Adds src/tools/test-build-version-regression.sh, a standalone script (same
convention as test-commit-durability.sh/test-heartbeat-tolerance.sh) that
runs real xce-build.sh scheduler builds in both asan and debug profiles,
extracts the commit id from xce_scheduler --version, and fails loudly if it
doesn't match a live git rev-parse --short HEAD (+ -dirty) -- the exact
staleness this feature was built to make visible without forensic git
commands.
Tolerates xce-build.sh's own known-unrelated flaky test exit (bug-1560) via
captured exit status rather than a blanket set -e bypass, so a genuine
compile failure still fails the check. A built-in demonstration proves the
comparison logic rejects a wrong hash, an empty commit id, and the literal
"unknown" fallback. Verified independently by review with a full from-
scratch re-run of both profiles.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reads XCE_GIT_COMMIT/XCE_BUILD_TIME from the environment (empty-safe via
[ -z ... ], not just unset-safe -- a classic ${VAR:-default} gotcha
avoided), falls back to "unknown", and appends
-ldflags "-X main.GitCommit=... -X main.BuildTime=..." to the go build
invocation alongside the existing -gcflags.
Confirmed via live testing: -X on a main package var that doesn't exist
yet is silently ignored by the Go linker (not a build error), so this
task has no real ordering dependency on tasks 4.4/4.5 (which add the
consuming vars to apiserver/xcecli).
Task 4.1/13 of build-time-versioning.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The dev-loop build path (/xce-build, the one behind the motivating
incident) never set -Dcommit_id= at all, so every locally-built binary
carried an empty commit id. xce-build.sh now computes commit_id (git
rev-parse --short HEAD, -dirty suffixed on uncommitted changes, unknown
fallback on a genuine git failure) and build_time (UTC date), appends
both to MESON_OPTS for every profile before meson setup, and warns
loudly to stderr if either ever resolves empty anyway.
Task 2.1/13 of build-time-versioning.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds auto-detection of real vs virtual worker based on systemd
availability (/run/systemd/system), plus an XCE_REAL_WORKER override.
Real xcecd requires root (systemd D-Bus transient units, hardcoded
/var/run paths) and is used opportunistically now that passwordless sudo
is available in the sandbox; defaults to xcecd_virtual when systemd/D-Bus
isn't available.
deploy-ha.sh Step 3 gains an opt-in-by-presence apiserver step (gated on a
pre-built /tmp/apiserver binary, not built by this script) that generates
start-apiserver.sh with a debug-level logger.yaml, plus an always-generated
start-all.sh sequencing controller-health-check-then-worker/scheduler
(-vvv)/apiserver. Purely additive - callers without a built apiserver
(e.g. xce-test-ha) see zero behavior change.
Live-confirmed both scenarios end-to-end: no-apiserver correctly skips the
step; with-apiserver reaches full backend registration with debug logging
active and scheduler emitting DEBUG3 output.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three related enhancements to make /xce-deploy-ha's output a
self-contained, directly-usable cluster for manual testing:
- xceadmin now builds an installable wheel (meson-build.sh) with
correct dependencies (click/pycapnp/PyYAML/jsonschema, verified
against actual imports -- pyproject.toml was missing several).
- deploy-ha.sh resolves the deploy environment's own bash
($BASH_BIN, baked into every generated script's shebang -- this
environment's deploy-ha.sh had drifted to #!/bin/sh while still
using bash-only syntax) and generates scripts/start-worker.sh /
scripts/start-scheduler.sh sharing the controllers' --peers, plus
a standalone xceadmin install (wheel extracted directly, resolved
$PYTHONPATH baked into a wrapper script -- nix devShell packages
are $PYTHONPATH entries, not merged into python3's own
site-packages, so a --system-site-packages venv can't see them).
- bug-1566: xceadmin's --controller option had no relationship to a
deployment's actual peers (hardcoded localhost:9991 default) --
every command required an explicit --controller or silently tried
the wrong port. Fixed via a $XCEADMIN_CONTROLLER envvar fallback
(click precedence: explicit flag > envvar > bare default),
exported by deploy-ha.sh's generated scripts/xceadmin wrapper.
Fixed/validated via TDD + live reproduction against a real deployed
cluster in a fully stripped environment.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
setup_build() unconditionally rm -rf'd the whole profile build
directory on every single-component invocation -- running
/xce-build xceadmin after /xce-build controller silently deleted
xce_controller/xce_test/etc. from the same build dir.
Added an opt-in --incremental flag (meson setup --reconfigure in
place instead of wiping) rather than changing the default: this
project's capnp-generation custom_target has known missing-
dependency-edge races that a full wipe currently papers over as a
loud, retry-fixable failure. Making incremental the default risked
turning that same gap into silent stale-generated-code instead, so
the safer full-wipe behavior is preserved unless explicitly opted
into.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bundles the fixes validated this session across ha.c/persist.c/worker.c:
- raft-apply-decoupling Task 7.4: apply-pump O(N^2) throughput regression
fixed via a segment-read cache.
- bug-1416: boot-time TOCTOU race in persist_verify_apply_correctness()
closed with a recovery-complete gate that closes at process-lifecycle
start, not function entry.
- bug-451: HOOK_DETAIL_JOB_RUSAGE_UPDATE now has its own persist hook arm
instead of silently falling through the default job-state case.
- bug-1426: trim_wal_segments() also caps its trim floor at the local
apply pump's own progress, not just remote standby-acked positions.
- bug-1427: persist_verify_apply_correctness() extended with a worker-count
check mirroring the existing job-count check (count_jobmgr_entries and
count_workermgr_entries now share one count_manager_entries(var) helper).
- bug-1428: persist_register_pending_apply's critical section widened to
close the actual race instead of patching a symptom.
- bug-1472 (remainder): WORKER_DEAD replay in worker_from_capnp() now
applies mark_worker_unavail()'s mutations via a shared
apply_worker_dead_mutation() helper instead of duplicating them.
- bug-1474 (angle-a): on_standby_connected's stale-duplicate detection
fixed for promoted vote endpoints via a shared votes_idx_for_peer()
index-scale converter.
Each fix independently verified via TDD (RED before fix, GREEN after).
Full ASAN rebuild + controller_unit_test: 1101 tests, 0 failures. Live
single-node HA deployment validated Task 7.4 and bug-1416 across 5
restart/recovery cycles (45/45 job submissions, zero APPLY_DIVERGENT
fences).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace worker's separate default/single-host and multi-candidate connect
branches with one path: synthesize-or-accept a candidate list, validate,
convert via xce_cluster_config_to_client_config(), connect once. Register
a flag-only rejoin callback (no I/O, no client-lib reentry) and remove the
liveness probe's bounded give-up so the library owns retry/recovery.
deploy-ha.sh no longer takes a <data-dir> argument or --build-config
flag. Every deploy now generates a fresh self-signed TLS cert/key
(openssl, RSA 2048, 10y validity) directly into the deploy dir's
certs/, and builds cluster.bin directly into controller/ctrl-1/conf/
via xceadmin -- no intermediate staging directory, nothing preserved
across runs. run-ha-soak.sh (/xce-test-ha) updated to match: dropped
its own XCE_HA_DATADIR-based precondition entirely. Updated 4 callers
(run-ha-soak.sh, test-heartbeat-tolerance.sh, test-commit-durability.sh,
both xce-deploy-ha/xce-test-ha SKILL.md docs).
Separately: xcecommon.wire.connect() was loading a client-side TLS
cert, diverging from the real reference client -- netio.c's
create_ssl_context() presents no certificate at all when acting as a
client (cert_file/key_file both NULL, bare TLS_client_method()).
Fixed connect() to match, and since nothing else consumed cert_dir
(verify_mode=CERT_NONE throughout, no CA check either), removed it
end-to-end: discovery.follow_redirects(), push.push_config()/
probe_config(), and the --cert-dir CLI flag.
Server-side cert loading (mock TLS test servers) is unaffected --
moved into a shared session-scoped tls_certs fixture (new
tests/conftest.py, openssl-generated) replacing 3 duplicated
REPO_HA_DATA_DIR/skipif blocks. Net result: those tests no longer skip
under a hermetic nix build sandbox (which never had ha/data/) --
verified 165/165 passed, 0 skipped, via both meson compile and a full
nix build --option sandbox false .#xcecore_debug rebuild (previously
128 passed / 37 skipped there).
ha/data/{xce.crt,xce.key} removed from git tracking. Requirements
2.3/2.4 and 8.3/8.4/8.5 marked superseded in requirements.md with
dated correction notes.
deploy-ha.sh's --build-config path (task 4.2) pointed at
src/xceadmin/.venv/bin/xceadmin, broken by today's meson/nix rewiring
(xceadmin no longer builds a venv there). Fixed to search the meson
build dir (xce.build/build.release/build.dbg), a nix-installed
result/bin, then PATH.
/xce-deploy-ha's SKILL.md never mentioned xceadmin or --build-config
(predates task 4.2) — documented both.
/xce-test-ha's run-ha-soak.sh hard-required a pre-existing cluster.bin
under ha/data/, exit 2 if missing, with no xceadmin path at all. Now
always builds cluster.bin fresh from src/configs/*.yaml via xceadmin
before every soak run, same resolution order as deploy-ha.sh.
ha/data/cluster.bin is no longer a checked-in fixture: removed from
git tracking and gitignored. It was stale relative to xceadmin's
output anyway (different hash from a different, older generation
path) -- the xceadmin-built one matches the known-good golden-fixture
hash from admin-config-tool task 5.4.
Reopens the 2026-07-21 design decision to keep xceadmin outside meson.
Standard onboarding consistency (README 3.3 `nix build .#xcecore` and
3.4 `meson compile` working for xceadmin like every other component)
outweighs the earlier concern about meson's single-artifact model not
fitting a multi-file pip install.
- src/xceadmin/meson.build: custom_target() wrapping install+test,
stamp-file output, build_always_stale (matches this repo's existing
clean-rebuild-every-invocation convention).
- src/xceadmin/meson-build.sh: out-of-tree pinned install + pytest;
stages a repo-mirror/ symlink tree so tests' fixed-relative-path
assumptions (src/configs/, src/schema/, ha/data/) still resolve from
a copied location, without touching their deliberate fail-loud
behavior.
- src/meson.build: subdir('xceadmin') under component != 'xcecli'.
- src/tools/xce-build.sh: xceadmin case now delegates to
`meson compile -C "$BUILD_DIR" xceadmin` instead of its own
pip/venv implementation, like every other component.
Verified both build paths: meson compile (165/165 passed) and
nix build --option sandbox false .#xcecore_debug (128 passed / 37
skipped — cert-dependent tests correctly skip under nix's
git-tracked-only hermetic source). AppImage bundling (README 3.5)
is explicitly deferred to future work, not part of this change.
Add --build-config (parsed anywhere in the arg list) that rebuilds
<data-dir>/cluster.bin from configs/ via the venv's xceadmin before
deploying; a missing cluster.bin auto-builds the same way even
without the flag. An existing cluster.bin with no flag passed is
left byte-for-byte untouched, matching prior behavior. xceadmin and
the configs source are resolved relative to the script's own
location, not the caller's CWD.
Verified live: missing-file auto-build, untouched-when-present (same
mtime/SHA), and forced rebuild reproducing byte-identical output.
Add python3 + pycapnp/pyyaml/jsonschema/click/pytest/ruff (+pip) to the
nix dev shell, wire a new `xceadmin` case into xce-build.sh (schema
sync from src/schema/ and src/configs/schema/, pip install by profile,
pytest), package-data config so bundled schemas survive a non-editable
install, xce-build SKILL.md docs, and ruff format/check hooks matching
this repo's stdin-JSON hook convention (not brief.md's env-var sketch,
which would have silently no-op'd).
Verified live end-to-end inside `nix develop ./src` for both the
default (editable) and release (pinned) profiles; found and fixed 3
real bugs along the way (missing pip, PEP 668 externally-managed-
environment, missing package-data for release-profile bundling) —
logged as bug-1458/1459/1460.
Requirements: 5.5, 8.1, 8.2, 8.6
bug-1433: raft_cb_become_leader runs synchronously off peer_ctrl_dispatch_to_pool,
which hardcodes VTASK_LIVENESS for every inbound peer-control packet including
vote replies. The bug-1431 round-2 fix (flusher_flush_once force-flush in
persist_promotion_advance_committed) was reachable from that never-blocks task
class -- same bug family as bug-1198. Removed the force-flush; round-3
(durable-capped only) plus the already-shipped bug-1432 immediate-first-heartbeat
fix close the visibility-latency gap non-blockingly. TRACKED RESIDUAL:
persist_apply_pump_run_sync is still reachable on the same VTASK_LIVENESS path
and does bounded pread() -- lower risk (page-cache-hot) but strictly still
blocking I/O; not safe to remove outright (reopens bug-1043-family job loss),
needs its own follow-up (reclassify peer_ctrl_classify's winning-vote-reply case
or dispatch promotion tail onto a fresh VTASK_LIVE_BLOCK vtask).
bug-1434: persist_promotion_advance_committed and ha_standby_advance_committed_and_apply
raced on persist_t.committed_lsn via an unlocked load-then-conditional-store during
the promotion window (before ha->role flips to CTRL_PRIMARY) -- a losing racer could
regress committed_lsn. Added persist_committed_lsn_advance_atomic (CAS retry loop,
lock-free) and routed both call sites through it.
Validated: 19/19 unit test suites, 6-round chaotic soak (0 loss/divergence) + 6-round
sequential+leadership-coverage soak, both PASS. Also folds in raft-apply-decoupling
and raft-ha-core-safety validate-impl phase bumps to "implemented" and clears
config-upgrade-snapshot's now-satisfied entity-bearing-snapshots block.
- xce-build.sh: `controller` component now always builds `controller/xce_test`
alongside `xce_controller`, in every profile — xce-test-ha needs both
binaries and previously had to build xce_test as a separate step.
- xce-build/SKILL.md: removed `context: fork` — reproducibly broken for this
skill (confirmed twice): whenever ARGUMENTS is non-empty, the forked
subagent never receives a usable task and silently does nothing. Documented
that this skill should instead always be dispatched via the plain Agent
tool with a fully-resolved, self-contained prompt (not `context: fork`,
which failed) — proven to work end-to-end.
- xce-test-ha/SKILL.md, xce-deploy-ha/SKILL.md: replaced the blanket "never
invoke via subagent" warning with the precise finding — `context: fork`
(Skill-tool isolation) is the confirmed-broken mechanism (its own teardown
SIGHUPs the whole controller process group mid-soak/mid-deploy), but
Agent-tool subagent dispatch is a different mechanism and is safe
(empirically verified: a `setsid nohup ... & disown` process launched from
inside an Agent subagent survives that subagent returning, reparented to
init). Documented both the foreground-blocking and fire-and-forget
subagent patterns for each skill; xce-deploy-ha additionally flagged that
its `start.sh &` should gain `setsid` to match the soak driver's stronger
detach pattern before relying on unattended subagent dispatch.
bug-1401: xce_free_ctrlstatus(s) was defined as free_CtrlStatus(s), which
only frees the fields inside xce_ctrlstatus_t. The real client reply path
(decode_CtrlStatus_ptr) calloc's the struct itself, so every ctrlstatus call
leaked sizeof(xce_ctrlstatus_t) (120 bytes). Existing unit tests never caught
it because they built/freed the struct via the raw stack-decode + bare
free_CtrlStatus() helpers, never exercising the actual client macro. Fixed
by switching the macro to free_CtrlStatus_ptr(&(s)) and added a regression
test that exercises the real heap-decode path; RED confirmed the exact
120-byte/1-alloc LeakSanitizer signature before the fix.
bug-1400: the originally reported SEGV in cmd_jobsub on malformed positional
input is stale — NULLSTR guards added 2025-11-05 already reject it cleanly.
The real residual defect was submit.start_info leaking on all 4 early-return
validation paths; fixed by routing them through a shared `goto cleanup`
(matches the existing goto-clean idiom in queue_ctrl).
bug-1396 (job-count anomaly after cold-restart-all, not yet root-caused):
instrumented test-commit-durability.sh's assert_job_count() to dump the live
joblist and ACKED_FILE ledger on any count mismatch instead of only the
count, per the bug's own recorded next step.
Verified: controller ASAN build + full controller_unit_test green; lib
xcelib_test 285/285 green, 0 ASAN leaks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SDWVNQLKxqTVHh42cH7rV3
/xce-build now takes a build PROFILE: asan (default, debug+ASAN -> xce.build,
backward-compatible), debug (non-ASAN -O0 -g3 -fno-inline -fno-omit-frame-pointer
-> build.dbg, for gdb/cores), release (-O3 -> build.release). Each profile uses
its own default build dir so variants don't clobber each other; arg2 may still be
a legacy build_dir. asan runs the unit suites; debug/release are build-only (the
suites are ASAN-oriented and the meson test harness is overlay-fs fragile, bug-924)
and print how to run a suite directly.
Why: bug-1282/bug-1286 are heisenbugs ASAN perturbs away (no SIGSEGV) and that
gdb-on-release turns into a hang/timeout. The non-ASAN -O0 -g3 build reproduces
them AND yields a symbolized backtrace under gdb.
It immediately paid off: the debug profile ROOT-CAUSED bug-1286 (the round-4
segfault) — myreq_handler (cluster.c:251) does `c = ep->owner` then
`ha_dispatch_gate(&c->ha,…)`; on chaotic restart a walCatchupEntry (op 37) vtask
runs with ep->owner==NULL, so &c->ha = 0x3ff0 -> deref crash at ha.c:3194. Fix is
a NULL-guard in myreq_handler (+ owner-lifecycle). 7.2 now has one remaining
blocker (bug-1286, root-caused); bug-1282 deadlock is fixed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019dbTHR9CsEYK9RsqmQpQpC
Conflation fix: gate every kill + durability assertion on cluster health (3 nodes
up + serving + rejoin settle); assert_no_loss probes serveability first and reports
INCONCLUSIVE (not DATA LOSS) when unserveable; confirm-settle re-check distinguishes
catch-up lag from persistent loss; post-kill election SLA configurable (60s default).
DATA LOSS now reported ONLY for a job persistently absent from a SERVING cluster.
Election protocol fixes validated against raft.tla invariants:
- ha_init_raft(): one-time raft state init at startup (re-init would lose
durable election progress); n_peers = full cluster size including self
- handle_request_vote(): higher-term step-down moved BEFORE the role gate
(split-brain fix); standby vote-deny now requires a live primary control
channel (primary_ctrl_fd >= 0) AND a fresh heartbeat
- ha_heartbeat_is_fresh(): derive freshness from ha->last_activity (the
field production actually writes); the orphaned last_heartbeat timespec
had no production writer, leaving the vote-deny gate inert (bug-337);
field removed from ha_state_t
- handle_request_vote(): restore same-candidate idempotent re-grant —
deny only a DIFFERENT candidate in the same term, matching raft.c and
Raft §5.2 votedFor ∈ {Nil, candidateId} (bug-338)
- raft_init(): restore voted_for_term alongside a persisted vote; leaving
it 0 allowed a double vote in the same term across a restart (bug-339)
- myapp_run(): leader_known check treats a vote recorded under this node's
own name as a self-vote — production persists the real candidate name,
the "self" placeholder only appears in test mode
- raft_on_vote_request(): leader steps down on higher-term vote request
instead of denying it
Tests: test_proto_H6_restored_vote_blocks_second_vote added; H1 restore
assertion strengthened; test_ha_vote_gate.c driven through last_activity +
primary_ctrl_fd (the real production fields). Full /xce-build all green
(lib + controller + scheduler + Go suites, 0 failures, ASAN clean).
deploy-ha.sh: start.sh now forwards extra args to the controller binary.
Add src/tools/test-heartbeat-tolerance.sh: automated bash script that
deploys a 3-node cluster and runs two SIGSTOP/SIGCONT scenarios:
Scenario A (1 × heartbeat_interval_ms pause): verifies no RDHUP fires on
standbys — liveness_poll_fn must not trigger failover for a short silence
within the tolerance window (Req 2.2).
Scenario B (heartbeat_timeout_ms + 500ms pause): verifies exactly one RDHUP
fires on each standby — the activity-based poll fires after sustained silence
and does not loop (Req 2.3, Req 5.4).
Add .kiro/specs/ha-heartbeat-liveness/manual-tests.md: step-by-step manual
procedure, expected log patterns, and results template for both scenarios.
Mark task 4.5 complete in tasks.md.
- ha.c: add raft_cb_trace callback wired to s_real_cbs.on_trace; emits
RAFT[pN] term=T event=E at DEBUG3 level, visible with -vvv flag.
- ha.c: repl_ack_decode_and_dispatch now silently drops OPCode_nop and
OPCode_reply instead of WARNING — heartbeat NOP replies from standbys
arrive on promoted endpoints and are expected.
- deploy-ha.sh: fix --vcpu -> --vcpus; add \$VERBOSE passthrough so
start.sh respects VERBOSE=-vvv from the environment.
