feat(updater): preflight disk space and platform support before installing - #1281
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An install writes the archive, the payload it expands into, a staged candidate binary, a rollback copy of the running binary and a snapshot of the user database, and none of that is reclaimed until the update is confirmed. On a device with a small install volume the first sign of a full disk was a failure partway through, after the download. Apply now sizes the update from the verified manifest and refuses it before staging. The requirement is twice the archive size, twice the current binary and the size of the user database. The manifest carries no uncompressed size, so the compressed archive stands in for the payload it expands into; our archives hold one compressed binary, so the two binary-sized sidecar terms absorb the difference. The requirement is charged in full to the staging root, the directory holding the install target and the user database's directory, each resolved up to its nearest existing ancestor because neither the staging root nor the snapshot directory exists yet. Those are one filesystem on MiSTer and separate ones elsewhere, and there is no portable way to tell, so charging each of them the whole requirement is over-strict by tens of megabytes on hardware with gigabytes free. A filesystem that will not report its free space is logged and allowed through: an unsupported statfs must not be the reason a device can never update. ErrInsufficientSpace carries the directory and the shortfall and maps to a client error in update.apply, matching the message shape indexing already uses.
The install pipeline was covered a stage at a time. The property that matters most spans all of them: a version that migrates the user database and then fails to start has to leave a device running the old binary against a database the old binary can still open. Unit tests around a stand-in backupper cannot show that, because the schema rollback is real SQLite work. Four tests drive a signed manifest, a real archive over HTTP, a real binary swap and a real user.db through the chain Apply runs: verifiedSource, DetectLatest, releaseForVersion, stageRelease, installStaged and then RunStartupWatchdog or Confirm. - Install and confirm: the target holds the staged release binary, the marker is armed with the previous and target versions and the manifest generation, and the backup and snapshot are on disk; the first boot confirms and every one of those artifacts is gone, with the seed rows intact. - Rollback when the new version never confirms: the new version boots, writes a device-state row, and dies. The second boot returns ErrRolledBack carrying the path to re-exec, the target is the outgoing binary byte for byte, and the row the rolled-back version wrote is gone with it. - Rollback across a schema migration: a goose version row above the highest embedded migration stands in for a migration the incoming release carries and this build does not. The test first asserts its own premise, that the crossed schema really does lock this build out with ErrSchemaAhead, and then that the restored snapshot is a database the outgoing build can migrate and open. - A failed install reopens the user database, so a device that refused an update is not left with its connection pool closed behind it. The harness reuses what the unit tests already build: manifestServer for the signed manifest and generated key pair, servedAsset and releaseArchive for the archive, and the TestMain-built fake release binary for the probe. Its outgoing binary is deliberately not that fake binary, so the byte-identity check after rollback can tell restored-old from left-new. No production seams were added: Apply resolves its target through restart.BinaryPath() and reads the global config.AppVersion, so the harness drives the same chain one level down and leaves Apply's glue to the unit tests that already cover it.
replaceFile on Windows is MoveFileEx with REPLACE_EXISTING and WRITE_THROUGH against the running .exe, and Windows refuses it: the running image is locked. The install unwinds safely from there, but it fails at the replacement, which is after the archive has been downloaded and after the user database has been snapshotted and quiesced. That is a long and alarming way to learn the platform cannot do this yet. preflightPlatform returns ErrPlatformUnsupported on Windows, wrapped with what to do instead, and HandleUpdateApply maps it to a client error. It is called after the upgrade check rather than at the top of Apply, so a Windows device already on the newest version is told that instead of being told its platform is unsupported. Everything the guard protects happens below that point, so the placement costs one manifest fetch and buys the better message. This is the guard, not the exit-time helper. When the helper lands the guard is what it replaces.
The version probe runs a binary this process wrote moments earlier. If anything forks in between, the child inherits the still-open write descriptor and the exec fails with ETXTBSY until that child execs or exits. Core spawns processes to launch media, so the window is real on a device, not only under a parallel test run. The probe treated it as the release failing to run: the staged binary was deleted and the update refused, on a build that was never actually judged. The probe now retries an ETXTBSY four more times, a tenth of a second apart, which is far longer than a fork-to-exec window and far shorter than the ten-second probe timeout it still runs inside. Any other exec error is reported first time, unchanged. Executing the binary moved into runVersionProbe behind a stager field so the retry can be driven without racing the kernel for a descriptor. The install's candidate probe built a bare stager literal; it now goes through newProbeStager so both construction sites carry the same defaults. Found by an intermittent failure in the install-and-rollback integration test, which reproduced once in eight runs.
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participant Client
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Client->>HandleUpdateApply: request update application
HandleUpdateApply->>UpdaterApply: Apply update
UpdaterApply->>PlatformCheck: validate runtime platform
PlatformCheck-->>UpdaterApply: return platform result
UpdaterApply->>SpaceCheck: check required filesystem capacity
SpaceCheck-->>UpdaterApply: return space result
UpdaterApply->>Stage: stage selected release
Stage-->>UpdaterApply: return update result or error
UpdaterApply-->>HandleUpdateApply: return updater response
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681-704: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueUse the injectable retry count for consistency with
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probeBinaryreads the fields.probeBusyDelaybut the package constantprobeBusyAttempts. Tests can shorten the delay but cannot shorten the attempt count. Add aprobeBusyAttemptsfield set bynewStagerandnewProbeStagerfor symmetry.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@pkg/service/updater/integration_test.go`:
- Around line 381-406: Update TestOTA_ReopensTheUserDatabaseWhenTheInstallFails
to skip on Windows, alongside its existing root-user skip, before performing
permission-based setup. Use runtime.GOOS == "windows" and add the required
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In `@pkg/service/updater/stage.go`:
- Around line 681-704: Update stager configuration so probeBinary uses an
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Four tests stage an unwritable directory with chmod 0o500 and assert the write into it fails. On Windows os.Chmod only toggles the read-only attribute, which does not stop a file being created inside a directory, so the setup silently succeeds and the test asserts against an install that worked. Three of them are already failing on main's post-merge Windows run, which is the only place the full suite runs on Windows: TestInstallStaged_UndoesEverythingWhenTheMarkerCannotBeArmed, TestInstallStaged_ReportsAFailedDatabaseReopen and TestVerifiedSource_ReadOnlyStateDirStillChecks. The fourth, TestOTA_ReopensTheUserDatabaseWhenTheInstallFails, is new on this branch and would have joined them. skipUnlessDirPermsEnforced covers both platforms where the setup cannot hold, root and Windows, and makeDirUnwritable calls it before the chmod so a later test cannot stage this failure without the guard. The root skip each test carried is now that helper. Behaviour is unchanged everywhere the permission bits are enforced.
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Four changes on top of #1280, all in the install path.
Refuse an update that cannot fit on disk
An install writes the archive, the payload it expands into, a staged candidate binary, a rollback copy of the running binary and a snapshot of the user database, and none of it is reclaimed until the update is confirmed. Previously the first sign of a full disk was a failure partway through, after the download.
Applynow sizes the update from the verified manifest and refuses it before staging. The requirement is twice the archive size, twice the current binary and the size of the user database. The manifest carries no uncompressed size, so the compressed archive stands in for the payload it expands into; our archives hold one compressed binary, so the two binary-sized sidecar terms absorb the difference.The requirement is charged in full to the staging root, the directory holding the install target and the user database's directory, each resolved up to its nearest existing ancestor because neither the staging root nor the snapshot directory exists yet. Those are one filesystem on MiSTer and separate ones elsewhere, and there is no portable way to tell, so charging each the whole requirement is over-strict by tens of megabytes on hardware with gigabytes free. A filesystem that will not report its free space is logged and allowed through: an unsupported
statfsmust not be the reason a device can never update.ErrInsufficientSpacecarries the directory and the shortfall, and maps to a client error inupdate.apply.Integration coverage for install and rollback
The install pipeline was covered a stage at a time. The property that matters most spans all of them: a version that migrates the user database and then fails to start has to leave a device running the old binary against a database the old binary can still open. Unit tests around a stand-in backupper cannot show that, because the schema rollback is real SQLite work.
Four tests drive a signed manifest, a real archive over HTTP, a real binary swap and a real
user.dbthrough the chainApplyruns —verifiedSource,DetectLatest,releaseForVersion,stageRelease,installStaged, thenRunStartupWatchdogorConfirm:ErrRolledBackcarrying the path to re-exec, the target is the outgoing binary byte for byte, and the row the rolled-back version wrote is gone with it.ErrSchemaAhead— and then that the restored snapshot is a database the outgoing build can migrate and open.The harness reuses the existing unit-test fixtures and adds no production seams.
Refuse an in-place update on Windows
replaceFileon Windows isMoveFileExwithREPLACE_EXISTINGandWRITE_THROUGHagainst the running.exe, and Windows refuses it: the running image is locked. The install unwinds safely from there, but it fails at the replacement — after the archive has been downloaded and after the user database has been snapshotted and quiesced.preflightPlatformreturnsErrPlatformUnsupportedon Windows, wrapped with what to do instead, andHandleUpdateApplymaps it to a client error. It runs after the upgrade check rather than at the top ofApply, so a Windows device already on the newest version is told that instead of being told its platform is unsupported.This is the guard, not the exit-time helper. When the helper lands, the guard is what it replaces.
Wait out a staged binary still open for writing
The version probe runs a binary this process wrote moments earlier. If anything forks in between, the child inherits the still-open write descriptor and the exec fails with
ETXTBSYuntil that child execs or exits. Core spawns processes to launch media, so the window is real on a device, not only under a parallel test run. The probe treated it as the release failing to run: the staged binary was deleted and the update refused, on a build that was never actually judged.The probe now retries an
ETXTBSYfour more times, 100 ms apart, which is far longer than a fork-to-exec window and far shorter than the ten-second probe timeout it still runs inside. Any other exec error is reported first time, unchanged.Found by an intermittent failure in the new integration test, which reproduced once in eight runs.
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