@torrent-tv/proxy 2.89.7 → 2.89.8

package/test/core-dumps.test.js

@@ -1,57 +1,57 @@
-/**
- * @file Keep the last few core dumps and no more.
- *
- * Each is the worker thread's whole address space — 4.18 GB on the field host —
- * and four of them had nearly filled a 235 GB disk by 2026-08-21. The newest
- * are evidence for a fault that is still open, so they stay; the rest go.
- */
-
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import test from "node:test";
-
-import { dumpsToRemove, isCoreDump } from "../services/storage/core-dumps.js";
-
-const dumps = [
-  { name: "core.WorkerThread.81.1787176646", writtenAt: 1787176646000 },
-  { name: "core.WorkerThread.81.1787224562", writtenAt: 1787224562000 },
-  { name: "core.WorkerThread.81.1787237468", writtenAt: 1787237468000 },
-  { name: "core.WorkerThread.81.1787243278", writtenAt: 1787243278000 },
-  { name: "core.WorkerThread.81.1787292750", writtenAt: 1787292750000 }
-];
-
-test("the newest two stay and the rest go, oldest first", () => {
-  assert.deepEqual(dumpsToRemove(dumps), [
-    "core.WorkerThread.81.1787176646",
-    "core.WorkerThread.81.1787224562",
-    "core.WorkerThread.81.1787237468"
-  ]);
-});
-
-test("fewer than the limit leaves everything alone", () => {
-  assert.deepEqual(dumpsToRemove(dumps.slice(0, 2)), []);
-  assert.deepEqual(dumpsToRemove([]), []);
-});
-
-test("order on disk does not decide; the time written does", () => {
-  const shuffled = [dumps[3], dumps[0], dumps[4], dumps[2], dumps[1]];
-  assert.deepEqual(dumpsToRemove(shuffled, 1), [
-    "core.WorkerThread.81.1787176646",
-    "core.WorkerThread.81.1787224562",
-    "core.WorkerThread.81.1787237468",
-    "core.WorkerThread.81.1787243278"
-  ]);
-});
-
-test("only core dumps are considered", () => {
-  assert.equal(isCoreDump("core.WorkerThread.81.1787292750"), true);
-  assert.equal(isCoreDump("proxy.log"), false);
-  assert.equal(isCoreDump("host-timings.json"), false);
-  // Not a path, and not a directory called core.
-  assert.equal(isCoreDump("core.foo/bar"), false);
-  assert.equal(isCoreDump(""), false);
-});
-
-test("nothing readable is not a reason to delete anything", () => {
-  assert.deepEqual(dumpsToRemove(null), []);
-  assert.deepEqual(dumpsToRemove([{ name: 5, writtenAt: "x" }]), []);
-});
+/**
+ * @file Keep the last few core dumps and no more.
+ *
+ * Each is the worker thread's whole address space — 4.18 GB on the field host —
+ * and four of them had nearly filled a 235 GB disk by 2026-08-21. The newest
+ * are evidence for a fault that is still open, so they stay; the rest go.
+ */
+
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import test from "node:test";
+
+import { dumpsToRemove, isCoreDump } from "../services/storage/core-dumps.js";
+
+const dumps = [
+  { name: "core.WorkerThread.81.1787176646", writtenAt: 1787176646000 },
+  { name: "core.WorkerThread.81.1787224562", writtenAt: 1787224562000 },
+  { name: "core.WorkerThread.81.1787237468", writtenAt: 1787237468000 },
+  { name: "core.WorkerThread.81.1787243278", writtenAt: 1787243278000 },
+  { name: "core.WorkerThread.81.1787292750", writtenAt: 1787292750000 }
+];
+
+test("the newest two stay and the rest go, oldest first", () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(dumpsToRemove(dumps), [
+    "core.WorkerThread.81.1787176646",
+    "core.WorkerThread.81.1787224562",
+    "core.WorkerThread.81.1787237468"
+  ]);
+});
+
+test("fewer than the limit leaves everything alone", () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(dumpsToRemove(dumps.slice(0, 2)), []);
+  assert.deepEqual(dumpsToRemove([]), []);
+});
+
+test("order on disk does not decide; the time written does", () => {
+  const shuffled = [dumps[3], dumps[0], dumps[4], dumps[2], dumps[1]];
+  assert.deepEqual(dumpsToRemove(shuffled, 1), [
+    "core.WorkerThread.81.1787176646",
+    "core.WorkerThread.81.1787224562",
+    "core.WorkerThread.81.1787237468",
+    "core.WorkerThread.81.1787243278"
+  ]);
+});
+
+test("only core dumps are considered", () => {
+  assert.equal(isCoreDump("core.WorkerThread.81.1787292750"), true);
+  assert.equal(isCoreDump("proxy.log"), false);
+  assert.equal(isCoreDump("host-timings.json"), false);
+  // Not a path, and not a directory called core.
+  assert.equal(isCoreDump("core.foo/bar"), false);
+  assert.equal(isCoreDump(""), false);
+});
+
+test("nothing readable is not a reason to delete anything", () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(dumpsToRemove(null), []);
+  assert.deepEqual(dumpsToRemove([{ name: 5, writtenAt: "x" }]), []);
+});

package/test/coverage-follows-the-disk.test.js

@@ -1,228 +1,233 @@
-/**
- * @file What the plan believes exists is what the disk holds — with a real
- * store, a real directory, and no ffmpeg.
- *
- * The failure these are written against, field 2026-09-07, twice in one evening
- * on `Star.Trek.Strange.New.Worlds.S04E03`:
- *
- * > `encode: … ready=482 zones=[p100:#0..#0 …] runs=[#0..#0@0.0x] waiting=nobody`
- * > `encode-run stopped #0..#0 …, reached #-1 (0 segment(s)) after 2778ms,`
- * > `signal SIGTERM: the film is no worse off without it`
- * > `encode: … ready=482 … runs=[] waiting=nobody`
- *
- * The map claimed every one of the film's 482 segments while the directory held
- * nothing a header could be lifted out of, so every arrangement scored perfect,
- * the only encoder was taken away as unnecessary and none was placed again. The
- * viewer's browser asked for the init segment, was never answered, and gave up.
- *
- * Readiness had been accumulating for the life of the process: the map was told
- * what existed and never told what had stopped existing — the word for that
- * existed and was called from no line of the product. So these check the one
- * property that makes the whole class of failure impossible: what the map says
- * is ready is what the store can prove right now, and nothing older.
- */
-
-import test from "node:test";
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import { EventEmitter } from "node:events";
-import { mkdtempSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
-import os from "node:os";
-import path from "node:path";
-import { EncodeRun } from "../services/encode/EncodeRun.js";
-import { SegmentStore } from "../services/storage/segment-store/SegmentStore.js";
-import { SoftwareEncoder } from "../services/encode/SoftwareEncoder.js";
-import { EncodeOrchestrator } from "../services/encode/EncodeOrchestrator.js";
-import { fmp4Format } from "../services/encode/segment-formats/fmp4.js";
-
-const PICTURE = "torrent:abc:fmt=fmp4:grid=kf@0:video-only:v=0/copy";
-const SEGMENTS = 482;
-
-class FakeProcess extends EventEmitter {
-  constructor() {
-    super();
-    this.pid = 1;
-  }
-
-  kill(signal) {
-    this.emit("exit", null, signal);
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * A store on a real directory, and an orchestrator that owns it.
- *
- * @returns {{ made: EncodeOrchestrator, store: SegmentStore, dir: string,
- *   root: string, lines: string[] }}
- */
-function orchestratorWithAStore() {
-  const root = mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "coverage-disk-"));
-  const lines = [];
-  const logger = { info: (line) => lines.push(line), warn: (line) => lines.push(line) };
-  const store = new SegmentStore({ root, logger });
-  store.useFormat(PICTURE, fmp4Format);
-  const dir = store.directoryFor(PICTURE);
-  /** @type {EncodeOrchestrator} */
-  let made;
-  made = new EncodeOrchestrator({
-    maxRunsFor: () => 1,
-    segmentSeconds: 6,
-    killCostSec: 0,
-    firstByteWaitSec: 0.12,
-    refetchSecPerFilmSecond: () => 0.25,
-    startingSpeedFor: () => 2,
-    segmentCoverage: {
-      provenNumbers: (address) => store.provenNumbers(address),
-      announce: (address, index) => store.announce(address, index),
-      filesHeld: (address) => store.filesHeld(address),
-      clearUpAfter: (address, startedAt) => store.clearUpAfter(address, startedAt)
-    },
-    now: () => 1000,
-    logger,
-    makeRun: ({ address, from, to }) => new EncodeRun({
-      address,
-      encoder: new SoftwareEncoder(),
-      from,
-      to,
-      buildArgs: () => ["-i", "in", "out"],
-      spawn: () => new FakeProcess(),
-      logger,
-      now: () => 1000,
-      onEnded: (ended) => made.noteEnded(ended)
-    })
-  });
-  made.setSegmentCount(PICTURE, SEGMENTS);
-  return { made, store, dir, root, lines };
-}
-
-/** A viewer stopped at the beginning, which is what a fresh session states. */
-function aViewerAtTheStart(made) {
-  made.notePriorityMap(PICTURE, [
-    { from: 0, to: 0, priority: 100, withinSeconds: 0 },
-    { from: 1, to: SEGMENTS - 1, priority: 91, withinSeconds: 6 }
-  ]);
-}
-
-/**
- * Every segment of the film, written and reported closed — what the store looked
- * like while the film was being watched.
- */
-function theWholeFilmIsOnDisk(store, dir) {
-  for (let index = 0; index < SEGMENTS; index += 1) {
-    // Under the served name, which is the whole of what says a piece is closed:
-    // it takes that name only when its writer has said so. There used to be a
-    // statement kept beside the disk as well, told by whoever noticed a piece
-    // being produced — a second owner of one fact, and the fault this file's own
-    // subject is.
-    writeFileSync(path.join(dir, fmp4Format.segmentFileName(index)), Buffer.alloc(16));
-  }
-}
-
-test("a film that is entirely made needs no encoder", (t) => {
-  const { made, store, dir, root } = orchestratorWithAStore();
-  t.after(() => {
-    // THE STORE LETS ITS DIRECTORIES GO, and only then is the root removed. It
-    // holds a watch on each of them — that is how a piece closed by a muxer
-    // with no channel of its own becomes an event — and a directory with an
-    // open watch on it cannot be removed on Windows: `rmSync` retries until it
-    // gives up, and the check reads as a hang.
-    store.dropAll("the check is over");
-    rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
-  });
-
-  theWholeFilmIsOnDisk(store, dir);
-  aViewerAtTheStart(made);
-  made.reconcile();
-
-  // The other half of the property, and the reason the failure looked
-  // reasonable: when the film really is all there, taking the encoder away IS
-  // right, and the viewer is served from the disk.
-  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 0, "nothing left to make");
-});
-
-test("segments the store has lost stop being ready, and an encoder is placed again", (t) => {
-  const { made, store, dir, root } = orchestratorWithAStore();
-  t.after(() => {
-    // THE STORE LETS ITS DIRECTORIES GO, and only then is the root removed. It
-    // holds a watch on each of them — that is how a piece closed by a muxer
-    // with no channel of its own becomes an event — and a directory with an
-    // open watch on it cannot be removed on Windows: `rmSync` retries until it
-    // gives up, and the check reads as a hang.
-    store.dropAll("the check is over");
-    rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
-  });
-
-  theWholeFilmIsOnDisk(store, dir);
-  aViewerAtTheStart(made);
-  made.reconcile();
-  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 0);
-
-  // THE FIELD FAILURE. The output's directory goes — dropped for room, or by the
-  // idle rule, or because a killed process left it and the sweep cleared it. The
-  // map used to keep all 482 numbers and the plan went on believing the film was
-  // made, for the life of the process.
-  store.drop(PICTURE, "the test is taking its files away");
-  store.useFormat(PICTURE, fmp4Format);
-  store.directoryFor(PICTURE);
-
-  made.reconcile();
-  const runs = made.runsOn(PICTURE);
-  assert.equal(runs.length, 1, "the film is unmade again, so somebody makes it");
-  assert.equal(runs[0].from, 0, "beginning where the viewer is stopped");
-});
-
-test("a piece discarded with the run that had it open is not ready either", (t) => {
-  const { made, store, dir, root } = orchestratorWithAStore();
-  t.after(() => {
-    // THE STORE LETS ITS DIRECTORIES GO, and only then is the root removed. It
-    // holds a watch on each of them — that is how a piece closed by a muxer
-    // with no channel of its own becomes an event — and a directory with an
-    // open watch on it cannot be removed on Windows: `rmSync` retries until it
-    // gives up, and the check reads as a hang.
-    store.dropAll("the check is over");
-    rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
-  });
-
-  theWholeFilmIsOnDisk(store, dir);
-  aViewerAtTheStart(made);
-  made.reconcile();
-  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 0);
-
-  // A run stopped the instant after opening #0 leaves a file of no bytes under a
-  // name that reads as a segment; the store throws it away. Field 2026-09-07,
-  // 20:13:13 and 20:13:57 — printed twice while the map went on saying 482.
-  rmSync(path.join(dir, fmp4Format.segmentFileName(0)), { force: true });
-
-  made.reconcile();
-  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 1, "one number missing is one encoder");
-  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE)[0].from, 0);
-});
-
-test("nobody making what somebody waits for is said out loud", (t) => {
-  const { made, store, root, lines } = orchestratorWithAStore();
-  t.after(() => {
-    // THE STORE LETS ITS DIRECTORIES GO, and only then is the root removed. It
-    // holds a watch on each of them — that is how a piece closed by a muxer
-    // with no channel of its own becomes an event — and a directory with an
-    // open watch on it cannot be removed on Windows: `rmSync` retries until it
-    // gives up, and the check reads as a hang.
-    store.dropAll("the check is over");
-    rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
-  });
-
-  // A HOST THAT CANNOT BUILD AN ENCODER. Whatever the reason — and there are
-  // several — the state it leaves is the one that cost two sessions on
-  // 2026-09-07: somebody is waiting, nothing is being made, and every line
-  // above reads as a healthy proxy. It ran for 41 seconds in the field with no
-  // word about it on either side, and ended at the browser's own timeout with a
-  // message naming no cause.
-  made.makeRun = () => null;
-  aViewerAtTheStart(made);
-  made.reconcile();
-
-  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 0);
-  const said = lines.find((line) => line.includes("NO ENCODER IS MAKING IT"));
-  assert.ok(said, "the state has a line of its own");
-  assert.ok(said.includes("#0"), "which number is wanted");
-  assert.ok(said.includes(PICTURE), "of which output, whole — not cut to sixty characters");
-  assert.ok(/files=\d+/.test(said), "and what the disk holds, beside what is proven");
-});
+/**
+ * @file What the plan believes exists is what the disk holds — with a real
+ * store, a real directory, and no ffmpeg.
+ *
+ * The failure these are written against, field 2026-09-07, twice in one evening
+ * on `Star.Trek.Strange.New.Worlds.S04E03`:
+ *
+ * > `encode: … ready=482 zones=[p100:#0..#0 …] runs=[#0..#0@0.0x] waiting=nobody`
+ * > `encode-run stopped #0..#0 …, reached #-1 (0 segment(s)) after 2778ms,`
+ * > `signal SIGTERM: the film is no worse off without it`
+ * > `encode: … ready=482 … runs=[] waiting=nobody`
+ *
+ * The map claimed every one of the film's 482 segments while the directory held
+ * nothing a header could be lifted out of, so every arrangement scored perfect,
+ * the only encoder was taken away as unnecessary and none was placed again. The
+ * viewer's browser asked for the init segment, was never answered, and gave up.
+ *
+ * Readiness had been accumulating for the life of the process: the map was told
+ * what existed and never told what had stopped existing — the word for that
+ * existed and was called from no line of the product. So these check the one
+ * property that makes the whole class of failure impossible: what the map says
+ * is ready is what the store can prove right now, and nothing older.
+ */
+
+import test from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { EventEmitter } from "node:events";
+import { mkdtempSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import os from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { EncodeRun } from "../services/encode/EncodeRun.js";
+import { SegmentStore } from "../services/storage/segment-store/SegmentStore.js";
+import { SoftwareEncoder } from "../services/encode/SoftwareEncoder.js";
+import { EncodeOrchestrator } from "../services/encode/EncodeOrchestrator.js";
+import { fmp4Format } from "../services/encode/segment-formats/fmp4.js";
+
+const PICTURE = "torrent:abc:fmt=fmp4:grid=kf@0:video-only:v=0/copy";
+const SEGMENTS = 482;
+
+class FakeProcess extends EventEmitter {
+  constructor() {
+    super();
+    this.pid = 1;
+  }
+
+  kill(signal) {
+    this.emit("exit", null, signal);
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * A store on a real directory, and an orchestrator that owns it.
+ *
+ * @returns {{ made: EncodeOrchestrator, store: SegmentStore, dir: string,
+ *   root: string, lines: string[] }}
+ */
+function orchestratorWithAStore() {
+  const root = mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "coverage-disk-"));
+  const lines = [];
+  const logger = { info: (line) => lines.push(line), warn: (line) => lines.push(line) };
+  const store = new SegmentStore({ root, logger });
+  store.useFormat(PICTURE, fmp4Format);
+  const dir = store.directoryFor(PICTURE);
+  /** @type {EncodeOrchestrator} */
+  let made;
+  made = new EncodeOrchestrator({
+    maxRunsFor: () => 1,
+    segmentSeconds: 6,
+    killCostSec: 0,
+    firstByteWaitSec: 0.12,
+    refetchSecPerFilmSecond: () => 0.25,
+    startingSpeedFor: () => 2,
+    segmentCoverage: {
+      provenNumbers: (address) => store.provenNumbers(address),
+      announce: (address, index) => store.announce(address, index),
+      filesHeld: (address) => store.filesHeld(address),
+      clearUpAfter: (address, startedAt) => store.clearUpAfter(address, startedAt)
+    },
+    now: () => 1000,
+    logger,
+    makeRun: ({ address, from, to }) => new EncodeRun({
+      address,
+      encoder: new SoftwareEncoder(),
+      from,
+      to,
+      buildArgs: () => ["-i", "in", "out"],
+      spawn: () => new FakeProcess(),
+      logger,
+      now: () => 1000,
+      onEnded: (ended) => made.noteEnded(ended)
+    })
+  });
+  made.setSegmentCount(PICTURE, SEGMENTS);
+  return { made, store, dir, root, lines };
+}
+
+/** A viewer stopped at the beginning, which is what a fresh session states. */
+function aViewerAtTheStart(made) {
+  made.notePriorityMap(PICTURE, [
+    { from: 0, to: 0, priority: 100, withinSeconds: 0 },
+    { from: 1, to: SEGMENTS - 1, priority: 91, withinSeconds: 6 }
+  ]);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Every segment of the film, written and reported closed — what the store looked
+ * like while the film was being watched.
+ */
+function theWholeFilmIsOnDisk(store, dir) {
+  for (let index = 0; index < SEGMENTS; index += 1) {
+    // Under the served name, which is the whole of what says a piece is closed:
+    // it takes that name only when its writer has said so. There used to be a
+    // statement kept beside the disk as well, told by whoever noticed a piece
+    // being produced — a second owner of one fact, and the fault this file's own
+    // subject is.
+    writeFileSync(path.join(dir, fmp4Format.segmentFileName(index)), Buffer.alloc(16));
+  }
+}
+
+test("a film that is entirely made needs no encoder", (t) => {
+  const { made, store, dir, root } = orchestratorWithAStore();
+  t.after(() => {
+    // THE STORE LETS ITS DIRECTORIES GO, and only then is the root removed. It
+    // holds a watch on each of them — that is how a piece closed by a muxer
+    // with no channel of its own becomes an event — and a directory with an
+    // open watch on it cannot be removed on Windows: `rmSync` retries until it
+    // gives up, and the check reads as a hang.
+    store.dropAll("the check is over");
+    rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  theWholeFilmIsOnDisk(store, dir);
+  aViewerAtTheStart(made);
+  made.reconcile();
+
+  // The other half of the property, and the reason the failure looked
+  // reasonable: when the film really is all there, taking the encoder away IS
+  // right, and the viewer is served from the disk.
+  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 0, "nothing left to make");
+});
+
+test("segments the store has lost stop being ready, and an encoder is placed again", (t) => {
+  const { made, store, dir, root } = orchestratorWithAStore();
+  t.after(() => {
+    // THE STORE LETS ITS DIRECTORIES GO, and only then is the root removed. It
+    // holds a watch on each of them — that is how a piece closed by a muxer
+    // with no channel of its own becomes an event — and a directory with an
+    // open watch on it cannot be removed on Windows: `rmSync` retries until it
+    // gives up, and the check reads as a hang.
+    store.dropAll("the check is over");
+    rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  theWholeFilmIsOnDisk(store, dir);
+  aViewerAtTheStart(made);
+  made.reconcile();
+  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 0);
+
+  // THE FIELD FAILURE. The output's directory goes — dropped for room, or by the
+  // idle rule, or because a killed process left it and the sweep cleared it. The
+  // map used to keep all 482 numbers and the plan went on believing the film was
+  // made, for the life of the process.
+  store.drop(PICTURE, "the test is taking its files away");
+  store.useFormat(PICTURE, fmp4Format);
+  store.directoryFor(PICTURE);
+
+  made.reconcile();
+  const runs = made.runsOn(PICTURE);
+  assert.equal(runs.length, 1, "the film is unmade again, so somebody makes it");
+  assert.equal(runs[0].from, 0, "beginning where the viewer is stopped");
+});
+
+test("a piece discarded with the run that had it open is not ready either", (t) => {
+  const { made, store, dir, root } = orchestratorWithAStore();
+  t.after(() => {
+    // THE STORE LETS ITS DIRECTORIES GO, and only then is the root removed. It
+    // holds a watch on each of them — that is how a piece closed by a muxer
+    // with no channel of its own becomes an event — and a directory with an
+    // open watch on it cannot be removed on Windows: `rmSync` retries until it
+    // gives up, and the check reads as a hang.
+    store.dropAll("the check is over");
+    rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  theWholeFilmIsOnDisk(store, dir);
+  aViewerAtTheStart(made);
+  made.reconcile();
+  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 0);
+
+  // A run stopped the instant after opening #0 leaves a file of no bytes under a
+  // name that reads as a segment; the store throws it away. Field 2026-09-07,
+  // 20:13:13 and 20:13:57 — printed twice while the map went on saying 482.
+  // Whoever removes a piece tells the store, as the serving path does after
+  // taking out a piece short of a track: the store's memory of a directory ends
+  // on an event, not on the directory's modification time, which moves in
+  // steps of several milliseconds and can stay where it was.
+  rmSync(path.join(dir, fmp4Format.segmentFileName(0)), { force: true });
+  store.forget(PICTURE);
+
+  made.reconcile();
+  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 1, "one number missing is one encoder");
+  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE)[0].from, 0);
+});
+
+test("nobody making what somebody waits for is said out loud", (t) => {
+  const { made, store, root, lines } = orchestratorWithAStore();
+  t.after(() => {
+    // THE STORE LETS ITS DIRECTORIES GO, and only then is the root removed. It
+    // holds a watch on each of them — that is how a piece closed by a muxer
+    // with no channel of its own becomes an event — and a directory with an
+    // open watch on it cannot be removed on Windows: `rmSync` retries until it
+    // gives up, and the check reads as a hang.
+    store.dropAll("the check is over");
+    rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  // A HOST THAT CANNOT BUILD AN ENCODER. Whatever the reason — and there are
+  // several — the state it leaves is the one that cost two sessions on
+  // 2026-09-07: somebody is waiting, nothing is being made, and every line
+  // above reads as a healthy proxy. It ran for 41 seconds in the field with no
+  // word about it on either side, and ended at the browser's own timeout with a
+  // message naming no cause.
+  made.makeRun = () => null;
+  aViewerAtTheStart(made);
+  made.reconcile();
+
+  assert.equal(made.runsOn(PICTURE).length, 0);
+  const said = lines.find((line) => line.includes("NO ENCODER IS MAKING IT"));
+  assert.ok(said, "the state has a line of its own");
+  assert.ok(said.includes("#0"), "which number is wanted");
+  assert.ok(said.includes(PICTURE), "of which output, whole — not cut to sixty characters");
+  assert.ok(/files=\d+/.test(said), "and what the disk holds, beside what is proven");
+});