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ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 64c7289593 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>
2026-09-30 11:15:31 -04:00

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"""The automatic update's health check and rollback (scripts/utils/auto_update_verify.py).
This is what stands between an unattended update and a device that no longer
works, so each way an update can fail is exercised against a real git repo:
the new commit is checked out, the services are "restarted", and whether they
come up healthy depends on which commit they were restarted onto. Only
systemd, sudo and the HTTP check are faked.
"""
import importlib.util
import re
import shutil
import subprocess
import sys
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT))
_spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(
'auto_update_verify', ROOT / 'scripts' / 'utils' / 'auto_update_verify.py')
av = importlib.util.module_from_spec(_spec)
_spec.loader.exec_module(av)
pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(shutil.which('git') is None, reason='git not installed')
def git(cwd, *args):
result = subprocess.run(['git', '-c', 'user.name=t', '-c', 'user.email=t@example.com', *args],
cwd=str(cwd), capture_output=True, text=True)
assert result.returncode == 0, result.stderr
return result.stdout.strip()
def done(args, stdout='', rc=0):
return subprocess.CompletedProcess(args, rc, stdout=stdout, stderr='' if rc == 0 else 'failed')
def updated_repo(tmp_path, new_requirements=False):
"""A checkout on a new commit, with the commit it came from."""
repo = tmp_path / 'LEDMatrix'
repo.mkdir()
git(repo, 'init', '-q', '-b', 'main')
(repo / 'app.py').write_text('v = 1\n')
(repo / 'requirements.txt').write_text('requests\n')
git(repo, 'add', '.')
git(repo, 'commit', '-qm', 'old')
old = git(repo, 'rev-parse', 'HEAD')
(repo / 'app.py').write_text('v = 2\n')
if new_requirements:
(repo / 'requirements.txt').write_text('requests\nnewthing\n')
git(repo, 'commit', '-qam', 'new')
return repo, old, git(repo, 'rev-parse', 'HEAD')
class FakeHost:
"""systemd, sudo and the web interface.
Services run whatever commit was checked out when they were last
restarted; ``failure`` says how they misbehave on the new commit
("display_down", "web_down", "crash_loop", "frozen": active but the
render loop stuck after its first frame) or on any commit ("always").
``heartbeat`` is whether the display writes one: never (``None``, code
from before the heartbeat), or on every commit (``"always"``).
"""
def __init__(self, repo, bad_head, failure=None, pip_ok=True, restart_failures=0, count_readable=True,
heartbeat=None):
self.repo, self.bad_head, self.failure, self.pip_ok = repo, bad_head, failure, pip_ok
self.restart_failures = restart_failures # how many restart commands fail, first to last
self.count_readable = count_readable
self.running_head = None # not restarted yet: still the old, healthy code
self.restarts = [] # (unit, commit it was restarted onto)
self.pip_installs = []
self.pip_timeouts = []
self.pip = None # optional (args, host) -> result, or raises, instead of pip_ok
self.now = 0.0
self.nrestarts = 0
self.heartbeat = heartbeat
self.display_started_at = -1000.0 # the pre-update display, long running
def broken(self, kind):
if self.running_head is None:
return False
return self.failure == 'always' or (self.running_head == self.bad_head and self.failure == kind)
def run(self, args, **kwargs):
if args[0] == 'git':
return subprocess.run(args, **kwargs)
if args[:2] == ['systemctl', 'is-active']:
return done(args, 'failed\n' if self.broken('display_down') else 'active\n')
if args[:2] == ['systemctl', 'show']:
if not self.count_readable:
return done(args, rc=1)
if self.broken('crash_loop'):
self.nrestarts += 1
return done(args, f'{self.nrestarts}\n')
if args[0] == 'sudo' and any(a.endswith('safe_pip_install.sh') for a in args):
self.pip_installs.append(args[-1])
self.pip_timeouts.append(kwargs.get('timeout'))
if self.pip:
return self.pip(args, self)
return done(args, rc=0 if self.pip_ok else 1)
if args[:4] == ['sudo', '-n', 'systemctl', 'restart']:
if self.restart_failures:
self.restart_failures -= 1
return done(args, rc=1) # the old process keeps running
self.running_head = git(self.repo, 'rev-parse', 'HEAD')
self.restarts.append((args[4], self.running_head))
if args[4] == 'ledmatrix.service':
self.display_started_at = self.now
return done(args)
raise AssertionError(f'unexpected command: {args}')
def web_responds(self):
return not self.broken('web_down')
def read_heartbeat(self):
if self.heartbeat is None:
return None
first_frame = self.display_started_at + 10 # plugins load, then it draws
if self.now < first_frame:
# Nothing from this process yet. A display whose unit predates
# RuntimeDirectory= leaves its predecessor's file behind.
return {'mono': self.display_started_at - 1}
if self.broken('frozen'):
return {'mono': first_frame} # drew once, then stuck
return {'mono': self.now}
def sleep(self, seconds):
self.now += seconds
def verifier(self):
return av.Verifier(self.repo, run=self.run, sleep=self.sleep, clock=lambda: self.now,
web_responds=self.web_responds, log=lambda msg: None,
read_heartbeat=self.read_heartbeat)
def check(tmp_path, failure=None, new_requirements=False, pip_ok=True, restart_failures=0,
count_readable=True, heartbeat=None, **pending):
repo, old, new = updated_repo(tmp_path, new_requirements)
fields = {'status': 'pending', 'old_head': old, 'new_head': new,
'display_was_active': True, 'dependency_failures': []}
fields.update(pending)
av.write_pending(av.pending_path(repo), fields)
host = FakeHost(repo, new, failure, pip_ok, restart_failures, count_readable, heartbeat)
code = host.verifier().verify()
result = av.read_pending(av.pending_path(repo))
return code, result, host, git(repo, 'rev-parse', 'HEAD'), old, new
def test_a_healthy_update_is_kept(tmp_path):
code, result, host, head, old, new = check(tmp_path)
assert code == 0 and result['status'] == 'success'
assert head == new
assert host.restarts == [('ledmatrix.service', new), ('ledmatrix-web.service', new)]
@pytest.mark.parametrize('failure, reason', [
('display_down', 'the display service did not stay running'),
('web_down', 'the web interface did not respond'),
('crash_loop', 'the display service kept restarting'),
])
def test_an_unhealthy_update_is_rolled_back(tmp_path, failure, reason):
code, result, host, head, old, new = check(tmp_path, failure)
assert code == 0
assert result['status'] == 'rolled_back' and result['reason'] == reason
assert head == old
assert host.restarts[-2:] == [('ledmatrix.service', old), ('ledmatrix-web.service', old)]
def test_a_stopped_display_is_not_started(tmp_path):
code, result, host, head, old, new = check(tmp_path, display_was_active=False)
assert result['status'] == 'success'
assert [unit for unit, _ in host.restarts] == ['ledmatrix-web.service']
def test_failed_dependencies_roll_back_before_anything_restarts_onto_them(tmp_path):
code, result, host, head, old, new = check(tmp_path, dependency_failures=['requirements.txt'])
assert result['status'] == 'rolled_back'
assert 'requirements.txt' in result['reason']
assert head == old
assert all(commit == old for _, commit in host.restarts), host.restarts
def test_rollback_reinstalls_the_previous_dependencies(tmp_path):
code, result, host, head, old, new = check(tmp_path, 'display_down', new_requirements=True)
assert result['status'] == 'rolled_back' and result['detail'] is None
assert host.pip_installs == [str(tmp_path / 'LEDMatrix' / 'requirements.txt')]
def test_a_failed_dependency_reinstall_is_reported(tmp_path):
code, result, host, head, old, new = check(tmp_path, 'display_down', new_requirements=True,
pip_ok=False)
assert result['status'] == 'rolled_back' and head == old
assert 'Install Base Requirements' in result['detail']
def _rollback_with_pip(tmp_path, pip, web_requirements_too=False):
"""Roll back an update that changed the requirements, with pip faked by ``pip``."""
repo, old, new = updated_repo(tmp_path, new_requirements=True)
if web_requirements_too:
(repo / 'web_interface').mkdir()
(repo / 'web_interface' / 'requirements.txt').write_text('flask\n')
git(repo, 'add', '.')
git(repo, 'commit', '-qm', 'web reqs')
(repo / 'web_interface' / 'requirements.txt').write_text('flask\nnew\n')
(repo / 'requirements.txt').write_text('requests\nnewer\n')
git(repo, 'commit', '-qam', 'bump both')
old, new = git(repo, 'rev-parse', 'HEAD~1'), git(repo, 'rev-parse', 'HEAD')
host = FakeHost(repo, new)
host.pip = pip
ok, detail = host.verifier().rollback({'old_head': old, 'new_head': new})
return ok, detail, host
def test_a_failed_pip_is_not_run_again_with_the_other_bash(tmp_path):
"""Retrying after pip itself ran only repeats it, and every repeat can
take PIP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS of the unit's time limit."""
ok, detail, host = _rollback_with_pip(
tmp_path, lambda args, h: subprocess.CompletedProcess(args, 1, '', 'ERROR: No matching distribution'))
assert ok and 'requirements.txt' in detail
assert len(host.pip_installs) == 1
def test_a_pip_timeout_is_not_retried(tmp_path):
def slow(args, h):
h.now += h.pip_timeouts[-1]
raise subprocess.TimeoutExpired(args, h.pip_timeouts[-1])
ok, detail, host = _rollback_with_pip(tmp_path, slow)
assert ok and 'Install Base Requirements' in detail
assert len(host.pip_installs) == 1
def test_a_sudo_refusal_tries_the_next_bash(tmp_path):
def refused_once(args, h):
if len(h.pip_installs) == 1:
return subprocess.CompletedProcess(args, 1, '', 'sudo: a password is required')
return done(args)
ok, detail, host = _rollback_with_pip(tmp_path, refused_once)
assert ok and detail == ''
assert len(host.pip_installs) == 2
def test_reinstalls_share_one_time_budget(tmp_path):
def hangs(args, h):
h.now += h.pip_timeouts[-1]
raise subprocess.TimeoutExpired(args, h.pip_timeouts[-1])
ok, detail, host = _rollback_with_pip(tmp_path, hangs, web_requirements_too=True)
assert ok and 'requirements.txt' in detail and 'web_interface/requirements.txt' in detail
assert sum(host.pip_timeouts) <= av.PIP_BUDGET_SECONDS
assert len(host.pip_installs) == 1, "the first file used the whole budget"
def test_the_worst_case_fits_the_unit_time_limit():
"""systemd kills the check at TimeoutStartSec, mid-rollback, and the update
then sits in "verifying" until the web interface calls it lost."""
from web_interface import auto_update as au
service = (ROOT / 'systemd' / 'ledmatrix-update-verify.service').read_text(encoding='utf-8')
minutes = int(re.search(r'^TimeoutStartSec=(\d+)min$', service, re.M).group(1))
assert av.WORST_CASE_SECONDS < minutes * 60
assert minutes * 60 < au.VERIFY_LOST_SECONDS, "the web UI must not call a running check lost"
def test_sudo_refusal_wording_matches_permission_utils():
from src.common import permission_utils
assert set(av.SUDO_REFUSAL_PHRASES) == set(permission_utils.SUDO_REFUSAL_PHRASES)
def test_still_broken_after_rolling_back_is_rollback_failed(tmp_path):
code, result, host, head, old, new = check(tmp_path, 'always')
assert code == 1 and result['status'] == 'rollback_failed'
assert 'still unhealthy after rolling back' in result['detail']
def test_a_failed_restart_is_not_mistaken_for_a_healthy_update(tmp_path):
"""When the restart command itself fails the old process keeps answering,
so checking it would pass an update that never started."""
code, result, host, head, old, new = check(tmp_path, restart_failures=1)
assert result['status'] == 'rolled_back'
assert result['reason'] == 'restarting the services failed'
assert head == old
def test_restarts_that_keep_failing_after_rollback_are_rollback_failed(tmp_path):
code, result, host, head, old, new = check(tmp_path, restart_failures=100)
assert code == 1 and result['status'] == 'rollback_failed'
assert 'restarting the services failed' in result['detail']
def test_an_unreadable_restart_count_is_never_called_stable(tmp_path):
"""With no restart count a crash loop looks healthy between attempts."""
code, result, host, head, old, new = check(tmp_path, count_readable=False)
assert result['status'] != 'success'
assert 'restart count could not be read' in result['reason']
def test_nothing_pending_does_nothing(tmp_path):
repo, _, _ = updated_repo(tmp_path)
host = FakeHost(repo, None)
assert host.verifier().verify() == 0
assert host.restarts == []
def test_a_crash_is_recorded_not_left_as_running(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
repo, old, new = updated_repo(tmp_path)
av.write_pending(av.pending_path(repo), {'status': 'pending', 'old_head': old, 'new_head': new})
def boom(self):
raise RuntimeError('boom')
monkeypatch.setattr(av.Verifier, 'verify', boom)
assert av.main(['auto_update_verify.py', str(repo)]) == 1
result = av.read_pending(av.pending_path(repo))
assert result['status'] == 'rollback_failed' and result['detail'] == 'boom'
def test_units_installers_and_updater_agree():
"""The request file, the copied verifier, the unit names and the places
that install them must all line up, or the health check silently never
starts on real devices -- and code updates stay paused."""
from web_interface import auto_update as au
from src import auto_update_setup as aus
from src.startup_validator import StartupValidator
service = (ROOT / 'systemd' / aus.SERVICE_UNIT).read_text(encoding='utf-8')
path = (ROOT / 'systemd' / aus.PATH_UNIT).read_text(encoding='utf-8')
request = f'__PROJECT_ROOT_DIR__/{au.REQUEST_REL.as_posix()}'
assert f'PathExists={request}' in path
assert f'Unit={aus.SERVICE_UNIT}' in path
assert f'ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f "{request}"' in service, "the request must be consumed or the path unit re-fires"
assert f'"__PROJECT_ROOT_DIR__/{au.VERIFIER_COPY_REL.as_posix()}" "__PROJECT_ROOT_DIR__"' in service
assert au.PENDING_REL.name == av.PENDING_NAME
assert au.PATH_UNIT == aus.PATH_UNIT and au.SETUP_RESULT_REL == aus.RESULT_REL
for installer in ('scripts/install/install_web_service.sh', 'scripts/install/install_service.sh'):
text = (ROOT / installer).read_text(encoding='utf-8')
assert 'ledmatrix-update-verify.service ledmatrix-update-verify.path' in text, installer
assert 'enable --now ledmatrix-update-verify.path' in text, installer
for unit in aus.UNITS:
assert (f'systemd/{unit}', f'/etc/systemd/system/{unit}') in StartupValidator._UNITS
# Triggering takes no privilege any more; no sudoers rule should linger.
for sudoers in ('scripts/install/configure_web_sudo.sh', 'first_time_install.sh',
'scripts/install/lib_sudoers.sh'):
assert not re.search(r'NOPASSWD:.*update-verify', (ROOT / sudoers).read_text(encoding='utf-8')), sudoers
# -- the display's heartbeat -------------------------------------------------------
#
# "Service active" plus one HTTP 200 passed a panel frozen by a render loop
# stuck in a plugin. Where the display writes a heartbeat, the restarted
# display has to keep it fresh too.
FROZEN_REASON = ('the display service is running but its panel is not being drawn '
'(no fresh heartbeat)')
def test_a_display_that_keeps_drawing_passes(tmp_path):
code, result, host, head, old, new = check(tmp_path, heartbeat='always')
assert result['status'] == 'success' and head == new
def test_a_frozen_panel_is_rolled_back(tmp_path):
code, result, host, head, old, new = check(tmp_path, 'frozen', heartbeat='always')
assert result['status'] == 'rolled_back' and result['reason'] == FROZEN_REASON
assert head == old
def test_the_previous_processs_heartbeat_does_not_count(tmp_path):
"""Under a unit without RuntimeDirectory= the old file outlives the old
process; a restarted display that never draws must not pass on it."""
repo, old, new = updated_repo(tmp_path)
host = FakeHost(repo, new, heartbeat='always')
verifier = host.verifier()
verifier.expect_heartbeat = True
host.display_started_at = host.now = 100.0
verifier.display_restarted_at = 100.0
host.now = 101.0 # the new process has not drawn yet
assert verifier.display_drawing() is False
host.now = 115.0
assert verifier.display_drawing() is True
def test_without_a_heartbeat_the_check_is_what_it_was(tmp_path):
"""Code from before the heartbeat (or a display that cannot write one)
never wrote one, so it cannot be asked for -- a frozen panel then passes,
exactly as it did."""
code, result, host, head, old, new = check(tmp_path, 'frozen', heartbeat=None)
assert result['status'] == 'success'
def test_a_stopped_display_is_not_asked_for_a_heartbeat(tmp_path):
code, result, host, head, old, new = check(tmp_path, 'frozen', heartbeat='always',
display_was_active=False)
assert result['status'] == 'success'
def test_the_heartbeat_location_and_freshness_match_the_display():
"""A copy, not an import: the verifier must not depend on the code it checks."""
from src import display_watchdog
assert av.HEARTBEAT_PATH == display_watchdog.HEARTBEAT_PATH
# A display frozen right after its first frame must go stale inside the
# window it has to stay healthy for.
assert av.HEARTBEAT_FRESH_SECONDS + av.POLL_SECONDS < av.STABLE_SECONDS
assert av.HEARTBEAT_FRESH_SECONDS > display_watchdog.BEAT_INTERVAL_SECONDS * 2