diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_served_integration_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_served_integration_test.go
index 41819d3d..01c1b2b9 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_served_integration_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_served_integration_test.go
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/chain"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/identity"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
 )
 
 // The compositions through the controller whole (novox/hq ADR 0539; the review's G1): the real store, the controller's
@@ -220,6 +221,7 @@ func aServedMesh(t *testing.T) *servedMesh {
 		}
 	}
 
+	keepWhatServeSets(t)
 	serving, stop := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
 	done := make(chan error, 1)
 	go func() { done <- serve(serving) }()
@@ -587,3 +589,18 @@ func capturedOutput(act func() error) (string, error) {
 	w.Close()
 	return <-done, actErr
 }
+
+// keepWhatServeSets gives back, once the served controller stopped, what serve sets for the rest of its process, which
+// a controller's process exits after and the test process does not (issue 1945): the served mark in the environment, the
+// hand-act log's connection, the keeper, the status and the event publishers. Registered before the controller starts, so
+// it runs after the cleanup that stops it.
+func keepWhatServeSets(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Helper()
+	t.Setenv(servedVar, "")
+	unheld, status, given, check, follow, keeper, hand := logUnheldChanges, statusFrom, givenEvents, checkEvents,
+		link.Calls.Follow, conditionsFrom, handActConn
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		logUnheldChanges, statusFrom, givenEvents, checkEvents, link.Calls.Follow, conditionsFrom, handActConn =
+			unheld, status, given, check, follow, keeper, hand
+	})
+}