Test 10 only knew the retired shutdown-schedule-guard.path, so it
reported a skip while guard-file@shutdown-schedule.path was actively
protecting /etc/shutdown-schedule.conf. That understated the real
protection in the same way tests 2, 3 and 5 did before the last
commit.
It now accepts the guard-lib unit and passes. The
disabled-is-intentional branch stays for hosts running neither unit.
Host: 19 passed / 0 failed / 5 skipped. Container: exit 0.
The suite reported four failures on this host and none of them meant
protection was missing.
Tests 2, 3 and 5 checked hosts-guard.path, hosts-bind-mount.service
and nsswitch-guard.path. The 2026-07-17 guard-lib refactor replaced
those with templated units — guard-file@hosts.path,
guard-bind-mount@hosts.service, guard-file@nsswitch.path — which are
all active. That is also why the legacy units stop a second after
boot: they are superseded, and the old nsswitch guard retriggered
itself into systemd's start limit fighting the new watcher. Each check
now accepts either generation, and the bind-mount check also accepts
the read-only mount on /etc/hosts, which is the real invariant.
Test 10 now treats a *disabled* shutdown-schedule-guard as intended
rather than broken: the poweroff flow it protected was replaced by
night-lockdown-enter.sh. An enabled-but-inactive unit still fails.
That check also had a shell bug — `systemctl is-enabled` prints the
state and exits non-zero when disabled, so `|| echo disabled`
appended a second line and never matched.
Verified protection is genuinely intact rather than assuming it:
/etc/hosts is mounted ro,noatime and both it and /etc/nsswitch.conf
carry the immutable flag. Host now reports 18/0/6. A container with
faked host markers still reports 10 failures, so the suite has not
been softened into always-green.
No system state was changed.
The last three exclusions are gone.
test_i3blocks_efficiency.sh only ever needed strace and ptrace. It went
unverified earlier because Docker's bridge network has no DNS on this
machine, so pacman could not install strace; --network=host works, and
the test passes. The job installs strace and adds SYS_PTRACE.
test_hosts_guard_pacman_integration.sh asserted three symbols the
guard-lib refactor renamed (pacman_hooks_manage_hosts_guard ->
pacman_hooks_manage_guard_lib, and similar). The feature was intact;
only the assertions were stale.
test_security_hardening.sh now separates live-host checks from
repository checks. Off-host the live ones skip, so it is green in a
container while still running its repository checks — and on the real
host it still fails loudly when a guard unit is down.
That last part needed care: the first detection attempt used
`systemctl is-system-running`, which exits non-zero on a degraded
system — precisely the state a failed guard unit produces. It masked
all four real failures. Detection now tests for /run/systemd/system
plus the installed guard payload, which unit health does not affect.
Verified: all 8 arch tests pass in a container; the same
security-hardening file still reports 4 failures on this host.
Steam/browser mutual-exclusion daemon was unusable in its current state.
Removed all code, install tooling, and every reference across
install_core_system.sh, check_and_enable_services.sh, the security
hardening test suite, and CLAUDE.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 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
