:host labels run jobs directly on the container filesystem with no
isolation. Replace all arch-specific :host labels with
:docker://ubuntu:latest so every job runs inside its own container
regardless of the runner host architecture.
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh: amd64/arm64/linux labels use docker://ubuntu:latest not :host
- README.md: remove :host from external runner label examples
README.md
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh
Detect the host architecture at container startup and prepend
arch-specific labels to RUNNER_LABELS so matrix workflows can target
native runners by architecture:
runs-on: amd64 → dispatched to x86_64 runners
runs-on: arm64 → dispatched to aarch64 runners
runs-on: linux/amd64 / runs-on: linux/arm64 (OCI-style)
On x86_64: adds amd64:host and linux/amd64:host
On aarch64: adds arm64:host and linux/arm64:host
This enables a dedicated ARM64 server running the same image to register
native arm64 runners against the same Gitea instance, allowing full
multi-arch matrix CI without emulation.
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh: detect arch, prepend arch labels to RUNNER_LABELS
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh
Docker writes /etc/resolv.conf at container start before PID1 launches,
and again asynchronously when the network finishes initializing. The
entrypoint's early copy gets overwritten by Docker's second write.
Re-applying the custom resolv.conf in __run_precopy (init.d phase)
happens after Docker's network setup is complete, so the search . and
options ndots:0 settings stick for the full container lifetime.
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh: copy custom resolv.conf in __run_precopy
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh
DATABASE_DIR fix:
The previous override hardcoded $DATA_DIR/db/sqlite, ignoring
DATABASE_DIR_SQLITE when it was explicitly set via env var. Changed
to respect DATABASE_DIR_SQLITE and only fall back to $DATA_DIR/db/sqlite
when the env var is not provided.
README:
- docker run and compose examples updated to match actual working flags:
--cgroupns private, --tty, --cap-add CHOWN/SYS_TIME/SYS_ADMIN,
--hostname FQDN, --domainname, GITEA_PROTO, DATABASE_DIR_SQLITE
with a separate sqlite volume mount
- Removed non-functional vars from examples (CONTAINER_PROTOCOL,
CONTAINER_DEFAULT_DATABASE_TYPE, DATABASE_BASE_DIR, WEB_PORT)
- Added DATABASE_DIR_SQLITE to the database env var table
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh: respect DATABASE_DIR_SQLITE env var
- README.md: fix docker run/compose examples, add DATABASE_DIR_SQLITE to table
README.md
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh
DATABASE_DIR fix (08-gitea.sh):
DATABASE_SERVICE_TYPE="sqlite" triggers a generic block that appends
/$SERVER_NAME to /data/db/sqlite. Before the SERVER_NAME fix that was
empty giving /data/db/sqlite//gitea.db; even after it would be
/data/db/sqlite/<hostname> not under DATA_DIR. Re-pin DATABASE_DIR to
$DATA_DIR/db/sqlite after the generic block.
README rewrite:
- Full env var reference table (GITEA_SERVER, GITEA_PROTO, GITEA_NAME,
GITEA_ADMIN, GITEA_EMAIL_*, GITEA_SQL_*, ACT_RUNNER_FALLBACK_VERSION,
RUNNERS_START, DOMAIN, DEBUGGER)
- Volume and port tables
- Production notes: --privileged required, GITEA_SERVER must be set,
mailer disabled by default, DNS override explained
- Canonical section order: Docker → Development → License
- README.md: full rewrite with env vars, volumes, ports, and production notes
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh: fix DATABASE_DIR to always use $DATA_DIR/db/sqlite
README.md
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh
Two substitution bugs fixed:
act_runner (zz-act_runner.sh):
- REPLACE_RUNNER_* tokens were only substituted inside the registration
block (guarded by SYS_AUTH_TOKEN + runners file absence). If gitea
wasn't ready on first boot, the file was copied with tokens intact
and never substituted on subsequent boots.
- Fix: substitute tokens immediately after copy, unconditionally.
Registration logic remains gated on auth token availability.
gitea app.ini (08-gitea.sh):
- REPLACE_SERVER_NAME and REPLACE_SERVER_PROTO had no matching env
vars — the script used HOSTNAME and SERVICE_PROTOCOL instead, so
__initialize_replace_variables left those tokens unsubstituted.
- Fix: export SERVER_NAME="${DOMAIN:-$HOSTNAME}" and
SERVER_PROTO="${SERVICE_PROTOCOL:-http}" as aliases after the
HOSTNAME chain is resolved.
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh: add SERVER_NAME and SERVER_PROTO aliases for token substitution
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh: move REPLACE_ substitution outside registration guard
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh
Hosts with a search domain (e.g. search casjay.dev) cause containers
to inherit it. When that zone has a wildcard AAAA record, public
hostnames like github.com resolve to the host's own IPv6 address
instead of the real server, breaking all HTTPS (and any other
protocol) from inside the container.
The entrypoint already has a hook: if /usr/local/etc/resolv.conf
exists it replaces /etc/resolv.conf at container startup. Ship a
clean resolv.conf with Cloudflare + Google DNS and no search domain
so container DNS is always correct regardless of host configuration.
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/resolv.conf: new file — clean DNS, no search domain
rootfs/usr/local/etc/resolv.conf
HOSTNAME resolution now tries hostname -f (FQDN) before falling back
to the short $HOSTNAME, giving a usable ROOT_URL out of the box on
hosts where the FQDN is set in /etc/hosts or DNS.
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh: HOSTNAME fallback
chain: GITEA_SERVER → GITEA_HOSTNAME → FULL_DOMAIN_NAME →
hostname -f → $HOSTNAME
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh
Two issues with existing persistent volumes:
1. Deprecated app.ini settings ([cors].X_FRAME_OPTIONS,
[picture].DISABLE_GRAVATAR, [picture].ENABLE_FEDERATED_AVATAR) were
baked into the volume config from the old template and never removed
on subsequent container starts.
2. ROOT_URL/DOMAIN/SSH_DOMAIN were substituted once on first run from
the container hostname and never updated when GITEA_SERVER/GITEA_PROTO
env vars changed, causing the "Mismatched ROOT_URL" warning.
Fix: add migration + dynamic resync in __update_conf_files (08-gitea.sh)
that runs on every startup against both the persistent (/config/gitea)
and runtime (/etc/gitea) copies of app.ini, so changes take effect
immediately without a second restart.
Set GITEA_PROTO=https and GITEA_SERVER=git.casjay.work to populate
the correct ROOT_URL at container start.
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh: add dynamic ROOT_URL
resync and deprecated-setting removal to __update_conf_files
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh
Runners were launched in parallel subshells with only a 2-second gap
between them. act_runner register is a network call; if Gitea was
still warming up any registration could race past an earlier one,
causing Gitea to assign IDs out of sequence (1,3,2,5,4 instead of
1,2,3,4,5).
Split into two phases: register all runners sequentially first so IDs
are assigned in the correct order, then launch all daemons in parallel
once every runner is confirmed registered.
- rootfs/usr/local/bin/start-runners: split __start_runner into
__register_runner (sequential, phase 1) and __start_runner_daemon
(parallel, phase 2); remove the sleep 2 workaround
rootfs/usr/local/bin/start-runners
Fixes three bugs discovered during live container testing.
The critical bug was a bash post-increment no-op: `exitCode=$((exitCode++))`
assigns the *old* value back to the variable, so exitCode stays 0 even
when a download fails. This caused the Docker build to succeed silently
when the gitea binary download failed, publishing a broken image to Docker Hub.
- rootfs/root/docker/setup/05-custom.sh: change exitCode=$((exitCode++)) to
exitCode=$((exitCode + 1)) in both the gitea and act_runner failure handlers
- rootfs/usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh: change CONTAINER_NAME and description
from "archlinux" (copied template default) to "gitea"
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh: remove leading space from
[ -d " /config/ssh" ] path test so the directory existence check is correct
.claude/
rootfs/root/docker/setup/05-custom.sh
rootfs/usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh
Three more bugs found during full component verification:
1. RUNNER_CONFIG_DEFAULT pointed to config.yaml but the actual
template filename is default_config.yaml — gitea named runner
never registered because the file-existence check always failed.
2. CACHE_CONFIG_FILE pointed to cache.yaml but the actual template
filename is cache_server.yaml — cache-server launch always
skipped silently.
3. act_runner v1.0.6 requires cache.external_secret on both the
cache-server and any runner using external_server; neither config
had it, so cache-server exited immediately and runner registration
failed when external_server was present in default_config.yaml.
4. Registration log redirect was 2>/dev/stdout >>"$log" (stderr went
to original stdout, not the log); corrected to >>"$log" 2>&1.
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh:
- RUNNER_CONFIG_DEFAULT: config.yaml → default_config.yaml
- CACHE_CONFIG_FILE: cache.yaml → cache_server.yaml
- fix registration log redirect: >>"$RUNNER_LOG_FILE" 2>&1
- rootfs/tmp/etc/act_runner/default_config.yaml: remove
external_server (no shared secret configured; each runner uses
its own internal cache)
- rootfs/tmp/etc/act_runner/cache_server.yaml: set enabled: false
(cache-server requires external_secret; disabled until a proper
shared-secret setup is added)
Verified: 6 daemons on fresh start (1 gitea named + 5 runners), all
with 22 labels; clean reconnect on restart with no re-registration.
rootfs/tmp/etc/act_runner/cache_server.yaml
rootfs/tmp/etc/act_runner/default_config.yaml
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh
Runner registration was broken by three compounding bugs:
1. Token generated at script init time (before gitea was ready)
2. gitea CLI missing --work-path/--custom-path flags, writing fatal
log messages to stdout which got captured as the token value
3. Token assignment inside a piped subshell didn't propagate back
to the parent shell, leaving SYS_AUTH_TOKEN empty at runtime
4. INSTALL_LOCK=false in app.ini template caused gitea to start in
install-wizard mode, making generate-runner-token always fail
- rootfs/tmp/etc/gitea/app.ini: set INSTALL_LOCK=true so gitea
auto-initializes the SQLite DB on first run
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh:
- defer SYS_AUTH_TOKEN: initialize to empty at global scope,
generate in __run_pre_execute_checks after gitea is confirmed up
- add --work-path/--custom-path to gitea CLI call; filter output
with grep -oE '[A-Za-z0-9]{20,}' to extract only the token
- guard token generation on INSTALL_LOCK=true in app.ini
- read token back from $CONF_DIR/tokens/system after the piped
__run_pre_execute_checks call returns (subshell escape)
Tested: fresh start registers all 5 runners with full 22-label set;
restart skips re-registration and reconnects all 5 daemons cleanly.
rootfs/tmp/etc/gitea/app.ini
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh
When su_exec is empty (service runs as root, no user-switching needed),
printf '%q ' $su_exec expands to the literal string '' which gets embedded
in the generated start script as a command prefix, causing bash to try
executing a program named '' and failing immediately. Also add explicit
PATH and HOME exports to the RESET_ENV=no generated script so services
are not dependent on environment inheritance.
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/05-dockerd.sh: fix _q_su assignment
in both RESET_ENV branches to use ${su_exec:+...} so it's empty string
(not '') when su_exec is empty; fix format string %s%s (no space between
su and cmd, su already carries trailing space); add PATH and HOME exports
to RESET_ENV=no generated script
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh: same fixes
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh: same fixes
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/05-dockerd.sh
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh
The daemon was called with --config pointing at the .runner registration
state file (JSON), not a YAML config. act_runner rejected it immediately
on every start, so all runners were always offline and never reconnected.
Also fix log truncation and stale fallback labels.
- rootfs/usr/local/bin/start-runners: remove --config from act_runner
daemon invocation (act_runner finds .runner in CWD automatically after
cd "$runner_dir"); fix __log to append (>>) instead of truncate (>);
update fallback RUNNER_LABELS to match the full label set defined in
zz-act_runner.sh
rootfs/usr/local/bin/start-runners
Was added as a reference artifact during framework migration work
and should not live in the repo.
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/00-server01.sh: deleted
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/00-server01.sh
Fix all undefined variable references and logic errors that would
prevent runner registration and daemon startup from working.
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh: fix GITEA_USER
typo (missing $ before SERVICE_USER); define 9 previously undefined
variables: RUNNER_IP_ADDRESS, RUNNER_CONFIG_DEFAULT, RUNNER_DEFAULT_HOME,
RUNNER_CONFIG_NAME, RUNNER_LOG_FILE, RUNNER_DAEMON_LOG, RUNNER_CACHE_HOST,
CACHE_CONFIG_FILE, CACHE_LOG_FILE; swap ctime/waitTime local declarations
so ctime is defined before waitTime uses it; quote act_runner daemon and
cache-server --config paths
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh
Update the embedded entrypoint copies in rootfs/ to match the
upstream template change. Internal state files renamed to dotfiles
so they're not matched by `/run/*.pid` cleanup globs:
- /run/init.d/entrypoint.pid -> /run/.entrypoint.pid
- /run/no_exit.pid -> /run/.no_exit.pid
- /run/backup.pid -> /run/.backup.pid
- /run/__start_init_scripts.pid -> /run/.start_init_scripts.pid
Per-service PIDs in /run/init.d/ are unchanged.
rootfs/usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/functions/entrypoint.sh
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/05-dockerd.sh
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/08-gitea.sh
rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh
rootfs/usr/local/share/template-files/config/env/default.sample
rootfs/usr/local/share/template-files/config/env/examples/zz-entrypoint.sh
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