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A missing or invalid setting made the EBS container die with an unhandled exception (full stack trace, and a crash report from any crash handler in the container, e.g. Datadog crash tracking). It is an operator configuration mistake, not a bug, so it should say what to fix and exit cleanly.

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Since v0.0.21 the service validates its settings at start-up (EBS-9) instead of failing at the first Twitch login. Twitch:ClientId and Twitch:ExtensionId have always defaulted to empty and must come from .env / environment variables, so a .env holding only the two secrets now stops the container at start. That check is intended; how it failed was not.

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  • Program.cs: catch OptionsValidationException around app.Run(), print EDNexus EBS cannot start: the configuration is invalid. with each failure and a pointer to .env.example, and exit with code 78 (EX_CONFIG). No unhandled exception, so no crash dump or crash report.
  • README: new Troubleshooting section with the common messages and fixes (and that .env.example already contains the public Client ID and Extension ID).
  • StartupFailureTests: runs the real service as a child process with Twitch__ClientId/Twitch__ExtensionId empty and asserts exit code 78, both settings named, and no "Unhandled exception". Removed Invalid_configuration_stops_the_host_from_starting, a test-host version of the same check that is redundant now and was the source of the intermittent ObjectDisposedException flake.

Fixing a running deployment

Set Twitch__ClientId and Twitch__ExtensionId in .env (see .env.example; usually the same value) and restart the container. This PR does not change that requirement.

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dotnet build 0 warnings; EBS tests 184/184, three runs in a row. Ran the built service by hand with the two settings missing: the message above, exit code 78. A new container image is published by the EBS container workflow after merge.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Invalid startup settings now produce a clear error message with details about the configuration issues, rather than an unhandled exception. The service exits with status code 78 until the settings are corrected.
  • Documentation
    • Added troubleshooting guidance for common configuration problems, including missing Twitch credentials and an invalid OAuth redirect URI. The guide explains how to configure settings using Docker Compose and .env files.

…o crash)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The service now reports options validation failures to stderr and exits with code 78. A process-level test checks this behavior for missing Twitch IDs. The README adds troubleshooting guidance for startup configuration failures.

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Startup validation

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Startup error handling
src/EDNexus.Ebs/Program.cs, src/EDNexus.Ebs/README.md
The startup path reports validation failures and returns exit code 78. The README documents the error, common setting fixes, and .env setup.
Process-level startup test
tests/EDNexus.Ebs.Tests/StartupFailureTests.cs, tests/EDNexus.Ebs.Tests/EbsHardeningTests.cs
A process-level test checks the exit code and error output for missing Twitch IDs. The prior host-startup test is removed, and the comment points to the new test.

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The new clean-failure handling covers missing Twitch IDs, but some invalid settings can still crash the service with an unhandled exception instead of exiting with code 78. The troubleshooting guidance may also leave operators restarting a container that still has its old configuration. Address these gaps before merging.

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Review comments at @src/EDNexus.Ebs/Program.cs:
- Line 443: Update the EbsOptions binding calls in Program.cs to handle
typed-setting conversion failures at the binding boundary, including the
bindings before the OptionsValidationException handler. Identify and report the
affected setting and exit with code 78, while limiting this handling to
configuration conversion failures so unrelated InvalidOperationException
instances remain unclassified.
- Line 439: Expand the protected startup path in Program to include app.Build()
and the startup service resolutions before any EbsOptions.Value access; ensure
an OptionsValidationException from those steps reaches the existing handler that
reports the validation message and exits with code 78.

Review comments at @src/EDNexus.Ebs/README.md:
- Line 329: Update the recovery instructions in the README’s `restart:
unless-stopped` section to tell operators to recreate the container after
editing `.env`, using `docker compose up -d --force-recreate` or equivalent;
clarify that restarting alone does not apply changed environment variables.

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…d while the host runs

The configuration-error exit now covers building the host and the services resolved during setup (options
validate when first read), and typed-setting conversion failures from the configuration binder, which are a
plain InvalidOperationException; only that specific failure is classified, other exceptions still crash. The
Testing environment still lets the exception reach the test host. README: recreate the container after editing
.env, since a restart reuses the old environment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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