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feat(display): systemd watchdog and heartbeat for a frozen render loop (#687)
If the render loop gets stuck inside a plugin's display(), ledmatrix.service stays active and the panel stays frozen. This adds a way to detect that. - src/display_watchdog.py (standard library only) sends sd_notify over $NOTIFY_SOCKET and writes /run/ledmatrix/display-heartbeat.json. Only the render thread counts: beats from other threads are ignored. - ledmatrix.service: WatchdogSec=120, NotifyAccess=main, RuntimeDirectory=ledmatrix (0755), RestartSteps=4 and RestartMaxDelaySec=2min. It stays Type=simple. run.py widens the watchdog to 15 min for start-up, and load_plugin() does the same on the render thread. The loop arms after its first frame. - /api/v3/health adds checks.display_loop: running, stalled (no heartbeat for over 60s, which makes the status degraded) or not_reported. With web login on, a caller who is not logged in still gets only healthy/degraded, and a stall degrades that answer. - The update verifier requires a fresh heartbeat from the restarted display when the display it replaced was writing one. A frozen panel is rolled back. - Existing installs get the systemd watchdog only after install_service.sh is re-run. The heartbeat works right away. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -516,6 +516,64 @@ sudo systemctl cat ledmatrix-web | grep User
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python3 scripts/check_plugin.py --plugin plugin-id
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```
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#### Panel Frozen, or the Display Restarts Every Few Minutes
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**Symptoms:**
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- The panel stops changing while `systemctl status ledmatrix` says `active`
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- The display restarts on its own, a couple of minutes after it froze
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- `/api/v3/health` shows `checks.display_loop.status` as `stalled`
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The display's render loop checks in with systemd every few seconds
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(`WatchdogSec=120` in `ledmatrix.service`) and writes a heartbeat to
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`/run/ledmatrix/display-heartbeat.json`. When the loop gets stuck -- almost
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always inside one plugin's `display()` -- the check-ins stop, and after two
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minutes systemd kills and restarts the display. The kill dumps every thread's
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stack into the log, so it says which plugin was stuck.
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**Solutions:**
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1. **Find the stuck plugin.** Look for the watchdog kill and the stack dump
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after it. The render loop is the thread whose stack runs through
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`display_controller.py` in `run` (usually the `Current thread` block);
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the first `plugin-repos/...` file in it is the plugin:
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```bash
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sudo journalctl -u ledmatrix --since "1 hour ago" | grep -A40 "Watchdog timeout"
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```
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2. **Check the heartbeat by hand.** Its age should stay under about ten
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seconds while the display runs:
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```bash
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cat /run/ledmatrix/display-heartbeat.json
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curl -s http://localhost:5000/api/v3/health | python3 -m json.tool | grep -A3 display_loop
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```
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`not_reported` means the display writes no heartbeat: it has not drawn
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its first frame yet, or it runs an older version.
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3. **Disable the plugin** in the web UI and report it to its author with the
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stack dump. Restarts that repeat back off from 10 seconds to two minutes
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apart, so a plugin that hangs on every start does not restart the display
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hundreds of times an hour.
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4. **Is the watchdog installed?** Installs from before it keep their old unit
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until the installer is re-run (a startup warning says the unit differs
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from its template):
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```bash
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systemctl show -p WatchdogUSec ledmatrix # 2min once running; 0 = not installed
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sudo ./scripts/install/install_service.sh
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```
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`WatchdogUSec` reads `15min` for the first minutes after a start: that is
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the start-up allowance, narrowed to two minutes once the first frame is on
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the panel.
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5. **A plugin that legitimately blocks longer** than two minutes (it should
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not; `display()` runs on the render thread) can be given more time with a
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drop-in, `sudo systemctl edit ledmatrix`:
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```ini
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[Service]
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WatchdogSec=300
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```
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`WatchdogSec=0` turns the watchdog off.
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#### Stale Cache Data
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**Symptoms:**
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