diff --git a/internal/catalogue/seat_data_test.go b/internal/catalogue/seat_data_test.go
index 3389ede1..3d2313e9 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/seat_data_test.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/seat_data_test.go
@@ -157,22 +157,39 @@ func TestAPieceTheHolderCannotRenderIsLeftOutAndNamedNotTheMachine(t *testing.T)
 	}
 }
 
-func TestTheCataloguesBarRendersEveryExampleOfTheShape(t *testing.T) {
+// A moved bar is rendered by the provisioner's client, not by the controller, so the rule that its template renders
+// every example of the shape is no longer judged here (issue 915, which also covers placementProblems not reading the
+// collected form). What the controller still owns is that the bar's files place the blocks at all: a moved bar's
+// carry the collected placement, and one that stopped placing them fails here rather than being skipped (issue 432).
+func TestTheCataloguesBarPlacesBlocksAndItsShapeCoversEveryShow(t *testing.T) {
 	holder := catalogueManifest(t, "i3status-rust")
 	s, _ := SeatNamed(BarSeat)
-	if !placesKind(holder, s, BarKindBlock) {
-		// It places them since the catalogue's bar took the seat; a skip here hid a bar that stopped
-		// (novox/hq issue 432).
-		t.Fatal("the catalogue's bar places no blocks, so none of the shape's examples would render")
-	}
-	tmpl, err := holderTemplate(holder, s, BarKindBlock)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	for _, ex := range s.Receives[0].Shape.Examples {
-		out, err := renderPiece(tmpl, "example", "a-machine", ex)
-		if err != nil || !strings.Contains(out, "[[block]]") {
-			t.Errorf("the catalogue's bar renders %v as %q: %v", ex, out, err)
+	if holder.Moved {
+		placed := "${collected:contribution:" + BarSeat + ":" + BarKindBlock + ":"
+		found := false
+		for _, res := range holder.Resources {
+			if content, _ := res["content"].(string); strings.Contains(content, placed) {
+				found = true
+			}
+		}
+		if !found {
+			t.Fatalf("the catalogue's moved bar places no blocks: none of its files carries %s…}", placed)
+		}
+	} else {
+		if !placesKind(holder, s, BarKindBlock) {
+			// It places them since the catalogue's bar took the seat; a skip here hid a bar that stopped
+			// (novox/hq issue 432).
+			t.Fatal("the catalogue's bar places no blocks, so none of the shape's examples would render")
+		}
+		tmpl, err := holderTemplate(holder, s, BarKindBlock)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		for _, ex := range s.Receives[0].Shape.Examples {
+			out, err := renderPiece(tmpl, "example", "a-machine", ex)
+			if err != nil || !strings.Contains(out, "[[block]]") {
+				t.Errorf("the catalogue's bar renders %v as %q: %v", ex, out, err)
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	for shows := range barShows {