Two fixes from the first full 125-test run (121 ok / 4 not ok).
1. The Quadlet unit test still asserted Restart=on-failure for backends,
which 8908fb4f deliberately changed. All 32 units on the node are
Restart=always; only archy-btcpay-db showed up because `fail` aborts at
the first offender. The old rationale — "backends need on-failure so an
operator `systemctl stop` stays stopped" — was wrong twice over:
systemd never applies Restart= to a unit stopped via `systemctl stop`,
and because quadlet renders --rm, a cleanly-exited container is deleted
and on-failure never brings it back (bitcoind exits 0 on SIGTERM, so
backends vanished). Verified on-device before that change: `podman stop
bitcoin-knots` came back in 12s, a dashboard stop stayed stopped 90s.
Now asserts Restart=always, with the corrected reasoning in-place.
2. all-apps-lifecycle cycled ten apps back-to-back and manufactured the
contention that then failed later tests: load went 10.8 at preflight to
17.6 mid-loop, and btcpay's recovery stretched from 52s on a quiet box
to 216s and then 512s, defeating waits of 180s and 300s. Widening waits
cannot win when the run sets the load they must survive, so the loop now
drains between apps — waits for load1 under 2x nproc, capped at 90s.
ARCHY_APP_SETTLE_SECS=0 disables; ARCHY_APP_SETTLE_LOAD overrides.
Verified: run.sh use-quadlet-backends-install → 6/6 (was 1 failure).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
mempool-api exits at startup while electrumx is catching up to the daemon
(7-day initial-sync ETA on .228), flapping through 'activating' for ~2 min
after each lifecycle cycle before systemd heals it. The instant asserts
probed inside that window both iterations. Poll up to 180s for
converges-to-active — a genuine crash-loop still fails.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
wyoming-piper/wyoming-whisper are being integrated and are not yet part of
the platform contract; their hand-staged units (companion-style
Restart=always) failed gate test 121 on .228. Exclude wyoming-* from
backend_quadlet_units() until their packaging lands.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
backend_quadlet_units() enumerates every *.container file on disk and the
active-state tests asserted each unit active + container running. A
user-stopped app keeps its unit file (e.g. the inactive half of the
bitcoin-core/bitcoin-knots multi-version pair after tonight's crash-loop
wave left core's unit on disk), so its inactive service / absent container
is the CORRECT state — gate run E false-failed on it (tests 123/124,
.228 2026-07-09). Honour the orchestrator's user-stopped.json intent
marker and skip those units in both tests.
Verified on .228: bitcoin-core's lingering unit now exempted; suite parses
(bats --count = 6) and the two fixed tests pass user-stopped filtering.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two Phase-3 bats suites used `fail` (a bats-assert helper) but bats-assert
isn't installed on the alpha fleet (only bats-core), so every tripped
assertion crashed with `fail: command not found` (status 127) instead of
reporting a real pass/fail. Define the same minimal `fail() { echo ...;
return 1; }` the other suites already use (see mempool.bats). Without this
the gates were silently non-functional.
Also rewrite the obsolete "HealthCmd= implies Notify=healthy" assertion in
use-quadlet-backends-install.bats. Phase 3.4's Notify=healthy was
deliberately reverted: gating `systemctl start` on health hung boot
reconciliation for dependency-waiting apps (fedimint idles until Bitcoin
IBD; lnd until macaroon unlock), leaving units stuck "deactivating". The
renderer now emits HealthCmd= for Podman's health state but TimeoutStartSec=0
and NO Notify=healthy (quadlet.rs render() + contains_stale_health_gate()).
The test now asserts the current invariant: no backend unit gates start on
health.
Verified on the .228 canary node (ARCHIPELAGO_USE_QUADLET_BACKENDS=1):
use-quadlet-backends-install 6/6, backend-survives-archipelago-restart 3/3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A six-test bats suite that validates what install_via_quadlet (Phase 3.2)
is supposed to leave behind:
* `.container` unit on disk in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/containers/systemd/
with [Container] / [Service] / [Install] sections, Image= present,
and Restart=on-failure (the backend invariant — companions use Always)
* Phase 3.4 cross-check: any unit with HealthCmd= must also emit
Notify=healthy, otherwise systemctl start won't gate on health
* `systemctl --user is-active` returns 0 for the .service
* podman shows the container running
* the container's cgroup is under user.slice/, NOT under
archipelago.service — the kernel-level proof that FM3 cgroup
cascade SIGKILL is structurally fixed for this container
Auto-skips on every test when no backend Quadlet units exist (today's
default state, use_quadlet_backends=false) — so the suite is a no-op
on current fleet boxes and turns into a hard regression gate the
moment anyone flips the flag and reinstalls.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
