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Fixes #2083.

scripts/install-hailo.sh assumed a clean machine and silently built a second hailo-ollama server (on port 7836) alongside a pre-existing upstream instance (Hailo's default, 0.0.0.0:8000). The two coexisted invisibly: taOS saw no server on 7836, no systemd unit, while the user's own Hailo setup worked fine — leaving taOS appearing broken and the 8000 port probes ambiguous.

This adds a pre-install detection step (detect_preexisting_hailoollama) that checks GET /api/tags on 8000 (the script's existing idiom, matching lines that already probe /api/tags) and, when a pre-existing instance is found, reports plainly what was found and what would have changed, then exits — leaving the existing install untouched.

  • No behaviour changed other than the added pre-flight check; port 7836 unchanged.
  • bash -n clean; exactly 2 files changed (+10 changelog fragment).
  • Fix written by the local taos engineer (qwen3.6-27b-a3b-coder-i1), verified by orchestrator.

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  • New Features

    • Hailo-10H installation now checks for an existing Hailo-Ollama server before making installation or system changes.
    • If an active server is detected on port 8000, installation reports the finding and exits without modifying the existing service or creating a duplicate.
    • New installations configure Hailo-Ollama on port 7836.
  • Documentation

    • Added README and changelog details describing the Hailo-10H installation behavior and pre-installation checks.

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Walkthrough

The Hailo installer checks port 8000 for an existing upstream Hailo-Ollama instance before installation. It exits without changing that instance when detected. The README and changelog document the check and port behavior.

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Hailo pre-install detection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pre-install API guard
scripts/install-hailo.sh, README.md, changelog.d/2083-hailo-preinstall-detect.md
The installer probes GET /api/tags on port 8000 after detecting Hailo-10H. If the response contains "models", it reports the existing instance and exits before installation or systemd changes. Documentation describes port 7836 and the detection behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ff44d

The installer can still miss an existing stopped Hailo-Ollama installation and install a competing accelerator service. It can also hang or check through a proxy, while skipped installs may be reported as successful. Resolve these paths before merging.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The change satisfies the running-instance case in #2083. detect_preexisting_hailoollama() queries /api/tags on port 8000, reports the response, and exits before installation changes. The guard doe… Extend pre-install detection to cover an existing upstream binary, service, or installation that is not managed by taOS. Return a distinct non-zero status for a detected instance and update automated callers to report that the taOS backend …
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: detecting a pre-existing hailo-ollama instance before installation.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The installer guard, README entry, and changelog entry all document or implement the pre-install protection required by #2083. No unrelated implementation change is shown. Changes for other backend in…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 1 files. (1 skipped: 1 …
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The change satisfies the running-instance case in #2083. detect_preexisting_hailoollama() queries /api/tags on port 8000, reports the response, and exits before installation changes. The guard does not detect a stopped upstream binary, service, or installation outside taOS management. Therefore, the installer can still create a competing server. The guard also exits with status 0, so automated callers can report normal success instead of stating that the taOS backend was not installed.

Resolution

Extend pre-install detection to cover an existing upstream binary, service, or installation that is not managed by taOS. Return a distinct non-zero status for a detected instance and update automated callers to report that the taOS backend was not installed. Add automated coverage for the required detection and caller-reporting paths if the installer test framework supports them.

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In `@scripts/install-hailo.sh`:
- Around line 252-254: Update the probe in the tags-fetching logic to target
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Comment thread scripts/install-hailo.sh
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local url="http://0.0.0.0:8000/api/tags"
local tags
tags="$(curl -fs "$url" 2>/dev/null || true)"

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

# Run on a host where the local API is listening on port 8000.
url='http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/tags'

# Expect failure: an explicit dead proxy must prevent an unprotected request.
if env -u NO_PROXY -u no_proxy all_proxy='http://127.0.0.1:9' \
  curl -fsS --max-time 2 "$url" >/dev/null; then
  echo "unexpected success through dead proxy" >&2
  exit 1
fi

# Expect success: the protected probe must bypass the proxy and reach localhost.
env -u NO_PROXY -u no_proxy all_proxy='http://127.0.0.1:9' \
  curl --noproxy '*' -fsS --connect-timeout 2 --max-time 3 "$url" >/dev/null

Repository: jaylfc/taOS

Length of output: 289


🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- probe ---'
sed -n '240,270p' scripts/install-hailo.sh
printf '%s\n' '--- call sites and nearby control flow ---'
rg -n -C 8 'api/tags|check.*server|check.*ollama|install.*server|Hailo-10H' scripts/install-hailo.sh
printf '%s\n' '--- curl binding ---'
command -v curl
curl --version | head -n 2

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Length of output: 12114


Force the probe to use the local host and bound the request.

curl probes http://0.0.0.0:8000/api/tags without proxy bypass or time limits. An ambient proxy can route this guard away from the local server, and an unresponsive listener can block the installer before it installs the managed server. Use 127.0.0.1, disable proxies, and set connection and total time limits.

Proposed fix
-    local url="http://0.0.0.0:8000/api/tags"
+    local url="http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/tags"
     local tags
-    tags="$(curl -fs "$url" 2>/dev/null || true)"
+    tags="$(curl --noproxy '*' --connect-timeout 2 --max-time 3 -fsS "$url" 2>/dev/null || true)"
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local url="http://0.0.0.0:8000/api/tags"
local tags
tags="$(curl -fs "$url" 2>/dev/null || true)"
local url="http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/tags"
local tags
tags="$(curl --noproxy '*' --connect-timeout 2 --max-time 3 -fsS "$url" 2>/dev/null || true)"
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In `@scripts/install-hailo.sh` around lines 252 - 254, Update the probe in the
tags-fetching logic to target 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0, disable proxy use,
and add both connection and total request timeouts to the curl invocation while
preserving its existing failure handling.

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Comment thread scripts/install-hailo.sh
local url="http://0.0.0.0:8000/api/tags"
local tags
tags="$(curl -fs "$url" 2>/dev/null || true)"
if [[ -n "$tags" ]] && grep -q '"models"' <<<"$tags"; then

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WARNING: Generic Ollama-compatible check can produce false positives

The detect_preexisting_hailoollama function treats any service responding with "models" on port 8000 as a pre-existing hailo-ollama instance. This matches any Ollama-compatible backend (llama-cpp, vllm, standard Ollama), not just hailo-ollama. The install-rkllama.sh installer explicitly guards against this same class of false positive by requiring both an Ollama-shaped response AND a managed systemd unit before short-circuiting. Consider either making the detection hailo-ollama-specific or acknowledging in the message that the detected service may not be hailo-ollama.


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scripts/install-hailo.sh 255 Generic Ollama-compatible check ("models" in /api/tags) can produce false positives if another Ollama-compatible service (llama-cpp, vllm, standard Ollama) is running on port 8000
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Lead review — read #2083 first, then the diff against origin/dev. The detection itself is right and the placement in main() is on the live path (before resolve_target/already_installed, so nothing is mutated first). Two findings, both about the half of #2083 that is user-facing.

1 (blocking) — the refusal path exits 0, and both real callers silence themselves on it.

detect_preexisting_hailoollama ends in exit 0. This script is not only run by hand; it is auto-run:

  • scripts/install-server.sh:595... || warn "install-hailo.sh failed - continuing controller install anyway"
  • scripts/install-worker.sh:1081 — same || warn shape

Both signal only on a non-zero exit. With exit 0, the TAOS_HAILO_SETUP=1 path prints nothing at all and the installer continues to its normal success summary — so the operator is told the controller installed fine, with no Hailo backend on 7836, no hailo-ollama.service, and their own instance still on 8000. That is the exact end state #2083 was filed about; the PR narrates it into a log the auto-install path never surfaces.

I checked the convention before calling this: main() already uses exit 0 three times (no Hailo, 8class, already_installed). This case is not the same kind. Those three all leave a system where nothing is wrong — no device, no LLM-capable device, or our backend installed and answering. This one leaves a Hailo-10H present, our backend absent, and nothing on 7836. "Nothing to do" and "refused to do the thing you asked, and the conflict is still there" are different facts and should not share an exit code.

Suggested: a distinct non-zero (e.g. exit 3) for "refused: pre-existing instance", and give the two callers a matching branch so the message they print says pre-existing hailo-ollama on :8000, taOS backend not installed rather than the generic failed. A blunt non-zero alone is still better than today, since at least the || warn fires.

2 (gap vs the issue) — detection is liveness-only, so a stopped upstream install still gets a second server built.

#2083 asks for "something listening on 8000 that answers /api/tags, or an existing binary/service not installed by us". Only the first half is implemented. If the upstream instance is installed but not currently running — a machine that just rebooted, or a user who stopped it to try taOS — curl returns empty, detection does not fire, and the script proceeds to build the second server that the issue names as "the one behaviour to avoid". already_installed does not cover this either: it requires our checkout dir, our systemd unit and our port 7836, so a pre-existing install is invisible to it by construction.

A check for an upstream unit or binary we did not install (e.g. a hailo-ollama.service with no OLLAMA_HOST=127.0.0.1:7836, or a hailo-ollama on PATH outside $HAILO_OLLAMA_DIR) would close it.

Minor. The probe uses http://0.0.0.0:8000/api/tags; the PR body says this matches "lines that already probe /api/tags", but the script's two existing probes (lines 400 and 429 on dev) both use http://localhost:$HAILO_OLLAMA_PORT. 0.0.0.0 is a bind address that #2083 quoted for the server side; as a destination it happens to resolve to loopback on Linux, so this works, but it is not this file's idiom. Worth making it localhost for consistency.

Not blocking, for a follow-up card rather than this PR: #2083's closing note asks whether the same greenfield assumption applies to the other backend installers, rkllama in particular. Leaving that out of scope here is right; it should not be lost.

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🟠 Major · Detect installed Hailo-Ollama services before installation.

scripts/install-hailo.sh:252-254
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Detect installed Hailo-Ollama services before installation. The guard only checks for a live /api/tags response on port 8000. A stopped upstream service or an existing hailo-ollama binary outside the taOS checkout therefore passes the guard. already_installed() checks only the taOS checkout, hailo-ollama.service, and port 7836, so the installer can build and enable another server. Detect existing binaries and services before ensure_hailort or install_hailo_ollama, then report and stop unless the installation is taOS-managed.

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In `@scripts/install-hailo.sh` around lines 252 - 254, Expand the installation
guard around already_installed() to detect existing hailo-ollama binaries and
services before ensure_hailort or install_hailo_ollama runs, including stopped
upstream services and binaries outside the taOS checkout. Treat only
taOS-managed installations as allowed; otherwise report the existing
installation and stop without building or enabling another server.
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In `@scripts/install-hailo.sh`:
- Around line 252-254: Expand the installation guard around already_installed()
to detect existing hailo-ollama binaries and services before ensure_hailort or
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@hognek flagging this so the refresh does not read as a clearance: the dev merge at 04:00Z brings the branch up to date and CI is clean, but neither finding from my 2026-09-12 review is addressed. Current head still has:

scripts/install-hailo.sh:252:    local url="http://0.0.0.0:8000/api/tags"
scripts/install-hailo.sh:261:        exit 0

So finding 1 stands as written - the refusal path still exits 0, and install-server.sh:595 / install-worker.sh:1081 both signal only on non-zero, which means the auto-install path still prints nothing and still reports success while leaving a Hailo-10H present, no taOS backend on 7836, and the operator's own instance on 8000. That is the end state #2083 was filed about.

The branch is otherwise ready, so this is a small distance from merge. The minimum I need is the distinct non-zero exit for "refused: pre-existing instance" plus the matching branch in the two callers, so the message names the conflict instead of the generic failed. Finding 2 (detection is liveness-only, so a stopped upstream install still gets a second server built) I am happy to take as a follow-up rather than hold this PR for, if you would rather split it. The 0.0.0.0 to localhost nit is cosmetic - fold it in or leave it.

Holding the lead-blocked label until the exit code lands. Tell me if you would rather I take it from here.

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