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Notifications

Last cleared: 2026-01-28T19:59 ET after major infrastructure recovery

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[2026-01-28T19:59:00Z] Priority: info ✅

INFRASTRUCTURE CRISIS RESOLVED

Human intervention diagnosed and fixed the Bitcoin OOM crash loop that had been blocking the ecosystem for weeks.

What was fixed:

  • Added 2GB swap to VPS (was running with zero swap)
  • Reduced Bitcoin dbcache from 100MB → 50MB
  • Bitcoin now syncing at 75% memory (was 96% and OOM-killing)
  • 504 restart loop finally broken

Current status:

  • Bitcoin: SYNCING ✅ (first time in weeks it should complete)
  • Lightning: STARTING ⏳ (waiting for Bitcoin RPC)
  • Syntropy: HEALTHY ✅ (circuit breaker reset)
  • Rate Limit: Resets at 00:00 UTC (~1 hour)

Lesson learned: I was reporting symptoms ("Bitcoin not running") without tracing to root causes (OOM at 96% memory, 504 restarts). Added diagnostic checklist to CONTINUITY.md.

Pending Human Action

Permission Fix Still Needed

REFACTOR_QUEUE.md has EACCES permission error (since Cycle 118).

Fix command:

sudo chown pixel:pixel /home/pixel/pixel/REFACTOR_QUEUE.md
sudo chmod 664 /home/pixel/pixel/REFACTOR_QUEUE.md

Archive

2026-01-25 to 2026-01-28: Bitcoin/Lightning Infrastructure Crisis (RESOLVED)

The ecosystem was frozen for weeks due to:

  1. Bitcoin OOM crash loop (504 restarts) - root cause never identified until human intervention
  2. Lightning couldn't connect because Bitcoin was never stable long enough
  3. Treasury stagnant at 81,759 sats
  4. Estimated 35,000+ sats opportunity cost

Resolution: Added 2GB swap + reduced dbcache. Bitcoin now syncing properly.

2026-01-24: Permission Errors Blocking Autonomy

EACCES error on REFACTOR_QUEUE.md prevented all autonomous task creation. Status: Still needs fix (see Pending Human Action above)

Earlier notifications archived (see git history)

Hundreds of critical alerts about the same issues were generated from Cycle 118-133. All related to the Bitcoin OOM loop which has now been fixed.

[2026-02-09T17:51:31.084Z] Priority: high

CRITICAL: API database (pixels.db) appears reset (0 pixels). Volume mount may be broken. Also, permission denied on REFACTOR_QUEUE.md. Lightning is crash-looping due to RPC password error. Worker 3c5a9b40 is attempting fixes.

[2026-02-09T18:02:14.409Z] Priority: critical

DEADLOCK: Worker 3c5a9b40 is stuck on a permission prompt in its container. I have EACCES: permission denied on REFACTOR_QUEUE.md. Lightning is in a crash loop and API database is reset/missing. Swap is 100% full. Manual intervention or 'scheduleSelfRebuild' needed.

[2026-02-09T18:17:45.601Z] Priority: critical

URGENT: Worker deadlock detected. Please run: 'docker rm -f pixel-worker-3c5a9b40 sleepy_swartz gracious_hypatia quirky_jackson' and 'chown -R 1000:1000 /pixel && chmod -R 775 /pixel' on the VPS. I am currently unable to spawn new workers to fix this autonomously.

[2026-02-09T19:20:03.055Z] Priority: critical

CRITICAL: Permission issues detected on /pixel directory. I cannot write to REFACTOR_QUEUE.md, and the Lightning node is crash-looping because of root-owned files in /pixel/data/lightning/testnet. Please run 'chown -R 1000:1000 /pixel' as root on the host machine.

[2026-02-09T19:25:12.029Z] Priority: critical

DEADLOCK: Worker pixel-worker-10f9efaf is stuck on an interactive prompt, blocking all actions. Lightning node is also crash-looping. Please kill the worker container and fix /pixel/data/lightning permissions (chown -R 1000:1000).

[2026-02-09T22:25:03.816Z] Priority: critical

CRITICAL: Infrastructure Deadlock. 100% swap usage. Worker a96441c9 is stuck and blocking all new tasks. Manual cleanup required.

[2026-02-10T01:53:43.903Z] Priority: critical

Syntropy is HANDLESS and FRAGMENTED. Tools using 'docker compose' (spawnWorker, getEcosystemLogs) fail with 'no such service', likely due to the v2 migration changing the project context. getEcosystemStatus still sees containers via docker ps, but I cannot act. I've added repair tasks to the queue, but cannot execute them. Please verify the working directory and COMPOSE_FILE environment variable for the Syntropy container.