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Channel Wiki: #jarvis-jr-truenas

Channel ID: 1519072621130547220 Last sync: 2026-09-01 03:03 UTC

Purpose

TrueNAS, self-hosted infrastructure, registry, proxy, and platform setup discussions.

Key Context

• Dedicated channel skill: home-v1--truenas.
• Authoritative private Gitea repository: https://gitea.lego-cloud.eu/home-v1-skills-code-agent/home-v1--truenas (test default branch).
• Hermes loads the skill directly from /opt/data/home-v1-skills-code-agent/home-v1--truenas through skills.external_dirs, so repository updates and runtime behavior share one source tree.
• TrueNAS WebSocket access expects runtime variables HL_V1_TRUENAS_URL and HL_V1_TRUENAS_API_KEY; values must remain in memory and must never be printed or committed.
• The skill owns reusable scripts/truenas_rpc.py JSON-RPC logic and scripts/truenas_health.py read-only health summaries, with offline tests and Gitea Actions validation.
• CONFIRMED delivery (2026-08-26): initial skill commit 634e0e63290cb4a8c44b961c89d0583cc2e7612f is on the private repository's test branch; authenticated remote-SHA/artifact readback passed, all 10 offline tests passed, and Gitea Actions task 1398 passed. A fresh Hermes loader reported the skill available and discovered both scripts.
• CONFIRMED access check (2026-08-26): both expected keys exist in Bitwarden Secrets Manager and a short-lived authenticated WebSocket health query succeeded without changing TrueNAS. Strict TLS verification failed because the configured URL uses an IP address whose identity does not match the certificate; diagnostic-only --insecure access succeeded. The durable fix is a certificate-matching DNS URL or correct CA/hostname path—not permanent TLS disablement.
• Live read-only observation, not yet investigated: TrueNAS reported 26.0.0-BETA.2; pool lego-cloud-v1-2025-11-28 was ONLINE and healthy: true but also reported status_code: CORRUPT_DATA, with 3 active alerts. The setup request did not authorize investigation or remediation, and no action was taken.
• Keycloak hostname: keycloak.lego-cloud.eu; historical discussion referenced the master realm.
• Gitea organization URL: https://gitea.lego-cloud.eu/home-v1
• Repository referenced for shared access: https://gitea.lego-cloud.eu/home-v1/arda-v1-code-agent
• Historical work investigated Harbor installation on TrueNAS SCALE using a custom-app YAML.
• The external Nginx reverse proxy already existed in front of TrueNAS; Harbor planning should not add an unnecessary duplicate Nginx layer.
• Services exposed through the existing HTTPS path still require explicit internal/service ports and routing.

Behavioral Decisions

• Teach and train without negativity or pointing out what others lack.
• Operate autonomously enough that RootAtSkic does not need to micromanage routine investigation.
• Keep home-v1--truenas continuously updated when durable TrueNAS methods, safeguards, API quirks, or reusable procedures are confirmed; maintain logic as tested scripts in its Gitea repository rather than accumulating one-off inline commands.

Active Topics

• TrueNAS application deployment patterns.
• Harbor/container-registry architecture and certificate/routing requirements.
• OPEN Discord visibility/response incident (2026-08-31): New member Giedrius K asked “where are other channels?” while mentioning Hermes, but the message did not trigger an agent turn. RootAtSkic then asked why Hermes was ignoring him. Hermes said the message appeared only later as recent context, not as a triggering message, and committed to inspect Discord channel visibility/permissions rather than guess. The exact trigger failure, which channels Giedrius expected, the relevant permission state, owner, and due date are UNKNOWN. Next action: inspect the guild/channel visibility and Hermes trigger path, then answer Giedrius. Sources: Discord messages 1543954078315454464, 1543961473745944586, and bot clarification 1543961597909672140.
• PROPOSED dataset operation (RootAtSkic, 2026-08-28): RootAtSkic asked whether Hermes can create a TrueNAS dataset. Hermes confirmed that home-v1--truenas supports authenticated dataset creation plus fresh readback, but no concrete creation request was supplied and no dataset was created. Before any write, obtain the exact dataset path/name, purpose, and any quota, encryption, compression, ACL, or permission requirements; inspect the target pool, limit the write to that specification, and verify it with a fresh API readback. Owner/requester: RootAtSkic. Due date: UNKNOWN. Next action: await the missing dataset specification and explicit request to create it.
• CONFIRMED capacity objective (RootAtSkic, 2026-08-17): maximize this TrueNAS host's memory. For the documented W680D4U-2L2T/G5 / i9-14900KS platform, the target is 192 GB ECC (4 × 48 GB DDR5 ECC UDIMM), not a smaller diagnostic kit. Procurement and validation constraints are recorded below.
• OPEN investigation request (RootAtSkic, 2026-08-18): review the attached Hermes container startup log and identify improvements, but do not change anything yet. No response or approved implementation was present in the fetched history; RootAtSkic followed up twice asking whether Hermes was alive. Source attachment: Discord message 1539151473189978142, message.txt.

Hermes startup-log investigation — 2026-08-18 (read-only)

• CONFIRMED log observations: container setup exited successfully and the supervised gateway started, but setup spent 424.296399 seconds between “Changing hermes UID to 568” and “Changing hermes GID to 568” (425.036112 seconds from the UID step through setup completion). The cause is UNKNOWN from this log alone; recursive ownership work is a candidate to investigate, not a confirmed diagnosis.
• The lifecycle ledger reported the previous gateway life as an unclean exit consistent with SIGKILL / OOM / VM death, while recording suspected_oom=False, about 297,604 KiB RSS, abundant available memory and no swap use at its last heartbeat. The exact exit cause remains UNKNOWN.
• Startup marked two interrupted cron executions unknown after restart. It also logged repeated operational friction: hermes: command not found in tool shells, discord.server_actions configured with unsupported action all, unavailable web-dependent tools because check_web_api_key returned false, Git commands launched outside a repository, and one command held for security approval.
• CONFIRMED security warning: the API server was bound to 0.0.0.0 while terminal.backend was local/unsandboxed, meaning trusted-network firewalling or a sandboxed terminal backend should be evaluated. This is an investigation finding only; RootAtSkic explicitly prohibited configuration changes at this stage.

Live DIMM inventory — 2026-08-25 (read-only)

• Host SMBIOS Type 17 reports 96 GiB installed as 2 × 48 GiB G.Skill DDR5 UDIMMs, part F5-5200J4040A48G, dual-rank. The DIMMs advertise 4800 MT/s in SMBIOS and are configured at 4400 MT/s.
• The board manual identifies the physical channels/slots as DDR5_A1, DDR5_A2, DDR5_B1, and DDR5_B2; its priority-two-DIMM configuration is DDR5_A2 + DDR5_B2. This matches RootAtSkic's recollection of one DIMM in channel A and one in channel B.
• Firmware exposes those two occupied records under Intel internal locator names Controller0-ChannelA-DIMM1 and Controller1-ChannelA-DIMM1; these strings must not be presented as the motherboard's physical channel labels. Their SMBIOS/SPD serial identifiers are FC5AF1F5 and 765377F8. These eight-hex-digit IDs may differ from a longer serial/barcode printed on each DIMM label.
• OPEN verification concern (RootAtSkic, 2026-08-25): one reported eight-character identifier contains letters while the other contains only numerals. The fetched window contains no response resolving that concern. Treat both values only as unverified SMBIOS-reported hexadecimal identifiers—not confirmed physical-label serial numbers—until raw records/SPD or DIMM labels are independently checked. Source: Discord message 1541875756626354266.
• SMBIOS does not expose module manufacturing week/year. Determining production date requires readable SPD EEPROM data or inspection of the physical DIMM labels; neither was available from the container during this check.

Source anchor

• Latest processed human message: 1543961473745944586 (2026-08-31 12:31 UTC). RootAtSkic asked why Hermes had not answered Giedrius K's channel-visibility question; the open incident and next action are recorded above.

TrueNAS Stability Incident — 2026-08-17

• TrueNAS 26.0.0-BETA.2 on nas.lego-cloud.eu underwent full-host boots at 11:02:52, 12:16:18, 12:32:13, and 13:52:25 Europe/Vilnius time. Docker/containerd restarts were consequences, not the initial cause.
• Recursive recovery of /var/lib/systemd/pstore proved that all observed Aug 17 outages followed explicit kernel panics. Fifteen panic records are persisted from Aug 4–17, all using kernel 6.18.23-production+truenas and OpenZFS 2.4.1-1.
• A repeated signature across earlier boots faults on the same impossible address 0x04000034 in __mutex_lock, called through dbuf_find / dbuf_hold_impl in ZFS. The latest panic occurred at 16:01:52 Europe/Vilnius and rebooted at about 16:03:50: process rg under UID 10000 (verified as the Hermes user) triggered an OverlayFS xattr read that faulted on non-canonical pointer 0x7fff8a3979c65828 in nvt_lookup_name_type -> nvlist_lookup_common -> zpl_xattr_get_sa [zfs]. A prior panic also involved Hermes rg and the same ZFS xattr/nvlist area. Hermes should avoid search_files/ripgrep on this TrueNAS-hosted container until the kernel/OpenZFS issue is fixed, using bounded read_file and Python traversal instead. Other panics involve ZFS ARC/dbuf/list corruption and kernel page accounting. This makes a TrueNAS 26/OpenZFS/kernel regression or use-after-free a strong primary candidate; broad userspace segfaults leave CPU/RAM corruption as a material secondary possibility.
• Current pool and Apps recovered healthy, with no storage or memory-capacity pressure. BMC reports no current power, fan, or overload fault; historical last_power_event is ac failed without a timestamp. EDAC counters are 0 corrected / 0 uncorrected on both controllers, and no MCE/APEI event appears in panic captures.
• CPU is an Intel i9-14900KS running microcode 0x12F (current Intel mitigation level). Stable boot environment 25.10.3 remains available; kdump_enabled is false.
• Best discriminator is booting 25.10.3: if panics stop under the same workload, the beta kernel/OpenZFS stack is implicated; if they continue, proceed to offline RAM/CPU testing and conservative BIOS defaults. Preserve pstore files for a TrueNAS bug report.
• TrueNAS support feedback requested hardware elimination before SA-xattr investigation: several full MemTest86+ passes, verify latest board BIOS and Intel-default CPU power/voltage settings, test known-good ECC UDIMMs if possible, and attach all 15 pstore records. A 15-record archive was prepared at /opt/data/tmp/truenas-pstore-15-panics-2026-08-17.tar.gz (SHA-256 ff82f38c265931f6132ea377d4f14aa25741d32fcb3e2a268148b1614b817b81). The files contain the private hostname/pool name, so attach them to the support ticket rather than publishing indiscriminately.
• ECC-memory investigation: target is the board maximum, 192 GB ECC = 4 × 48 GB DDR5 ECC UDIMM. ASRock Rack officially supports 288-pin DDR5 1.1 V ECC/non-ECC UDIMMs only on W680D4U-2L2T/G5, maximum 48 GB/DIMM with 14th-gen Core. Four 48 GB 2Rx8 DIMMs are 2DPC dual-rank and should operate at the board-supported 3600 MT/s; 5600 is the DIMM rating, not expected installed speed. Intel officially lists ECC support for i9-14900KS. The exact 48 GB QVL module is SMART SR6G7UD5385MB01; specification-compatible but not individually QVL-listed alternatives include Kingston KSM56E46BD8KM-48HA, Micron MTC20C2085S1EC56BR, and Samsung M323R6GA3BB0-CWM. Buy four identical modules from one revision/lot; never RDIMM/LRDIMM. No Lithuanian retailer or EU distributor page checked on 2026-08-17 verified four exact 48 GB modules in stock, so the QVL SMART part likely needs special ordering. For lower capacities, exact QVL SKUs include Kingston KSM48E40BD8KM-32HM/KSM48E40BS8KM-16HM, Micron MTC20C2085S1EC48BA1, and Samsung M324R4GA3BB0-CQK0L; do not confuse Samsung M323R4GA3BB0-CQK0L (QVL non-ECC) with ECC.