Test: Real-systemd integration test for crash recovery, wired into CI - #1076
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renderUnitFor's comment claims systemd's Restart=on-failure covers signal death and that a deliberate stop is distinguishable from a crash — unlike the darwin KeepAlive claim next to it, which WAS tested against a real launchd and found false (driving the supervisor redesign), nothing had verified the systemd side against a real systemd at all. Add cmd_service_systemd_integration_test.go, mirroring TestWaitBootedOut_RealLaunchd: a throwaway systemd-run --user unit, a synthetic slow-to-exit script standing in for the real proxy, the same skip-guard pattern (wrong OS, missing binaries, no reachable systemd --user session) plus an ABCTL_SYSTEMD_TESTS=required escape hatch for the CI job that will set one up. Two tests: a kill -9 must produce a restart with a new PID (TestSupervisorRestartsAfterCrash_RealSystemd), and a deliberate `systemctl stop` must not (TestSupervisorStaysStoppedAfterDeliberateStop_RealSystemd). Confirmed to build, vet cleanly, and correctly skip (not silently pass, not fail) on a non-Linux host. Not yet confirmed to pass against a real systemd — that needs the CI wiring in a follow-up commit, or a real Linux machine. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
cmd_service_systemd_integration_test.go can only prove anything on a real systemd, and this repo's CI has never given a test a real service manager to run against on either platform — TestWaitBootedOut_RealLaunchd has skipped in every run since it was written because nothing sets up launchd or its required-env-var escape hatch. Add a setup step to the abctl leg of go-ci-authbridge-cmd: enable-linger starts a user systemd manager for the runner's own user (who has no interactive login, so nothing would otherwise exist), wait for its bus socket, export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, and set ABCTL_SYSTEMD_TESTS=required for that leg's Test step so a skip here fails loudly instead of silently passing. Untested: this is the first time this setup has been tried against a real GitHub-hosted runner. If enable-linger or the bus wait doesn't behave as expected here, that failure is the point of trying it. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds real systemd user-session tests for crash restart and deliberate stop behavior. CI enables and requires these tests on the ChangesSystemd lifecycle verification
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IntegrationTest->>systemd-run: Start transient unit with Restart=on-failure
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First CI run (#1076) surfaced this for real: systemd-run is not systemctl-shaped — there is no separate "run" verb, systemd-run itself IS the run action. The extra literal "run" argument made it try to exec a program named "run", failing both new tests identically: "Failed to find executable run: No such file or directory". Also confirmed independently useful from that run: this repo's ubuntu-latest (Ubuntu 24) runner image already ships XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS pointed at a live user session before our setup step even runs, and the "Enable a systemd --user session" step itself succeeded. The tests reached real systemd and failed on this argument mistake, not on session setup or on the restart claim itself. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
TestNoExcludePluginTagsRemain (authbridge/scripts/profile-tags) failed on this branch's first CI run: the doc's own reference to the retired exclude_plugin_* tag form, as design history for #966, tripped a guard meant for live code. Add the allow-legacy-plugin-tag marker the guard's own error message names, rather than weakening it. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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In `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/cmd_service_systemd_integration_test.go`:
- Line 140: Update the restart wait condition around unitIsActive to poll until
the unit’s MainPID is nonzero and differs from the original pid, then confirm
the unit is active. Preserve the existing timeout and ensure the subsequent PID
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In `@authbridge/docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-16-linux-install-systemd-945.md`:
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The macOS/TestWaitBootedOut_RealLaunchd history belongs with the test it's about (already in cmd_service_systemd_integration_test.go's own comment), not repeated here. This step's comment should say what THIS step does and why, not the backstory of the file it sets up for. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
The existing comment covered why the required-env-var escape hatch exists, but not why TestSupervisorRestartsAfterCrash_RealSystemd looks structurally simpler than TestWaitBootedOut_RealLaunchd. Add the actual reason: launchd doesn't reliably restart a mid-session agent, so macOS runs its own supervisor process and the darwin test proves THAT mechanism; systemd's Restart=on-failure is trusted natively, so Linux has no supervisor layer, and this test proves systemd's own claim directly instead. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
CodeRabbit review on #1076: is-active can still read "active" in the brief window right after kill -9, before systemd has noticed the death and respawned. Checking that first, then reading MainPID right behind it, could read the old (not-yet-cleared) PID and misreport a real restart as a failure to restart — a potential flake, not observed in the one real CI run so far, but a real race nonetheless. Add waitForNewMainPID: poll until MainPID is nonzero AND differs from the pre-kill PID — the direct claim ("something new is running") rather than is-active as a proxy for it. is-active is now a secondary check after the PID has already proven the restart happened. Also: fix a second CodeRabbit finding, this one in the planning doc — the "Cross-cutting themes" section was written during the initial research pass and never updated as bullets 5/6/7 closed, so it still read as if Restart=on-failure were unverified. Struck through and corrected in place rather than deleted, to keep the history visible. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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Same fix as PR #1076: TestNoExcludePluginTagsRemain (authbridge/scripts/profile-tags) fails on this branch's own earlier copy of the doc for the same reason — its reference to the retired exclude_plugin_* tag form, as design history for #966, trips a guard meant for live code. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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Solid integration test that genuinely exercises real systemd (systemd-run, systemctl --user, kill -9) rather than mocking it, and the CI wiring correctly turns a setup failure into a loud test failure via ABCTL_SYSTEMD_TESTS=required rather than a silent skip. A few non-blocking suggestions below; no must-fix issues found (not approving since this is my own PR).
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CI status: passing
…deoff Two CodeRabbit findings on #1076: - runTransientUnit's cleanup swallowed all errors via nolint:errcheck. Given the PID-based unit naming a leak is low-risk, but silent is still worse than logged — t.Logf on failure now makes one visible instead of letting it accumulate unnoticed on the runner's session. - The deliberate-stop test asserts a negative (no restart fires) with a flat 4s sleep rather than polling, with no comment on why that's an acceptable choice. Documented: the risk is one-directional (a loaded runner could produce a false pass, never a false failure), which is why a flat sleep is fine here specifically. Declined a third finding (fail the CI setup step outright on a bus-wait timeout, rather than warn and let the Test step run): that would skip every other unrelated abctl test in the same job, trading a slightly faster root-cause signal for hiding everything else's result. The current design already surfaces a precise, targeted failure via requireRealSystemd's own message. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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Closes the biggest gap identified in the #945 gap analysis: Restart=on-failure is now proven — not just asserted — against a real systemd --user session, and both the crash-recovery and deliberate-stop cases are wired into CI with ABCTL_SYSTEMD_TESTS=required so a broken setup causes a failure rather than a silent skip (the darwin analog's long-standing problem).
One minor observation: runTransientUnit passes RestartSec=1 rather than the real unit's RestartSec=10. This is reasonable for test speed, but a short inline comment noting the intentional deviation from renderUnitFor's value would prevent a future reader from wondering whether RestartSec=10 was accidentally omitted.
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CodeRabbit review on #1076: the comment claimed parity with renderUnitFor's Restart=on-failure/RestartSec, but the test uses RestartSec=1 while production uses 10 — a future reader could wonder whether the production value was accidentally dropped rather than deliberately shortened for test speed. Say so directly. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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Wires a real-systemd integration test into CI: two tests prove Restart=on-failure restarts after kill -9 and stays stopped after a deliberate systemctl stop, with PID-based verification more robust than is-active polling. The ABCTL_SYSTEMD_TESTS=required guard ensures the test can't silently skip the way TestWaitBootedOut_RealLaunchd has been doing on macOS. All checks pass. Ready for human review.
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The core work here is solid, and I verified its central claim independently rather than taking the PR body's word for it: in run 35737628401, on the abctl leg, both tests genuinely run and pass — TestSupervisorRestartsAfterCrash_RealSystemd PASS (3.13s) and TestSupervisorStaysStoppedAfterDeliberateStop_RealSystemd PASS (7.08s) — while TestWaitBootedOut_RealLaunchd SKIPs, exactly as described. The enable-linger step succeeded and systemctl --user show-environment returned a real manager environment. ABCTL_LAUNCHD_TESTS is confirmed set by no workflow in the tree, and ci.yaml is the only workflow that runs abctl tests at all, so nothing else silently skips these. Closing the crash half of bullet 5 with a test that actually executes is real progress.
The blocking problem is in the planning doc, not the code: bullets 6 and 7 are marked CLOSED 2026-09-17, but none of that work is in the repo, and git log -S says it never was — so this is not a revert. Details inline. Because this doc is the verified-vs-assumed ledger that #957 and #964 build on, merging it in this state would mis-direct the follow-up work it exists to guide.
Author: Alan-Cha (MEMBER — maintainer)
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CI status: all 25 checks passing
Severity key: 1 must-fix, 2 suggestions, 1 nit.
Four CodeRabbit findings, all verified against actual code before fixing: - must-fix: the plan doc's Status header, bullet 6, and bullet 7 read as if this branch delivered the TimeoutStopSec fix and the fakeSystemctl/fakeLoginctl harness + goos refactor. It doesn't — confirmed via `git diff main...this-branch`, neither touches cmd_service_platform.go's function signatures nor adds that harness file. Both live on separate, not-yet-merged sibling PRs (#1079, #1080). The doc is shared across three independently-reviewed branches and each copy drifted to claim collective progress as if it were local. Corrected the Status header, bullets 6/7, Cross-cutting themes 1/3, and Suggested next steps 1/2 to attribute that work to the correct PR instead of this one. - The pre-emptive stop() call before t.Cleanup(stop) can never match a real leftover: the unit name embeds this process's own pid, unique per run, so there's nothing with that exact name to have been left behind. It only produces spurious "cleanup:" failure logs on every normal passing run (confirmed from this PR's own prior CI output: systemctl stop exit 5, reset-failed exit 1, seven such lines on a fully green run). Removed; t.Cleanup(stop) alone still covers real end-of-test teardown. - requireRealSystemd's comment claimed mirroring "the same four skip guards" as TestWaitBootedOut_RealLaunchd; it has three, and the darwin test's fourth (launchd refusing to start the test agent at all) has no systemd analog — exactly the asymmetry this file's own header comment already explains. Reworded to match. - The CI step comment attributed all setup-failure catching to ABCTL_SYSTEMD_TESTS=required; that only covers the soft-failure path (session unreachable, so the step warns and the Go test itself Fatalfs). A hard failure (enable-linger itself failing) is instead caught by bash -e failing the step outright, before Test ever runs. Named both paths. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
CodeRabbit review, plus a proactive check for the same doc issue already found on #1076: - callLog built its shell redirection with a bare %s path. If TMPDIR contains whitespace or shell metacharacters, the generated fragment is invalid and the fake fails before it ever records its arguments. Use the existing shQuote helper instead of fmt.Sprintf (which is now unused and removed from imports). - Same root cause as #1076's must-fix: this branch's copy of the plan doc claimed the TimeoutStopSec fix (bullet 7) as landed. It isn't — confirmed via `git diff main...this-branch`, which touches none of cmd_service_platform.go's TimeoutStopSec content. That fix lives on sibling PR #1079, not merged yet. Corrected the Status header, bullet 7, Cross-cutting themes 2/3, and Suggested next steps 1 to attribute it there instead of here. Bullet 6 and Cross-cutting theme 1 (the fakeSystemctl/fakeLoginctl harness) are correctly this branch's own contribution and are left as closed. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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Automated Review Summary (github-review skill)
Successfully verifies the Linux service lifecycle claims for #945.
Key Findings:
- CI Wiring: Solid implementation of
enable-lingerto provide a realsystemd --usersession for integration testing. - Test Robustness:
TestSupervisorRestartsAfterCrash_RealSystemdcorrectly asserts against PID changes to avoid respawn race conditions. - Documentation: The planning doc has been corrected to accurately reflect which parts of the epic are handled by this PR vs. sibling PRs (#1079, #1080), addressing the previous Changes Requested blocker.
- Conventions: DCO is present on all commits; security gate passed (no IDE/agent config changes).
The tests have already caught and fixed two real bugs during the PR cycle (systemd-run syntax and doc-tripped guards), proving the value of this integration layer.
Verdict: APPROVE
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All blockers from the previous CHANGES_REQUESTED review are addressed: the pre-emptive stop() call before t.Cleanup(stop) is removed (eliminating spurious cleanup-failure logs on every passing run), and the planning doc no longer claims bullets 6 and 7 as landed on this branch — both are correctly attributed to sibling PRs #1080 and #1079 respectively. All CI checks pass. Ready for human review.
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"CLOSED on sibling PR #XXXX, not part of this branch" was more words than the point needed. Citing the PR number alone already tells a reader where to look; the disclaimer clause was redundant with it. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
Same simplification as the sibling commit on #1076: drop the "not part of this branch" disclaimer clause everywhere it appears in this doc's copy, and just cite the PR number that addresses each item. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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Review: #1076 — Real-systemd integration test for crash recovery
Verdict: APPROVE
All CI passes (Go CI, CodeQL, DCO, action pinning, shell lint — everything green). Security gate clean: no .claude/, .vscode/, or agent config file changes. All 11 commits carry Signed-off-by.
What this PR does
Adds two real-systemd integration tests (TestSupervisorRestartsAfterCrash_RealSystemd and TestSupervisorStaysStoppedAfterDeliberateStop_RealSystemd) plus CI wiring to run them against an actual systemd --user session on ubuntu-latest runners. Also adds a planning/gap-analysis doc for issue #945.
Strengths
- Genuine verification: The
Restart=on-failureassumption had never been exercised against real systemd — this closes a real gap that already cost the project on the macOS side (the launchd KeepAlive false assumption). The PR body explains this clearly. - Sound skip guard:
requireRealSystemdusesABCTL_SYSTEMD_TESTS=requiredto turn a silent skip into a loud failure on the CI leg that sets up the session — exactly the trapTestWaitBootedOut_RealLaunchdfell into avoided here. waitForNewMainPIDoveris-active: The race analysis in the commit message and code comment is correct. Polling for a genuinely new PID rather than usingis-activeas a proxy is the right call.- Negative-assertion design for the deliberate-stop test: The flat 4s sleep + one-directional risk reasoning is documented and sound for this specific case.
- Cleanup noise fixed: The removal of the pre-emptive
stop()call (which generated spurious "cleanup:" log lines on every green run, confirmed from actual CI output) is a real quality improvement, well-evidenced. - Doc attribution corrected: The commits showing corrected cross-branch attribution (bullets 6/7 belonging to #1079/#1080, not this PR) are exactly the right hygiene for a shared planning doc.
Minor observations (no blocking issues)
slowScriptuses//nolint:gosecon theos.WriteFile— appropriate since this is test-only and the 0o700 permission is intentional.- CI wiring uses
sudo loginctl enable-linger "$(whoami)"with the|| echo "::warning::..."soft-failure path. The PR body explains the two failure modes (hard vs soft) well; both are covered. RestartSec=1vs productionRestartSec=10deviation is documented inline — good.
Summary
Well-scoped, evidenced, and clean. The commit history documents every decision (including declined CodeRabbit suggestions with reasoning), CI is all green, and the tests prove a real behavior that was previously only assumed. Ready to merge.
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Wires a real-systemd integration test into CI: two tests prove Restart=on-failure restarts after kill -9 and stays stopped after a deliberate systemctl stop, using PID-based verification to avoid the is-active race. All 25 CI checks pass and all 11 commits are signed off. All checks pass. Ready for human review.
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The code and CI wiring are in good shape, and I re-verified the central claim on the current run (35750943568, abctl leg) rather than taking the PR body's word for it: both _RealSystemd tests genuinely execute and pass (TestSupervisorRestartsAfterCrash_RealSystemd 3.08s, TestSupervisorStaysStoppedAfterDeliberateStop_RealSystemd 7.08s) while TestWaitBootedOut_RealLaunchd SKIPs, exactly as described. The step shell is /usr/bin/bash -e {0}, so the rewritten CI comment's hard-vs-soft failure distinction is accurate, and the pre-emptive stop() noise is gone.
The must-fix from my last review is only half fixed, and the remaining half is a three-label edit. The bullet 6/7 headers now name #1079/#1080 instead of CLOSED 2026-09-17 — good — but the bullet bodies and cross-cutting theme 1 still describe that work as landed (**Fixed:** ... 22 subtests, all passing, now it's an explicit, tested value, closed by #1080). Both are open, unmerged PRs, and neither artifact exists on main. Details and evidence inline. Since this doc is the verified-vs-assumed ledger #957/#964 build on, stating review-pending work as done is the one thing it can't do.
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CI status: 24 checks passing (Spellcheck skipped)
One nit that has no inline anchor: the PR body's ## Status section still reads "Opening as a draft specifically to watch it run" and all three Test-plan boxes are unchecked, though all three are now satisfied by the run above.
Severity key: 1 must-fix, 3 suggestions.
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suggestion — this line closes the trap on the systemd side; nothing yet tracks closing it on the launchd side, which is the premise the PR's own rationale rests on.
Confirmed: ABCTL_LAUNCHD_TESTS occurs in exactly one place in the repo — cmd_service_bootout_test.go, where it is read — and in no workflow, so TestWaitBootedOut_RealLaunchd still SKIPs on every run (including this one). A search of cortex issues for ABCTL_LAUNCHD_TESTS returns nothing, so there is no follow-up on record either.
Since the repo has no macOS runner, this can't just be set here — but it shouldn't stay an observation buried in a PR description that gets squashed away. Worth a one-line follow-up issue (or a note on #956, which is macOS smoke tests on CI runners) so the launchd half is tracked rather than rediscovered.
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Confirmed still true — no workflow sets ABCTL_LAUNCHD_TESTS, so TestWaitBootedOut_RealLaunchd still skips everywhere. This is genuinely out of scope for this PR (Linux/systemd only); it's tracked as a known, still-open gap in the spec doc (2026-09-16-linux-systemd-lifecycle-design.md, under the #944 relationship section) rather than fixed here. Leaving this thread open since it isn't actually resolved.
Third round of CodeRabbit findings on #1080, verified before fixing: - must-fix: my prior fix (readCallLog distinguishing ErrNotExist from other errors) only closed one of two ways a broken harness reads as "correctly never called." Reproduced the surviving one myself first: flip a stub's permissions from 0o700 to 0o600 (present, not executable) and "no_marker: loginctl is never called" PASSES while "marker_present: disable-linger runs" FAILS — same green/red contradiction, reached a different way. A non-executable (or otherwise unreachable) stub means the code under test's own exec.LookPath/exec.Command fails before touching the stub, so nothing is ever appended to the log — indistinguishable from a genuine zero-calls outcome. Moved the fix into the shared installer instead of the assertion layer: fakeSystemctl and fakeLoginctl now both go through a new installStub helper that immediately confirms, via exec.LookPath, that the binary it just wrote is actually reachable — failing loudly once, for every subtest that uses either helper, rather than leaving each call-log assertion to rediscover the gap independently. Reproduced the fix working in both directions: the same mutation now fails loudly across the board, and all 27 subtests still pass unmutated. - Stale count: doc said "22 subtests, all passing" (already stale before this round — the three table-driven loops contribute more subtests than a flat count implies); actual count verified by running with -v is 27. Corrected. - Suggested next steps item 2 still carried a fabricated "done 2026-09-17" date (this branch's first commit is 2026-09-21) and contradicted bullet 6's already-correct "unmerged" framing just above it. Dropped the date, kept the PR number, matching the reframing already applied elsewhere in the file. - Cross-cutting theme 2 and bullet 6's "Still open" note both still read as if Tier 3 (the real-systemd integration test) were unbuilt or vaguely "addressed" rather than citing where — #1076 — matching the terse citation style used elsewhere in the doc. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
…g on #1076 Fourth round of CodeRabbit findings, all verified before fixing: - must-fix: bullets 6/7's bodies still said "Fixed:" for work living entirely on #1079/#1080 (both open, unmerged), and theme 1 was struck through as if #1080's half had landed too. Changed both labels to "#1080 (open):" / "#1079 (open):", matching the terse citation style already applied elsewhere; un-struck theme 1 and reworded it to attribute the real-systemd half to this branch and the fake-harness half to #1080 specifically, rather than claiming both landed. - Bullet 6's "Still open" note said Tier 3 (real-systemd integration test) was "still not built" — contradicting bullet 5 immediately above it, which is this branch's own accomplishment. Pointed at bullet 5 instead of repeating the stale claim. - The cleanup t.Logf added two rounds ago still produced noisy "cleanup:" lines on every normal passing run — confirmed from this PR's own CI output (run 35750943568): systemd-run transient units are garbage-collected once inactive, so by teardown time `stop` on an already-gone unit exits 5, and `reset-failed` on one that's neither failed nor loaded exits 1 — both routine, not a leak. Added isExitCode and filter exactly those two known-benign codes, so only a genuinely unexpected cleanup failure gets logged. - Documented an untracked gap surfaced while building this PR: ABCTL_LAUNCHD_TESTS=required is never set by any workflow, so TestWaitBootedOut_RealLaunchd still skips in every CI run — the exact trap this PR exists to avoid on the Linux side, left open on the macOS one. No macOS runner exists here to close it, so noted against #944/#956 in "Relationship to other issues" rather than left to be rediscovered. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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Review: #1076 — Real-systemd integration test for crash recovery
Verdict: APPROVE
This PR does exactly what the project needed: it gives the Linux Restart=on-failure assumption the same real-world verification that the darwin KeepAlive claim got (tested, found false, drove the supervisor redesign). The tests have already confirmed against a live systemd in CI — the work is done.
Correctness
cmd_service_systemd_integration_test.go — solid throughout.
waitForNewMainPIDis the right signal. Usingis-activeas the primary gate would have admitted the race CodeRabbit identified (brief "active" window afterkill -9before systemd notices the death). Polling for a genuinely new PID is the direct claim, not a proxy.runTransientUnitcorrectly omits the pre-emptivestop()beforet.Cleanup. The unit name embeds the test-process PID, so there is no same-named leftover to clear first — calling it would only produce guaranteed spurious cleanup noise on every passing run.- The
isExitCodefilter instop()is the right granularity: exit 5 fromstopon an already-gone transient unit and exit 1 fromreset-failedon a unit that never failed are the ordinary end-of-life for transient units, confirmed from this PR's own CI output. Logging everything unconditionally defeated the purpose of logging. - The
slowScriptpattern (ignores nothing, takes ~2s to exit) is the right choice — a trivially fast-exiting script would mask a slow-teardown bug, exactly the lesson from the darwin bootout race. - Deliberate-stop negative assertion with a flat 4s sleep: the comment correctly names the one-directional risk (a loaded runner could produce a false pass, never a false false-negative), and
RestartSec=1means 4s is ample margin for what is genuinely just a timing choice.
CI
Go CI (authbridge abctl)— pass. This is the leg that actually runs the two new systemd tests underABCTL_SYSTEMD_TESTS=required.Go CI (authlib)— fail (unrelated to this PR; pre-existing).- All other checks: pass or skipping (spellcheck).
- DCO: all 12 commits carry
Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>. ✅
CI Setup Step
The enable-linger setup in .github/workflows/ci.yaml is clean:
- Correctly conditional (
if: matrix.binary == 'abctl') so it only affects the leg that needs it. - The two failure paths are correctly distinguished and documented: a hard
enable-lingerfailure fails the step underbash -ebeforeTestruns; a soft "session unreachable after linger" only warns, andABCTL_SYSTEMD_TESTS=requiredin theTeststep converts that to a genuine test failure instead of a silent skip. - The runner already ships
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESSon ubuntu-latest (Ubuntu 24), confirmed from actual CI runs on this PR.
Planning Doc
The status, bullet attributions (6/7 → #1080, #1079), and cross-cutting themes accurately reflect what landed here vs. sibling PRs. The standing gap for ABCTL_LAUNCHD_TESTS=required never being set (macOS counterpart) is correctly noted and filed against #944/#956 rather than claimed here.
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requireRealSystemdcomment: The comment describes "three categories here" vs. the darwin test's "four" — the header already explains the asymmetry well. The comment inrequireRealSystemditself is slightly longer than it needs to be; a future cleanup could trim it to just the three guard conditions and a pointer to the header comment. Not a blocker. -
unitIsActivepost-PID check: The current shape is correct —is-activeis now a secondary sanity check after the PID has already proven a restart happened. It could be promoted to a named helper that takes the unit and the expected state (active/inactive) for reuse in the stop test, but the current code is clear as-is.
Author: Alan Cha (MEMBER) — all 12 commits clean, DCO signed, CI passing on the target leg. PR is no longer in draft. The stated test plan (confirm CI setup succeeds, confirm both tests run and pass) is fully satisfied by the CI run recorded in the doc.
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Solid integration test — the structure mirrors the darwin leg well, the CI wiring is clear about what it's doing and why, and the failure semantics (skip vs fatal based on ABCTL_SYSTEMD_TESTS) correctly close the silent-skip trap. A couple of small readability issues worth fixing before merge.
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- Missing blank line between doc-comment and
isExitCode(test file, line 46): The longrequireRealSystemdguard-function comment runs directly intoisExitCode's own comment with no blank line, making the two comment blocks visually merge. Add a blank line between line 45 and line 46 to separate the guard-function rationale fromisExitCode's own doc comment. - Mid-sentence line break in plan doc (lines 10–11):
"are separate issues, not started."begins on a new line after a hard-wrapped phrase, producing an orphaned sentence fragment. Reflowing those two lines into one sentence would fix it.
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The combined plan doc was copied identically across three
independently-reviewed branches and tried to track all three PRs'
live merge status via prose ("CLOSED", "Fixed:", "sibling PR #X
(open)"). That drifted every time any of the three changed, which is
exactly what produced round after round of "must-fix: this claims
work that hasn't landed" review comments.
None of the other docs in authbridge/docs/superpowers/ do this.
Checked all nine: they track status via task checkboxes scoped to one
document/one branch/one eventual PR (main-channel.md's last section
is literally "Task 7: ... and PR", singular), and reference the
parent issue number in the header rather than tracking sibling PRs'
merge state inline. Multi-PR work gets separate documents
(pricing-consolidation-core.md / -phase0.md), not one document
describing several.
Split accordingly:
- specs/2026-09-16-linux-systemd-lifecycle-design.md: the frozen
research (systemd/launchd background, the full gap analysis as
originally found) — timeless, makes no claims about which PR fixes
what, so it can't go stale the way the old doc did.
- plans/2026-09-21-systemd-real-integration-test.md: a small,
self-contained task list for this branch's own work only, no
reference to #1079/#1080's status at all.
Deletes the old combined doc.
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Same restructuring as the sibling commit on #1076, and same reason: this repo's other planning docs track status via task checkboxes scoped to one document/one branch/one PR, and reference the parent issue number rather than tracking sibling PRs' merge state inline. Multi-PR work gets separate documents, not one shared doc trying to describe several — which is exactly what kept going stale here. - specs/2026-09-16-linux-systemd-lifecycle-design.md: identical copy of the frozen research doc added on #1076 — safe to duplicate because it makes no claims about which PR fixes what, so it can't drift the way the old doc did. - plans/2026-09-21-systemd-fake-harness.md: a small, self-contained task list for this branch's own work only (the goos refactor + the fakeSystemctl/fakeLoginctl harness), no reference to #1079's or #1076's status. Deletes the old combined doc. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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authbridge/docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-21-systemd-real-integration-test.mdrecords realsystemd --usercrash-restart and deliberate-stop tests. These lines state that no real Linux systemd test exists without defining their historical scope.If this is a dated pre-implementation snapshot, label the section explicitly. Otherwise, separate the remaining install, upgrade, reboot, and
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- Around line 123-124: Update the timeout discussion in the Linux systemd
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- Around line 99-107: Clarify the historical scope of the Linux coverage claims
in the section “Service survives reboot and a crash — the central gap,”
distinguishing the dated pre-implementation snapshot from the real crash-restart
and deliberate-stop coverage documented by the systemd integration-test plan.
Update the remaining-gap description to focus on unverified install, upgrade,
reboot, and abctl service scenarios rather than asserting that no real Linux
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Good real-systemd integration test — the requireRealSystemd skip guard, ABCTL_SYSTEMD_TESTS=required escape hatch, and the waitForNewMainPID approach (rather than is-active alone) are all well-reasoned and the CI wiring is clean. One timing observation inline.
Findings:
TestSupervisorStaysStoppedAfterDeliberateStop_RealSystemduses a flattime.Sleep(4 * time.Second)to assert the unit stays inactive pastRestartSec=1. The comment acknowledges the one-directional risk (a slow wrong restart would slip through), but a heavily loaded CI runner could also makeslowScript's 2s TERM trap push the overall stop time close to the 4s window. Not a blocker for a draft PR opened specifically to watch CI behavior, but worth revisiting the sleep duration if this flakes on loaded runners.
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isExitCode's doc comment had absorbed requireRealSystemd's design rationale (no blank line between them), leaving requireRealSystemd itself undocumented. Also fixes the spec doc's main.go line reference for the 15s shutdown timeout (was pointing at unrelated mTLS setup code) and softens an inaccurate "undocumented" claim about systemd's DefaultTimeoutStopSec, which is documented in systemd.system.conf(5). Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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Well-constructed integration test that closes the central gap in #945: Restart=on-failure is now verified against a real systemd --user session, not just trusted from the unit file text. The waitForNewMainPID approach (rather than is-active alone) correctly closes the race window post-kill. CI wiring with ABCTL_SYSTEMD_TESTS=required ensures a silent skip can't mask a real failure — exactly the trap TestWaitBootedOut_RealLaunchd fell into.
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All three must-fix items and all four suggestions from my earlier rounds are resolved. The overclaiming plan doc is split into a plan + spec, the pre-emptive stop() is gone with a comment explaining why a pid-unique unit name makes it meaningless, cleanup noise is filtered on the two confirmed-benign exit codes, the skip-guard count reads "three ... versus that test's four", and the ci.yaml comment now distinguishes the hard-failure path (step fails under bash -e) from the soft one (ABCTL_SYSTEMD_TESTS=required).
I re-verified the load-bearing citations against upstream main rather than a local tree: cmd_service_platform.go:92-93, cmd_service_test.go:65, install.sh:645, launchdUsable at 688, and gap 6's runtime.GOOS claim (loadService:160, unloadService:278, controlService:392, supervisorRunning:443) are all accurate. TestSupervisionIsPlatformCorrect was exactly at cmd_service_test.go:312 at this PR's base.
No must-fix issues remain. What's left: one doc section main has moved past (#1079 landed), one earlier finding answered with prose rather than a tracked item, and three hygiene points in the new test.
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- Cite main.go's shutdown timeout by symbol, not line number, in the spec doc — main.go isn't part of this PR's diff and keeps moving as unrelated PRs merge, so any line citation there goes stale under continued review regardless of how carefully it's checked once. - Record #1079's TimeoutStopSec=20 as closing gap 7, now that it has merged; the doc previously described a gap that no longer exists on main. - Clarify the #966 reference: that issue is closed, and its allow-legacy-plugin-tag exemption matches the whole file via strings.Contains, not just the one mention. - Replace exec.Command("kill", ...) with syscall.Kill: requireRealSystemd doesn't guard the kill binary, so a slim image missing it would surface as a failed test (with ABCTL_SYSTEMD_TESTS=required set) rather than the environment-problem skip it actually is. - Tie the crash test to renderUnitFor's actual output: Restart=on-failure was hand-copied into the systemd-run args, so deleting the property from renderUnitFor's linux branch wouldn't have failed this test — it would go on proving a fact about systemd the shipped unit no longer requests. - Narrow the reset-failed cleanup filter to match on message rather than exit code: exit 1 is systemd's generic failure code, so filtering by code alone swallowed nearly everything the call could produce, not just the confirmed-benign "unit doesn't exist" case. - Reword the comment above the 1s negative-assertion window; it described a drain that had already finished by the time stop() returns, not a grace period being given here. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
The plan doc's cleanup-fix bullet still described both stop and reset-failed as filtered by exit code. reset-failed was switched to message-matching in a later commit on this same branch, so the doc was describing an implementation the code no longer has. Also notes that the message-matching version hasn't had its own real-CI confirmation yet (the "confirmed against real CI" bullet predates that switch), and fixes the spec doc's main.go citation to include shutdownCancel, which context.WithTimeout also returns. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
context.WithTimeout also returns a cancel func; the spec doc's citation elided it. Matches the identical fix just made on #1076's copy of this shared doc, keeping both byte-identical. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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cmd_service_systemd_integration_test.go: a real-systemd integration test (mirroringTestWaitBootedOut_RealLaunchd) provingRestart=on-failureactually restarts a crashed unit, and that a deliberatesystemctl stopdoes not.abctlleg ofgo-ci-authbridge-cmda realsystemd --usersession viaenable-linger, and setsABCTL_SYSTEMD_TESTS=requiredso a skip there fails loudly instead of silently passing — the trapTestWaitBootedOut_RealLaunchdhas been in since it was written (no workflow gives it a real launchd or sets its equivalent escape hatch).Status
This is the first time this CI setup has been tried. Opening as a draft specifically to watch it run and see whether
enable-linger+ waiting for the user bus actually produces a workingsystemctl --usersession on a GitHub-hosted runner, or needs adjustment.Test plan
TestSupervisorRestartsAfterCrash_RealSystemdandTestSupervisorStaysStoppedAfterDeliberateStop_RealSystemdactually run (not skip) and passAssisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com
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