Turned on the act_runner Actions cache instead of leaving it disabled.
The standalone `cache-server` process was already being launched
unconditionally by zz-act_runner.sh but had no `external_secret`, so it
was refusing to start (the binary requires a non-empty secret even
though its own `cache.enabled` field is unused). Wired a shared,
randomly generated secret through the existing REPLACE_* templating
pattern so the "gitea" runner, the cache-server, and the extra
runner-N daemons spawned by start-runners all share one cache backend.
- rootfs/tmp/etc/act_runner/default_config.yaml: cache.enabled: true;
added external_server (pointed at the local cache-server) and
external_secret placeholders
- rootfs/tmp/etc/act_runner/cache_server.yaml: cache.enabled: true;
added external_secret placeholder (required for the binary to start)
- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/init.d/zz-act_runner.sh: added
__gen_cache_secret() (mirrors __gen_auth_token's persisted-token
pattern, stored at $CONF_DIR/tokens/cache_secret); substitutes
REPLACE_RUNNER_CACHE_SECRET into both the runner config and the
cache-server config; exports RUNNER_CACHE_HOST/PORT/SECRET for
start-runners; bumped version stamp
- rootfs/usr/local/bin/start-runners: generates a shared
runners-cache.yaml from the exported cache env vars and passes
--config to both `act_runner register` and `act_runner daemon` for
every runner-N instance, so they use the same external cache server
instead of an unshared per-process local cache
- TODO.AI.md: logged pre-existing script-lint findings (missing `--`
before grep queries throughout zz-act_runner.sh, a UUOC in
start-runners, an unpinned/stale docker.yaml CI workflow, and
forbidden OCI labels in the Dockerfile) surfaced incidentally by the
lint pass for this change but out of scope for it
Three more bugs found during full component verification:
1. RUNNER_CONFIG_DEFAULT pointed to config.yaml but the actual
template filename is default_config.yaml — gitea named runner
never registered because the file-existence check always failed.
2. CACHE_CONFIG_FILE pointed to cache.yaml but the actual template
filename is cache_server.yaml — cache-server launch always
skipped silently.
3. act_runner v1.0.6 requires cache.external_secret on both the
cache-server and any runner using external_server; neither config
had it, so cache-server exited immediately and runner registration
failed when external_server was present in default_config.yaml.
4. Registration log redirect was 2>/dev/stdout >>"$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
casjay
