hermes-agent/tests/test_hermes_state_wal_fallback.py
kshitij 2a7047c2ed
fix(sqlite): fall back to journal_mode=DELETE on NFS/SMB/FUSE (#22043)
SQLite's WAL mode requires shared-memory (mmap) coordination and fcntl
byte-range locks that don't reliably work on network filesystems. Upstream
documents this explicitly:
  https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html#sometimes_queries_return_sqlite_busy_in_wal_mode

On NFS / SMB / some FUSE mounts / WSL1, 'PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL' raises
'sqlite3.OperationalError: locking protocol' (SQLITE_PROTOCOL). Before
this change, every feature backed by state.db or kanban.db broke silently:
  - /resume, /title, /history, /branch returned 'Session database not
    available.' with no cause
  - gateway logged the init failure at DEBUG (invisible in errors.log)
  - kanban dispatcher crashed every 60s, driving the known migration race
    (duplicate column name: consecutive_failures, #21708 / #21374)

Changes:
  - hermes_state.apply_wal_with_fallback(): shared helper that tries WAL
    and falls back to DELETE on SQLITE_PROTOCOL-style errors with one
    WARNING explaining why
  - hermes_state.get_last_init_error() + format_session_db_unavailable():
    capture the init failure cause and surface it in user-facing strings
    (with an NFS/SMB pointer for 'locking protocol')
  - hermes_cli/kanban_db.connect(): use the shared helper
  - gateway/run.py: bump SessionDB init failure log DEBUG -> WARNING
    (matches cli.py's existing correct behavior)
  - cli.py (4 sites) + gateway/run.py (5 sites): replace bare
    'Session database not available.' with format_session_db_unavailable()

Tests: 12 new tests in tests/test_hermes_state_wal_fallback.py + 1 new
test in tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_db.py. Existing suites (state,
kanban, gateway, cli) remain green for all tests unrelated to pre-existing
failures on main.

Evidence: real-world user on NFSv3 mount (172.26.224.200:d2dfac12/home,
local_lock=none) reporting 'Session database not available.' on /resume;
'locking protocol' appears in 4 distinct log entries across backup,
kanban, TUI, and CLI paths in the same session.

closes #22032
2026-05-09 02:09:35 -07:00

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"""Tests for the WAL→DELETE journal-mode fallback on NFS / SMB / FUSE.
When ``PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL`` raises ``OperationalError("locking protocol")``
(SQLITE_PROTOCOL — typical on NFS/SMB), Hermes must fall back to
``journal_mode=DELETE`` so ``state.db`` / ``kanban.db`` remain usable.
Without this fallback, users on NFS-mounted ``HERMES_HOME`` silently lose
``/resume``, ``/title``, ``/history``, ``/branch``, session search, and the
kanban dispatcher — because ``SessionDB()`` init propagates the error and
every caller swallows it, leaving ``_session_db = None``.
See: https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html — "WAL does not work over a network
filesystem".
"""
import sqlite3
from unittest.mock import patch
import pytest
import hermes_state
from hermes_state import (
SessionDB,
apply_wal_with_fallback,
format_session_db_unavailable,
get_last_init_error,
)
# ``sqlite3.Connection.execute`` is a C-level slot and can't be monkeypatched
# directly (``'sqlite3.Connection' object attribute 'execute' is read-only``).
# A factory-built subclass lets us intercept journal_mode=WAL per-test with
# its own mutable counter, avoiding the xdist-parallel class-state race.
def _make_blocking_factory(reason: str, attempt_counter: list):
"""Return a sqlite3.Connection subclass that raises on PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL."""
class _WalBlockingConnection(sqlite3.Connection):
def execute(self, sql, *args, **kwargs): # type: ignore[override]
if "journal_mode=wal" in sql.lower().replace(" ", ""):
attempt_counter[0] += 1
raise sqlite3.OperationalError(reason)
return super().execute(sql, *args, **kwargs)
return _WalBlockingConnection
def _open_blocking(path, reason="locking protocol", **kwargs):
"""Open a connection whose WAL pragma raises ``reason``.
Returns ``(conn, attempt_counter_list)`` so callers can assert how many
times WAL was attempted.
"""
attempts = [0]
factory = _make_blocking_factory(reason, attempts)
return sqlite3.connect(str(path), factory=factory, **kwargs), attempts
@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
def _reset_last_init_error():
"""Reset the module-global last-error before and after each test."""
hermes_state._set_last_init_error(None)
yield
hermes_state._set_last_init_error(None)
@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
def _reset_wal_fallback_warned_paths():
"""Reset the WAL-fallback warned-paths set so dedup doesn't leak between tests."""
hermes_state._wal_fallback_warned_paths.clear()
yield
hermes_state._wal_fallback_warned_paths.clear()
class TestApplyWalWithFallback:
def test_succeeds_on_local_fs(self, tmp_path):
"""Happy path: WAL works on a normal filesystem."""
conn = sqlite3.connect(str(tmp_path / "ok.db"), isolation_level=None)
mode = apply_wal_with_fallback(conn)
assert mode == "wal"
cur = conn.execute("PRAGMA journal_mode")
assert cur.fetchone()[0].lower() == "wal"
conn.close()
def test_falls_back_to_delete_on_locking_protocol(self, tmp_path, caplog):
"""NFS-style ``locking protocol`` error → DELETE mode + one WARNING."""
conn, _ = _open_blocking(tmp_path / "nfs.db", isolation_level=None)
with caplog.at_level("WARNING", logger="hermes_state"):
mode = apply_wal_with_fallback(conn, db_label="test.db")
assert mode == "delete"
warnings = [r for r in caplog.records if r.levelname == "WARNING"]
assert len(warnings) == 1
msg = warnings[0].getMessage()
assert "test.db" in msg
assert "journal_mode=DELETE" in msg
assert "locking protocol" in msg
# Post-fallback the DB is still usable for real writes
conn.execute("CREATE TABLE t (x INTEGER)")
conn.execute("INSERT INTO t VALUES (1)")
assert list(conn.execute("SELECT x FROM t"))[0][0] == 1
conn.close()
def test_falls_back_on_not_authorized(self, tmp_path):
"""Some FUSE mounts block WAL pragma outright ('not authorized')."""
conn, _ = _open_blocking(
tmp_path / "fuse.db", reason="not authorized", isolation_level=None
)
mode = apply_wal_with_fallback(conn)
assert mode == "delete"
conn.close()
def test_falls_back_on_disk_io_error(self, tmp_path):
"""Flaky network FS → disk I/O error → still fall back."""
conn, _ = _open_blocking(
tmp_path / "flaky.db", reason="disk I/O error", isolation_level=None
)
mode = apply_wal_with_fallback(conn)
assert mode == "delete"
conn.close()
def test_reraises_unrelated_operational_error(self, tmp_path):
"""Non-WAL-compat errors must NOT be silently swallowed by the fallback."""
conn, _ = _open_blocking(
tmp_path / "other.db",
reason="no such table: nope",
isolation_level=None,
)
with pytest.raises(sqlite3.OperationalError, match="no such table"):
apply_wal_with_fallback(conn)
conn.close()
def test_warning_deduplicated_per_db_label(self, tmp_path, caplog):
"""Repeated calls with the same db_label log exactly ONE warning.
Prevents log spam when NFS users run kanban (which opens a fresh
connection on every operation — see hermes_cli/kanban_db.py).
Regression guard: the fix for #22032 ran apply_wal_with_fallback()
on every kb.connect() call; without dedup, errors.log fills with
hundreds of identical warnings per hour.
"""
with caplog.at_level("WARNING", logger="hermes_state"):
# Three separate connections to "the same DB" via the same label
for i in range(3):
conn, _ = _open_blocking(
tmp_path / f"dup-{i}.db", isolation_level=None
)
mode = apply_wal_with_fallback(conn, db_label="shared.db")
assert mode == "delete"
conn.close()
# Exactly one warning across all three calls
warnings = [
r for r in caplog.records
if r.levelname == "WARNING" and "shared.db" in r.getMessage()
]
assert len(warnings) == 1, (
f"Expected 1 deduplicated warning, got {len(warnings)}: "
f"{[r.getMessage() for r in warnings]}"
)
def test_warning_fires_independently_per_db_label(self, tmp_path, caplog):
"""Different db_labels each get their own one warning (not globally dedup'd)."""
with caplog.at_level("WARNING", logger="hermes_state"):
conn1, _ = _open_blocking(tmp_path / "a.db", isolation_level=None)
apply_wal_with_fallback(conn1, db_label="state.db")
conn1.close()
conn2, _ = _open_blocking(tmp_path / "b.db", isolation_level=None)
apply_wal_with_fallback(conn2, db_label="kanban.db")
conn2.close()
warnings = [r for r in caplog.records if r.levelname == "WARNING"]
labels_warned = {
lbl for r in warnings for lbl in ("state.db", "kanban.db")
if lbl in r.getMessage()
}
assert labels_warned == {"state.db", "kanban.db"}, (
f"Each db_label should warn once; got {labels_warned}"
)
class TestGetLastInitError:
def test_none_on_successful_init(self, tmp_path):
"""Happy-path SessionDB init does NOT clear a stale error from a prior thread.
We deliberately don't clear on success so that in multi-threaded
callers (gateway / web_server per-request SessionDB()), a concurrent
successful open racing past a different thread's failure won't
erase the cause string the failing thread's /resume is about to
format. The caller or test fixture is responsible for explicitly
calling _set_last_init_error(None) to reset.
"""
# Autouse fixture starts at None — success-path leaves it None
db = SessionDB(db_path=tmp_path / "ok.db")
try:
assert get_last_init_error() is None
finally:
db.close()
def test_success_does_not_clear_prior_error(self, tmp_path):
"""Thread-safety guard: a successful init must not erase a pre-existing error.
Simulates the multi-threaded race: thread A fails, records cause;
thread B succeeds concurrently. thread A's /resume handler must
still see A's cause — not B's None.
"""
hermes_state._set_last_init_error("OperationalError: locking protocol")
# Now a "successful" init happens on another path — must NOT clear
db = SessionDB(db_path=tmp_path / "ok2.db")
try:
assert get_last_init_error() == "OperationalError: locking protocol"
finally:
db.close()
def test_captures_cause_on_failed_init(self, tmp_path):
"""When SessionDB() raises, the cause is preserved for slash commands.
Simulates a filesystem where BOTH WAL and DELETE journal modes fail —
e.g. a read-only mount where no ``PRAGMA journal_mode=X`` works. The
fallback tries DELETE and also gets rejected; the exception bubbles
out of ``SessionDB.__init__`` and the cause is captured.
"""
target = tmp_path / "broken.db"
real_connect = sqlite3.connect
class _BothPragmasFailConnection(sqlite3.Connection):
def execute(self, sql, *args, **kwargs): # type: ignore[override]
if "journal_mode" in sql.lower():
raise sqlite3.OperationalError(
"locking protocol: read-only filesystem"
)
return super().execute(sql, *args, **kwargs)
def gated_connect(*args, **kwargs):
return real_connect(str(target), factory=_BothPragmasFailConnection, **kwargs)
with patch("hermes_state.sqlite3.connect", side_effect=gated_connect):
with pytest.raises(sqlite3.OperationalError):
SessionDB(db_path=target)
cause = get_last_init_error()
assert cause is not None
assert "OperationalError" in cause
assert "locking protocol" in cause
class TestFormatSessionDbUnavailable:
def test_bare_message_when_no_cause(self):
"""No init error recorded → generic message."""
hermes_state._set_last_init_error(None)
assert format_session_db_unavailable() == "Session database not available."
def test_includes_cause(self):
"""Cause is surfaced for slash-command error strings."""
hermes_state._set_last_init_error("OperationalError: generic SQLite error")
msg = format_session_db_unavailable()
assert "generic SQLite error" in msg
assert msg.startswith("Session database not available:")
assert msg.endswith(".")
def test_adds_nfs_hint_for_locking_protocol(self):
"""Locking-protocol cause gets an NFS/SMB pointer for the user."""
hermes_state._set_last_init_error("OperationalError: locking protocol")
msg = format_session_db_unavailable()
assert "locking protocol" in msg
assert "NFS/SMB" in msg
assert "sqlite.org/wal.html" in msg
def test_custom_prefix(self):
"""Callers can customize the prefix for context-specific messages."""
hermes_state._set_last_init_error("OperationalError: locking protocol")
msg = format_session_db_unavailable(prefix="Cannot /resume")
assert msg.startswith("Cannot /resume:")
class TestSessionDbUsesWalFallback:
def test_sessiondb_works_when_wal_unavailable(self, tmp_path):
"""E2E: SessionDB initializes and performs a write on a WAL-blocked FS."""
target = tmp_path / "nfs_style.db"
real_connect = sqlite3.connect
attempts = [0]
factory = _make_blocking_factory("locking protocol", attempts)
def gated_connect(*args, **kwargs):
return real_connect(str(target), factory=factory, **kwargs)
with patch("hermes_state.sqlite3.connect", side_effect=gated_connect):
db = SessionDB(db_path=target)
try:
# WAL was attempted and rejected — fallback kicked in
assert attempts[0] >= 1, (
"WAL pragma was never executed — check the patch target"
)
# SessionDB is usable end-to-end: create a session, read it back
db.create_session(session_id="s1", source="cli", model="test")
sess = db.get_session("s1")
assert sess is not None
assert sess["source"] == "cli"
# No init error was recorded since init succeeded via the fallback
assert get_last_init_error() is None
finally:
db.close()