SourceConfig.timeout defaulted to 3600s (1 hour), but download_source's
Celery task has soft_time_limit=900s and hard time_limit=1200s. So
gallery-dl never hit its own subprocess.run timeout — Celery always
killed it first. The hard SIGKILL leaves no terminal flip on the
DownloadEvent, which then sat pending/running until the recovery sweep
flipped it to error at 30 min from start. From the operator's seat that
was a ~30–40 min "hang" on every retry of a broken source.
Pinning the default to 900s (matching Celery's soft_time_limit) lets
subprocess.run raise TimeoutExpired cleanly inside Celery's window, and
the existing `except subprocess.TimeoutExpired` branch
(gallery_dl.py:635) captures it as a clean error_type='timeout' with a
real message. The DownloadEvent flips to error in ~15 min instead of
waiting on the recovery sweep at 30.
Per-source bumps still live in source.config_overrides for legitimately
long first-syncs. The new _DEFAULT_GDL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS constant carries
the rationale and the Celery-soft-limit dependency in its comment.
Operator-flagged 2026-05-30 on 59-source strand pile retries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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