Containers are created with `--rm`, so Docker removes them asynchronously after they stop.
The pre-start `docker rm` returns immediately while that removal is still in progress
(its error is suppressed), and the following `docker create --name` can fail with
"The container name ... is already in use".
This is easy to hit since systemd_service_manager switched its default restart mode to `all-at-once`:
many containers stop and start at the same time and Docker falls behind on removals.
The playbook then fails at "Restart systemd services needing restart at once",
even though the services recover on their own (`Restart=always`) a little later.
The external roles (MASH, devture) were hardened against this in 2026-03
(see mother-of-all-self-hosting/ansible-role-valkey@0ba79c0), but the roles in `roles/custom` never were.
This ports the same bounded cleanup loop to them: stop, force-remove,
and wait until Docker releases the name, failing explicitly after a timeout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ownership repair added in e5b8de8c2 is not sufficient on every Ansible privilege-escalation setup. Git may still see a different effective owner after the checkout has been recursively chowned, as demonstrated by #5065.
Pass an exact, task-scoped safe.directory setting to all 56 server-side git tasks. Keep the ownership repair as well, because it remains necessary for filesystem permissions. The two controller-side theme checkouts already use the same protection.
6b4b7647e fixed this for synapse-usage-exporter only. A checkout owned by
a different user makes the git task fail from then on, either with a
permission error or with git's dubious-ownership protection, until
someone removes the directory on the host by hand. It gets into that
state when the matrix user's uid changes (a server migration or a restore
onto a differently numbered user), when an earlier clone ran as another
user, or when someone runs git as root inside the checkout.
Every other role cloning a repository onto the server was open to the
same failure, so ensure the checkout's ownership recursively before
updating it at the remaining 54 sites.
The three matrix-synapse ext clones also gain force=yes. They were the
only on-server clones without it, which left a checkout that an
interrupted run had half-written wedged, instead of repaired on the next
run.
matrix-matrixto used to clone as root into a directory that nothing ever
chowned, unlike every other role. It now becomes the matrix user too.
The Element Web and SchildiChat Web theme checkouts live on the Ansible
controller, where correcting ownership is not ours to do, so they merely
mark the checkout as a safe directory for git.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The variable was defined, but the configuration template hardcoded the
command prefix, so changing the variable had no effect.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Part of adopting a uniform naming policy for bridge variables,
where the variable prefix matches the role directory name.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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