forked from unom/punktfunk
A box whose only external display is an off/standby TV warned "no external physical display active after the restore (connected=1)" and forced the EXTEND preset on EVERY teardown — an inert remedy (with one connected display the preset can't relight anything) that reads like a fresh failure in every field log. The backstop now measures its own effect: after a force-EXTEND it re-reads the inventory, and a dark set that stayed dark THROUGH the preset is latched as unlightable — subsequent teardowns log a debug line and leave the topology be. The poisoned-snapshot chain the backstop exists for is not latched away: there the panel CAN light, so the first force succeeds and the latch stays clear. Process-lifetime latch, so a host restart re-probes once. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>