fix(gateway): show friendly error when service is not installed

Instead of an unhelpful CalledProcessError traceback when running
`hermes gateway start/stop/restart` without first installing the service,
check for the unit file and exit with an actionable install hint.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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h0tp-ftw 2026-04-26 00:35:59 -06:00 committed by Teknium
parent c5789f4309
commit 8c8f95bc8e
2 changed files with 35 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -1971,6 +1971,15 @@ def systemd_uninstall(system: bool = False):
print(f"{_service_scope_label(system).capitalize()} service uninstalled")
def _require_service_installed(action: str, system: bool = False) -> None:
unit_path = get_systemd_unit_path(system=system)
if not unit_path.exists():
scope_flag = " --system" if system else ""
print(f"✗ Gateway service is not installed")
print(f" Run: {'sudo ' if system else ''}hermes gateway install{scope_flag}")
sys.exit(1)
def systemd_start(system: bool = False):
system = _select_systemd_scope(system)
if system:
@ -1980,6 +1989,7 @@ def systemd_start(system: bool = False):
# reachable (common on fresh RHEL/Debian SSH sessions without linger).
# Raises UserSystemdUnavailableError with a remediation message.
_preflight_user_systemd()
_require_service_installed("start", system=system)
refresh_systemd_unit_if_needed(system=system)
_run_systemctl(["start", get_service_name()], system=system, check=True, timeout=30)
print(f"{_service_scope_label(system).capitalize()} service started")
@ -1990,6 +2000,7 @@ def systemd_stop(system: bool = False):
system = _select_systemd_scope(system)
if system:
_require_root_for_system_service("stop")
_require_service_installed("stop", system=system)
_run_systemctl(["stop", get_service_name()], system=system, check=True, timeout=90)
print(f"{_service_scope_label(system).capitalize()} service stopped")
@ -2001,6 +2012,7 @@ def systemd_restart(system: bool = False):
_require_root_for_system_service("restart")
else:
_preflight_user_systemd()
_require_service_installed("restart", system=system)
refresh_systemd_unit_if_needed(system=system)
from gateway.status import get_running_pid

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@ -141,6 +141,27 @@ class TestSystemdServiceRefresh:
assert ["systemctl", "--user", "daemon-reload"] in calls
class TestRequireServiceInstalled:
def test_exits_with_install_hint_when_unit_missing(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch, capsys):
unit_path = tmp_path / "hermes-gateway.service"
monkeypatch.setattr(gateway_cli, "get_systemd_unit_path", lambda system=False: unit_path)
with pytest.raises(SystemExit) as exc_info:
gateway_cli._require_service_installed("start")
assert exc_info.value.code == 1
out = capsys.readouterr().out
assert "not installed" in out
assert "hermes gateway install" in out
def test_passes_when_unit_exists(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
unit_path = tmp_path / "hermes-gateway.service"
unit_path.write_text("[Unit]\n", encoding="utf-8")
monkeypatch.setattr(gateway_cli, "get_systemd_unit_path", lambda system=False: unit_path)
gateway_cli._require_service_installed("start")
class TestGeneratedSystemdUnits:
def test_user_unit_avoids_recursive_execstop_and_uses_extended_stop_timeout(self):
unit = gateway_cli.generate_systemd_unit(system=False)
@ -521,6 +542,7 @@ class TestGatewaySystemServiceRouting:
calls = []
monkeypatch.setattr(gateway_cli, "_select_systemd_scope", lambda system=False: False)
monkeypatch.setattr(gateway_cli, "_require_service_installed", lambda action, system=False: None)
monkeypatch.setattr(gateway_cli, "refresh_systemd_unit_if_needed", lambda system=False: calls.append(("refresh", system)))
monkeypatch.setattr(
"gateway.status.get_running_pid",
@ -575,6 +597,7 @@ class TestGatewaySystemServiceRouting:
def test_systemd_restart_recovers_failed_planned_restart(self, monkeypatch, capsys):
monkeypatch.setattr(gateway_cli, "_select_systemd_scope", lambda system=False: False)
monkeypatch.setattr(gateway_cli, "_require_service_installed", lambda action, system=False: None)
monkeypatch.setattr(gateway_cli, "refresh_systemd_unit_if_needed", lambda system=False: None)
monkeypatch.setattr(
"gateway.status.read_runtime_status",