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wild-pc/core/tests/test_systemd.py
Paul Payne 8a9843658c core: back off and give up on crash-looping services
Generated service units took systemd's default start limit (5 starts in
10s), which can never trip when each failed attempt outlives the window.
openclaw failed ~5s in and restarted every ~5.5s, so the counter reset on
every cycle: 260k restarts at ~7.4s CPU each, over a core burned
continuously for days, with the unit stuck in `activating (auto-restart)`
rather than anything a status check would flag.

Service units now get exponential restart backoff (RestartSteps=8,
RestartMaxDelaySec=300) and a start limit sized against it (10 starts per
hour, in [Unit] where systemd reads it). A broken service retries with a
growing delay for ~17min — wide enough to ride out a boot-time dependency
race — then lands in `failed` where it's visible and stops consuming CPU.
All four values are SystemdSpec fields, overridable per deployment.

Timer-driven oneshot jobs are unaffected; they never restart. systemd
older than 254 ignores RestartSteps/RestartMaxDelaySec with a warning and
keeps the flat RestartSec, so the start limit still applies there.
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"""Tests for systemd unit generation."""
from __future__ import annotations
from pathlib import Path
from wildpc_core.generators.systemd import (
generate_timer,
generate_unit_from_deployed,
secret_env_path,
unit_env_file,
unit_name,
)
from wildpc_core.registry import Deployment
class TestUnitName:
"""Tests for systemd unit naming."""
def test_unit_name_format(self) -> None:
"""Unit names follow wildpc-<name>.service pattern."""
assert unit_name("central-context") == "wildpc-central-context.service"
assert unit_name("my-svc") == "wildpc-my-svc.service"
class TestUnitFromDeployed:
"""Tests for registry-based systemd unit generation."""
def test_contains_description(self) -> None:
"""Unit file has service description."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="python",
run_cmd=["/home/user/.local/bin/uv", "run", "test-svc"],
env={"TEST_SVC_PORT": "19000"},
description="Test service",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("test-svc", deployed)
assert "Description=Wild PC: Test service" in unit
def test_no_working_directory(self) -> None:
"""Unit file has no WorkingDirectory (source/runtime separation)."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="python",
run_cmd=["/home/user/.local/bin/uv", "run", "test-svc"],
env={},
description="Test service",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("test-svc", deployed)
assert "WorkingDirectory" not in unit
def test_contains_environment(self) -> None:
"""Unit file has environment variables from deployed config."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="python",
run_cmd=["/home/user/.local/bin/uv", "run", "test-svc"],
env={"TEST_SVC_DATA_DIR": "/home/user/.wildpc/data/test-svc"},
description="Test service",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("test-svc", deployed)
assert "Environment=TEST_SVC_DATA_DIR=/home/user/.wildpc/data/test-svc" in unit
def test_default_path_emitted_when_absent(self) -> None:
"""Wild PC supplies a default PATH when the service doesn't pin one."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="python",
run_cmd=["/home/user/.local/bin/uv", "run", "test-svc"],
env={},
description="Test service",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("test-svc", deployed)
assert 'Environment="PATH=' in unit
assert "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin" in unit
def test_path_prepend_precedes_default(self) -> None:
"""A resolved toolchain dir (e.g. pinned node bin) leads the default PATH."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="node",
run_cmd=["node", "server.js"],
env={},
path_prepend=["/home/user/.nvm/versions/node/v24.14.1/bin"],
description="Node service",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("node-svc", deployed)
path_line = next(ln for ln in unit.splitlines() if "PATH=" in ln)
assert "/home/user/.nvm/versions/node/v24.14.1/bin:" in path_line
assert path_line.index("v24.14.1") < path_line.index("/usr/bin")
def test_explicit_path_overrides_path_prepend(self) -> None:
"""An explicit PATH is a full override — path_prepend is ignored too."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="node",
run_cmd=["node", "server.js"],
env={"PATH": "/opt/node/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"},
path_prepend=["/home/user/.nvm/versions/node/v24.14.1/bin"],
description="Node service",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("node-svc", deployed)
assert "v24.14.1" not in unit
assert unit.count("PATH=") == 1
def test_explicit_path_overrides_default(self) -> None:
"""A PATH pinned in defaults.env wins — Wild PC does not append its own,
which would clobber it under systemd's last-assignment-wins rule."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="python",
run_cmd=["/home/user/.local/bin/uv", "run", "test-svc"],
env={"PATH": "/opt/node/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"},
description="Test service",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("test-svc", deployed)
assert "Environment=PATH=/opt/node/bin:/usr/bin:/bin" in unit
assert unit.count("PATH=") == 1 # exactly one PATH line, the explicit one
def test_contains_restart_policy(self) -> None:
"""Unit file has restart configuration."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="python",
run_cmd=["/home/user/.local/bin/uv", "run", "test-svc"],
env={},
description="Test service",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("test-svc", deployed)
assert "Restart=on-failure" in unit
def test_restart_backoff_and_start_limit(self) -> None:
"""A crash loop must back off and eventually give up.
systemd's defaults (5 starts / 10s) never trip when each attempt outlives
the window: openclaw failed ~5s in, so the counter reset on every cycle and
the unit restarted 260k times, burning a core for days."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="python",
run_cmd=["/home/user/.local/bin/uv", "run", "test-svc"],
env={},
description="Test service",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("test-svc", deployed)
# Backoff grows the delay instead of hammering every RestartSec.
assert "RestartSteps=8" in unit
assert "RestartMaxDelaySec=300" in unit
# The limit is wide enough that it actually trips (systemd only counts
# starts inside the window).
assert "StartLimitIntervalSec=3600" in unit
assert "StartLimitBurst=10" in unit
def test_start_limit_in_unit_section(self) -> None:
"""StartLimit* belong to [Unit]; systemd ignores them under [Service]."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="python",
run_cmd=["/home/user/.local/bin/uv", "run", "test-svc"],
env={},
description="Test service",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("test-svc", deployed)
unit_section = unit.split("[Service]")[0]
assert "StartLimitIntervalSec=" in unit_section
assert "StartLimitBurst=" in unit_section
def test_job_has_no_restart_tuning(self) -> None:
"""A timer-driven oneshot never restarts, so it gets no restart keys."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="command",
run_cmd=["/home/user/.local/bin/my-job"],
env={},
description="Nightly job",
schedule="0 2 * * *",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("my-job", deployed)
for key in ("RestartSteps=", "RestartMaxDelaySec=", "StartLimitBurst="):
assert key not in unit
def test_restart_tuning_is_overridable(self) -> None:
"""A service can widen or tighten the policy in its manifest."""
from wildpc_core.manifest import SystemdSpec
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="python",
run_cmd=["/home/user/.local/bin/uv", "run", "test-svc"],
env={},
description="Test service",
)
spec = SystemdSpec(
restart_steps=3, restart_max_delay_sec=60,
start_limit_burst=4, start_limit_interval_sec=120,
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("test-svc", deployed, systemd_spec=spec)
assert "RestartSteps=3" in unit
assert "RestartMaxDelaySec=60" in unit
assert "StartLimitIntervalSec=120" in unit
assert "StartLimitBurst=4" in unit
def test_exec_start_from_run_cmd(self) -> None:
"""Unit file ExecStart uses resolved run_cmd."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="python",
run_cmd=["/home/user/.local/bin/uv", "run", "test-svc"],
env={},
description="Test service",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("test-svc", deployed)
assert "ExecStart=/home/user/.local/bin/uv run test-svc" in unit
def test_basic_service(self) -> None:
"""Generate a unit from a deployed component."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="python",
run_cmd=["/home/user/.local/bin/uv", "run", "my-svc"],
env={
"MY_SVC_PORT": "9001",
"MY_SVC_DATA_DIR": "/home/user/.wildpc/data/my-svc",
},
description="My service",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("my-svc", deployed)
assert "Description=Wild PC: My service" in unit
assert "ExecStart=/home/user/.local/bin/uv run my-svc" in unit
assert "Environment=MY_SVC_PORT=9001" in unit
assert "Environment=MY_SVC_DATA_DIR=/home/user/.wildpc/data/my-svc" in unit
assert "WorkingDirectory" not in unit
assert "Restart=on-failure" in unit
def test_scheduled_job(self) -> None:
"""Scheduled component generates oneshot unit."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="command",
run_cmd=["/home/user/.local/bin/my-job"],
env={},
description="Nightly job",
schedule="0 2 * * *",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("my-job", deployed)
assert "Type=oneshot" in unit
assert "Restart=" not in unit
def test_no_repo_paths(self) -> None:
"""Generated units must not reference repo paths."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="python",
run_cmd=["/home/user/.local/bin/uv", "run", "my-svc"],
env={"DATA_DIR": "/home/user/.wildpc/data/my-svc"},
description="Test",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("my-svc", deployed)
assert "/data/repos/" not in unit
def test_exec_stop_emitted_for_compose(self) -> None:
"""A compose deployment's stop_cmd becomes ExecStop= (clean teardown)."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="compose",
run_cmd=["/usr/bin/docker", "compose", "-p", "wildpc-x", "-f", "c.yml", "up"],
stop_cmd=["/usr/bin/docker", "compose", "-p", "wildpc-x", "-f", "c.yml", "down"],
description="Stack",
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("x", deployed)
assert "ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker compose -p wildpc-x -f c.yml down" in unit
def test_no_exec_stop_without_stop_cmd(self) -> None:
"""Runners without a stop_cmd rely on SIGTERM — no ExecStop line."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="python", run_cmd=["/uv", "run", "x"], description="X"
)
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("x", deployed)
assert "ExecStop=" not in unit
class TestSecretEnvFile:
"""Secrets are referenced via EnvironmentFile=, never inlined."""
def test_environment_file_added_for_simple_unit(self) -> None:
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="python",
run_cmd=["/uv", "run", "my-svc"],
env={"PORT": "9001"},
secret_env_keys=["API_KEY"],
)
path = Path("/home/u/.wildpc/secrets/env/wildpc-my-svc.service.env")
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("my-svc", deployed, env_file=path)
assert f"EnvironmentFile={path}" in unit
# fail-loud: no '-' prefix
assert f"EnvironmentFile=-{path}" not in unit
def test_environment_file_added_for_oneshot_job(self) -> None:
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="command",
run_cmd=["/bin/job"],
env={},
schedule="0 2 * * *",
secret_env_keys=["TOKEN"],
)
path = Path("/home/u/.wildpc/secrets/env/wildpc-my-job.service.env")
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("my-job", deployed, env_file=path)
assert "Type=oneshot" in unit
assert f"EnvironmentFile={path}" in unit
def test_no_environment_file_when_none(self) -> None:
deployed = Deployment(manager="systemd", launcher="python", run_cmd=["/uv", "run", "x"], env={})
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("x", deployed, env_file=None)
assert "EnvironmentFile" not in unit
def test_secret_values_never_in_unit(self) -> None:
"""The unit references the file path; resolved secret values never appear."""
deployed = Deployment(
manager="systemd", launcher="python",
run_cmd=["/uv", "run", "x"],
env={"PORT": "9001"},
secret_env_keys=["API_KEY"],
)
path = secret_env_path("x")
unit = generate_unit_from_deployed("x", deployed, env_file=path)
assert "sk-secret" not in unit # value is in the file, not the unit
class TestUnitEnvFile:
"""unit_env_file decides which runners get an EnvironmentFile= path."""
def test_none_without_secrets(self) -> None:
d = Deployment(manager="systemd", launcher="python", run_cmd=[], env={}, secret_env_keys=[])
assert unit_env_file(d, "x") is None
def test_path_for_python_with_secrets(self) -> None:
d = Deployment(manager="systemd", launcher="python", run_cmd=[], env={}, secret_env_keys=["K"])
assert unit_env_file(d, "x") == secret_env_path("x")
def test_none_for_container(self) -> None:
"""Containers load secrets via docker --env-file, not systemd."""
d = Deployment(manager="systemd", launcher="container", run_cmd=[], env={}, secret_env_keys=["K"])
assert unit_env_file(d, "x") is None
class TestGenerateTimer:
"""Tests for timer generation from schedule strings."""
def test_daily_timer(self) -> None:
"""Daily cron produces OnCalendar timer."""
timer = generate_timer("my-job", schedule="0 2 * * *", description="Nightly")
assert "Description=Wild PC timer: Nightly" in timer
assert "OnCalendar=*-*-* 02:00:00" in timer
assert "WantedBy=timers.target" in timer
def test_interval_timer(self) -> None:
"""*/N minute cron produces OnUnitActiveSec timer."""
timer = generate_timer("sync", schedule="*/5 * * * *")
assert "OnUnitActiveSec=300s" in timer
assert "OnBootSec=60" in timer
def test_fallback_description(self) -> None:
"""Timer uses name when no description given."""
timer = generate_timer("my-job", schedule="0 0 * * *")
assert "Description=Wild PC timer: my-job" in timer