.gitea/workflows/dev-deploy.yaml

@@ -104,6 +104,21 @@ jobs:
             -v "${{ gitea.workspace }}/ui/frontend/build:/src:ro" \
             alpine sh -c 'rm -rf /dst/* /dst/.??* 2>/dev/null; cp -a /src/. /dst/'
 
+      - name: Seed geoip volume
+        run: |
+          # Copy the GeoIP test fixture into a named volume so the
+          # backend can mount it as /var/lib/galaxy. A bind-mount with
+          # a relative path would resolve against this runner's
+          # ephemeral workspace under /home/runner/.cache/act/<hash>/,
+          # which the runner deletes once the workflow ends — the next
+          # `docker restart galaxy-dev-backend` would then fail with
+          # "not a directory" because the mount source vanished.
+          docker volume create galaxy-dev-geoip-data >/dev/null
+          docker run --rm \
+            -v galaxy-dev-geoip-data:/dst \
+            -v "${{ gitea.workspace }}/pkg/geoip/test-data/test-data:/src:ro" \
+            alpine sh -c 'cp /src/GeoIP2-Country-Test.mmdb /dst/geoip.mmdb'
+
       - name: Reap stray dev-deploy containers
         run: |
           # Remove any non-running compose-managed containers from

tools/dev-deploy/KNOWN-ISSUES.md

@@ -162,9 +162,12 @@ redeploys can short-circuit the diagnostic loop.
 
 ## `docker restart galaxy-dev-backend` fails after the CI runner cleans up
 
+**Status: fixed (2026-05-19).** Kept here as a postmortem in case
+the symptom resurfaces in a different form.
+
 ### Symptom
 
-`docker restart galaxy-dev-backend` from the host fails with:
+`docker restart galaxy-dev-backend` from the host failed with:
 
 ```text
 Error response from daemon: ... error mounting
@@ -172,36 +175,28 @@ Error response from daemon: ... error mounting
 to rootfs at "/var/lib/galaxy/geoip.mmdb": ... not a directory
 ```
 
-The container ends up `Exited (127)` and never comes back.
+The container ended up `Exited (127)` and never came back.
 
 ### Cause
 
-`tools/dev-deploy/docker-compose.yml` mounts the geoip database via
-a path relative to the compose file
+`tools/dev-deploy/docker-compose.yml` used to mount the geoip
+database via a path relative to the compose file
 (`../../pkg/geoip/test-data/test-data/GeoIP2-Country-Test.mmdb`). When
-the `dev-deploy.yaml` Gitea runner invokes `docker compose up` it
-resolves that relative path against the runner's ephemeral workspace
+the `dev-deploy.yaml` Gitea runner invoked `docker compose up`, it
+resolved that relative path against the runner's ephemeral workspace
 under `/home/runner/.cache/act/<hash>/hostexecutor/tools/dev-deploy/`,
-so the bind-mount source baked into the running container points at
-that ephemeral path. The runner deletes the workspace once the
-workflow ends, the source disappears, and the next `docker restart`
-fails to remount it.
+so the bind-mount source baked into the running container pointed at
+that ephemeral path. The runner deleted the workspace once the
+workflow ended, the source disappeared, and the next `docker restart`
+failed to remount it.
 
-### Workaround
+### Fix
 
-Bring the stack back up from a stable workspace, which re-binds the
-mount source to the persistent checkout:
-
-```sh
-make -C tools/dev-deploy up
-```
-
-This restarts every service (including the broken `galaxy-dev-backend`)
-with a stable source path.
-
-### Status
-
-Open. The clean fix is either to bake the geoip test fixture into
-the backend image (no host bind-mount) or to copy it onto a named
-volume during `dev-deploy.yaml` and bind that instead. Either change
-removes the runner-workspace dependency entirely.
+Replaced the bind-mount with a named volume,
+`galaxy-dev-geoip-data`, seeded by the `dev-deploy.yaml` workflow
+(and by the new `make seed-geoip` target) at deploy time. The
+backend mounts the volume as `/var/lib/galaxy:ro`, so the bind
+source is a Docker-managed volume — independent of the runner
+workspace — and survives a `docker restart`. See
+`.gitea/workflows/dev-deploy.yaml` ("Seed geoip volume" step) and
+`tools/dev-deploy/Makefile` (`seed-geoip` target).

tools/dev-deploy/Makefile

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.PHONY: help up down rebuild logs status clean-data health psql build-engine seed-ui
+.PHONY: help up down rebuild logs status clean-data health psql build-engine seed-ui seed-geoip
 
 .DEFAULT_GOAL := help
 
@@ -18,10 +18,11 @@ COMPOSE := docker compose
 
 help:
 	@echo "Long-lived Galaxy dev environment (https://*.galaxy.lan):"
-	@echo "  make up             Build images, ensure engine image, bring stack up"
+	@echo "  make up             Build images, ensure engine image, seed geoip, bring stack up"
 	@echo "  make rebuild        Force rebuild of backend / gateway images and bring up"
 	@echo "  make build-engine   Build $(ENGINE_IMAGE) from game/Dockerfile (no-op if present)"
 	@echo "  make seed-ui        Build ui/frontend and load into galaxy-dev-ui-dist volume"
+	@echo "  make seed-geoip     Copy GeoIP fixture into galaxy-dev-geoip-data volume"
 	@echo "  make down           Stop containers, keep named volumes"
 	@echo "  make logs           Tail all logs"
 	@echo "  make status         docker compose ps"
@@ -35,11 +36,11 @@ help:
 	@echo "  - host Caddy proxying *.galaxy.lan into that network"
 	@echo "  - game-state dir: $(GALAXY_DEV_GAME_STATE_DIR) (auto-created)"
 
-up: build-engine
+up: build-engine seed-geoip
 	mkdir -p "$(GALAXY_DEV_GAME_STATE_DIR)"
 	$(COMPOSE) up -d --wait
 
-rebuild: build-engine
+rebuild: build-engine seed-geoip
 	$(COMPOSE) build --no-cache galaxy-backend galaxy-api
 	mkdir -p "$(GALAXY_DEV_GAME_STATE_DIR)"
 	$(COMPOSE) up -d --wait
@@ -52,6 +53,19 @@ build-engine:
 		docker build -t $(ENGINE_IMAGE) -f $(REPO_ROOT)/game/Dockerfile $(REPO_ROOT); \
 	fi
 
+# Copy the GeoIP fixture into a named volume the backend mounts as
+# /var/lib/galaxy. Using a volume avoids a bind-mount that would
+# resolve against an ephemeral workspace path when compose is driven
+# from the Gitea runner (see tools/dev-deploy/KNOWN-ISSUES.md for the
+# breakage that bind-mounts caused on `docker restart`).
+seed-geoip:
+	@echo "seeding GeoIP fixture into galaxy-dev-geoip-data…"
+	docker volume create galaxy-dev-geoip-data >/dev/null
+	docker run --rm \
+	  -v galaxy-dev-geoip-data:/dst \
+	  -v $(REPO_ROOT)/pkg/geoip/test-data/test-data:/src:ro \
+	  alpine sh -c 'cp /src/GeoIP2-Country-Test.mmdb /dst/geoip.mmdb'
+
 # Build the UI frontend and load the resulting build/ directory into
 # the named volume Caddy serves from. Used by the dev-deploy workflow
 # and by anyone bringing the stack up by hand.

tools/dev-deploy/README.md

@@ -153,9 +153,10 @@ The same volume-persistence model applies to `tools/local-dev/`.
 ## Make targets
 
 ```text
-make up             Build images, ensure engine image, bring stack up (waits for health)
+make up             Build images, ensure engine image, seed geoip, bring stack up
 make rebuild        Rebuild backend / gateway images (ignores cache), then up
 make seed-ui        pnpm build + load build/ into galaxy-dev-ui-dist volume
+make seed-geoip     Copy pkg/geoip fixture into galaxy-dev-geoip-data volume
 make build-engine   Build galaxy-engine:dev (no-op if image already present)
 make down           Stop containers, keep named volumes
 make logs           Tail compose logs

tools/dev-deploy/docker-compose.yml

@@ -144,7 +144,15 @@ services:
         target: ${GALAXY_DEV_GAME_STATE_DIR}
         bind:
           create_host_path: true
-      - ../../pkg/geoip/test-data/test-data/GeoIP2-Country-Test.mmdb:/var/lib/galaxy/geoip.mmdb:ro
+      # The geoip database lives on a named volume seeded by the
+      # `dev-deploy.yaml` workflow (or by `make seed-geoip` when
+      # bringing the stack up by hand). A bind-mount with a relative
+      # path would resolve against the runner's ephemeral workspace
+      # under /home/runner/.cache/act/<hash>/, which the runner
+      # deletes after the workflow ends — and the next
+      # `docker restart galaxy-dev-backend` would then fail with
+      # "not a directory" because the mount source vanished.
+      - galaxy-dev-geoip-data:/var/lib/galaxy:ro
     networks:
       - galaxy-internal
     healthcheck:
@@ -258,3 +266,5 @@ volumes:
     name: galaxy-dev-caddy-data
   galaxy-dev-ui-dist:
     name: galaxy-dev-ui-dist
+  galaxy-dev-geoip-data:
+    name: galaxy-dev-geoip-data