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Austin Pickett d94769da64 fix(update): a Desktop-only host settles an inventory-less restart obligation (#120740)
* refactor(update): one predicate for serve rows outside the gateway matrix

The inventory branch of `_marker_only_restart_obsolete` inlined the rule for which
serve/dashboard rows the gateway matrix neither covers nor needs to (supervisor-owned,
or a manual serve handed to its own reminder). The inventory-less branch needs the same
rule for #118742, so it moves to `update_cmd_fleet_gatewayless.runtime_outside_gateway_evidence`
and both branches will read one definition. No behaviour change.

* fix(update): a Desktop-only host settles an inventory-less restart obligation

A host that runs no gateway (the Desktop app alone) can be left with an inventory-less
fleet-restart obligation: an updater that died before recording its inventory, or the
pre-inventory writer. With no owed set, the live gateway matrix is its only evidence, and
on that host the matrix is empty forever, so `_marker_only_restart_obsolete` never settled
and every later `hermes update` exited 1 with "gateways are still off the checkout code"
(#118742).

An empty fleet alone cannot tell that host from one whose gateway the dying update stopped,
so the inventory-less branch now asks the live host, never a historical receipt:
`host_owes_no_gateway_restart` settles only when no profile's `gateway_state.json` claims a
state other than stopped/startup_failed (a gateway that went away without a clean stop keeps
the obligation) and every live runtime sits outside the gateway matrix
(`runtime_outside_gateway_evidence`, shared with the inventory branch). HEAD must still
contain the pulled SHA (`checkout_contains`, same rule as #119367). Probe failures keep it.

Tests: the scoped-reconciliation matrix now holds its host at "the update stopped a gateway"
so it keeps pinning receipt independence; a new host-evidence matrix covers Desktop-only,
clean stop, carried commit, stopped gateway in a named profile, unclassified and
unidentified serves, a gateway row without fleet identity, and a diverged checkout. Two
manual-serve tests that assumed an empty fleet always stays pending now stub the live host
and assert the manual reminder survives the gateway obligation settling.

Co-authored-by: KoNit-K <124019182+KoNit-K@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: KoNit-K <124019182+KoNit-K@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-23 18:48:33 -05:00
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