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 # Known issues
 
-## magpie-tts crash loop (Spark 2)
+## ~~magpie-tts crash loop (Spark 2)~~ — RESOLVED 2026-05-12
 
 **What Magpie is:** NVIDIA's multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) model, served via the NIM (NVIDIA Inference Microservices) framework — a Riva Speech Server container that converts text into spoken audio. It's the counterpart to Parakeet (which is speech-to-text / STT). When working, it exposes `/v1/audio/speech` on port 9000 and is used by clients like Open WebUI for the "read aloud" feature.
 
-The `magpie-tts` container at `nvcr.io/nim/nvidia/magpie-tts-multilingual:latest` is in a restart loop and `:9000` is not reachable. **Status as of 2026-05-12: unfixed. UI surfaces a red dot.**
+**Root cause:** The Docker volume `magpie-model-cache` (mounted at `/opt/nim/.cache` in the container) was owned by `root:root` on the host. The container drops to uid 1000 (`riva-server`) and tries to download model manifests into that cache — got `I/O error Permission denied (os error 13)` — exited 1 — restarted infinitely (24,000+ restarts before the fix).
 
-**Root cause (from `docker logs magpie-tts`):**
-
-```
-nimlib.exceptions.ManifestDownloadError: Error downloading manifest:
-  I/O error Permission denied (os error 13)
-```
-
-The container exits 1 from `nimutils.download_models()` when fetching `nim/nvidia/magpie-tts-multilingual` model files from NGC. The "permission denied" is a local filesystem error — the container can't write the model cache where it expects to.
-
-**To diagnose further:**
+**Fix:**
 
 ```bash
-ssh <spark-user>@<spark-2-ip>
-docker inspect magpie-tts | jq '.[].HostConfig.Mounts, .[].Config.Env'
-# Look for: the mount path for the model cache, and whether NGC_API_KEY is set.
+ssh <spark-user>@<spark-2-host> 'docker run --rm -v magpie-model-cache:/cache alpine chown -R 1000:1000 /cache && docker restart magpie-tts'
 ```
 
-**Likely fixes (untried):**
+The trick is the `docker run --rm alpine chown` — it runs as root inside the throwaway container, which is enough to chown the bind-mounted volume on the host, without needing `sudo` on the host itself. After the chown + restart, magpie downloaded its ~3 GB model from NGC into the cache and came up healthy on `:9000`.
 
-1. Chown the bind-mounted cache directory on Spark 2 to the UID the container runs as.
-2. Set an `NGC_API_KEY` env var (NIM containers need this for non-public artifacts).
-3. Confirm there's free disk space.
+**If it ever recurs** (e.g. after wiping the volume), re-run that one command.
 
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