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platform/src/servers/sidecar/caldav
pastilhas c6ef0b34db caldav: a missing radicale should not crash-loop the sidecar
reported from a fresh install: ENOENT spawning radicale, over and over.

two bugs, and the second is the worse one.

`spawn('radicale')` resolves against the PATH THIS PROCESS STARTED WITH, and
under pm2 that is a login-less minimum with no ~/.local/bin. the same trap has
now bitten `tea`, the plugin dependency probe and this, so the search path is
explicit here rather than inherited: ~/.local/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/bin,
/bin, then whatever pm2 supplied. /usr/bin is listed even though it is
normally present — it is where the apt package lands, and a PATH mangled by a
shell profile should not break the supported install.

falls back to `python3 -m radicale`, because radicale is a python package: a
pip install --user without ~/.local/bin on PATH, or a distro shipping the
module with no wrapper script, both leave it importable and unfindable. the
module is the thing that matters.

the second bug: startRadicale runs at module top level, so the ENOENT threw
and killed the sidecar, and pm2 restarted it forever. that is the opposite of
what the backoff inside it is for, and it took /_health down with it — so the
one endpoint that could have said what was wrong was the one thing not
answering. a missing dependency is now a value the caller handles: the sidecar
stays up, /_health returns 503 with the install command, and `installed:
false` distinguishes "never installed" from "crashed and backing off". both
are 503 but only one is fixed by waiting.

resolveRadicale takes an optional PATH so the null branch is tested rather
than reasoned about. verified the happy path live: radicale launched, sidecar
registered, zero restarts.
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