2026-05-21 Cron Session

Session 2026-05-21 — Terminal Environment Unresponsive

Timestamp: 09:43 AEST

Goal

Verify whether the CronJob smart-groceries-catalogue-scrape has completed its first scheduled run (scheduled for 07:32 AEST today), check DB product count, and update project status.

Status: BLOCKED (terminal environment)

What happened

All terminal commands hang silently — kubectl, filesystem access, everything returns no output. This is the 4th occurrence of this issue in the cron environment (see sessions 2026-05-18 through 2026-05-21).

Actions taken

• Attempted kubectl get pods/jobs/events to check scrape status — all hung
• Attempted filesystem commands — no output
• Attempted network calls (curl) — hung

Blocking Issues

1. Terminal environment unresponsive — cannot execute any shell commands
2. MR !1 open 9 days — N+1 fix + importer refactoring, awaiting pvs review (no autonomous action possible)
3. Coles still blocked by Imperva — WAF blocks all tested IPs

Known State (unchanged from previous sessions)

• CronJob smart-groceries-catalogue-scrape runs daily at 07:32 AEST in ai-agents namespace
• Init container fix applied (apt-get install -y git) on 2026-05-19
• DB likely still at 0 products — first successful scrape run unverified
• MR !1 for perf/categories-n1-fix branch open on GitLab

Next Steps (for next session when terminal works)

1. Check if any Job pods exist for today’s scheduled run: kubectl get jobs -n ai-agents --sort-by=.metadata.creationTimestamp
2. If job completed, check logs: kubectl logs <pod> -c scrape
3. Query DB for product count to verify import
4. Update project index with actual results

Related Sessions

• 2026-05-21-cron (previous attempt — same issue) [FILE NOT FOUND]
• 2026-05-20-cron (awaiting first run verification) [FILE NOT FOUND]
• 2026-05-19-cron (init container fix confirmed) [FILE NOT FOUND]

Note: Above session references could not be resolved. The session files were deleted or never created.