Unit restart SIGKILLs conmon before --rm cleanup runs, leaving the container
name registered: every restart then dies on name-in-use while the orphan
holds the port and GPUs (observed live 2026-09-27, NRestarts=6 with the
container Up and the unit auto-restarting). The serve script now clears its
own name before exec podman run; the deployer stops the unit and removes
the container BEFORE waiting on the port.
HOME inside the container pointed at the root-owned WORKDIR /app, so
vLLM's registry cache write hit PermissionError; HOME now points at the
cache volume.
The vLLM cutover itself is blocked on a structural wall (AMD Qwen4Exp impl
creates the 51.2B PLE table as a bf16 on-GPU param: 47.69 GiB transient on a
31.86 GiB card; the pinned-host UVA path that fits this hardware is
CUDA-gated). llama.cpp is restored live at :7770; host HEAD unchanged.
Frank
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