The 290-line installer was 40 over the 250-line cap. Its five banner-marked
steps move into a sibling lib/, leaving a 53-line entry that owns log()/die(),
the globals that cross between steps, and the call order.
Proven by execution, not inspection: meta/scripts/trace_shell_split.sh
--prefix was captured at HEAD in place (tracing from a detached worktree
changes REPO_DIR, which is interpolated into a generated file, and fakes a
diff), then re-run after the split. The traces are identical -- same exit
status, same ordered stubbed calls, and all five generated-file hashes
unchanged, including usage-report-catchup.sh at sha=9f4803ab157c5527.
REPO_DIR is computed once in the entry and read as a global rather than
recomputed inside a lib one directory deeper; recomputing it would have
pointed the generated catch-up script at the wrong repo while still exiting 0.
test_usage_monitoring_installer_efficiency.sh greps the installer's source
text for the pmon heredoc, so it follows that heredoc to lib/nvidia_pmon.sh.
Its extraction anchor also had to become whitespace-insensitive: the
pre-commit hook runs `shfmt -w` on staged shell files and rewrites
`cat > "x" << 'SCRIPT'` to `cat >"x" <<'SCRIPT'`, which silently broke
extraction. All five property assertions are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011w2Pj4Ek3ZNMQVYcFHgXDY
Thorium was "closing and dying randomly" with no evidence anywhere.
Two independent structural causes, both now fixed:
1. Crashpad was never enabled -- no crash_reporting consent key and an
empty crash DB, so no minidump was ever written.
2. stderr from a dmenu/.desktop launch reaches no terminal and no
journal. The only Thorium lines ever seen in the journal came from a
systemd-launched instance, which is why they survived.
browser-preexec-wrapper.sh now gives every Chromium-family launch its own
log under $XDG_STATE_HOME/browser-crash-logs: a VRAM/RAM/kernel/driver
snapshot before start, the browser's stderr, and on exit the exit code,
decoded signal, and a SECOND VRAM snapshot. Those two snapshots plus the
signal are the discriminator between the live hypotheses -- a VRAM death
shows NVRM/NV_ERR_NO_MEMORY or near-full VRAM at exit, a stale-binary
death shows SIGSEGV with the GPU idle. Root cause is deliberately NOT
asserted here; the next crash decides it from evidence.
Three details that are load-bearing rather than incidental:
- The exit record is written from a signal trap, not inline after
`wait`. If the wrapper itself is killed, an inline block never runs
and the log ends mid-stream with no verdict -- indistinguishable
from a browser that is still running.
- The browser is a direct redirect, NOT a pipe into a size filter: in
a pipeline `wait` reports the last element's status, discarding the
browser's signal, which is the one fact worth capturing.
- Logs are capped by bytes as well as count. Measured: ~2 MB per 45s
of navigation (65% VERBOSE1 net/TLS chatter), ~0 while idle. Count
alone would not bound disk use, and a full disk causes exactly the
random deaths under investigation.
setup_periodic_system.sh: rewrite Chromium "app mode" .desktop entries
(Exec=/opt/<browser>/...) to go through /usr/local/bin. These are
auto-generated and bypass the wrapper entirely, so neither the flags file
nor the logging applied to them -- five Thorium entries were found still
launching without the --disable-gpu-compositing mitigation added on
2026-07-25, two weeks after the fact. Runs on every install because
Chromium regenerates the files.
pacman_whitelist.txt: allow the exact package name `librewolf`. The
`librewolf` keyword stays blocked, as do all other Firefox forks. It is
LeechBlock-enforced via /etc/librewolf/policies (force_installed), so
this is not an unfiltered escape hatch; it is needed because Chromium's
MV2 sunset ends full uBlock Origin with all filter lists, which the Gecko
build keeps.
Verified: shellcheck clean, no lint suppressions; fake-browser SIGSEGV
and wrapper-SIGTERM both produce a verdict; trim watchdog bounds a
runaway log; kill -SEGV on the real /opt/thorium-browser/thorium wrote
"exit code: 139 / died on signal: 11 (SEGV)"; librewolf installs and
loads with uBO + LeechBlock active.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ME5ZkgWjFvPZrUwMpVZM3e
Both tools swallowed failures. execute_with_log appended one line to a log
nobody reads and returned 0, so the systemd oneshot reported SUCCESS.
check_and_enable_services printed one err line among ~100 and exited 0.
That is why the 2026-05-15 reorg silently killed the pacman-wrapper and
hosts self-repair for five months with no visible symptom: check_hosts
detected the disabled hosts guards on every single run, could not find
setup_hosts_guard.sh at the stale $CONFIG_DIR/hosts path, and still exited 0.
Driver — any failure now surfaces four ways:
1. journal at ERROR priority (logger -p user.err)
2. the systemd unit FAILS (exit 1) -> systemctl --failed / red timer
3. a critical desktop notification that never auto-dismisses
4. /var/lib/periodic-system-maintenance/LAST_RUN_FAILED breadcrumb
It also collects ALL failures rather than aborting on the first.
check_and_enable_services — a missing repair script means this tool cannot
do its job, so all 12 "script not found" sites now route through
err_missing_script(): journal ERROR priority, a terminal banner, and exit 2.
Healthy runs still exit 0 and clear the breadcrumb.
Verified: driver fed nonexistent paths -> exit 1, all 3 failures on stderr,
breadcrumb written, 3 journal ERROR entries. Live regenerate + real run ->
rc=0, all steps ok, no breadcrumb. Checker --status -> rc=0, no banner.
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
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>
Deleted screen_replay.sh (x11grab ring-buffer) and kill_stale_recorders.sh
(stale-ffmpeg killer). Removed autostart exec and Mod+Shift+F12 binding from
i3/config; removed replay startup from dwm-session. Both scripts archived in
testsAndMisc-archive.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
atop's `-P PRC` output inserts the clock-tick rate (HZ=100) between the
`state` and `utime` columns. Both the Python parser and the native C
aggregator read that constant as utime for every record, charging a flat
1 CPU-second per record — so cpu_seconds collapsed to pid_count and
short-lived fork-storm commands (xset, dd, chronyc) topped the CPU table
(xset showed 67h). The old test fixtures lacked the HZ field, so code and
tests agreed on the bug.
- _parse_prc / atop_agg.c: read utime/stime past the HZ field (after+2/+3,
tokens[10]/[11]); bump the length guards accordingly
- restore C/atop_agg (deleted in 89b4f59) under linux_configuration/C/,
where the build path resolves; corrected test fixtures to include HZ
- _atop_agg_binary: fall back to the Python parser when the C source tree
is gone instead of trusting an orphaned cached binary
- add regression tests proving HZ is not summed as CPU
- bundle the in-progress since-last-report multi-day aggregation (segments,
-b/-e bounding, persisted state, window merging) and its tests/conftest
- meta: gate linux_configuration/tests in pytest_changed_packages.py
Verified by running usage_report.py --date 20260604: Top CPU now led by
SkyrimSE; xset/dd/chronyc fall to ~0. C unit tests + full pytest suite green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <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
