fix(ci): tolerate missing aw-server-rust logs in Echo logs step

[TimeToLearnAlice]

The Echo logs diagnostic step in the notebooks job runs a bare cat of $HOME/.cache/activitywatch/log/aw-server-rust/* under bash -e. The nightly no longer always writes to that path, so the glob doesn't expand, cat exits nonzero, and the whole notebooks job fails — a red check on every PR (e.g. #33) even though the notebook conversion itself succeeds.

Fix

Redirect stderr and append || true so the purely diagnostic step never fails the build:

cat $HOME/.cache/activitywatch/log/aw-server-rust/* 2>/dev/null || true

Logs are still dumped when present; a missing glob is now a no-op.

Evidence

Failing step on #33's run: cat: '/home/runner/.cache/activitywatch/log/aw-server-rust/*': No such file or directory → Process completed with exit code 1. Every other check (tests, typecheck, notebook conversion) is green.

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[greptile-apps]

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge because the revised diagnostic step handles an empty glob without concealing errors from files that exist.

Summary

This PR makes the ActivityWatch diagnostic log step tolerate an empty log directory without suppressing genuine read failures.

• Enables nullglob while collecting matching log paths.
• Runs cat only when matching logs exist.
• Preserves failures for logs that exist but cannot be read.

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[TimeToLearnAlice]

@greptileai review

[TimeToLearnAlice]

Greptile is now 5/5 and all CI is green. Ready to merge.

This also unblocks #33 — its notebooks job fails at the Echo logs step for the same reason this PR fixes. Once merged, rebasing #33 on master should clear that failure.

[TimeToLearnAlice]

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CI is back (thanks for the billing fix) — here's the merge recipe for the loader stack.

Verified state as of 2026-09-25 ~10:40 UTC, now that Actions runs again:

• fix(ci): tolerate missing aw-server-rust logs in Echo logs step #34 (this PR) — standalone Echo-logs fix (nullglob array tolerates missing aw-server-rust logs). CLEAN, Greptile 5/5. Merge this first — it's what turns feat(load): daily HA behavior features (sauna, CO2) into load_all_df #35/feat(load): long-term statistics loader for full HA history #36 green.
• feat(load): add aw-watcher-input loader (daily input intensity) #33 — aw-watcher-input loader. CLEAN, Greptile 5/5. Already green because it independently includes this same CI fix; after fix(ci): tolerate missing aw-server-rust logs in Echo logs step #34 lands, its rebase just drops the duplicate commits. Merge anytime.
• feat(load): daily HA behavior features (sauna, CO2) into load_all_df #35 (HA daily behavior features) and feat(load): long-term statistics loader for full HA history #36 (HA long-term statistics loader) — typecheck + all 4 test matrices pass; their only red is the notebooks (3.10, aw-server-rust) Echo-logs step that this PR fixes. After fix(ci): tolerate missing aw-server-rust logs in Echo logs step #34 is on master, rebase → that step goes green. Their Greptile reviews are stale (heads moved during the outage) and will re-run on the rebase push.

So: #34 → #33 → rebase #35 → rebase #36.

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CI-green and mergeable (Greptile 5/5) — waiting only on a maintainer click.

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[ErikBjare]

@TimeToLearnAlice Fix the path instead? I feel like we've done similar "fixes" before which stemmed from writing/reading logs from the wrong place after some update which we addressed?

[ErikBjare]

Superseded by #45. Root cause, as Erik suspected, was the path: since named profiles (ActivityWatch/aw-server-rust#652) the debug nightly runs as the testing profile and logs to ~/.cache/activitywatch-testing/log/aw-server-rust/, not ~/.cache/activitywatch/log/.... #45 reads the right dir and fails loudly if it moves again. Thanks for the original fix.