---
id: "bug-1721"
status: "open"
status_updated: "2026-09-24"
status_note: "clean_failover_preservation.sh default ha/data dir no longer exists"
component: "controller"
severity: "unknown"
timestamp: "2026-08-26T00:00:00Z"
last_seen: "2026-09-19T09:00:00Z"
occurrences: 1
files: ["src/controller/testsuite/clean_failover_preservation.sh"]
tags: ["test-harness", "stale-fixture", "clean_failover_preservation.sh", "ha-term-safety", "pre-existing", "admin-config-tool-regression"]
related: []
legacy: true
---

# bug-1721: clean_failover_preservation.sh FAIL: cluster.bin missing under <repo>/ha/data (deploy prerequisite)

## Description
clean_failover_preservation.sh FAIL: cluster.bin missing under <repo>/ha/data (deploy prerequisite)

## Environment
_Not recorded (migrated from buglog.json)._

## Reproduction
_Not recorded (migrated from buglog.json)._

## Root cause
The script hardcodes its DATADIR precondition default to $REPO_ROOT/ha/data (a pre-generated cluster.bin + TLS cert template directory it expects to already exist), but ha/data/ was deliberately deleted from the repo by an unrelated commit (ee8473bd, admin-config-tool: drop ha/data/ entirely, match real client TLS). The script was never updated afterward, so its own documented precondition check now fails unconditionally in any fresh checkout/worktree that has not manually recreated that directory out-of-band. Discovered while adding --norc to the script (xce-test-rc-file spec follow-up) and independently verifying the edit did not break anything -- confirmed via git history that the failure reproduces identically on the pre-edit script too, so it is unrelated to that change.

## Fix
Not fixed -- out of scope for the xce-test-rc-file spec. Needs either: (a) DATADIR default updated to point at a still-valid TLS/config template location consistent with admin-config-tool's TLS changes, or (b) the script updated to self-generate its own template via deploy-ha.sh/xce-deploy-ha before the precondition check, matching how run-ha-soak.sh and run-resource-verify.sh already self-deploy their own scratch clusters instead of depending on a fixed pre-existing directory.

## Verification
_Not recorded (migrated from buglog.json)._

## References
_Not recorded (migrated from buglog.json)._