v0.222.0: ask whether a supervised member is DEAD before whether one is UNHEALTHY (R-384), and stop promising an undo copy nobody looked for (R-383)
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R-384. aggregateState returned StateUnhealthy the moment unhealthy > 0, and the
R-51 mixed-case block that asks "is a supervised member dead?" sat below it. A
two-container app whose database exits goes unhealthy BECAUSE it cannot reach
that database - so the symptom the dead database causes was what suppressed the
alarm for it. unhealthy is not a down state, so classifyRunStates never marked
the app down and app_start_failed never fired.

Measured live on demo-hp 2026-08-22: bookstack-db stopped at 21:27:01 and the
F-OBS heartbeat printed "0 currently down" throughout. R-51's 18-hour immich
failure, back through a different door.

Two things moved, and either alone leaves the defect standing: the supervised
test is hoisted above the unhealthy/starting/restarting returns, and "some
members are up" now counts ANY member not in the down bucket. The old guard was
running > 0, which made the R-51 block unreachable in exactly the case it was
written for.

IsDownState is byte-identical - unhealthy stays excluded, because an unhealthy
container is running and folding it in reintroduces the flapping that exclusion
exists to stop. No new state was minted. Only the ORDER changed. The priority
comment was rewritten because it asserted an ordering the code no longer has.

Three subtests in TestAggregateState_UnchangedBranches were AMENDED: they
asserted an unhealthy/starting/restarting member beat an exited peer on
unless-stopped, which pinned the defect as settled behaviour. They keep their
intent with the down member given a benign policy.

R-383. The double-failure message said the previous state's backup EXISTS,
built from the returned path without asking the filesystem - and a missing file
is one of the two ways that rollback fails. undoCopyPhrase now describes the
copy from disk: present, partial, missing (still naming where it should be), or
never written. Zero-length counts as missing.

Test count 1494 -> 1504. Four red-proofs planted, four seen failing; the two
halves of R-384 convict independently.
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parent da75603553
commit 5da11c4480
7 changed files with 638 additions and 27 deletions
@@ -150,6 +150,54 @@ func (s safetyDumpSet) First() string {
return s.Files[0].Path
}
// undoCopyPhrase is the sentence the DOUBLE-FAILURE message uses to describe the customer's undo
// copy — and it says what is TRUE, which is the whole of R-383.
//
// THE BUG THIS EXISTS TO KILL. The double-failure branch ended with „a korábbi állapot mentése
// megvan: <file>" — *the previous state's backup EXISTS* — built from the path `writeSafetyDump`
// returned and WITHOUT ever asking the filesystem. But one of the two ways `rollbackSafetyDump` fails
// is that the file is not there, so in exactly the case that sentence is printed it is most likely to
// be false. Measured twice live, on v0.220.2 and v0.221.1.
//
// A false reassurance is worse than no sentence: it is read at the moment the customer is deciding
// whether their data is recoverable, and it points support at a file that is not there.
//
// WHY NOT SIMPLY DROP THE FILENAME. R-351's lesson: a refusal that names nothing forces a person to
// remember what the product already knows. The operator needs the path either way — to fetch the
// file, or to look for it. So the absent case still names WHERE it should have been, and says
// plainly that it is not there.
//
// The check is `os.Stat`, deliberately not a readability or integrity test: this runs at the end of a
// failed restore on a machine that may be unwell, and the honest claim available here is presence.
// A zero-length file is reported as MISSING — a 0-byte dump restores nothing, and calling it present
// is the same false reassurance one step smaller.
func undoCopyPhrase(set safetyDumpSet) string {
var present, absent []string
for _, f := range set.Files {
if f.Path == "" {
continue
}
if st, err := os.Stat(f.Path); err == nil && !st.IsDir() && st.Size() > 0 {
present = append(present, filepath.Base(f.Path))
continue
}
absent = append(absent, filepath.Base(f.Path))
}
switch {
case len(present) > 0 && len(absent) == 0:
return "a korábbi állapot mentése megvan: " + strings.Join(present, ", ")
case len(present) > 0:
// Partial: name both halves. An app with two databases whose undo is half there is a
// different situation from either whole one, and support must not have to guess which.
return "a korábbi állapot mentése RÉSZBEN van meg — megvan: " + strings.Join(present, ", ") +
"; HIÁNYZIK: " + strings.Join(absent, ", ")
case len(absent) > 0:
return "a korábbi állapot mentését NEM találjuk a helyén (" + strings.Join(absent, ", ") + ")"
default:
return "a korábbi állapotról nem készült menthető másolat"
}
}
// writeSafetyDump dumps every live database of stack into the app's unit db-dumps dir under the
// `pre-restore-` prefix, and returns the SET it wrote. Returns (zero, nil) when the app has no
// database at all — a no-DB app has nothing to undo and must flow exactly as it did before
@@ -704,9 +752,12 @@ func (m *Manager) ReconstituteFromOffsite(ctx context.Context, stack string, ack
// operator ruling, 2026-08-22.
m.logger.Printf("[ERROR] [offbox] %s: ROLLBACK ALSO FAILED (%v) — holding the app stopped; replay error was: %v", stack, rbErr, iErr)
m.holdAppAfterFailedRollback(stack, iErr, rbErr)
// R-383: the undo copy is DESCRIBED FROM DISK, never from the path alone. See
// undoCopyPhrase — this sentence used to assert the file existed in exactly the
// branch where a missing file is one of the two causes.
return res, fmt.Errorf("a(z) %s adatbázisának visszaállítása sikertelen, és a korábbi állapot visszatöltése sem sikerült. "+
"Az alkalmazást biztonsági okból LEÁLLÍTVA hagytuk, hogy az adatai ne sérüljenek tovább. "+
"Vedd fel velünk a kapcsolatot — a korábbi állapot mentése megvan: %s", stack, filepath.Base(safety))
"Vedd fel velünk a kapcsolatot — %s", stack, undoCopyPhrase(safetySet))
}
res.RolledBack = true
if sErr := restartStack(); sErr != nil {
@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
package backup
import (
"go/ast"
"go/parser"
"go/token"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strings"
"testing"
)
// R-383 — the double-failure message claimed the undo copy EXISTED without ever asking the disk.
//
// THE DEFECT. The branch where BOTH the replay and the rollback failed ended with
// „a korábbi állapot mentése megvan: <file>". The filename came from the path `writeSafetyDump`
// returned. One of the two ways `rollbackSafetyDump` fails is that the file is NOT THERE — so the
// sentence was most likely to be false in precisely the case it was printed. Measured twice live, on
// v0.220.2 and v0.221.1.
//
// THE LAYER. The guard sits on the phrase builder, because that is where the claim is MADE. A test
// at the reconstitute level would need a whole failed off-site restore to reach one sentence, and the
// AST test below is what pins that the sentence is still wired to this builder.
//
// RED-PROOF (observed, see REPORT.md): replace undoCopyPhrase's body with the pre-fix shape
//
// return "a korábbi állapot mentése megvan: " + filepath.Base(set.First())
//
// and TestR383_AbsentUndoCopyIsNotClaimedToExist fails with the message asserting the file exists.
func TestR383_AbsentUndoCopyIsNotClaimedToExist(t *testing.T) {
dir := t.TempDir()
real := filepath.Join(dir, "pre-restore-20260823T120000Z-app-postgres.sql")
if err := os.WriteFile(real, []byte("-- a real dump\n"), 0o600); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
gone := filepath.Join(dir, "pre-restore-20260823T120000Z-app-mariadb.sql")
empty := filepath.Join(dir, "pre-restore-20260823T120000Z-app-empty.sql")
if err := os.WriteFile(empty, nil, 0o600); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
set := func(paths ...string) safetyDumpSet {
s := safetyDumpSet{Stamp: "20260823T120000Z"}
for _, p := range paths {
s.Files = append(s.Files, safetyDumpFile{Path: p})
}
return s
}
cases := []struct {
name string
set safetyDumpSet
mustContain []string
mustNotHave []string
}{
{
name: "present — the operator still gets the filename",
set: set(real),
mustContain: []string{"megvan", filepath.Base(real)},
},
{
// THE DEFECT ITSELF: the file is gone and the sentence used to say it was there.
name: "absent — must NOT claim it exists, must still name where it should be",
set: set(gone),
mustContain: []string{"NEM találjuk", filepath.Base(gone)},
mustNotHave: []string{"mentése megvan"},
},
{
// A 0-byte dump restores nothing. Calling it present is the same false reassurance.
name: "zero-length — counts as missing",
set: set(empty),
mustContain: []string{"NEM találjuk", filepath.Base(empty)},
mustNotHave: []string{"mentése megvan"},
},
{
name: "partial — both halves named, neither hidden",
set: set(real, gone),
mustContain: []string{"RÉSZBEN", filepath.Base(real), "HIÁNYZIK", filepath.Base(gone)},
},
{
name: "no undo was ever written — said plainly, not silently",
set: set(),
mustContain: []string{"nem készült"},
mustNotHave: []string{"megvan"},
},
}
for _, tc := range cases {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
got := undoCopyPhrase(tc.set)
for _, want := range tc.mustContain {
if !strings.Contains(got, want) {
t.Errorf("phrase %q does not contain %q", got, want)
}
}
for _, bad := range tc.mustNotHave {
if strings.Contains(got, bad) {
t.Errorf("phrase %q contains %q — it asserts a file that is not on disk", got, bad)
}
}
})
}
}
// The seam, through production wiring (§10). A correct phrase builder nobody calls is R-106's defect
// — "seam built but never wired", four instances in this project. This walks the AST rather than
// grepping for a substring, so a commented-out call or a similarly-named local cannot satisfy it.
func TestR383_TheDoubleFailureMessageIsWiredToTheBuilder(t *testing.T) {
fset := token.NewFileSet()
f, err := parser.ParseFile(fset, "offbox_reconstitute.go", nil, 0)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("parse: %v", err)
}
var holdCalled, phraseCalled bool
ast.Inspect(f, func(n ast.Node) bool {
call, ok := n.(*ast.CallExpr)
if !ok {
return true
}
switch fn := call.Fun.(type) {
case *ast.SelectorExpr:
if fn.Sel.Name == "holdAppAfterFailedRollback" {
holdCalled = true
}
case *ast.Ident:
if fn.Name == "undoCopyPhrase" {
phraseCalled = true
}
}
return true
})
if !holdCalled {
t.Fatal("holdAppAfterFailedRollback is no longer called — the double-failure branch moved; " +
"re-point this test before trusting it")
}
if !phraseCalled {
t.Fatal("undoCopyPhrase is never called from offbox_reconstitute.go — the message is back to " +
"asserting a file it did not check (R-383)")
}
// And the claim must not be re-typed OUTSIDE the builder. Inside undoCopyPhrase it is the
// verified branch and belongs there; anywhere else it is unconditional again, which is R-383.
// The builder's extent comes from the AST, so this cannot be defeated by moving the function.
var lo, hi token.Pos
for _, d := range f.Decls {
if fd, ok := d.(*ast.FuncDecl); ok && fd.Name.Name == "undoCopyPhrase" {
lo, hi = fd.Pos(), fd.End()
}
}
if lo == token.NoPos {
t.Fatal("undoCopyPhrase is not declared in offbox_reconstitute.go")
}
ast.Inspect(f, func(n ast.Node) bool {
lit, ok := n.(*ast.BasicLit)
if !ok || lit.Kind != token.STRING {
return true
}
if lit.Pos() >= lo && lit.End() <= hi {
return true // inside the builder — the verified branch
}
if strings.Contains(lit.Value, "állapot mentése megvan") {
t.Errorf("%s: the unconditional claim is back outside undoCopyPhrase: %s",
fset.Position(lit.Pos()), lit.Value)
}
return true
})
}