Fix detached --status resurrecting a killed (exit 137) record back to 'executing' by konard · Pull Request #135 · link-foundation/start

konard · 2026-06-15T06:59:59Z

Summary

Fixes #134.

enrichDetachedStatus() (JS) / enrich_detached_status() (Rust) could flip an already-completed detached record (status: 'executed', exitCode: 137) back to 'executing' and null out the real exit code, purely because screen -ls (or tmux / docker) still listed a session of the same name.

A live session is not equivalent to "the command is still running": a lingering shell (or a child that ignored the signal, or just the login shell) can outlive a SIGKILLed command — e.g. an OOM kill (exit 137) — for a window after start has already written the terminal footer. As a result, $ <id> --status reported a dead, OOM-killed command as still running, indefinitely (see link-assistant/hive-mind#1927).

The asymmetry was the giveaway: the !alive && executing branch already treats the log footer as authoritative (readExitCodeFromLog), but the alive && executed branch never consulted it.

The fix

In the alive && executed branch, consult the recorded exit code and the Exit Code: log footer before flipping. The record now flips back to executing only when there is no recorded terminal exit code and no footer in the log — otherwise the recorded/footer exit code wins, because a lingering shell is not a running command.

Applied identically in both implementations to preserve JS/Rust parity:

js/src/lib/status-formatter.js
rust/src/lib/status_formatter.rs

Reproduction & tests

Added regression tests that start a real screen session which outlives an already-finished command, with a log footer exactly as start writes for a killed command:

js/test/session-name-status.js — Issue Detached --status: enrichDetachedStatus flips a completed (killed, exit 137) record back to 'executing' and nulls the exit code #134 block (3 cases)
rust/tests/session_name_status.rs — test_enrich_* (3 cases)

Each covers:

recorded exitCode: 137 + live session → stays executed/137
no recorded exit code but a footer Exit Code: 137 → stays executed
no recorded exit code and no footer → correctly flips to executing

All three fail on main (cases 1 & 2) and pass with the fix. Verified by reverting the source change:

JS:   2 fail (without fix) → 23 pass (with fix)
Rust: 2 fail (without fix) → 24 pass (with fix)

Full suites green: JS 660 pass / 0 fail, Rust cargo test green, cargo fmt --check + cargo clippy clean, JS eslint/prettier clean.

Release

Added changeset js/.changeset/detached-status-killed-record.md (patch) for the JS package.
Rust Cargo.toml version intentionally not bumped — CI (rust.yml version-check) prohibits manual version changes; the release workflow bumps it automatically on merge.

References

$ --status 14a0e075-3de1-4342-97cd-f87c8cd66dda shows command is still executing, while it actually was Finished at 2026-01-07 19:29:07.663 #60, Bug: --session name not usable with --status, and --detached reports immediate completion #101 — prior --detached status reconciliation that introduced enrichDetachedStatus.
Downstream report & defensive workaround: killed link-assistant/hive-mind#1927, fix(telegram): detect OOM/SIGKILL-ed detached sessions + resume tracking after a bot restart (#1927) link-assistant/hive-mind#1928.

Adding .gitkeep for PR creation (default mode). This file will be removed when the task is complete. Issue: #134

enrichDetachedStatus / enrich_detached_status flipped an already-completed detached record (status 'executed', exitCode 137) back to 'executing' and nulled the exit code whenever screen -ls / tmux / docker still listed a same-named session. A lingering shell can outlive a SIGKILLed command (e.g. OOM kill), so liveness is not equivalent to 'the command is running'. The 'Exit Code:' footer start itself writes is authoritative. Now the record only flips back to 'executing' when there is no recorded terminal exit code AND no Exit Code footer in the log, mirroring the existing logic in the opposite (!alive && executing) branch. Fixes #134

konard · 2026-06-15T07:06:18Z

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The work is complete. Here's a summary of what I did to solve issue #134:

Root cause

enrichDetachedStatus() (JS) / enrich_detached_status() (Rust) flipped an already-completed detached record (status: 'executed', exitCode: 137) back to 'executing' with a null exit code whenever screen -ls (or tmux/docker) still listed a same-named session. A lingering shell can outlive a SIGKILLed command (OOM kill, exit 137), so liveness ≠ "command running". The alive && executed branch never consulted the authoritative Exit Code: log footer — unlike the symmetric !alive && executing branch, which already did.

Fix

In the alive && executed branch, I now consult both the recorded exit code and the log footer before flipping. The record flips to executing only when there is no recorded exit code and no footer in the log. Applied identically in:

js/src/lib/status-formatter.js
rust/src/lib/status_formatter.rs (kept for JS/Rust parity)

Tests (regression)

Added tests in both languages that start a real screen session outliving a finished command, with the exact footer start writes:

3 JS cases in js/test/session-name-status.js
3 Rust cases in rust/tests/session_name_status.rs

I verified each fails on main and passes with the fix (JS: 2 fail→23 pass; Rust: 2 fail→24 pass). Full suites green (JS 660 pass, Rust cargo test + clippy + fmt clean).

Release

Added changeset js/.changeset/detached-status-killed-record.md (patch).
Did not bump rust/Cargo.toml — CI (rust.yml version-check) prohibits manual version changes; the release workflow bumps it automatically.

PR #135 is updated with a full description and marked ready for review: #135

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konard · 2026-06-15T07:06:27Z

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…sn't observable Under cargo-tarpaulin's ptrace tracing the 'screen -dmS' daemon fork is disrupted, so the session never registers in 'screen -ls' and the sanity precondition cannot hold. Skip gracefully instead of hard-failing; plain 'cargo test' still exercises the assertions.

konard · 2026-06-15T07:18:35Z

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All checks pass now, including the previously-failing Changelog Fragment Check and the Code Coverage (Rust, Linux only) job. The remaining skipping entries are release jobs that only run on push to main — expected for a PR.

Summary

The CI failure had two layers:

Changelog Fragment Check (the reported failure) — PR Fix detached --status resurrecting a killed (exit 137) record back to 'executing' #135 touched Rust source (rust/src/lib/status_formatter.rs + rust/tests/...), and rust.yml requires a matching changelog fragment in rust/changelog.d/. The PR only added a JS changeset, not a Rust fragment. I added rust/changelog.d/135.md (bump: patch).
Code Coverage (Rust) — a masked failure surfaced by the first fix. The coverage job has needs: [detect-changes, changelog] and only runs when changelog.result == 'success' || 'skipped'. While the changelog check was failing, coverage was skipped. Once the fragment made changelog pass, coverage ran and exposed a real problem: under cargo tarpaulin's ptrace tracing, the screen -dmS daemon fork is disrupted, so the lingering session never registers in screen -ls. The three new test_enrich_* tests' sanity precondition assert_eq!(is_detached_session_alive(&record), Some(true)) then panicked — even though plain cargo test passes. I changed those hard asserts to a graceful skip (session_observably_alive helper): the tests still exercise the fix under normal cargo test, but skip when the environment can't observe the session as alive. This is a test-environment robustness fix, not a change to the bug fix itself.

Commits pushed to issue-134-1a26eb545a18:

87b9c4d — add Rust changelog fragment for PR Fix detached --status resurrecting a killed (exit 137) record back to 'executing' #135
615bf8b — skip lingering-session enrich tests when the screen session isn't observable

PR: #135 — all checks green.

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konard · 2026-06-15T07:18:42Z

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konard · 2026-06-15T07:21:05Z

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Adding .gitkeep for PR creation (default mode). This file will be removed when the task is complete. Issue: #134

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konard changed the title ~~[WIP] Detached --status: enrichDetachedStatus flips a completed (killed, exit 137) record back to 'executing' and nulls the exit code~~ Fix detached --status resurrecting a killed (exit 137) record back to 'executing' Jun 15, 2026

konard marked this pull request as ready for review June 15, 2026 07:05

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