# Event Manager Incident Report

- Date: 2026-03-17
- Incident: partial daily pipeline completion + scheduler timeout + stale lock
- Primary session: `meadow-delta-oak`
- Scope: Event Management pipeline (`meeting`, `salzburg`, `expo`)

## Executive Summary (10 lines)

1. The 10:00 daily pipeline run started and progressed normally.
2. It completed all scrape and deep-dive stages.
3. It completed `meeting:manual_phase4`.
4. It did not complete `salzburg:manual_phase4` and `expo:manual_phase4`.
5. No final pipeline summary or `report_generated` event was recorded for that session.
6. Cron history showed recurring hard timeout at ~10 minutes.
7. A stale lock file remained with a dead PID.
8. Root cause: scheduler timeout too short for real pipeline duration.
9. Recovery was executed: stale lock cleared, missing phase4 stages run manually.
10. Remediation applied: cron timeout increased to 2h; dry-run validation passed.

## Timeline (UTC)

- 09:00:11 `meadow-delta-oak` started.
- 09:25:52 `meeting:scrape` ok.
- 09:27:36 `salzburg:scrape` ok.
- 09:28:13 `expo:scrape` ok.
- 09:28:15 `meeting:deep_dive` ok.
- 09:28:22 `salzburg:deep_dive` ok.
- 09:28:23 `expo:deep_dive` ok.
- 09:28:25 `meeting:manual_phase4` ok.
- No further stage/final/report events for this session.

## Impact

- Daily run output was incomplete at first review.
- No final report artifact for the original session.
- Lock-conflict noise occurred for a concurrent run attempt due to stale lock.

## Technical Evidence

- Pipeline log file: `/home/clawdbot/clawd/Event_management/logs/event-manager-pipeline.jsonl`
- Lock file observed: `/tmp/event-manager-pipeline.lock` with dead pid `1299689`
- Cron job affected: `ae024183-4258-4fd8-b7d5-dda81e701c99`
- Cron run history showed repeated `cron: job execution timed out`, `durationMs ≈ 600000`

## Root Cause Analysis

### Primary cause
Scheduler execution timeout for daily full run was too short versus real pipeline runtime.

### Contributing factors
- Forced termination can bypass graceful cleanup paths, leaving stale lock metadata.
- Lock conflict handling prevented overlap but created confusing secondary symptom runs.

## Remediation Executed

1. Cleared stale lock after verifying process was dead.
2. Ran missing stages manually:
   - `salzburgcongress_manual_phase4.py`
   - `expo_experts_manual_phase4.py`
3. Updated daily full-run cron timeout to `7200000 ms` (2h).
4. Ran pipeline `--dry-run` to validate orchestration path + lock behavior.

## Recovery Results

- Salzburg phase4 catch-up:
  - `run_id=20260317113211-salzburgcongress-manual-phase4`
  - `checked=12`, `recovered_form_only=1`, `still_missing_email=2`, `status=ok`
- Expo phase4 catch-up:
  - `run_id=20260317113437-expo-experts-manual-phase4`
  - `checked=0`, `status=ok`
- Post-remediation dry-run:
  - `session_id=granite-golden-crystal`, `status=dry_run_ok`

## Preventive Actions

- Keep full-run timeout at >=2h for this workload profile.
- Continue lock-conflict guard with stale-lock cleanup on dead PID.
- Verify next scheduled run for full completion and report generation.

## Related Documentation

- Remediation plan:
  - `/home/clawdbot/clawd/Event_management/docs/remediation-plan-pipeline-timeout-lock-recovery-2026-03-17.md`
- Bugs log:
  - `/home/clawdbot/clawd/Event_management/docs/bugs.jsonl`
- Changelog:
  - `/home/clawdbot/clawd/Event_management/docs/CHANGELOG.md`