Unify trunk on main: initialization → main #3

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jschoubben merged 58 commits from initialization into main 2026-09-05 01:13:33 +00:00
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@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ check: fmt vet test packaging-test build
packaging-test:
@./packaging/rollback_test.sh
@./packaging/launch_test.sh
fmt:
@test -z "$$(gofmt -l . )" || { echo "unformatted:"; gofmt -l . ; exit 1; }
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#!/bin/sh
# Tests for nox-mesh-host-launch.
#
# The counter is the whole mechanism and it is the part to get wrong: never cleared and a node
# rolls back on a healthy boot; cleared too eagerly and it never rolls back at all. So the
# counter is what most of these assert.
set -eu
cd "$(dirname "$0")"
LAUNCH="$PWD/nox-mesh-host-launch"
PASS=0; FAIL=0
setup() {
WORK="$(mktemp -d)"
export MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR="$WORK/state"
export MESH_HOST_LIBEXEC="$WORK/libexec"
export MESH_HOST_BIN="$WORK/bin/nox-mesh-host"
export MESH_HOST_START_LIMIT=3
mkdir -p "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR" "$MESH_HOST_LIBEXEC" "$WORK/bin"
# A host that records being started. It exits immediately, which is what the launcher's
# exec makes indistinguishable from a host that ran for a week — the launcher is gone by
# then either way.
cat > "$MESH_HOST_BIN" <<'STUB'
#!/bin/sh
echo "$@" >> "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/host.starts"
exit 0
STUB
cat > "$MESH_HOST_LIBEXEC/rollback" <<'STUB'
#!/bin/sh
echo rolled-back >> "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/rollback.calls"
[ -n "${STUB_ROLLBACK_FAILS:-}" ] && exit 1
echo "$(cat "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/known-good" 2>/dev/null)" > "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/rollback-attempted"
exit 0
STUB
chmod +x "$MESH_HOST_BIN" "$MESH_HOST_LIBEXEC/rollback"
unset STUB_ROLLBACK_FAILS || true
}
# `|| true` on every launcher call above: a launcher that exits non-zero is something to
# ASSERT, not something to abort on. With `set -e` and a bare call, removing a guard from the
# launcher killed this script at the first corrupt-counter case and silently skipped the rest —
# reporting a full pass over tests that never ran.
check() { if [ "$3" = "$4" ]; then PASS=$((PASS+1)); printf ' ok %s\n' "$1"
else FAIL=$((FAIL+1)); printf ' FAIL %s\n %s\n got: %s\n expected: %s\n' "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4"; fi; }
count() { cat "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/start-attempts" 2>/dev/null || echo MISSING; }
started() { [ -f "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/host.starts" ] && echo yes || echo no; }
rolled() { [ -f "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/rollback.calls" ] && echo yes || echo no; }
# --- the ordinary start -----------------------------------------------------------------------
setup
"$LAUNCH" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
check "starts the host" "the common case, every boot" "$(started)" "yes"
check "counts the attempt" "the counter is what decides a rollback later" "$(count)" "1"
check "does not roll back" "a first start is not a failure" "$(rolled)" "no"
# --- failures below the limit -----------------------------------------------------------------
setup
i=1; while [ $i -le 3 ]; do "$LAUNCH" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; i=$((i+1)); done
check "three starts do not trigger a rollback" "the limit is exceeded, not reached" "$(rolled)" "no"
check "counts them all" "" "$(count)" "3"
# --- past the limit ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
setup
echo "1.4.2" > "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/known-good"
i=1; while [ $i -le 4 ]; do "$LAUNCH" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; i=$((i+1)); done
check "the fourth start rolls back" "three failures is a binary that does not work" "$(rolled)" "yes"
check "and still starts the host" "the rolled-back version has to be run" "$(started)" "yes"
check "resets the counter after rolling back" "the new version deserves its own attempts, or it halts at once" \
"$(count)" "0"
# --- the host clears the counter on success ----------------------------------------------------
setup
i=1; while [ $i -le 2 ]; do "$LAUNCH" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; i=$((i+1)); done
printf '0\n' > "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/start-attempts" # what the host does on a completed reconcile
i=1; while [ $i -le 3 ]; do "$LAUNCH" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; i=$((i+1)); done
check "a cleared counter prevents a rollback" "a node up for months must not roll back on a healthy boot" \
"$(rolled)" "no"
# --- rolled back once already -------------------------------------------------------------------
setup
echo "1.4.2" > "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/known-good"
echo "1.4.2" > "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/rollback-attempted"
i=1; while [ $i -le 4 ]; do "$LAUNCH" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; i=$((i+1)); done
check "does not roll back twice" "the previous version failing too means the machine, not the binary" \
"$(rolled)" "no"
check "halts instead" "" "$([ -f "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/halted" ] && echo halted || echo running)" "halted"
# --- halted stays halted --------------------------------------------------------------------------
setup
echo "rolled back and still failing" > "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/halted"
"$LAUNCH" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
check "a halted node does not start the host" "nothing further is tried automatically" "$(started)" "no"
set +e; "$LAUNCH" >/dev/null 2>&1; RC=$?; set -e
check "a halted node exits zero" "a supervisor loop that is slow and visible beats a crash loop" "$RC" "0"
# --- the rollback itself fails ----------------------------------------------------------------------
setup
echo "1.4.2" > "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/known-good"
STUB_ROLLBACK_FAILS=1; export STUB_ROLLBACK_FAILS
i=1; while [ $i -le 4 ]; do "$LAUNCH" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; i=$((i+1)); done
check "a failed rollback halts" "restarting into the same failure would loop forever" \
"$([ -f "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/halted" ] && echo halted || echo running)" "halted"
# Counted, not "was it ever started": the first three attempts DID start it, correctly, and
# only the fourth must not. An earlier version of this asserted the host was never started and
# failed for that reason rather than for a fault.
check "and does not start it on the halting attempt" "three starts, not four" \
"$(wc -l < "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/host.starts" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)" "3"
# --- a corrupt counter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# The values here are chosen because they DISCRIMINATE. An earlier version used
# "not-a-number", which shell arithmetic happens to evaluate to 0 — so the test passed with the
# guard removed and proved nothing. These two do not:
#
# 5x shell arithmetic errors, and under `set -e` the launcher dies without starting the host
# 0x10 is read as HEX 16 — past the limit, so a healthy node would roll back for no reason
for corrupt in "5x" "0x10" "1 2" ""; do
setup
echo "1.4.2" > "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/known-good"
printf '%s\n' "$corrupt" > "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/start-attempts"
"$LAUNCH" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
# The exact number is not the property — "1 2" legitimately recovers a leading 1, while
# "5x" is rejected to 0. What must hold for every one of them is that the launcher
# survives its own state and does not read it as "past the limit".
check "corrupt counter [$corrupt]: starts the host" "the launcher must not die on its own state" \
"$(started)" "yes"
check "corrupt counter [$corrupt]: does not roll back" "a healthy node must not roll back on a bad counter" \
"$(rolled)" "no"
check "corrupt counter [$corrupt]: counter is a sane integer" "it is written back for the next start to read" \
"$(count | grep -cE '^[0-9]+$')" "1"
done
printf '\nlaunch: %d passed, %d failed\n' "$PASS" "$FAIL"
[ "$FAIL" -eq 0 ]
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#!/bin/sh
# Start the host, and decide what to do when it will not start.
#
# novox/hq ADR 0061. The init is asked for two things — start this at boot, start it again if it
# exits — and everything else is here, because this is the one piece that has to work on a
# machine where the host does not. Unit-file syntax cannot be tested; this can.
#
# POSIX sh, no bashisms, nothing that has to be installed.
set -eu
STATE_DIR="${MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR:-/var/lib/mesh-host}"
LIBEXEC="${MESH_HOST_LIBEXEC:-/usr/lib/nox-mesh-host}"
HOST="${MESH_HOST_BIN:-/usr/bin/nox-mesh-host}"
LIMIT="${MESH_HOST_START_LIMIT:-3}"
ATTEMPTS="$STATE_DIR/start-attempts"
HALTED="$STATE_DIR/halted"
say() { echo "nox-mesh-host-launch: $*" >&2; }
mkdir -p "$STATE_DIR"
# Halted: rolled back once and the previous version failed too, so the binary is not the problem.
# Nothing further is tried automatically. Exit zero — a supervisor restarting this forever is a
# slow visible loop rather than a crash loop, and the node stays down until a person looks.
if [ -e "$HALTED" ]; then
say "halted: $(cat "$HALTED" 2>/dev/null || echo 'reason not recorded')"
say "not starting the host. this node needs a person."
exit 0
fi
# Read the FIRST FIELD, then insist it is a plain integer.
#
# Stripping whitespace instead concatenates, and that is not a hypothetical: a counter file
# holding "1 2" became "12", which is past the limit, so a healthy node rolled itself back. An
# unreadable counter must fail towards "start normally", never towards "give up".
count=0
if [ -s "$ATTEMPTS" ]; then
read -r count _ < "$ATTEMPTS" 2>/dev/null || count=0
fi
case "${count:-}" in
'' | *[!0-9]*) count=0 ;;
esac
count=$((count + 1))
printf '%s\n' "$count" > "$ATTEMPTS"
if [ "$count" -gt "$LIMIT" ]; then
# The host has failed to get through a reconcile $LIMIT times running. The counter is
# cleared by the host itself on success, so reaching here means none of those starts
# worked — not that the machine has been up a long time.
if [ -e "$STATE_DIR/rollback-attempted" ]; then
say "the host failed $count times after a rollback. the previous version does not"
say "start either, so this is the machine and not the binary."
printf 'rolled back and still failing\n' > "$HALTED"
exit 0
fi
say "the host failed $count times. rolling back."
if "$LIBEXEC/rollback"; then
# Fresh count for the version we just installed: it deserves its own attempts, and
# without this it inherits a count already over the limit and halts immediately.
printf '0\n' > "$ATTEMPTS"
else
say "rollback failed. halting rather than restarting into the same failure."
printf 'rollback failed\n' > "$HALTED"
exit 0
fi
fi
# exec, so the host is what the supervisor watches and signals reach it directly.
exec "$HOST" run
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exit 1
fi
# reset-failed first, or the start limit that brought us here is still in force.
systemctl reset-failed "$PACKAGE".service 2>/dev/null || true
systemctl start "$PACKAGE".service
say "rolled back to $VERSION and started it. the node is on the previous version."
# Deliberately does NOT start anything. The launcher called this and will exec the host next,
# so starting it here would run two. novox/hq ADR 0061 moved that responsibility; this script
# installs a version and says so, and nothing else.
say "rolled back to $VERSION. the launcher will start it."
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[Unit]
Description=Roll the Novox Mesh node host back to the last version that started
# No OnFailure of its own. If the rollback fails there is nothing further to try
# automatically, and the node needs a person.
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/lib/nox-mesh-host/rollback
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Description=Novox Mesh node host
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
# When the supervisor gives up, recover rather than leaving the node quiet — a host that will
# not start looks exactly like a machine somebody switched off (novox/hq ADR 0059).
OnFailure=nox-mesh-host-rollback.service
# Two lines of policy and no more (novox/hq ADR 0061). Counting failed starts and rolling back
# lives in the launcher, where it can be tested — so this file is transcription for any other
# init rather than design.
[Service]
Type=notify
ExecStart=/usr/bin/nox-mesh-host run
ExecStart=/usr/lib/nox-mesh-host/launch
# always, NOT on-failure: the host restarts onto a new binary by exiting CLEANLY
# (novox/hq ADR 0057), and on-failure would leave an upgraded node stopped.
# (novox/hq ADR 0057), and on-failure would leave every upgraded node stopped.
Restart=always
RestartSec=5s
StartLimitBurst=3
StartLimitIntervalSec=120
StateDirectory=mesh-host
[Install]
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"$SCRIPT" >/dev/null 2>&1
check "installs the known-good version" "pacman is asked to install the cached package" \
"$(grep -c 'nox-mesh-host-1.4.2' "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/pacman.calls" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)" "1"
check "resets the start limit before starting" "reset-failed precedes start" \
"$(head -1 "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/systemctl.calls" | cut -d' ' -f1)" "reset-failed"
check "starts the host again" "systemctl start is called" \
"$(grep -c '^start ' "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/systemctl.calls" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)" "1"
# It installs and stops. The launcher execs the host next, and starting it here would run two
# (novox/hq ADR 0061).
check "does not start anything itself" "the launcher owns starting" \
"$([ -f "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/systemctl.calls" ] && echo started || echo not-started)" "not-started"
check "records that it rolled back" "the attempted marker holds the version" \
"$(cat "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/rollback-attempted" 2>/dev/null || echo MISSING)" "1.4.2"
@@ -90,9 +90,7 @@ echo "1.4.2" > "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/known-good"
touch "$MESH_HOST_PKG_CACHE/nox-mesh-host-1.4.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst"
STUB_PACMAN_FAILS=1 ; export STUB_PACMAN_FAILS
set +e; "$SCRIPT" >/dev/null 2>&1; RC=$?; set -e
check "pacman fails: does not start the host" "starting the broken binary again would loop" \
"$([ -f "$MESH_HOST_STATE_DIR/systemctl.calls" ] && echo started || echo not-started)" "not-started"
check "pacman fails: exits non-zero" "a failed rollback is a failure" "$RC" "1"
check "pacman fails: exits non-zero" "a failed rollback is a failure the launcher must see" "$RC" "1"
printf '\nrollback: %d passed, %d failed\n' "$PASS" "$FAIL"
[ "$FAIL" -eq 0 ]