The dedicated server (app 380870) and the client are packaged separately and
have drifted. Base.Log_Stack_01 was removed from the client in 42.16, but the
server package still ships entity_logstack.txt.
The server registers every script it can see into a new world's
WorldDictionary, so the entry lands in the save, and every client then fails at
world load with:
WorldDictionaryException: [SpriteConfigs] Missing dictionary script on
client: Base.Log_Stack_01
Nothing in multiplayer can legitimately reference a script that no client has,
so dropping it server-side costs nothing.
The strip runs after the SteamCMD update rather than once at install time on
purpose: validate restores the file on every boot, so it has to be removed on
every boot too.
Note this does not repair a world whose dictionary already records the entry --
that save still needs regenerating.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The logrotate config added with the Sophie overhaul claimed to bound PZ's own
logs. It did not. data/Logs had reached 18 GB across 112 entries and 146k
files, and rotation had never once fired there.
Two reasons, both wrong assumptions on my part. PZ rolls its logs into dated
directories -- logs_2025-12-14/ through logs_2026-08-26/, up to 279 MB each --
so the Logs/*.txt glob only ever matched a handful of loose files at the top.
And it rotates by size: not one file in that tree exceeds 100M, because the
growth is in the number of files, not the size of any of them.
Age-based pruning is the right tool, so this adds a daily zomboid-log-prune
timer keeping 14 days and deleting the emptied directories behind it. It runs
under podman unshare, since the files belong to the container's UID.
logrotate keeps server-console.txt, which is a single ever-growing file and
genuinely is what it is good at. Narrowed its scope to say so rather than
implying coverage it never had.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
On 42.20.3 the server loaded 279 of the preset's 283 mods and reported the
other four as "required mod ... not found". None of it was a download problem:
all 256 workshop items fetched, and every one of these four is in the preset's
own WorkshopItems= list. Only the ID each is referenced by has drifted.
Checked against the id= field of the mod.info files on disk rather than folder
names, which are unrelated to mod IDs -- an early look at folder names was
misleading here.
FWOBenchPress&Treadmill -> FWOBenchPressTreadmill (stray ampersand)
Ladders42131 -> Ladders4220 (per-build variants;
42131 is the 42.16 one)
ServingPlatesB42 -> ServingPlates42
NewMusic_OrchestraMix -> NewMusic_CMM (renamed upstream to
"Classical Music Mix")
Kept as a rename map applied at template time rather than edited into the
vendored list, so the list stays a faithful copy of upstream and re-vendoring
a newer preset keeps the corrections.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The flag was gated on the admin database not existing yet, treating the file's
presence as proof the admin user had been created. It is not: PZ creates the
DB file in ServerWorldDatabase.create() before it creates the admin user, so a
boot interrupted between the two leaves a database with no admin in it.
After that the guard withheld -adminpassword on every subsequent start, the
server fell back to an interactive "Enter new administrator password:" prompt,
read EOF because a detached container has no stdin, and died with
NoSuchElementException. systemd restarted it into exactly the same state, 50
times, which is how this was found.
Passing it unconditionally costs nothing when the admin already exists and
removes the deadlock entirely.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dropping -beta from app_update does not leave a beta branch. SteamCMD wrote
"public" into the manifest's UserConfig and left MountedConfig on "unstable",
so the install stayed on the 42.14.1 build from February while reporting
success. The config had already moved to the bare mod-ID syntax that 42.20+
wants, and 42.14.1 still requires the backslash prefix, so all 283 mods
loaded as "required mod ... not found" and the server came up vanilla.
Naming the branch explicitly is what actually remounts the content.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
logrotate warns that size overrides daily, and it is right: with both set the
time directive does nothing. The daily timer is when the config gets checked;
100M is when it rotates. Saying so in a comment rather than in a directive
that has no effect.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The deployment had drifted badly. It was pinned to the Steam `-beta unstable`
branch, which stopped being right the moment B42 became the default at 42.20,
and it wrote every mod ID with the `\` prefix that B42 required only during
that unstable period and now rejects. Three server profiles were carried
around (vanilla, modded, b42revamp) whose mod lists were hand-curated blobs
from a Steam collection that has since moved on.
Moves to the Sophie 42 community preset, vendored from GerDeathstar/sophie-pz
("Sophie 42 Files.zip", 2026-07-31 == the b42 release tag): 283 mod IDs, 256
workshop items, map_distanciado over Muldraugh, plus its SandboxVars,
spawnregions and spawnpoints. Sophie's gameplay settings are kept exactly as
shipped -- PVP with its damage modifiers, the safety system, MaxPlayers=32,
PauseEmpty, no sleep, safehouses off. Only the keys this deployment actually
owns are templated over the top.
The modlist is stored as YAML lists rather than the INI's semicolon blobs, so
the next Sophie update produces a diff you can read. Exclusions live in
zomboid_mods_excluded with a reason each, seeded with IconsInventory -- already
absent upstream, listed so a re-vendor cannot quietly bring it back.
Config is now seeded before first boot instead of patched after it. The old
approach could not write the INI until the server had generated one, so every
setting went through lineinfile guarded on a stat; seeding the whole file from
the preset removes the chicken-and-egg and puts the config in git. force is
off by design: these files are a starting point, not managed state, so the
server can be stopped, hand-edited and regenerated without Ansible clobbering
the edits. Push them again deliberately with -e zomboid_config_force=true.
The B41 Discord keys were dead. B42 replaced DiscordChannel/DiscordChannelID
with DiscordChatChannel, which takes a channel name rather than a snowflake,
so the DiscordChannelID=... this role had been appending was a key the server
ignores and the chat bridge has not been working.
Renaming the server to debbzoid is what starts the new world: PZ derives the
INI, save directory and player DB from the name, so gregboid stays on disk
untouched as a rollback.
Re-enabled, because the reason it was off is now fixed. It was disabled for
saturating the SSD -- ~10 MB/s of log writes into the shared journal, which
starved Gitea CI badly enough to stretch a firmware build to 17 minutes. The
container now logs to its own rotating k8s-file instead of the journal every
other service shares, and logrotate caps the server's own server-console.txt
and Logs/ at 100M keeping 3. copytruncate is mandatory there: PZ holds those
fds for its whole life, so a rename would leave it writing into an unlinked
inode. Memory is unchanged; idle draw is nowhere near MAX_RAM.
Also stops the entrypoint recursively chowning the install tree on every boot.
With 256 workshop mods that is a large inode walk and pure churn once the
first run has set ownership.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add ollama role for local LLM inference (install, service, models)
- Add searxng container for private search
- Migrate hostname from home.bdebyl.net to home.debyl.io
(inventory, awsddns, zomboid entrypoint, home_server_name)
- Update vault with new secrets
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Deploy systemd path unit that watches for trigger file from Discord
bot and executes world reset script to delete saves and restart server.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Deploy systemd timer that writes zomboid container stats to
zomboid-stats.json every 30 seconds for gregtime to read.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
