diff --git a/.wolf/buglog.json b/.wolf/buglog.json
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--- a/.wolf/buglog.json
+++ b/.wolf/buglog.json
@@ -19126,6 +19126,33 @@
       ],
       "occurrences": 1,
       "last_seen": "2026-08-26T07:20:00Z"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "bug-1699",
+      "timestamp": "2026-08-26T07:35:00Z",
+      "error_message": "ctrl-1 segfaulted (SIGSEGV, core dumped -- confirmed via bash's own accurate job-control message, not a misread) within ~1.5s of a genuinely fresh boot, immediately after processing its first client 'ctrlstatus' probe request, during a fresh 10-round --chaotic run-ha-soak.sh --chaotic invocation (build.dbg, no ASAN) launched to verify bug-1696. Driver reported 'FAIL: no primary elected within ~90s' as a consequence (ctrl-1 never came back; ctrl-2 was subsequently Killed by cleanup).",
+      "file": "src/controller/ha.c or src/controller/cluster.c (exact function not identified -- crash occurred somewhere in the ctrlstatus request-handling path shortly after raft_cb_become_follower/first_boot=1)",
+      "root_cause": "NOT ROOT-CAUSED -- occurred exactly ONCE and could not be reproduced despite two dedicated repro attempts: (1) re-running the identical build.dbg chaotic soak under run-ha-soak.sh's built-in GDB_WRAP=ctrl-1 debug seam caught only a benign SIGPIPE (gdb's own default stop-on-SIGPIPE behavior firing on a normal peer-disconnect-during-TLS-write event that the real code already ignores via signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN) at netio.c:1250 -- confirmed this was a gdb artifact, not the real crash, since production code never sees this signal); (2) a manual gdb session with `handle SIGPIPE nostop noprint pass` set before `run` (correctly letting SIGPIPE pass through), driving 15+ rapid ctrlstatus probes against a freshly-booted ctrl-1 via xce_test's REPL (mirroring the exact probe pattern run-ha-soak.sh's own wait-primary/discover_primary functions use), did NOT reproduce any crash. (3) A full, from-scratch 10-round --chaotic soak (33 jobs, 10 kill/elect cycles) run under a fresh ASAN rebuild (src/build-asan-1696repro) completed with a clean PASS (committed_divergence=0 committed_job_loss=0) and no SIGSEGV/ASAN report at all. This strongly suggests either a genuinely rare, narrow-window race (possibly specific to cold dynamic-linker/first-request timing that a debug or ASAN build's different memory layout/timing perturbs away) or an environment-specific fluke from that one specific boot -- NOT a deterministic, reliably-triggerable defect. No core file was accessible for postmortem gdb analysis (systemd-coredump is configured as the core_pattern handler but coredumpctl is not installed/reachable in this sandbox).",
+      "fix": "NOT ATTEMPTED -- cannot fix an unreproduced crash responsibly. If this recurs, capture a live gdb session (with SIGPIPE explicitly passed through, per this investigation's corrected GDB_WRAP-equivalent technique) or install/access a working coredumpctl-equivalent BEFORE the crashing process is cleaned up, to get a real backtrace with symbols. Also worth checking core_pattern/ulimit -c in the actual execution environment ahead of time so a future occurrence leaves a usable core file automatically.",
+      "tags": [
+        "controller",
+        "ha",
+        "segfault",
+        "sigsegv",
+        "unreproduced",
+        "rare-race",
+        "found-via-soak",
+        "needs-live-repro",
+        "needs-owner",
+        "unfixed",
+        "core-dump-inaccessible"
+      ],
+      "related_bugs": [
+        "bug-1696",
+        "bug-1698"
+      ],
+      "occurrences": 1,
+      "last_seen": "2026-08-26T07:35:00Z"
     }
   ]
 }