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hermes-agent/tests/hermes_cli/test_update_lock.py
teknium1 7a61f1d247 fix(update): an adopted own-pid claim is refreshed, not kept near expiry
Adopting a killed update's marker verbatim kept its started_at. When that
claim was close to the 20-minute ceiling, the retry's own lock expired
seconds into its run and a second updater could start over the same
checkout: live, a detached `hermes update` acquired the lock 6s after the
retry adopted a claim 3s from expiry.

A marker naming our pid can only be a dead predecessor's (nothing
pre-writes one for `hermes update`, which always runs under a parent's
claim), so it is a new attempt and is claimed fresh like any dead holder's.
Only one acquire runs per process, so this cannot renew a wedged update.
2026-09-23 11:31:37 -07:00

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"""Cross-process update mutual exclusion (``hermes_cli.update_lock``).
Three surfaces can start an update of one install tree: a terminal ``hermes
update``, the dashboard's Update button (which spawns that same command
detached), and the desktop's Update button (Tauri updater → install-mode
bootstrap on its failure screen). Before the shared lock, two of them could run
concurrently and rewrite source under a live interpreter — observed in the wild
as an installer ``git checkout`` rewinding the checkout ~9k commits while a
dashboard-spawned ``hermes update`` was mid-``npm install``, which then failed
against the rewound tree's manifests.
These exercise the real marker file against a temp home — no mocks — because
the contract that matters is what the Rust updater and the Electron gate see on
disk.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import os
import subprocess
import sys
import time
import pytest
from hermes_cli.update_lock import (
HANDOFF_PID_ENV,
UPDATE_MARKER_MAX_AGE_SECONDS,
UpdateLock,
describe_holder,
read_live_update,
update_marker_path,
)
# A pid no live process owns. os.kill(pid, 0) must report it dead so a crashed
# updater can never wedge every future update. Deliberately larger than any
# platform's pid_t so it also covers the corrupt-marker path (OverflowError).
DEAD_PID = 4294967294
@pytest.fixture
def marker(tmp_path):
return tmp_path / ".hermes-update-in-progress"
@pytest.fixture
def other_pid():
"""A live process that is not us: the stand-in for another updater (our own pid is ours)."""
proc = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-c", "import time; time.sleep(120)"], stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL)
yield proc.pid
proc.kill()
proc.wait()
def _claim(marker, pid, started_at=None):
marker.write_text(f"{pid}\n{int(time.time() if started_at is None else started_at)}\n", encoding="utf-8")
def test_marker_path_follows_process_hermes_home(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
"""The lock must land where the Rust updater and Electron gate look.
All three resolve the *process* HERMES_HOME; a profile-scoped path would
put the lock somewhere the other two owners never read.
"""
monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_HOME", str(tmp_path))
assert update_marker_path() == tmp_path / ".hermes-update-in-progress"
def test_acquire_writes_pid_and_start_time(marker):
lock = UpdateLock(path=marker)
assert lock.acquire() is True
assert lock.acquired is True
lines = marker.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines()
assert int(lines[0]) == os.getpid(), "the Electron gate probes this pid for liveness"
assert int(lines[1]) == pytest.approx(time.time(), abs=5)
assert len(lines) == 2, "wire format is exactly pid + started_at"
def test_second_acquire_is_refused_while_the_first_is_live(marker, other_pid):
"""The bug: two updaters mutating one checkout at the same time."""
_claim(marker, other_pid)
second = UpdateLock(path=marker)
assert second.acquire() is False
assert second.holder is not None
assert second.holder.pid == other_pid
assert second.acquired is False
def test_refused_lock_does_not_delete_the_live_owners_marker(marker, other_pid):
_claim(marker, other_pid)
second = UpdateLock(path=marker)
second.acquire()
second.release()
assert marker.exists(), "a refused claimant must never clear the live owner's lock"
def test_marker_naming_our_own_pid_is_adopted(marker, monkeypatch):
"""A killed update's marker names the pid its retry gets (containers restart pid numbering).
No other live process can hold our pid, so the claim is ours: take it instead of refusing
"another update" for up to 20 minutes. It is a new attempt, so it is claimed fresh: a
nearly-expired claim must still block a second updater for our whole run.
"""
_claim(marker, os.getpid(), time.time() - UPDATE_MARKER_MAX_AGE_SECONDS + 5)
lock = UpdateLock(path=marker)
assert lock.acquire() is True
assert lock.acquired is True
real_time = time.time
monkeypatch.setattr(time, "time", lambda: real_time() + 60)
holder = read_live_update(path=marker)
assert holder is not None and holder.pid == os.getpid(), "a second updater would start mid-run"
lock.release()
assert not marker.exists()
def test_release_leaves_a_marker_a_handoff_partner_now_owns(marker):
"""The desktop writes the marker, then the Tauri updater takes ownership.
Releasing must not delete a marker whose pid is no longer ours — that would
reopen the gate while the partner is still mid-update.
"""
lock = UpdateLock(path=marker)
lock.acquire()
marker.write_text(f"{DEAD_PID}\n{int(time.time())}\n", encoding="utf-8")
lock.release()
assert marker.exists(), "the partner's marker is not ours to remove"
def test_dead_owner_is_reclaimed_not_honored(marker):
marker.write_text(f"{DEAD_PID}\n{int(time.time())}\n", encoding="utf-8")
lock = UpdateLock(path=marker)
assert lock.acquire() is True
assert int(marker.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines()[0]) == os.getpid()
def test_owner_past_the_age_ceiling_is_reclaimed(marker):
"""A live-but-wedged updater must not hold the lock forever."""
long_ago = int(time.time()) - UPDATE_MARKER_MAX_AGE_SECONDS - 60
marker.write_text(f"{os.getpid()}\n{long_ago}\n", encoding="utf-8")
lock = UpdateLock(path=marker)
assert lock.acquire() is True
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
"body",
["", "not-a-pid\n123\n", "\n\n", "12345"],
ids=["empty", "garbage-pid", "blank-lines", "no-start-time"],
)
def test_malformed_markers_never_block_an_update(marker, body):
marker.write_text(body, encoding="utf-8")
assert read_live_update(path=marker) is None
assert UpdateLock(path=marker).acquire() is True
def test_stale_marker_is_removed_on_read(marker):
marker.write_text(f"{DEAD_PID}\n{int(time.time())}\n", encoding="utf-8")
assert read_live_update(path=marker) is None
assert not marker.exists(), "whoever notices a stale marker clears it"
def test_absent_marker_reports_no_live_update(marker):
assert read_live_update(path=marker) is None
def test_context_manager_releases_even_on_exception(marker):
with pytest.raises(RuntimeError):
with UpdateLock(path=marker) as lock:
assert lock.acquired is True
raise RuntimeError("update blew up mid-flight")
assert not marker.exists(), "a crashed update must not strand the lock"
def test_describe_holder_names_the_pid_and_elapsed_time(marker):
lock = UpdateLock(path=marker)
lock.acquire()
holder = read_live_update(path=marker)
assert holder is not None
message = describe_holder(holder)
assert str(os.getpid()) in message, "the user needs the pid to find the other update"
def test_unwritable_marker_location_does_not_block_the_update(tmp_path):
"""Degrade to pre-lock behavior rather than refusing to update at all.
An unwritable marker path is a worse reason to block an update than the
race the lock prevents.
"""
lock = UpdateLock(path=tmp_path / "nonexistent-file" / "marker")
(tmp_path / "nonexistent-file").write_text("i am a file, not a dir", encoding="utf-8")
assert lock.acquire() is True
assert lock.acquired is False, "nothing was written, so there is nothing to release"
class TestHandoffFromOrchestratingUpdater:
"""The Tauri updater holds the marker, then spawns ``hermes update``.
The regression: the child saw its own parent's live marker and exited 2,
so every GUI update failed with "Hermes is still running" and retrying
just re-ran the same self-deadlock. The parent names its pid in
HANDOFF_PID_ENV; a live holder matching it is our own orchestrator.
"""
def test_child_runs_under_the_parents_live_claim(self, marker, monkeypatch, other_pid):
# other_pid stands in for the live parent updater.
_claim(marker, other_pid)
monkeypatch.setenv(HANDOFF_PID_ENV, str(other_pid))
lock = UpdateLock(path=marker)
assert lock.acquire() is True
assert lock.acquired is False, "the parent's claim is not ours to own"
lock.release()
assert marker.exists(), "the parent still needs its marker after our stage ends"
assert int(marker.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines()[0]) == other_pid
def test_handoff_pid_that_is_not_the_live_holder_grants_nothing(self, marker, monkeypatch, other_pid):
"""The env var alone must not bypass the lock."""
_claim(marker, other_pid)
monkeypatch.setenv(HANDOFF_PID_ENV, str(other_pid + 1))
lock = UpdateLock(path=marker)
assert lock.acquire() is False
assert lock.holder is not None
@pytest.mark.parametrize("value", ["", "not-a-pid", "-1", "0"], ids=["empty", "garbage", "negative", "zero"])
def test_malformed_handoff_values_fall_back_to_refusal(self, marker, monkeypatch, value, other_pid):
_claim(marker, other_pid)
monkeypatch.setenv(HANDOFF_PID_ENV, value)
assert UpdateLock(path=marker).acquire() is False
def test_handoff_env_with_no_marker_claims_normally(self, marker, monkeypatch):
"""A handoff pid must not stop us writing our own claim when unlocked."""
monkeypatch.setenv(HANDOFF_PID_ENV, str(os.getpid()))
lock = UpdateLock(path=marker)
assert lock.acquire() is True
assert lock.acquired is True
assert int(marker.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines()[0]) == os.getpid()
class TestAncestryHandoff:
"""Staged updaters older than the HANDOFF_PID_ENV export never send it.
``hermes-setup`` under ``~/.hermes`` is only refreshed by a full installer
run, so an updated checkout (new lock) driven by a pre-handoff staged
updater (old parent) deadlocks on exit 2 forever unless the child also
recognizes a live holder that is its own process ancestor.
``_pid_alive`` is pinned True here because the hermetic conftest guards
``os.kill`` probes of pids outside the test subtree (our ppid included);
liveness has its own coverage above — ancestry is what's under test.
"""
@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
def _liveness_pinned_true(self, monkeypatch):
monkeypatch.setattr("hermes_cli.update_lock._pid_alive", lambda pid: True)
def test_marker_owned_by_our_parent_process_is_our_orchestrator(self, marker):
marker.write_text(f"{os.getppid()}\n{int(time.time())}\n", encoding="utf-8")
lock = UpdateLock(path=marker)
assert lock.acquire() is True, "a live ancestor's claim is the one we run under"
assert lock.acquired is False, "the parent's claim is not ours to own"
lock.release()
assert marker.exists(), "the parent still needs its marker after our stage ends"
assert int(marker.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines()[0]) == os.getppid()
def test_live_non_ancestor_holder_is_still_refused(self, marker):
"""Ancestry must not open the lock to unrelated concurrent updaters."""
marker.write_text(f"{DEAD_PID}\n{int(time.time())}\n", encoding="utf-8")
lock = UpdateLock(path=marker)
assert lock.acquire() is False
assert lock.holder is not None
assert lock.holder.pid == DEAD_PID