Add startup phase logs and avoid recursive permission setup

start.sh

@@ -13,19 +13,16 @@ export MODEL_PATH="${MODEL_PATH:-/data/models/model.gguf}"
 export CTX_SIZE="${CONTEXT_LENGTH:-${CTX_SIZE:-4096}}"
 
 # Ensure data directories exist and are writable. Run as root in container startup.
-mkdir -p "$HF_HOME" "$MODEL_DIR"
-# try to chown to appuser; if that fails (readonly mount), relax permissions
-if chown -R 65532:65532 "$HF_HOME" "$MODEL_DIR" 2>/dev/null; then
-  true
-else
-  chmod -R a+rwx "$HF_HOME" "$MODEL_DIR" || true
-fi
+echo "preparing storage: $HF_HOME and $MODEL_DIR"
+install -d -m 0777 "$HF_HOME" "$MODEL_DIR" || mkdir -p "$HF_HOME" "$MODEL_DIR"
+chmod 0777 "$HF_HOME" "$MODEL_DIR" || true
 
 # Run downloader as the non-root `appuser` using the venv python when available.
+echo "starting model downloader"
 if [ -x "/opt/venv/bin/python" ]; then
-  su -s /bin/sh appuser -c "/opt/venv/bin/python /app/download_model.py"
+  su -s /bin/sh appuser -c "/opt/venv/bin/python -u /app/download_model.py"
 else
-  su -s /bin/sh appuser -c "python3 /app/download_model.py"
+  su -s /bin/sh appuser -c "python3 -u /app/download_model.py"
 fi
 
 LLAMA_SERVER_BIN="${LLAMA_SERVER_BIN:-/usr/local/bin/llama-server}"
@@ -52,4 +49,5 @@ if [[ -n "${PARALLEL:-}" ]]; then
 fi
 
 server_cmd=("$LLAMA_SERVER_BIN" "${server_args[@]}")
+echo "starting llama-server"
 exec su -s /bin/sh appuser -c "$(printf '%q ' "${server_cmd[@]}")"