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fix(deploy): make auto_deploy.sh's failures impossible to hide - #124

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Summary

  • scripts/auto_deploy.sh (the Oracle VM's deploy-polling cron) went silent for 16+ hours on 2026-09-17 — last log line was a GHCR pull failure at 01:48 UTC, then ~190 cron ticks produced zero log output even though a real commit (PR fix(build-poller): stop treating action_required/cancelled as build failure #123) was waiting to deploy the whole time.
  • Root cause: every command except the explicit if ! cmd; then log ...; exit 1; fi ones was unguarded under set -euo pipefail. Any transient failure elsewhere (git fetch, git rev-parse, docker compose images -q) killed the script instantly before it reached a log() call, leaving no trace.
  • Fix: exec >> "$LOG_FILE" 2>&1 right after computing LOG_FILE routes every command's stdout/stderr into the log unconditionally, plus an ERR trap that logs the failing line number and exit code for anything that still slips past an explicit check. Quiet-on-true-no-op behavior (nothing changed, no new image) is unchanged.
  • I manually deployed PR fix(build-poller): stop treating action_required/cancelled as build failure #123's fix to production directly via SSH in the meantime since this cron was down.

Test plan

  • bash -n scripts/auto_deploy.sh — syntax check passes
  • Ran the script manually on the VM end-to-end (fetch → merge → pull → up -d) after the change — worked cleanly
  • No behavior change on a true no-op tick (still silent, no new log line)

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  • Chores
    • Improved deployment logging by capturing command output in a unified deployment log.
    • Added clearer reporting for unexpected deployment failures.

Every command in the script except the explicit `if ! cmd; then log
...; exit 1; fi` ones was unguarded under `set -euo pipefail` — a
transient failure anywhere else (git fetch, git rev-parse, docker
compose images -q) killed the script instantly with zero log output,
since log() was only called at specific checkpoints.

This is exactly what happened 2026-09-17: the last deploy.log line was
a GHCR pull failure at 01:48 UTC, then 16+ hours and ~190 cron ticks
passed with nothing logged at all — including ticks that had a real
commit waiting to deploy — because whatever failed died before
reaching its own log() call.

Fix: `exec >> "$LOG_FILE" 2>&1` right after computing LOG_FILE routes
every command's stdout/stderr into the log unconditionally, and an ERR
trap logs the failing line + exit code for anything that still slips
past an explicit check. Quiet-on-true-no-op behavior is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0164NJHTuZYetWhRoUVqPKbR
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The deployment script now redirects stdout and stderr to the deployment log. The log function uses this shared output path. An ERR trap records unexpected failures. Deployment commands no longer use individual log redirections.

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Deployment logging

Layer / File(s) Summary
Global output handling and command integration
scripts/auto_deploy.sh
The script redirects output globally, simplifies log, and logs unexpected failures through an ERR trap. Merge, image-pull, and Compose startup commands use the shared redirection.

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Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 74e0d

A Docker image-query failure can still leave the deployment log without the reason for failure, making diagnosis harder even though the deployment does fail visibly in the log.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the deployment script and the main change: preventing failures from being hidden by improving failure logging.
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In `@scripts/auto_deploy.sh`:
- Line 69: Update the BEFORE_IDS Docker compose images command in the deployment
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Comment thread scripts/auto_deploy.sh
@@ -55,7 +68,7 @@ fi
# instead of trying to predict whether CI has finished publishing yet.
BEFORE_IDS="$(docker compose -f "$COMPOSE_FILE" images -q backend ui 2>/dev/null)"

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep Docker error output in the deployment log.

2>/dev/null overrides the global redirection at Line 33. If docker compose images -q fails, the ERR trap logs only the line number and exit code. It does not log the Docker failure reason. Remove this redirect so the deployment log contains the actionable diagnostic.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@scripts/auto_deploy.sh` at line 69, Update the BEFORE_IDS Docker compose
images command in the deployment script to remove its stderr suppression,
allowing Docker failure diagnostics to remain visible in the deployment log and
be captured by the existing ERR trap.

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