diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_keys.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_keys.go
index 6ae5eea9..2b2ac625 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_keys.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_keys.go
@@ -166,10 +166,12 @@ func followDoneKey(ctx context.Context, open *stores, module string) {
 		err := takeOnceInSlot(ctx, open, module)
 		o := doneKeyObservation(module)
 		if err == nil {
-			if keeper := conditionsFrom; keeper != nil && failed {
+			// Cleared on every success, whoever raised it: a controller before a restart or another follower (issue
+			// 1945). A condition that is not open costs one read.
+			if keeper := conditionsFrom; keeper != nil {
 				_, _ = keeper.Clear(ctx, o.Key(), "composed and granted")
-				failed = false
 			}
+			failed = false
 			if _, again := doneKeysLookAgain.LoadAndDelete(module); again {
 				continue // a wake came while this one ran: once more, for the key written meanwhile
 			}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_keys_cancel_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_keys_cancel_test.go
index 34292364..0e34904c 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_keys_cancel_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_keys_cancel_test.go
@@ -59,3 +59,25 @@ func TestATakeInCutByACancellationRaisesNothing(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	}
 }
+
+// A take-in that succeeds clears the module's fingerprint-not-composed condition whoever raised it: a controller before a
+// restart, or another follower (issue 1945: the operator read "a build needs a look" for take-ins that had since worked).
+func TestASucceedingTakeInClearsAConditionAnotherRaised(t *testing.T) {
+	was, wasRetry, wasSay, wasKeeper := doneKeyTakeOnce, doneKeyRetry, doneKeysSay, conditionsFrom
+	t.Cleanup(func() { doneKeyTakeOnce, doneKeyRetry, doneKeysSay, conditionsFrom = was, wasRetry, wasSay, wasKeeper })
+	store := conditions.NewInMemory()
+	k := conditions.NewKeeper(t.Context(), conditions.Options{Store: store, History: store, Teller: &conditions.Told{}})
+	t.Cleanup(func() { k.Close(context.Background()) })
+	conditionsFrom = k
+	doneKeysSay = func(string) {}
+	o := doneKeyObservation("raised-before")
+	o.Summary += "the store refused the connection"
+	if _, err := k.Observe(t.Context(), o); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	doneKeyTakeOnce = func(context.Context, *stores, string) error { return nil }
+	takeDoneKey(t.Context(), nil, "raised-before")
+	if c, found, err := conditions.ReadOne(t.Context(), store, o.Key()); err != nil || found {
+		t.Fatalf("a take-in that succeeded left the condition another raised: %+v (found %v, %v)", c, found, err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/push.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/push.go
index 7d18c351..70c96fc7 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/push.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/push.go
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ func serve(ctx context.Context) (err error) {
 	keeper := openServingConditions(ctx, open, bus)
 	if keeper != nil {
 		defer closeConditions(keeper)
+		defer stopRunning() // on an error return, the goroutines end before the keeper closes
 	}
 
 	// The bus's own objects, asserted on every start. **Not created once at genesis**: a stream
@@ -247,10 +248,12 @@ func serve(ctx context.Context) (err error) {
 	// next test's `conditions` with "connection closed", issue 1945).
 	handActConn = bus.Conn
 	defer func() { handActConn = nil }()
+	defer stopRunning() // on an error return, the goroutines end before handActConn is put back
 	// And everything else this controller does on the bus for a moment (novox/hq issue 327).
 	servingBus.Store(server.JetStream())
 	// No longer serving: nothing is lent, and dead-letters says it is not read here (novox/hq issue 330).
 	defer servingBus.Store(nil)
+	defer stopRunning() // on an error return, the goroutines end before the bus is taken back
 	// And says when it replaced a value given by hand (novox/hq ADR 0228).
 	givenEvents = bus
 	// And a pull request's merge check, asked when the forge announces its head and said when judged