diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9b0c4f75..8e29171f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -47,6 +47,15 @@ had changed in them - which is the gap this file exists to close.
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- **A Linux tarball install knows it is one.** The updater recognised the
+  tarball by a `radioserver` beside the binary, which no tarball has shipped
+  since the chip became a library, so every tarball install reported itself
+  as unpackaged and got a generic instruction instead of its own. It now looks
+  for `VARIANT`.
+- **Headless echoes every status line.** It printed the latest status line at
+  each look, so several lines said close together lost all but the last, and
+  a line said just before exit was lost. A failed update check left nothing in
+  the log at all.
 - **The compact macOS build carries the chip model and Renode's support
   files.** Both were added after the compact image was cut, so a compact Mac
   build could start no emulated board at all, and after fetching Renode still
diff --git a/cmd/meshbench/cmd_headless.go b/cmd/meshbench/cmd_headless.go
index b272be1a..2bd9db8d 100644
--- a/cmd/meshbench/cmd_headless.go
+++ b/cmd/meshbench/cmd_headless.go
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import (
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/MeshBench/meshbench/internal/app/session"
@@ -70,7 +72,17 @@ func runHeadless(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 	defer func() { _ = srv.Close() }()
 
 	if !*quiet {
-		go echoStatus(ctx, st)
+		echoed := make(chan struct{})
+		go func() {
+			echoStatus(ctx, st)
+			close(echoed)
+		}()
+		// The last lines said are the ones most worth reading, so the echo
+		// is let finish before the process goes.
+		defer func() {
+			cancel()
+			<-echoed
+		}()
 	}
 	fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "meshbench", version.Detail(), "headless")
 
@@ -139,25 +151,66 @@ func runHeadless(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 // because the snapshot never blocks a verb - and a log that could delay the
 // thing it is logging is worse than no log.
 //
-// By the sentence, not by the sequence number. Status is the last line said
-// and stays said; the sequence moves on every publish, which for a playing run
-// is every tick. Keying on it printed "running to 2.0 s" seventeen times for
-// one command.
+// By the line, not by the sequence number: the sequence moves on every
+// publish, which for a playing run is every tick, and keying on it printed
+// "running to 2.0 s" seventeen times. Each line of the log is printed once.
 func echoStatus(ctx context.Context, st *state.Store) {
 	t := time.NewTicker(100 * time.Millisecond)
 	defer t.Stop()
-	last := ""
+	// Every line said, not the latest one at each look. Echoing Status alone
+	// dropped all but the last of several lines said between two looks, and a
+	// line said just before the process exited - which is how a failed
+	// update check left nothing at all in the log (#447).
+	var last string
+	echo := func() {
+		s := st.Snapshot()
+		if s == nil {
+			return
+		}
+		lines := s.FullLog
+		from := 0
+		if last != "" {
+			from = len(lines)
+			for i := len(lines) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
+				if lines[i] == last {
+					from = i + 1
+					break
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		for _, l := range lines[from:] {
+			fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, echoLine(l))
+		}
+		if len(lines) > 0 {
+			last = lines[len(lines)-1]
+		}
+	}
 	for {
 		select {
 		case <-ctx.Done():
+			echo()
 			return
 		case <-t.C:
-			s := st.Snapshot()
-			if s == nil || s.Status == "" || s.Status == last {
-				continue
-			}
-			last = s.Status
-			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%8.2fs  %s\n", float64(s.NowMs)/1000, s.Status)
+			echo()
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// echoLine turns a log line, "15:04:05.000  t=   1.234s  message", into the
+// shape headless has always echoed: the simulated time, then the message.
+func echoLine(l string) string {
+	i := strings.Index(l, "t=")
+	if i < 0 {
+		return l
+	}
+	rest := strings.TrimLeft(l[i+2:], " ")
+	j := strings.Index(rest, "s  ")
+	if j < 0 {
+		return l
+	}
+	secs, err := strconv.ParseFloat(rest[:j], 64)
+	if err != nil {
+		return l
+	}
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%8.2fs  %s", secs, rest[j+3:])
+}
diff --git a/cmd/meshbench/cmd_headless_test.go b/cmd/meshbench/cmd_headless_test.go
index 8dff306f..9b71f98b 100644
--- a/cmd/meshbench/cmd_headless_test.go
+++ b/cmd/meshbench/cmd_headless_test.go
@@ -135,3 +135,15 @@ func TestHeadlessPlayStartsFirmwareBeforeTheClock(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("the clock said \"playing\" before firmware was reported running:\n%s", out)
 	}
 }
+
+// A log line is echoed as headless always has: simulated time, then the
+// message (#447).
+func TestTheEchoKeepsItsShape(t *testing.T) {
+	got := echoLine("01:57:49.123  t=   12.345s  could not find out whether a newer release exists")
+	if got != "   12.35s  could not find out whether a newer release exists" {
+		t.Errorf("echoed %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := echoLine("not a log line"); got != "not a log line" {
+		t.Errorf("an unexpected line was changed: %q", got)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/app/update/artefact.go b/internal/app/update/artefact.go
index cd79da64..80e1f4c6 100644
--- a/internal/app/update/artefact.go
+++ b/internal/app/update/artefact.go
@@ -123,7 +123,12 @@ func Detect(goos, exe, appImage string) Artefact {
 	if strings.HasPrefix(filepath.ToSlash(exe), "/usr/") {
 		return Deb
 	}
-	if exe != "" && besideBinary(exe, "radioserver") {
+	// The tarball is told by what packaging puts beside the binary: VARIANT,
+	// which every packaged tree carries and a build from source does not.
+	// This looked for radioserver, which the tarball stopped shipping when the
+	// chip became a library, so every tarball install read as unpackaged and
+	// was handed the generic instruction rather than its own (#447).
+	if exe != "" && (besideBinary(exe, variantFile) || besideBinary(exe, "radioserver")) {
 		return Tarball
 	}
 	return Loose
diff --git a/internal/app/update/artefact_test.go b/internal/app/update/artefact_test.go
index 50ef9519..2692dbb5 100644
--- a/internal/app/update/artefact_test.go
+++ b/internal/app/update/artefact_test.go
@@ -36,6 +36,24 @@ func TestTheBundleIsDeducedFromWhereTheBinaryIs(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// An unpacked Linux tarball is told from a build from source by the VARIANT
+// file packaging puts beside the binary. It used to look for radioserver,
+// which the tarball no longer ships, so a real 0.2.0 tarball install reported
+// itself as unpackaged and got the generic instruction (#447).
+func TestAnUnpackedTarballIsToldFromABuildFromSource(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	exe := filepath.Join(dir, "meshbench")
+	if got := update.Detect("linux", exe, ""); got != update.Loose {
+		t.Errorf("with nothing beside it, Detect = %q, want %q", got, update.Loose)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "VARIANT"), []byte("compact\n"), 0o600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := update.Detect("linux", exe, ""); got != update.Tarball {
+		t.Errorf("with VARIANT beside it, Detect = %q, want %q", got, update.Tarball)
+	}
+}
+
 // The two Windows bundles are the same files in the same layout once they are
 // unpacked, and they are updated differently, so the one thing that tells them
 // apart is the note the installer lays down. It has to be looked for on disk