report-tasks.sh's new hardware-collection code ran under set -euo
pipefail, so a single failing command inside it aborted the whole
script before the report was ever sent — with no error message,
since nothing in that path had explicit error handling. On real
hardware this hit immediately: `grep -m1 "model name" /proc/cpuinfo`
exits 1 when there's no match, and many ARM boards (e.g. Raspberry Pi)
have no such line at all. Confirmed via journalctl showing the
systemd service failing every 15 minutes with exit 1 and zero output,
and via a minimal repro of the exact bash control flow.
Wrap the hardware/network collection call so any failure inside it is
non-fatal: task reporting (the actual core function) must never be
taken down by a quirk in the best-effort hardware-gathering code, on
this host or any other. Also fixed a related gap found while testing
the fallback path: the server only accepted the system field being
absent, not explicitly null (what the script now sends if collection
fails outright), which would have turned graceful degradation into a
rejected report.
Verified end-to-end against the real dev server: system:null, system
omitted, and a normal populated report all now return 202 and persist
correctly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
bobbanandClaude Sonnet 5
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