Motivated by the 10.16-10.21 reports where, after an upgrade, the login page
showed "Must be logged in" or sat on the logo + "Loading, please wait." spinner,
pages took 5+ minutes, All Boards counts stayed 0 and i18n showed raw keys — the
FerretDB v1 (SQLite) process pegged ~2 cores for a long time under WeKan's poll
load, i.e. a migration/repair or a saturated backend, with no way to see it
without the Admin Panel.
Server-side, independent of any client / progress page:
- server/startup/repairBoardsOnStartup.js runs the shared board data-repairs once
(version-gated, background, 30s after boot) so corrupted data is fixed even if
no user opens a board and nobody watches a progress page.
- The MongoDB <-> SQLite text migration and the startup repair now PERSIST their
progress to the text_migration_status collection (models/textMigrationStatus.js),
so a separate process can see "a migration/repair is in progress" (an in-memory
object could not).
Status overview (server/lib/systemStatus.js), shown in Admin Panel / Problems ->
Summary and via the method systemStatusReport (admin-gated, server/methods/
systemStatus.js):
- everything in progress (text migration, board repair, recovery, cron migration,
attachment migration) aggregated from the persisted status collections;
- detected problems (broken cards; failing login-page checks);
- login-page "Must be logged in" / "Loading, please wait" cause checklist
(migration in progress, ROOT_URL, LDAP, Sandstorm) — models/lib/loginProblems.js;
- a CPU detail area that calls out a pegged ferretdb process and the mitigation.
Snap: `snap run wekan.problems` (snap-src/bin/wekan-problems[.mjs], snapcraft app
`problems`) prints the same overview as text — problems, migrations/repairs in
progress, login checks — so an admin with only server access can see it WITHOUT
Admin Panel access. Sub-commands: migrations | login | broken-cards | cpu | help.
Pure helpers models/lib/loginProblems.js and models/lib/problemsOverview.js are
unit-tested; tests/problemsStatus.test.cjs (14 checks) also source-guards the
server hub, method, startup pass, migration persistence and snap command.
Thanks to xet7 !
