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>
