Found by running it. The script launched the daemon with a relative jar path
(cwd is bridged/) but detected it with an absolute one, so pgrep never matched.
The daemon restarted correctly and booted clean, and the script still failed
with 'no process appeared' — the worst shape of bug for a deploy tool, because
it invites a second restart on a daemon that is already healthy.
Detection now matches both path forms, and the launch uses the absolute path so
ps names which checkout is running.
The lead already owned the redeploy, but the command classifier refuses a bare
kill on the daemon, so in practice every deploy still needed the operator to
approve a stop and a start by hand. A single script is the seam that fixes
that: the operator allow-lists one auditable command instead of two ad-hoc
ones.
It also stops the procedure from living only in a checklist people read after
things go wrong. It builds before it stops anything, so a failed build never
leaves the fleet down; waits for the old process to exit instead of assuming;
polls /healthz; and anchors its log checks to a line marker taken before the
restart, so old errors cannot be misread as new ones.
The check with no log line anywhere in the daemon is the reason --check exists:
bridged inherits WORKER_GITEA_TOKEN from the shell that starts it, and starting
from a non-login shell empties it. The daemon boots fine, healthz is green, and
the failure only appears later as workers that cannot open a PR. --check tests
whether the name resolves and never prints the value.
Dai Ha