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fix(gateway): auto-start after container restart via planned-stop marker (#42675) (#43236)
* fix(gateway): auto-start after container restart via planned-stop marker

On Docker (s6-overlay), the gateway runs as a dynamically-registered s6
service. When the container stops/restarts/upgrades, s6 sends the gateway
a plain SIGTERM. The shutdown path (_stop_impl) ended with an
unconditional _update_runtime_status("stopped"), persisting
gateway_state=stopped to the volume. container_boot.py reads that on the
next boot and only auto-starts gateways whose last state was "running"
(_AUTOSTART_STATES) — so after a routine `docker compose up
--force-recreate` the gateway stays down and messaging channels silently
go dark, with no error surfaced (issue #42675).

The codebase already distinguishes intentional stops from unexpected
signals via the planned-stop marker (write_planned_stop_marker /
consume_planned_stop_marker_for_self): `hermes gateway stop`,
systemd/launchd ExecStop, and Ctrl+C write a marker before signalling,
so the handler classifies them as planned. An unmarked SIGTERM
(container/s6 restart, OOM, bare kill) is signal-initiated.

This wires that existing classification through to the state persist,
rather than adding unreliable signal-source inference:

- run.py: GatewayRunner._signal_initiated_shutdown, set in
  shutdown_signal_handler's unmarked-signal branch. In _stop_impl, a
  signal-initiated (non-restart) teardown now persists "running" instead
  of "stopped" — preserving the operator's run-intent and overwriting the
  mid-shutdown "draining" marker so _AUTOSTART_STATES matches on reboot.
  Operator stops and restarts persist "stopped" as before.

- service_manager.py: S6ServiceManager.stop() now writes the planned-stop
  marker for the supervised PID (read from s6-svstat) before `s6-svc -d`,
  so an in-container `hermes gateway stop` is correctly classified as
  intentional (parity with the systemd/launchd/host stop paths, which
  already mark). Best-effort: a marker-write failure falls back to the
  safe signal-initiated path.

Tests: shutdown persist-decision table (signal→running, operator→stopped,
restart→stopped), s6 stop marker write + svstat PID parse + failure
tolerance. The signal→running and s6-marker tests fail without the
respective source change. Verified end-to-end against a container built
from this branch: an unmarked SIGTERM to the live gateway leaves
gateway_state=running (shutdown-context log confirms signal path);
existing real container-restart suite still green.

* docs(docker): clarify gateway autostart distinguishes operator-stop from container-kill

The per-profile-supervision section described the autostart-across-restart
contract as "running gateways come back, stopped stay stopped" without
spelling out what records 'stopped'. That contract was the source of
#42675 confusion: users expected a restart to bring the gateway back and
it didn't. With the write-side fix, only an explicit `hermes gateway stop`
records 'stopped'; container/s6 restart SIGTERMs (incl. image upgrades and
unexpected exits) leave the state 'running' so the gateway auto-starts.
Make that distinction explicit in both the multi-profile and
per-profile-supervision sections.

* test(docker): real-restart autostart E2E for #42675

Adds test_live_gateway_autostarts_after_real_restart_without_manual_state_stamp:
a live s6-supervised gateway is killed by an actual `docker restart`
SIGTERM (no manual gateway_state stamp, no planned-stop marker) and must
auto-start on the next boot. Exercises the WRITE side of the fix that the
existing stamp-based tests bypass.

Verified to FAIL against an origin/main image (reconciler logs
prior_state=stopped action=registered — the #42675 bug) and PASS against
the fixed image (prior_state=running action=started).
2026-06-10 14:01:34 +10:00
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features docs: document commits field on /api/hermes/update/check 2026-06-08 08:58:26 -07:00
messaging fix(photon): migrate user API calls to Spectrum backend 2026-06-08 22:53:01 -07:00
secrets feat(secrets/bitwarden): EU Cloud + self-hosted server URL support (#31378) 2026-05-24 02:19:57 -07:00
skills feat(skills): add simplify-code skill — parallel 3-agent code review and cleanup (#41691) 2026-06-07 22:02:41 -07:00
_category_.json feat: add documentation website (Docusaurus) 2026-03-05 05:24:55 -08:00
checkpoints-and-rollback.md feat(checkpoints): v2 single-store rewrite with real pruning + disk guardrails (#20709) 2026-05-06 05:44:35 -07:00
cli.md docs: deep audit — registry drift, stale claims, 2-week PR coverage, dashboard screenshot (#40952) 2026-06-07 01:39:06 -07:00
configuration.md feat(sessions): add optional max session cap 2026-06-08 15:12:12 -07:00
configuring-models.md docs: deep audit — registry drift, stale claims, 2-week PR coverage, dashboard screenshot (#40952) 2026-06-07 01:39:06 -07:00
desktop.md fix(install): self-heal a stuck Electron download (salvage of #42894) (#42998) 2026-06-09 18:19:14 +00:00
docker.md fix(gateway): auto-start after container restart via planned-stop marker (#42675) (#43236) 2026-06-10 14:01:34 +10:00
git-worktrees.md docs: deep audit — registry drift, stale claims, 2-week PR coverage, dashboard screenshot (#40952) 2026-06-07 01:39:06 -07:00
multi-profile-gateways.md docs: deep audit — registry drift, stale claims, 2-week PR coverage, dashboard screenshot (#40952) 2026-06-07 01:39:06 -07:00
profile-distributions.md docs(profiles): full user guide for profile distributions (#22017) 2026-05-08 11:13:45 -07:00
profiles.md docs: 30-day overhaul — correctness audit, PR coverage, Nous Portal weave, sidebar reorg (#33782) 2026-05-28 02:41:36 -07:00
security.md docs: deep audit — registry drift, stale claims, 2-week PR coverage, dashboard screenshot (#40952) 2026-06-07 01:39:06 -07:00
sessions.md docs: fix session recap image baseUrl 2026-05-29 12:06:22 -07:00
tui.md docs(tui): correct HERMES_TUI_GATEWAY_URL — dashboard-internal, not remote-attach (#42162) 2026-06-08 09:37:03 -07:00
windows-native.md docs(windows): correct native data dir to %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes (#42856) 2026-06-09 14:11:20 -05:00
windows-wsl-quickstart.md fix(docs): update all install instructions everywhere 2026-06-04 21:07:45 -04:00