Incident Records on EdS

INC-0001: The Beatles Played for a Request Nobody Made

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

INC-0001: The Beatles Played for a Request Nobody Made


Date	2026-10-24
Systems	`respeaker-01`, `eds-scribe` and `eds-voiced` on the services workload, nowplayd, the relay’s iTunes driver
Severity	An album nobody asked for replaced what was asked for. Recovery needed no more than asking again
Status	Open · Hardening
Times	UTC

Summary

The first request sent from the reSpeaker played Abbey Road. Its owner had asked for Aerosmith’s first album. scribe, given five seconds it could not make out, wrote back the prompt it had been given to spell names by - “Play Abbey Road by the Beatles.” - and voiced, which acted on any words scribe returned, read that as a request and sent play_album.

INC-0002: Deploys Hung the Core Router

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

INC-0002: Deploys Hung the Core Router


Date	2026-10-24
Systems	The mobile site’s core router; `deploy/` (`make ship`, `make load`), the Builder, the services workload
Severity	The mobile site’s routed traffic stopped, twice, until the owner rebooted the router; a deploy was left half done, with the services still on the version before
Status	Open · Hardening
Times	UTC

Summary

Every deploy sent every image from the Builder to the services workload, whether it had changed or not, as fast as it would go: about a gigabyte, most of it scribe’s 767 MB and palette’s 256 MB, through the core router that joins the Builder’s segment to the workload’s. That evening it was done eight times. During the eighth, and again when it was retried, the router hung, and the site’s routed traffic with it.

INC-0003: The Library Index Was Unreadable to voiced

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

INC-0003: The Library Index Was Unreadable to voiced, and Nothing Said So


Date	2026-10-24
Systems	`eds-voiced` on the services workload; `make -C deploy library`
Severity	Requests were answered as before the index (ADR-0045) rather than from it; some that it would have answered were not. Nothing wrong played
Status	Open · Hardening
Times	UTC

Summary

CHG-0040 copied the owner’s library index to /var/lib/eds-voiced with install, which labelled it var_lib_t. voiced’s container, which podman’s :Z gives container_file_t and its own categories, could not read it. voiced took an unreadable index for none, as it was written to, and said nothing: requests went on being guessed at.

INC-0004: The Stand Went Dark on One Channel

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

INC-0004: The Stand Went Dark Mid-Side, Because the Turntable Was Heard on One Channel and That One Went Silent


Date	2026-10-26
Systems	`npagent`’s turntable driver and `nowplayd` on the backend Pi; the UFO202 sound card; the Tape 1 output of the amplifier, an Onkyo A-8170 integrated amplifier from the mid-1980s; `lp-stand-01`
Severity	The stand dropped to standby for the rest of a side, and stayed there through a reboot. Nothing else was lost; every other source and device worked
Status	Open · Mitigated
Times	UTC

Summary

The turntable reaches the sound card through the Tape 1 output of an Onkyo A-8170, an integrated amplifier from the mid-1980s, whose aged tape selector contacts can drop a channel. Partway through a side, the left channel went silent. npagent records one channel, and what it records is the left, so it heard twenty seconds of silence, decided the record had stopped, and the stand went to standby while the record played on.