delivery (plan-1792694058124013462, 21:13), pacman's state directory with place "." resolved to /var/lib/pacman, the package manager's own database directory: the node-engine used it as found (root 0755) and reported pacman unhealthy on ace, g14, novox and shanks, and wrote keeper.json and broker-keeper.secret into it.
Tests failed first: 1841/AC17 (manifest), 1841/AC18 (rule 5). Try build-1792696760565205379 PASS.
After delivery the operator sees pacman's four 'pacman not working' alerts lose their directory part; the upgrade-order part stays until upgrade-order is set.
Reviewed-by: review-1841-state@shanks at
098c6d3ec7pacman's state directory said place ".", which resolves to /var/lib/pacman: the package manager's database directory. The node-engine used it as found and reported it unhealthy on every machine, and wrote keeper.json into it. It is now the mesh's directory for the module (place "mesh", /var/lib/mesh/pacman), as docker's is; keeper.json, the keeper's bus secret and the root helper's socket follow through ${dir:state}. checks/owned rule 5 refuses a directory that is, lies in or holds a /var/lib directory a system package owns (checks/owned/system, read from shanks through pacman_owns and tmpfiles.d), and any resource inside one. systemd and postgres collide today and are listed in checks/owned/system-known under issue 1873; that list only shrinks.Delivery
novox/mesh-catalog@098c6d3ec70f— delivered since 2026-10-22T19:39:45ZDelivery plan — builds pacman → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step
Machines
Transitions
The commit's note under
refs/notes/mesh-plankeeps every transition:git log --notes=mesh-plan.Merge check at
098c6d3eJudged: head
098c6d3ec70fmerged into trunk2f05e70734cd; read beside it: mesh-controller96441ea28a84, mesh-controller-main96441ea28a84, mesh-host4065b45ae84f, mesh-toolse0fadc43d9ddmesh/merge-gate: PASS — every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose) (modules: pacman)mesh/repo-check: PASS — THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the change's judges the pull requests after it merges; its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-check-typescript.sh (typescript)Delivery plan — builds pacman → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step
Run by the build seat on ace as
build-1792697166668370802(builds --log build-1792697166668370802).