package main import ( "context" "errors" "fmt" "log/slog" "os" "os/exec" "path/filepath" "time" "textmachine/platform/internal/backup" "textmachine/platform/internal/books" "textmachine/platform/internal/config" "textmachine/platform/internal/exports" "textmachine/platform/internal/httpapi" "textmachine/platform/internal/jobs" "textmachine/platform/internal/metrics" "textmachine/platform/internal/pgstore" "textmachine/platform/internal/pricing" "textmachine/platform/internal/readmodel" "textmachine/platform/internal/runner" "textmachine/platform/internal/runs" ) // runsConfig maps the operator's environment onto the reconciler's settings. // // A function and not a literal inside startRunner so that the mapping has a witness: startRunner // needs a database, a systemd bus and a queue, so nothing could observe a field that stopped being // assigned — which is how RunBudget came to be declared, documented and left at zero. func runsConfig(cfg config.Config, marker []string, ceiling []string) runs.Config { return runs.Config{ StateDir: cfg.Runner.StateDir, EngineBinary: cfg.Runner.EngineBinary, MarkerArgv: marker, Ceiling: ceiling, KeysFile: cfg.Runner.KeysFile, MemoryMax: cfg.Runner.MemoryMax, TasksMax: cfg.Runner.TasksMax, AllowEngineVersionChange: cfg.Runner.AllowEngineVersionChange, ResyncEvery: cfg.Runner.ResyncEvery, RunBudget: cfg.Runner.RunBudget, } } // startRunner wires the run lifecycle and the book intake, and returns the function that stops them. // // The reads are mounted whether or not runs can be spawned: a library and a book card are not run // machinery, and an instance without an engine binary is a perfectly useful read replica. What an // unconfigured runner refuses is starting a run, and it says so at boot rather than at the first // click. func startRunner(ctx context.Context, cfg config.Config, db *pgstore.Store, log *slog.Logger, m *metrics.Metrics, deps *httpapi.Deps) (func(), error) { deps.Library = db // The keys survive without a runner: `Idempotency-Key` is a property of a WRITE, and the writes // that take one are mounted independently of whether a run can be spawned. deps.Keys = db deps.Capabilities = capabilities(cfg) // Said before the read-replica return below, so an instance that serves only reads still says it. // LOUD, and unconditionally: a deployment holding paid work and a credit ledger with no copy of // either is one lost disk away from having neither, and that is the one fault of this service // with no partial outcome (unified backlog row 269). A WARN is the strongest thing that may be // said here — refusing to start would take a running deployment down over a setting it has // survived without until now, which is a worse trade than a line an operator can act on. if !cfg.BackupEnabled() { log.Warn("no TM_PLATFORM_BACKUP_DIR: this deployment keeps NO restore point of the paid translations or of the credit ledger; losing this host's disk loses both irrecoverably") } if !cfg.RunsEnabled() { log.Warn("no TM_PLATFORM_ENGINE_BIN: the library is served read-only, no run can be started and no book can be uploaded") // ⚠ AND IF THIS READ REPLICA WAS ALSO GIVEN A BACKUP DIRECTORY, SAY THAT IT WILL NOT BE USED. // The restore-point maker lives below this return because a consistent copy of a book is an // engine call; an operator who set the variable here believed they had backups, and the only // other signal they would get is a gauge that never leaves +Inf. if cfg.BackupEnabled() { log.Warn("TM_PLATFORM_BACKUP_DIR is set on an instance with no engine binary: NO restore points will be taken here (a consistent copy of a book's database is an engine call); point the variable at the instance that runs translations", "dir", cfg.Backup.Dir) } return func() {}, nil } model, err := pricing.New(cfg.Runner.HoldFactorPercent) if err != nil { return nil, err } ceiling, err := runner.ParseCeilingTemplate(cfg.Runner.CeilingArg) if err != nil { return nil, err } if len(ceiling) == 0 { // Loud at boot, refused at the handle. The alternative — starting runs anyway — spends the // account's money under the BOOK's ceiling instead of the one the user chose (row 145). log.Warn("TM_PLATFORM_ENGINE_CEILING_ARG is empty: starting a run will be refused rather than run under the book's own ceiling (row 145)") } if cfg.Runner.KeysFile == "" { // Runs still start: a stand may keep a `.env` beside each book. What cannot be allowed is the // silent version — a SaaS deployment whose engine gets no keys from anywhere fails at the first // provider call, hours of queueing later (row 211). log.Warn("no TM_PLATFORM_ENGINE_KEYS_PATH: the engine is passed no provider keys; a run finds them only in a .env beside its own book.yaml") } marker, err := markerArgv(cfg.Runner.MarkerBinary) if err != nil { // Reads keep working. Losing the exit-marker command means a finished run could not be // recorded and its hold would stay reserved, so runs are refused — but the library is not // run machinery and taking it down with them turns a binary upgrade into a full outage. log.Warn("the exit-marker command is not usable; starting a run will be refused", "err", err) } rn := runner.New(log) if err := rn.Available(ctx); err != nil { // Not fatal: reads still work, and an operator who has not enabled lingering yet gets a line // that names the cause instead of a run that never starts. log.Warn("transient units are not available; runs cannot be spawned on this host", "err", err) } reader := &readmodel.Service{Store: db, Engine: rn, Binary: cfg.Runner.EngineBinary, Log: log} svc := &runs.Service{ Store: db, Runner: rn, Engine: rn, Bank: rn, Pricing: model, Cfg: runsConfig(cfg, marker, ceiling), Log: log, } // Before the door serves: a decision document still on disk here outlived its process, and // nothing else ever deletes by that mask (PD-409's cure). svc.SweepCorrectionScratch() intake, err := startIntake(cfg, db, rn, reader, log, deps) if err != nil { return nil, err } exporter, err := startExports(cfg, db, rn, log, deps) if err != nil { return nil, err } // A typed nil is not nil once it is inside an interface, and the queue decides which workers to // register by exactly that check. Spelled out so an instance without intake registers no parse // worker rather than one that calls a nil service. var parser jobs.Parser if intake != nil { parser = intake } var builder jobs.Exporter if exporter != nil { builder = exporter } queue, err := jobs.New(db.Pool(), svc, parser, builder, log, cfg.Runner.Workers) if err != nil { return nil, err } svc.Queue = queue deps.Runs = svc // The correction door mounts with the run machinery: it needs the same engine binary, the same // state directory and the same per-book serialization. The capability flag says the same fact. deps.Bank = svc if intake != nil { intake.Queue = queue } if exporter != nil { exporter.Queue = queue } if err := queue.Start(ctx); err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("start queue: %w", err) } go backupLoop(ctx, startBackup(cfg, db, rn, log), m, log) go sweep(ctx, sweeps{runs: svc, books: intake, reader: reader, exports: exporter, db: db, metrics: m}, cfg.Runner.SweepEvery, cfg.Runner.SweepBudget, log) return func() { // The queue is drained; the RUNS are not touched. They are transient units, not children, // and outliving this process is the whole point of the seam (D39.106). stop, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.WithoutCancel(ctx), 10*time.Second) defer cancel() if err := queue.Stop(stop); err != nil { log.Warn("queue did not stop cleanly", "err", err) } }, nil } // startBackup wires the restore-point maker, or answers nil when this deployment keeps none. // // It is created HERE, inside the run machinery, because the consistent copy of a book's database is // an engine call and this is where the engine is: an instance with no `TM_PLATFORM_ENGINE_BIN` never // reaches this function, and the warning about having no backups at all is said before that return. func startBackup(cfg config.Config, db *pgstore.Store, engine backup.Engine, log *slog.Logger) *backup.Service { if !cfg.BackupEnabled() { return nil } // The directory is made at boot rather than at the first pass, for the reason the exports // directory is: a path that cannot be created is a deployment fault, and discovering it six hours // later — inside a pass whose failure is one log line — is discovering it during the outage it // was meant to survive. if err := os.MkdirAll(cfg.Backup.Dir, 0o750); err != nil { log.Error("the backup directory cannot be created; this deployment will keep NO restore points", "dir", cfg.Backup.Dir, "err", err) return nil } // ⚠ THE TOOLS ARE LOOKED FOR AT BOOT. The reason is a measurement of this very runbook: the deploy // recipe executed literally in a clean container produced a healthy-looking instance whose first // backup pass failed with `exec: "pg_dump": executable file not found in $PATH`, and then — with // the client tools installed from the distribution — with `aborting because of server version // mismatch`. The host runs the control plane, not the database, so nothing there had ever // installed the tools, and what the distribution ships is whatever major it ships. // // ⚠ WHAT THIS LINE ADDS, stated honestly because the first version of this comment overstated it: // it is NOT that the failure would otherwise be discovered six hours later. The sweep's first pass // runs at BOOT and takes a point when there is none, so the pass's own ERROR is already timely. // What this adds is the REMEDY — it names the tool and the major-version rule, where the pass can // only name the symptom. // // A WARN and not a refusal, for the same reason the "no backup directory" line is one: taking a // running deployment down over a missing tool is a worse trade than a boot line plus the age // gauge, which is what actually pages somebody. for _, tool := range []string{cfg.Backup.PgDumpBin, cfg.Backup.PgRestoreBin} { if _, err := exec.LookPath(tool); err != nil { log.Warn("a PostgreSQL tool the backup needs is not on this host; restore points will FAIL until it is installed (its major version must match the server's)", "tool", tool, "err", err) } } log.Info("restore points are kept", "dir", cfg.Backup.Dir, "every", cfg.Backup.Every, "keep", cfg.Backup.Keep) return &backup.Service{ Cfg: backup.Config{ Dir: cfg.Backup.Dir, Every: cfg.Backup.Every, Keep: cfg.Backup.Keep, PgDumpBin: cfg.Backup.PgDumpBin, PgRestoreBin: cfg.Backup.PgRestoreBin, DSN: cfg.DSN, EngineBinary: cfg.Runner.EngineBinary, }, Store: db, Engine: engine, Log: log, } } // intakeConfig is what an operator chose about intake, in the intake's own terms. // // A function of its own, and for the reason the runner's knobs got one: a mapping written inline in // the wiring is a mapping nothing can witness, and a knob dropped from it fails at nothing — the // service simply runs on its default while the boot line prints the operator's number. func intakeConfig(cfg config.Config) books.Config { return books.Config{ BooksDir: cfg.Intake.BooksDir, EngineBinary: cfg.Runner.EngineBinary, BookTemplate: cfg.Intake.BookTemplate, MaxCuts: cfg.Intake.MaxCuts, Pairs: intakePairs(cfg), } } // startIntake wires the book upload, or explains at boot why this deployment takes none. // // A nil service leaves POST /books unmounted, which is the same shape every unbuilt contract route // has: an instance that accepted a file it had nowhere to put would take the whole upload before it // could say so. func startIntake(cfg config.Config, db *pgstore.Store, engine books.Manifester, reader books.Reader, log *slog.Logger, deps *httpapi.Deps) (*books.Service, error) { if !cfg.IntakeEnabled() { log.Warn("no TM_PLATFORM_BOOKS_DIR: this instance accepts no book uploads") return nil, nil } // Created at boot, where a permission problem is an operator's to see, rather than on the first // upload, where it would be one user's mysterious failure. if err := os.MkdirAll(cfg.Intake.BooksDir, 0o750); err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("books directory %s: %w", cfg.Intake.BooksDir, err) } svc := &books.Service{ Store: db, Engine: engine, Reader: reader, Cfg: intakeConfig(cfg), Log: log, } deps.Intake = svc deps.Upload = httpapi.UploadLimits{ MaxBytes: cfg.Intake.MaxUploadBytes, Deadline: cfg.Intake.UploadDeadline, } return svc, nil } // startExports wires the export door, or explains at boot why this deployment builds none. // // A nil service leaves all three export routes unmounted, which is the same shape every unbuilt // contract route has — and `export_formats` answers `[]` from the same fact, so a client never // learns of a format by having a user's download fail. func startExports(cfg config.Config, db *pgstore.Store, engine exports.Builder, log *slog.Logger, deps *httpapi.Deps) (*exports.Service, error) { if !cfg.ExportsEnabled() { log.Warn("no TM_PLATFORM_EXPORT_FORMATS: this instance builds no exports and `export_formats` is empty") return nil, nil } // Created at boot, where a permission problem is an operator's to see, rather than on the first // download, where it would be one user's mysterious failure. The same reasoning as the intake's // books directory, and the same mode: artifacts are a user's book text. if err := os.MkdirAll(cfg.Export.Dir, 0o750); err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("exports directory %s: %w", cfg.Export.Dir, err) } svc := &exports.Service{Store: db, Engine: engine, Cfg: exportsConfig(cfg), Log: log} deps.Exports = svc return svc, nil } // exportsConfig maps the operator's environment onto the export door's settings. // // A function and not a literal inside startExports for the same reason runsConfig is one: the // literal needs a database and a queue to be reached at all, so an assignment that stopped happening // would be observable only by running the daemon — which is exactly how a documented knob came to do // nothing for a whole pack (PD-331). func exportsConfig(cfg config.Config) exports.Config { return exports.Config{ EngineBinary: cfg.Runner.EngineBinary, Formats: cfg.Export.Formats, Dir: cfg.Export.Dir, TTL: cfg.Export.TTL, StaleAfter: exportStaleAfter, QueuedGrace: exportQueuedGrace, } } // exportStaleAfter is how old a `pending` export has to be before the sweep calls its build lost. // // It must OUTLIVE one whole job or the sweep would give up on builds that are merely slow, and the // margin is the sweep's own tick plus room for a queue that took its time picking the job up. Same // shape as the intake's claim grace, and written as the job timeout plus a margin rather than as a // number, so the two cannot drift apart. const exportStaleAfter = jobs.JobTimeout + 5*time.Minute // exportQueuedGrace is the same question for a build that has NOT been picked up yet, and it is four // whole jobs rather than one. // // The number is a share of `jobs.JobTimeout` and not a constant, for the reason the figure exists at // all: ONE queue serves spawns, parses and builds, a parse may take a whole job timeout, and the // default worker count is four — so an export can legitimately sit behind four full-length jobs // without anything being wrong with it. Judged on the started-build clock it would be buried at // twenty minutes and its user told it was interrupted, which is false. The poll still ends, which is // the canon's actual requirement; a backlog longer than this is an operator's problem, and the line // the sweep writes is where they see it. const exportQueuedGrace = 4 * jobs.JobTimeout // capabilities is what `GET /capabilities` answers, assembled from what this deployment IS rather // than from a document somebody keeps in step with it: the pairs an operator declared, whether an // intake is mounted at all, the cap that intake enforces, and the page size every read defaults to. func capabilities(cfg config.Config) httpapi.Capabilities { caps := httpapi.Capabilities{ IntakeEnabled: cfg.IntakeEnabled() && cfg.RunsEnabled(), IntakeMaxBytes: cfg.Intake.MaxUploadBytes, // What this deployment DECLARES its engine can write, and the same condition that mounts // the three export routes (startExports runs exactly when ExportsEnabled). The capability // and the mount are one fact, or a client learns the truth by failing a user's download. ExportFormats: exportFormats(cfg), // The same condition that mounts the door (startRunner sets deps.Bank exactly when runs are // enabled): the flag and the 404 must be one fact, or a client learns the truth by failing // a user's save. BankCorrectionsEnabled: cfg.RunsEnabled(), PageSizeDefault: pgstore.DefaultPage, } for _, p := range cfg.LanguagePairs { caps.Pairs = append(caps.Pairs, httpapi.LanguagePair{ Source: p.Source, Target: p.Target, Available: p.Available, }) } return caps } // exportFormats is what `export_formats` answers: the declared list on a deployment that can build, // and an empty one everywhere else. Never nil — an empty collection is an empty array on the wire. func exportFormats(cfg config.Config) []string { if !cfg.ExportsEnabled() { return []string{} } return append([]string{}, cfg.Export.Formats...) } // intakePairs is the AVAILABLE half of the same list: what the intake judges an upload against. func intakePairs(cfg config.Config) []books.Pair { var out []books.Pair for _, p := range cfg.AvailablePairs() { out = append(out, books.Pair{Source: p.Source, Target: p.Target}) } return out } // refreshSweepBudget is what materializing the owed reading surfaces may take in one pass. Larger // than the sweep's own because the work is a re-chunk of the source per book, and it is spent on // nobody else's behalf: the money of every run that owes one has already settled. const refreshSweepBudget = 10 * time.Minute // intakeSweepBudget is the same for the intake, and it is larger because the work inside it is: // re-driving one book's parse is an engine call the queue itself bounds at jobs.JobTimeout, and a // pass shorter than that turns "this book is large" into "this host cannot run the engine". // // ⚠ It carries the intake's materialization too: the parse is followed by two more engine reads of // the same source, and the sweep's own guard — "do not start a book with less than one book's worth // of pass left" — is only true if the pass can hold both. const intakeSweepBudget = jobs.JobTimeout + readmodel.MaterializeBudget + time.Minute // backupBudget is what ONE restore point may take. Large, and the size is what the work is: a // `VACUUM INTO` per book plus a whole `pg_dump`, over a deployment's entire library. A pass that runs // out of it publishes NOTHING — Take aborts and discards its staging directory rather than leaving a // point that is missing the books it never reached — so a budget too small to hold the work is a // deployment with no backups at all, which the age gauge then says out loud. const backupBudget = 60 * time.Minute // backupTick is how often the loop asks whether a point is due. Far shorter than any sane interval, // because the DECISION is made against the newest point on disk (backup.Service.Sweep) and this only // bounds how late a due point can be. const backupTick = time.Minute // backupLoop is the restore-point maker's own goroutine, and it is NOT a pass of the reconciler's // tick — a mistake this file made first and the measurement that corrected it is worth keeping. // // ⚠ THE RECONCILER'S TICK IS SEQUENTIAL: `sweep`'s `one()` runs every pass in order and only then // publishes the telemetry. A pass that copies whole databases therefore does not "starve only what // comes after it" — it delays the NEXT tick's settlement of money, the intake's retries, the export // GC and every gauge, for as long as it runs. Up to an hour, four times a day, is not a share of a // tick: it is the control plane stopping. The copy has no reason to share a schedule with anything — // it touches none of the same rows — so it gets its own. func backupLoop(ctx context.Context, svc *backup.Service, m *metrics.Metrics, log *slog.Logger) { if svc == nil || !svc.Enabled() { return } observe := func() { age, has, err := svc.Age(time.Now()) if err != nil { log.Warn("the age of the newest complete restore point could not be read", "err", err) return } m.ObserveBackupAge(age, has) } one := func() { c, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, backupBudget) defer cancel() start := time.Now() if err := svc.Sweep(c); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) { log.Error("the restore point could not be taken", "err", err, "took", time.Since(start)) } observe() } one() t := time.NewTicker(backupTick) defer t.Stop() for { select { case <-ctx.Done(): return case <-t.C: one() } } } // idempotencyWindow is how long a key is remembered. The contract promises "at least 24 hours, then // the key is forgotten" — both halves: without the sweep the table only grows, and a month-old key // still replays a response about a book that may no longer exist. const idempotencyWindow = 25 * time.Hour // sweeps is everything one tick of the reconciler covers. type sweeps struct { runs *runs.Service books *books.Service reader *readmodel.Service exports *exports.Service db *pgstore.Store metrics *metrics.Metrics } // sweepPass is one reconciler's share of a tick: its name in the telemetry, what it may take, and // what it does. type sweepPass struct { name string budget time.Duration run func(context.Context) error } // passes is EVERY pass of one tick, in order, as a list rather than a dozen conditionals inside the // loop. // // A list for the same reason the contract surface is one (httpapi.contractSurface): "every // reconciler this daemon runs" becomes something CODE can enumerate, so a pass wired into the daemon // and into nothing else is not expressible. It was: the whole of an assignment like this used to be // observable only by running the daemon against a database, a systemd bus and a queue — which is how // `RunBudget` came to be declared, documented and left at zero (PD-331), and how a new pass could be // added and silently never armed. // // ⚠ The BUDGETS are not equal and the differences are argued where they are chosen: the // materialization and the intake get their own because the work inside them is engine calls over a // whole book, the export GC and the idempotency sweep take the ordinary one because neither calls // anything. What this function does NOT do is decide how the tick's time is shared between them — // that is `pass`, and register row PD-386 is open on it. func (s sweeps) passes(sweepBudget time.Duration, log *slog.Logger) []sweepPass { out := []sweepPass{{"runs", sweepBudget, s.runs.Sweep}} // Materializing what a boundary left is TWO full engine reads of the source — minutes on a large // book — so it gets a pass of its own after the money has settled. Inside the runs pass it held up // every account's settlement behind it. if s.reader != nil { out = append(out, sweepPass{"readmodel", refreshSweepBudget, s.reader.Drain}) } if s.books != nil { // The intake's pass is allowed MORE than the runs' pass, and the number is not a taste: one // book's parse is the same engine call the queue gives `jobs.JobTimeout`, and a pass that // cannot contain one kills it — which the intake then counts as a host that cannot run the // engine and spends an attempt on. The pass has to be able to hold at least one book. out = append(out, sweepPass{"intake", intakeSweepBudget, s.books.Sweep}) } if s.exports != nil { // The export GC: take away what has lapsed, and end the polls of builds nobody is coming back // for. It rides this tick because both questions are one indexed statement plus a few unlinks, // and it takes the ORDINARY budget: nothing inside it calls the engine. out = append(out, sweepPass{"exports", sweepBudget, s.exports.Sweep}) } if s.db != nil { // Forgetting idempotency keys past their window is the second half of the promise the header // makes; it rides this tick because it is one indexed DELETE and needs no schedule of its own. out = append(out, sweepPass{"idempotency", sweepBudget, func(c context.Context) error { forgotten, err := s.db.SweepIdempotency(c, time.Now().Add(-idempotencyWindow)) if err == nil && forgotten > 0 { log.Info("idempotency keys forgotten", "keys", forgotten) } return err }}) } return out } // sweep runs the reconcilers at boot and then on a ticker. // // The boot pass is not a special case and is not skipped: after a reboot every transient unit is // gone, and this is what notices and restarts the runs they were carrying (unified backlog row 138). // The intake's own pass rides the same ticker — it answers the same question about a different // object, "whose walk stopped and nobody is coming back for it". func sweep(ctx context.Context, s sweeps, every, sweepBudget time.Duration, log *slog.Logger) { // EACH pass gets its OWN budget, and that is not tidiness: sharing one deadline let the runs pass // spend all of it — two runs whose engine hangs are two minutes — and hand an already-expired // context to the intake sweep and to the telemetry, every tick, for as long as those runs sat // there. The starvation the per-run budget bounds inside one pass would simply have moved up a // level, and the metric that shows it would have stopped updating with it. pass := func(name string, budget time.Duration, fn func(context.Context) error) { c, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, budget) defer cancel() start := time.Now() err := fn(c) // A pass that ran out of its budget left work untouched, and the list is ordered the same way // every time, so the tail starves. Counted rather than only logged: this is the number that // says whether it is happening (register row PD-169). s.metrics.ObserveSweep(name, time.Since(start), errors.Is(err, context.DeadlineExceeded)) if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) { log.Error(name+" sweep failed", "err", err) } } one := func() { for _, p := range s.passes(sweepBudget, log) { pass(p.name, p.budget, p.run) } c, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, sweepBudget) defer cancel() observe(c, s, log) } one() t := time.NewTicker(every) defer t.Stop() for { select { case <-ctx.Done(): return case <-t.C: one() } } } // observe publishes the state of the control plane. A failure to measure never fails the sweep: it // is one WARN and the next tick tries again. func observe(ctx context.Context, s sweeps, log *slog.Logger) { // First, and from memory rather than from the database: an instance whose database is unreachable // is exactly when an operator wants to know whether its intake is saturated, and every reading // below returns early on that error. if s.books != nil { c := s.books.CutCapacity() s.metrics.ObserveCuts(metrics.Cuts{ Limit: c.Limit, InFlight: c.InFlight, Waiting: c.Waiting, Waited: c.Waited, GaveUp: c.GaveUp, }) } o, err := s.db.Observe(ctx, runs.StalledAfter) if err != nil { log.Warn("the control plane's own state could not be read", "err", err) return } s.metrics.ObserveRunner(metrics.Runner{ QueueDepth: o.QueueDepth, OldestHoldSeconds: o.OldestHoldSeconds, QuarantinedAttempts: o.QuarantinedAttempts, ParkedAttempts: o.ParkedAttempts, LiveRuns: o.LiveRuns, BooksUploading: o.BooksUploading, BooksParsing: o.BooksParsing, StalledRuns: o.StalledRuns, AbandonedSurfaces: o.AbandonedSurfaces, }) lag, err := s.runs.Lag(ctx) if err != nil { log.Warn("the tailer's lag could not be read", "err", err) return } s.metrics.ObserveTailerLag(lag) } // markerArgv is the command systemd runs when a unit ends. It defaults to the admin CLI next to the // running daemon, because that is the one binary guaranteed to be the same build as this process. // // ⚠ ABSOLUTE or refused, and the refusal is here rather than at the first run because of what // systemd does with the alternative — measured on this stand (systemd 259): // // Failed to start transient service unit: "./tmplatformctl" is neither a valid executable // name nor an absolute path // // That is the whole unit refusing to START, so every run would take a claim, fail to spawn, give the // claim back and try again on the next sweep — a loop whose only symptom is that nothing ever runs. // `os.Stat` is happy with a relative path, so it cannot be what catches this (register row PD-165, // the same class as StateDir's own boot refusal, PD-149). func markerArgv(configured string) ([]string, error) { bin := configured if bin == "" { self, err := os.Executable() if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("locate tmplatformctl: %w", err) } bin = filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(self), "tmplatformctl") } if !filepath.IsAbs(bin) { return nil, fmt.Errorf("exit-marker command %s must be an absolute path: systemd refuses any other kind in ExecStopPost", bin) } if _, err := os.Stat(bin); err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("exit-marker command %s: %w", bin, err) } return []string{bin, "exit-marker"}, nil }