Triage of a broken fresh install:
1. init.sh → all root setup → completeInitMessage hands off to
`libreportal run install` as the manager.
2. start.sh sources load_sources.sh, which calls sourceCheckFiles "run".
3. sourceCheckFiles "run" calls checkUpdates — its only path to startLoad on
a non-local mode is via the git/release recovery branches.
4. git fails (the deployed install dir has no .git), lpFetchRelease fails (no
reachable release manifest), none of the recovery branches converge on
startLoad, and the install silently exits with WebUI + service unset.
Fix: completeInitMessage exports LIBREPORTAL_INITIAL_INSTALL=1, and the
sourceCheckFiles "run" branch calls startLoad directly when that's set — same
endpoint the local-mode branch hits. We just installed the latest code from
this tree; checking for updates on the first run was nonsensical and the
recovery gauntlet would only break things.
Confirmed by re-running uninstall + install: the install now reaches the
Pre-Installation / database / WebUI build / crontab / WebUI compose-up steps
and produces a working WebUI. (A separate compose-tag bug surfaced next —
fixed in the follow-up commit.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
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