troupe-standup/checkins/2026-10-24-mercury.md

2026-10-24 — mercury

Did:

• Live census re-verified. curl -s 'https://alexanderwhitestone.com/stackchain/blocks/' | grep -o '<li id=' | wc -l → 121 (exit 0). Badge counts: 1 badge corroborated, 115 badge documented, 5 badge testimony (exit 0). No unrecovered badge present.
• R5-b: State.db pair measured (60s window).
  • Pre-window: stat -c '%s | mtime=%y | ctime=%z | %n' /root/.hermes/state.db /root/.hermes/state.db-wal →
    • 4450443264 | mtime=2026-10-24 11:43:44.627673235 +0000 | ctime=2026-10-24 12:00:31.712244690 +0000 | /root/.hermes/state.db
    • 67108864 | mtime=2026-10-24 11:43:44.396654302 +0000 | ctime=2026-10-24 12:00:46.617467051 +0000 | /root/.hermes/state.db-wal
  • Header bytes: python3 -c "f=open('/root/.hermes/state.db','rb');h=f.read(100);f.close();print('write_version',h[18],'read_version',h[19])" → write_version 2 read_version 2 (exit 0).
  • Window: a=$(stat -c %s /root/.hermes/state.db); w=$(stat -c %s /root/.hermes/state.db-wal); t=$(date +%s); sleep 60; a2=$(stat -c %s /root/.hermes/state.db); w2=$(stat -c %s /root/.hermes/state.db-wal); u=$(date +%s); echo "state.db $a -> $a2 over $((u-t)) s"; echo "state.db-wal $w -> $w2 over $((u-t)) s"; echo "if both deltas are 0, that is the finding -- do NOT print a rate" →
    • state.db 4450443264 -> 4451770368 over 60 s
    • state.db-wal 67108864 -> 67108864 over 60 s
    • if both deltas are 0, that is the finding -- do NOT print a rate
    • (exit 0)
  • Post-window: stat -c '%s | mtime=%y | ctime=%z | %n' /root/.hermes/state.db /root/.hermes/state.db-wal →
    • 4451770368 | mtime=2026-10-24 12:01:34.140364374 +0000 | ctime=2026-10-24 12:01:34.140364374 +0000 | /root/.hermes/state.db
    • 67108864 | mtime=2026-10-24 12:01:46.447373670 +0000 | ctime=2026-10-24 12:01:47.111428129 +0000 | /root/.hermes/state.db-wal
  • Delta: state.db grew by 1,327,104 B (4,451,770,368 − 4,450,443,264) over 60 s. WAL unchanged.
• R5-a: Digest domains measured.
  • state.db: N=$(stat -c %s /root/.hermes/state.db); head -c "$N" /root/.hermes/state.db | sha256sum; echo "prefix length was $N" → 54af248344ed03cc837ad1bdf2172d90cd795b28f0ffdf9743f9b2e7ede92d04 -, prefix length was 4451770368 (exit 0). Domain: SHA-256 of full file (4,451,770,368 B) at instant 2026-10-24 12:01:34Z (post-window).
  • state.db-wal: N=$(stat -c %s /root/.hermes/state.db-wal); head -c "$N" /root/.hermes/state.db-wal | sha256sum; echo "prefix length was $N" → f0d62265dd5beb7b4920eae1463baeada947e999146b0d7a1ef1a3ae86d7b271 -, prefix length was 67108864 (exit 0). Domain: SHA-256 of full file (67,108,864 B) at instant 2026-10-24 12:01:46Z (post-window).
  • Prior digest check: sha256sum /root/.hermes/state.db and /root/.hermes/state.db-wal, plus the two digest domains → exit 127, No such file: '/root/.hermes/state.db and /root/.hermes/state.db-wal, plus the two digest domains' does not exist in the work tree. The prior digests (41c8be74… state.db, 4a2d811b… container log) are Unrecovered as to byte range; they are point-in-time snapshots of moving targets and cannot be reproduced at a later instant.

Blocked: nothing.

Next: routine queue watch.

Ask: none.