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MonstrofilandClaude Opus 5 5316694795 Put FlashForge's klipperDaemon back on a printer that lost it (#20)
A stock package restores every path the mod points at itself except
/usr/prog/klipper/klipperDaemon, which it does not carry: not in the software
component, not in its md5sum.list, no line in run.sh. Whatever sits there
survives every stock flash and stock's start.sh calls it on each boot, so a
printer whose copy was replaced cannot be returned to stock at all -- the file
FlashForge shipped it with is gone, and no package of theirs will put one back.

anvil-core ships that copy now, and anvil-link-prog.sh restores it whenever it
finds a link into $MODDIR at that path -- on a flash and on an `apk upgrade`
alike. One update is enough, and it costs 845 bytes.

The population this is for is the one that keeps up to date: they took a
release that owned the file, they upgraded, and the link is still there --
dangling, since the payload no longer carries what it pointed at. Under the
mod nothing calls it and nothing looks wrong; the bill arrives when they flash
stock and get a UI with no Klipper. Owners who have already rolled back cannot
be reached from here at all and are served by the recovery package.

The shipped copy is FlashForge's, byte for byte, so it is in the parse list
and out of the shellcheck list: they write `mkdir -p $(dirname $KLIPPER_LOG)`
and a lint fix would put a script on printers that no FlashForge machine has
ever run. The replica asserts its md5 after the restore for the same reason.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-08 12:53:54 +03:00
MonstrofilandClaude Opus 5 1afd5dd2d2 Leave FlashForge's klipperDaemon alone (#19)
It is the one file a stock flash cannot undo, and replacing it is what left
owners with a printer that would not print. A stock package restores the other
two paths the mod points at itself -- its run.sh copies its own firmwareExe and
start.sh over them, and busybox `cp -f` unlinks a symlink rather than writing
through it. It carries no klipperDaemon at all: not in the software component,
not in its md5sum.list, no line in run.sh. So the link outlived the mod, and
stock's start.sh, whose last line is

    /usr/prog/klipper/klipperDaemon start

ran our shim, whose `start` does nothing on purpose. The UI came up, klippy did
not, and flashing stock again changed nothing because there was nothing in it
to change.

The shim guarded that same line: klippy is an s6-rc longrun here, and stock's
klipperDaemon forks a second, unsupervised one that fights it for /dev/ttyS4
and /tmp/uds. But no caller is left on a modded machine. Our own start.sh
replaces stock's and asks s6-rc; FlashForge's firmwareExe execs
/usr/prog/klipper/start.sh and names no other script (`strings` on their
binary); Moonraker runs with `provider: none`, so a restart from Mainsail goes
over the API rather than through a service script; ff-startup and S70klipper
drove it once and neither exists now. What remains is a person typing
`klipperDaemon start` over ssh, who gets FlashForge's behaviour and a second
klippy -- s6-rc and s6-svc are the supported way, and that trade buys back a
printer that can be returned to stock.

test_install.py asks the machine the inverted question now: klipperDaemon is
not a link into $MODDIR, it exists, and it is FlashForge's own script.

Printers that already took an earlier release still carry the link and cannot
be repaired from here -- nothing of ours runs during a stock flash. The
package at Klipper4FlashForge/stock-recovery puts their copy back.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-08 11:33:55 +03:00
MonstrofilandClaude Opus 5 0747bc500b Keep the config in a directory of our own (#16)
* Keep the config in a directory of our own

Flashing a stock FlashForge package back over the mod left a printer that
would not start. /usr/data is the DATA partition: a stock flash rewrites
/usr/prog and does not touch it, so the symlinked printer.base.cfg and the
ff-*.cfg beside it outlived the mod, pointing into a /usr/data/anvil that was
gone -- and Klipper treats an [include] it cannot resolve as fatal. Nothing of
ours runs during a stock flash, so there is no undo to write from inside the
mod. Not writing there is the only version of this that works.

The live config is /usr/data/anvil-data/config now, seeded once by
anvil-link-prog.sh with a copy of everything in /usr/data/config: printer.cfg
with the SAVE_CONFIG block of calibrated values at the end of it, and the stock
includes the mod neither ships nor parses. The seed test is printer.cfg, which
is copied last and through a temp name, so a machine that never finished seeds
again on the next boot rather than staying half-configured, and no update ever
re-seeds over a tuned file. It is outside $MODDIR, so the installer's
wipe-and-extract cannot reach it and nothing has to be stashed on /tmp.

Moonraker moved with it, and the lever is the data path rather than -c:
moonraker registers its config root as <data path>/config and nothing
configures that separately, so -c alone would move the file it READS while
file_manager kept registering FlashForge's directory. With -d
/usr/data/anvil-data its config directory is klippy's, which is also what
Mainsail's config editor lists. gcodes and logs stay where the machine keeps
them -- /usr/data/gcodes is klippy's [virtual_sdcard] path -- as symlinks
inside the data path, which works because register_directory() realpaths a
root that is a link. The database is carried across once, by the service,
below the stray-killer: the one point where moonraker is provably not running.

What an older release left in /usr/data/config STAYS there. A sweep could
delete the links but could not put stock's own printer.base.cfg back, because
the release that replaced it kept no copy -- and stock's run.sh force-copies
its own onto every flash, which repairs that directory whether or not anything
was swept.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fn1k6kaHWhUrsmBfpxjUcG

* Ask the config-directory test about this installer, not the bake

test_flashforges_config_directory_is_never_written asserted that the mod's
filenames are absent from /usr/data/config. On a replica baked from a release
that still WROTE them, that is a question about the bake rather than about the
installer under test, and it fails for a reason the change cannot fix.

Remove them, run the installer over the top, then ask. The property is "an
install writes nothing there", and that is now what is measured.

Verified on the replica: qa/replica/test_upgrade.py is 18/18. The five
test_install.py assertions about the seeded directory still need a machine
baked from a package built with this branch -- work/out holds one from
2026-08-30, which symlinks into /usr/data/config as the old code did.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fn1k6kaHWhUrsmBfpxjUcG

* Ask the config directory of a machine that has one

The five assertions about /usr/data/anvil-data/config could only pass on a
replica baked from a package built with this branch, and the bake installs
work/out/*.tgz -- whatever was built last. So they failed for a reason the
change cannot fix, and the gate could only go green after a full build, which
is exactly when nobody runs it.

Two different fixes, because the questions are two different kinds.

WHAT THE INSTALLED PACKAGE PRODUCED is still asked of the bake, but the
directory is now read off the machine instead of written down: PRINTER_CFG in
the installed etc/s6-rc/source/klipper/run is the command line klippy is
exec'd with, and therefore the only thing that decides which directory is
live. test_install.py and test_klippy_extras_import.py follow it, so the
include set, the graph walk and the user's printer.cfg are asked about
whichever side of the move the installed package was built on.

WHAT THIS CODE DOES is a new module, test_config_directory.py, which stages
anvil-link-prog.sh from the checkout and runs it -- the way test_upgrade.py
stages the installer. Only the timing is mocked: it seeds from a real
printer.cfg with FlashForge's real includes beside it, links the ff-*.cfg the
installed package really shipped, and reads MACHINE= out of the real
app_startup.sh. It asserts the seeding carries the machine's own marker, the
links point into $MODDIR, the chamber config matches the model, every include
resolves, a second run does not re-seed over an owner's edit, and the run adds
NOTHING to /usr/data/config.

That last one is a DELTA, not an absolute. A machine that has been through a
release which symlinked into FlashForge's directory still holds those links
and nothing can restore what they replaced. What this code owes is that it
adds nothing.

Verified on the replica: 135 passed, and the 10 failures are the same ones
master has on this bake -- ffmpeg, numpy, the timelapse component and the
hardware services, all missing from the 2026-08-30 package in work/out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fn1k6kaHWhUrsmBfpxjUcG

* Link every .cfg the packages ship, not a list of names

test_every_include_resolves_in_the_new_directory failed on CI:
printer.base.cfg has [include timelapse.cfg] and no timelapse.cfg was in
/usr/data/anvil-data/config, which Klipper treats as fatal.

anvil-link-prog.sh linked printer.base.cfg and the ff-*.cfg by name.
timelapse.cfg is anvil-timelapse's and matched neither, so it reached the
live directory only through the installer's copy of $MODDIR/config -- and
never at all on the `apk upgrade` path, where the link script is the only
thing that runs. A named list is a file that resolves on a fresh install
and goes stale the moment a package adds one.

So the rule is the glob: every .cfg in $MODDIR/config is linked, and the
installer skips every .cfg rather than the four names it knew. The .conf
beside them stay the installer's -- moonraker-custom.conf is the owner's
file to edit, so it is copied once and never linked to a package's copy.

test_the_mods_configs_are_links_into_moddir asks the same way now, so a
package whose config nothing includes is covered too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YULWHVHyxKm2HE9kiPfEjP

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-08 10:05:36 +03:00
Oleksandr ShyshatskyiandClaude Opus 5 65a7528e09 The manual assumed a printer that arrives broken. It arrives calibrated.
The pages written on top of the old README inherited its premise: that after
flashing you face a gauntlet -- go/no-go checks, a safety net, a mandatory
calibration -- before the machine can be trusted with a model. That is not
what happens. The factory numbers import themselves on the first boot, a bed
mesh loads at the start of every print, and the mod is built to run the files
the stock firmware ran. A printer that printed before the flash prints after
it. "Your first print" now says so in its first line, and everything under it
is optional, ordered by what you would actually reach for: check the offsets
are applied, and calibrate only if that disagrees with the machine.

Three audiences now, because owner and contributor was not the real split.
"For experienced users" sits between them: How a print runs, and How
calibration works. Someone who knows Klipper and wants to change what happens
around their file has a place to go that is neither a walkthrough nor the
build system.

What was cut is most of what changed. Pages that were cryptic to the reader
they were aimed at -- Printing, Upgrading -- are out of the nav and kept on
disk to be rewritten rather than deleted. Within the pages that stayed:
Expected output, Probe sampling, What is being measured, the symptom table,
the dark-screen diagnosis, TOOL_Z_ADJUST, PLATE_CHECK, the ff-*.cfg
inventory, [ff_legacy] and SAVE_CONFIG in a paragraph about factory
calibration. Filenames and internals earn their place on an owner page only
when the reader has to type them or look at them; the rest moved to the
experienced pages or to Internals, where the audience wants them.

Calibration became a section rather than a page, because tool offsets are not
the only calibration: bed mesh has its own page now, and its own gotcha
written down -- BED_MESH_CALIBRATE writes `default`, a print loads
`MESH_DATA`, so a mesh probed by hand is a mesh no print will use. Input
shaping is described but has no procedure page yet.

Several claims came out because they were not true. "Is this for you" listed
calibration and input shaping as things the mod gives you; both are the
touchscreen's own sequences, recovered and reimplemented, and the notes say
so plainly. What the mod actually gives you is that anything speaking
Moonraker can drive the machine -- on stock, FlashForge's Klipper does not
toolchange at all, it raises a flag and waits for an application that is not
watching a Mainsail print, and the print hangs at the first T2. The page now
opens by telling most owners not to flash it.

Contributors are still deferred. Their pages are regrouped, not rewritten.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01S3XZh4SqPdXAowVndz6tMr
2026-08-28 23:33:29 +03:00