Focus mode flapped in and out of GAMING mode every few seconds and killed
browsers while no Steam was running. The pattern matching was not at
fault: the daemon was correctly seeing a process named "steam". That
process was a root-owned zombie.
A total gaming block on 2026-07-04 purged the Steam client and it was
never reinstalled, but steam-backlog-enforcer kept trying to launch it
through an orphaned /usr/local/bin/steam wrapper still pointing at the
deleted /usr/bin/steam. Each launch died on exec and, never being reaped,
lingered as a dead process that still carried the name "steam" - which
this daemon counted as a live Steam.
get_running_processes() now reads /proc/*/stat rather than /proc/*/comm
and skips state Z. Both cost one read per PID, so the poll loop stays
fork-free, but stat also carries the process state. _parse_stat() uses
rpartition(')') because a process name can itself contain spaces and
')', which naive whitespace splitting would corrupt. Names are truncated
to 15 chars in stat exactly as in comm, so the existing patterns match
unchanged.
Verified against the live zombie, before the enforcer was fixed:
zombies on system now : ['steam']
OLD (/proc/*/comm) sees 'steam' : True
NEW (zombie-filtered) sees 'steam' : False
dropped by filter : ['steam']
and non-regression on real processes: a synthetic live 'steam' and a
'steam_app_29687' game both still return True. It skips zombies, not
Steam. Running `focus-mode-daemon` now reports "Browser detected -
entering BROWSING mode" with no GAMING flapping.
The zombie source is fixed separately in steam-backlog-enforcer d54df3a;
this is the durable guard against any future one.
Note: install_focus_mode_daemon.sh copies rather than symlinks, so
/usr/local/bin/focus-mode-daemon was a stale copy without this fix.
Reinstalled. Editing this file alone never changes what runs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013rN2usTS3pYLJqeVg2ZpgR
The digital-wellbeing curfew powered the PC off at 21:00, which also took
down every service this machine hosts (Gitea, the Caddy TLS edge, SyncYomi,
the personal site, Open WebUI, Joplin, dufs, ollama, dnsmasq, wg-quick,
sshd). Keep the curfew's lockout, drop the power-off: the machine now stays
on with the GUI torn down, the TTY login surface masked, the console blanked
and the RGB killed, and restores itself at 05:00.
The fortress still owns the schedule (immutable config, ratchet, monitor,
watchdog); only its terminal action is swapped for night-lockdown-enter.sh.
The reversal deliberately lives outside the fortress so a bug in the lock
path can never take the recovery path down with it.
Verified in production overnight: lightdm down 21:00:04 -> 05:00:00 while
all 7 containers stayed "Up 14 hours" and kept serving; ticks idempotent all
night; 05:00 unlock fired.
Notable fixes found along the way:
- Wake alarm regression: it only ever fired on resume-from-hibernate, so an
always-on machine silently killed it. The unlock now re-fires
morning-routine.service on alarm days (the Mon/Fri/Sat/Sun gate lived in
the removed rtcwake branch, not in the alarm).
- Morning boundary -le -> -lt, so 05:00 no longer races the unlock.
- Mask getty@ only; autovt@ is an alias of it and masking it errors.
- Persist LOCKED before the session-killing teardown, else a kill mid-lock
leaves state=UNLOCKED and the unlock no-ops, stranding the machine.
- Blank the console without DPMS: FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN drops the DisplayPort
link and the GPU never re-trains it (DP-0 needed a physical re-plug).
- RGB: openrgb-git 0.9.2148's CLI returns before detection finishes, so every
call silently no-op'd while exiting 0. Stable openrgb 1.0rc3 fixes it. Use
static+black, not "off" (the ZOTAC has no Off mode; the ASRock ignores it).
- Validate the generated config with bash -n: its heredoc must stay unquoted,
so a stray backtick executes and corrupts the file.
Thu-Sun 22->21 aligns the source with the canonical schedule screen_locker's
sick-day feature ratcheted in on 2026-07-03; the ratchet only permits
same/stricter, so the script was otherwise un-re-runnable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Dpu8SqqBVm97tCuTGE3nCs
Three of the four remaining items were scripts hardcoding assumptions that
stopped being true — not real drift.
hosts (phantom warning): check_hosts looked for 10-unlock-etc-hosts.hook /
90-relock-etc-hosts.hook, gone since the guard migrated to guard-lib's generic
unlock-all/relock-all hooks. Match what pacman_wrapper.sh already treats as
authoritative (legacy pair still accepted).
focus_mode (never installable): install_focus_mode_daemon.sh calls
`systemctl --user`, but the checker invokes it via `sudo -u <user>` from root —
sudo changes the UID but grants no session, so XDG_RUNTIME_DIR /
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS were unset and it died at daemon-reload on every
automated run. Derive them from the effective UID. Now enabled+active.
compulsive_blocker (discord never limited): REAL_BINARIES hardcoded
/opt/discord/Discord — another discord package's layout. This one ships only
/usr/bin/discord, a bootstrap that downloads the app into ~/.config/discord/
and execs ~/.config/discord/Discord (a version symlink its updater maintains),
so the `[[ -x $real_binary ]]` gate failed forever. Exec the preserved LAUNCHER
(/usr/bin/discord.orig) so Discord's bootstrap/self-update still runs. Two
supporting fixes: the gate skips -x when the exec target IS the wrapper's own
.orig (the wrap creates it — chicken-and-egg), and PROCESS_MATCH is added
because the launcher exec()s away, so pgrep -f on '.orig' matches nothing and
auto-close/kill/running-state would have silently no-opped.
vbox_hosts: skipped -> n/a with a reason. VirtualBox is absent AND blocked by
pacman policy ("can bypass /etc/hosts restrictions"), so the check is not
applicable, not ducked. Installing it to satisfy a hosts check would open the
hole that check exists to close.
Also removed thesis_tracker (unused; unit not-found, script never installed).
Verified: every service ok, vbox_hosts n/a, zero errors, zero warnings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JsCs1GUyiinA7bg68YvAh1
An immutable tracked file with uncommitted edits breaks every commit/push:
pre-commit clears unstaged changes with `git checkout -- .`, that unlink
fails ("Operation not permitted"), the context manager aborts, and the
restore never runs — silently reverting the user's OTHER unstaged edits
(seen twice today; an unrelated i3/config WIP had to be recovered from
pre-commit's rescue patch).
Enforcement is unaffected and does not depend on the source being locked:
/etc/shutdown-schedule.conf stays chattr +i, guard-lib keeps a canonical
snapshot + path watcher that re-enforces it, the monitor service protects
the timer, and screen_locker's ratchet only accepts same-or-stricter
values. Editing this source changes nothing until setup is re-run as root,
which rewrites the guarded config anyway.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JsCs1GUyiinA7bg68YvAh1
Vendored makepkg's run_pacman() waits on /var/lib/pacman/db.lck existence
with no timeout BEFORE invoking pacman, so an orphaned lock hangs
`makepkg -i` forever ("Pacman is currently in use, please wait...") and
the pacman wrapper's stale-lock cleanup never gets a turn. Wrap makepkg
(mirroring the pacman-wrapper pattern) to clear an orphaned lock up front.
- Extract stale-lock logic into shared pacman_lock_lib.sh; pacman_wrapper
sources it after integrity verification and it is in the SHA256 manifest
- makepkg_wrapper: pre-flight clear for -i/--install; bypass on FAKEROOTKEY
and non-install; FAIL OPEN if the lib is missing (never brick makepkg)
- Cross-user pacman_process_running() pgrep guard: unprivileged makepkg can
detect a root pacman its own fuser cannot see (avoids removing a live lock)
- Upgrade survival: rewrap hook (Install/Upgrade only) + check_makepkg_wrapper
drift verifier + both wrappers wired into the hourly periodic driver
- Fix reorg path bugs: stale ~/linux-configuration periodic path,
$CONFIG_DIR/hosts -> scripts/periodic_background/hosts, test WRAPPER_DIR;
refresh .orig only when target isn't already our symlink (no exec loop)
- Tests: test_makepkg_wrapper.sh (18) incl. hook Operation validity; add
lib-integrity coverage to test_pacman_wrapper_security.sh (also path-fixed)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JsCs1GUyiinA7bg68YvAh1
Add a self-expiring override system so specific late-night live events
(2026 World Cup matches) can be watched without the auto-shutdown killing
the PC, without weakening the permanent schedule ratchet:
- shutdown-override-manager.sh (add/list/remove): add is friction-gated
(typed confirmation phrase + 30s delay, max 12h, max 3 windows) and
writes absolute-epoch windows to /etc/shutdown-schedule-overrides.conf.
- day-specific-shutdown-check.sh now skips the shutdown decision inside an
active window (pruning expired entries) and gained a DRY_RUN guard around
rtcwake/poweroff/hibernate for safe testing.
i3blocks shutdown_countdown.sh: show the exact next-shutdown clock time
(not a relative countdown), show the overridden end time in green when an
override is active or will rescue the upcoming shutdown, and make the
skip-dates check fork-free (builtin read loop) so the hot path spawns no
external processes.
install.sh: deploy i3blocks by symlinking each repo file into
~/.config/i3blocks instead of cp -r (the source of silent drift), cd to
the script dir so it runs from anywhere, and chmod +x only *.sh so the
config file stays 0644.
Repair the previously-dead i3blocks regression suite (stale path), update
the shutdown assertion to the new absolute-time output, add hermetic
override coverage, and keep the <=1-exec fork-count guarantee.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmwYH5RfThZGkVD2jE61Da
Replaces the bespoke chattr/bind-mount/systemd-watcher implementations for
/etc/hosts and /etc/shutdown-schedule.conf with the new shared guard-lib
(~/guard-lib, guardctl), so screen-locker and steam-backlog-enforcer's new
block-gaming feature stop maintaining parallel copies of the same
tamper-resistance mechanism.
- pacman_wrapper.sh: pre/post hook fallbacks now call guard-lib's generic
unlock-all/relock-all scripts (covers every registered guard instance,
not just /etc/hosts)
- setup_midnight_shutdown.sh: installs/updates its guarded config via
guardctl file-guard instead of hand-rolled chattr + systemd unit
generation; the schedule ratchet logic (block-if-more-lenient) stays
bespoke since guardctl's generic unlock can't represent it
- new hosts/guard/plugins/nsswitch-plugin.sh, resolved-plugin.sh
Also fixes, at user's request even though pre-existing: 3 shellcheck
SC2329 false positives in pacman_wrapper.sh (functions invoked indirectly
by name, not actually dead) and 1 SC2001 style warning (echo|sed VM-name
extraction replaced with parameter expansion, verified equivalent output).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AFNiYQQgSLAkiBXswyimPq
The hibernate-on-alarm-night case block in create_shutdown_check_script()
escaped $ as \$ for an unquoted heredoc, but the heredoc is opened with the
quoted delimiter <<'EOF', so the backslashes were written literally into
the deployed check script. Every timer fire since commit 0d54c5d hit a bash
syntax error and exited before evaluating the shutdown window, so the PC
never auto-shut-down (confirmed failing at 23:00/23:01 last night and 07:01
this morning). Also fixed an off-by-one (seq ... 24 -> 23) that was emitting
invalid OnCalendar=24:00:00 entries systemd had to ignore.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LGHLfbAPmak6HtGJby57eo
Split diet_guard/_gatelock.py, wake_alarm/_alarm.py, and the
usage_report.py/_usage_report_parsing.py pair into focused
sub-modules so every Python file is <= 500 lines, satisfying
test_file_length.py. Install python-kasa into .venv (declared in
requirements but missing after the 3.13->3.14 venv upgrade),
fixing 8 failing smart_plug tests and restoring 100% coverage.
Also includes prior in-progress work from the working tree: the
wake_alarm Progress/View/Hardware field-grouping refactor,
brother_printer query module + tests, diet_guard foodbank/state/cli
updates, new shared coerce/logging_setup helpers, morning_routine
orchestrator tweaks, dwm window-manager config, gaming scripts, and
misc maintenance/digital-wellbeing script updates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- install.sh: install sleep-hook.sh to systemd-sleep hooks (step 3) and
shutdown-wrapper.sh to /usr/local/bin/shutdown (step 5)
- shutdown-wrapper.sh: new script that intercepts shutdown calls and
redirects to rtcwake -m disk on alarm nights (Mon/Fri/Sat/Sun), pass-
through for reboots and cancel commands
- sleep-hook.sh: new systemd-sleep hook that restarts wake-alarm.service
for each logged-in user after hibernate resume
- setup_midnight_shutdown.sh: check wake-alarm day; if yes set RTC alarm
and hibernate, otherwise fall back to systemctl poweroff
- Screen locker: disable VT switching (Ctrl+Alt+Fn) via setxkbmap
srvrkeys:none on startup; restore on close (production mode only).
Gracefully skips if setxkbmap is not installed (shutil.which).
Tests: 7 new tests, 100% branch coverage maintained.
- Midnight shutdown: restore real schedule values (Mon-Wed 21:00,
Thu-Sun 22:00, morning end 05:00); re-enable the three commented-out
leniency checks in check_schedule_protection(); self-lock script with
chattr +i at end of enable_midnight_shutdown().
- Hosts install: add UNBLOCK_STATE_FILE tracking for whitelisted domains;
check_unblock_entries_protection() blocks installation if the unblock
list grows; save state after install; self-lock install.sh and
generate_hosts_file.sh with chattr +i.
- Move all linux_configuration scripts into two semantic categories:
- single_use/: scripts run once manually (fresh install, fixes, setup)
- periodic_background/: scripts run by systemd timers or daemons
- Preserve existing subdirectory structure within each category
- Fix lib/common.sh source paths for new directory depths
- Fix CONFIG_DIR depth in setup_periodic_system.sh and check_and_enable_services.sh
- Update all references in tests, fresh-install/main.sh, nix modules, and docs
- Fix check_polling_antipatterns.sh false positives (||, regex |, case patterns, jq strings)
- Fix pre-existing mypy exclusion path and type annotations for moved tools/ directory
- Rewrite check_polling_antipatterns.sh using awk (no bash regex loops); add require_serial: true
