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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 3fedfe8763 fix(runner-e2e): wait out a briefly uncertain owned group instead of failing the stop (#19692)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The restart chaos harness and the runner e2e suites stop and restart
the control plane through one process-tree owner
(`tests/runner-e2e/process-tree-owner.ts`)
> - The owner signals only process groups whose identity it has proven,
and refuses everything when a group's identity becomes uncertain
> - Under load a group can turn over between two `ps` snapshots: the
observed members exit, and a straggler that nobody saw start is left in
the group, reparented away from every owned anchor
> - The stopper treated that as fatal on the first inspection, so a K2
graceful stop at load 28 failed in under a second, and a chaos storm
wave was marked as a harness error although the server came back
> - This pull request makes the stopper re-inspect within its existing
deadline until the uncertainty settles. It still never signals the
uncertain group, and it fails with the original error if the uncertainty
persists
> - The benefit is that chaos waves under load stop failing on a harness
race, without weakening the rule against signaling unproven processes

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19470

**What is the problem?**
`stopOwnedProcessTree` fails at once with "Owned process group identity
became uncertain" when, under load, a group's observed members exit and
an unobserved straggler remains for a moment. In a chaos storm this
failed a K2 stop 0.9 s after SIGTERM (load 28), and the wave exited as a
harness error.

**What is the expected behavior?**
The stopper waits (within the same grace or forced deadline) for a later
inspection that settles the group, and it never signals the uncertain
group. If the straggler outlives the deadline, the stop still fails with
the same error.

**Why does it matter?**
A harness-only race must not invalidate a chaos wave, and the fix must
not let the harness signal a process whose ownership is not proven.

## What Changed

- `tests/runner-e2e/server-stop.ts`: the chaos and e2e server stopper
(the actual K2 path) uses the same bounded settle-wait for its graceful
observe/signal and its SIGKILL escalation. Live evidence: a K2 at load
13.9 failed in 0.5 s on an ACPX Claude provider group (launcher, reaper,
module-hook loader, `claude` runtime) that tore itself down during the
drain and was gone 0.4 s later.
- `tests/runner-e2e/process-tree-owner.ts`: the uncertainty error now
names the unowned members (pid, ppid, pgid, kind, start).
`settleUncertainIdentity` is exported and shared. Export the
`UNCERTAIN_GROUP_IDENTITY` message prefix. `stopOwnedProcessTree`
retries the grace signal, the SIGKILL escalation and the stop check
every 100 ms while that error persists, bounded by the existing grace
deadline and one forced window (set before escalation and reused by the
escalation retry, the stop check and the fallback), so a stop never
exceeds gracefulMs + forcedMs. Other errors, and an uncertainty that
outlives the deadline, take the existing fallback path unchanged. The
owner's identity checks do not change, and neither does `signal()`.
- `tests/runner-e2e/process-tree-owner.test.ts`: three tests. An
uncertainty that starts only at SIGKILL escalation fails within one
forced window and never sends SIGKILL. A brief turnover settles and the
stop succeeds without signaling the uncertain group or killing the
direct child. A persistent turnover still rejects with "identity became
uncertain" and never signals.

## Verification

- `pnpm exec vitest run --config tests/runner-e2e/vitest.config.ts
tests/runner-e2e/process-tree-owner.test.ts
tests/runner-e2e/server-stop.test.ts`: 35 pass across
`process-tree-owner.test.ts` and `server-stop.test.ts`, including 5 new
tests; the new brief-turnover tests fail on the old stoppers. With the
old stopper, the first new test fails: it rejects on the first
inspection and then kills the direct child.
- `node scripts/typecheck-test-projects.mjs tests/runner-e2e`: passes.

## Risks

- Low risk, test infrastructure only.
- A stop that hits a persistent uncertainty now fails at the deadline
(up to the grace time) instead of at once. It sends no extra signals.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used through Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file edits).

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-06 20:55:26 -06:00

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TypeScript

import type { ChildProcess } from "node:child_process";
import {
observeDescendantProcessTree, readProcessTable, revalidateObservedProcessGroups,
refreshContinuouslyLiveProcessGroups, safeProcessGroupTerminationOrder,
type ObservedProcessGroup, type ProcessObservation,
} from "./process-tree.js";
/** Supplied by the company-scoped run API, never by process-name discovery. */
export interface RestartRunnerIdentity {
processPid: number;
processGroupId: number;
processStartedAt: string;
}
export function parseRestartRunnerIdentity(value: unknown): RestartRunnerIdentity {
const v = value as RestartRunnerIdentity | null;
if (!v || !Number.isSafeInteger(v.processPid) || v.processPid <= 1
|| v.processGroupId !== v.processPid || typeof v.processStartedAt !== "string"
|| !Number.isFinite(Date.parse(v.processStartedAt))) throw new Error("Invalid restart runner identity");
return { processPid: v.processPid, processGroupId: v.processGroupId, processStartedAt: v.processStartedAt };
}
/** Linux run receipts retain milliseconds; ps lstart retains whole seconds. */
export function restartProcessStartMatches(observed: string, expected: string, platform = process.platform): boolean {
const actualTime = Date.parse(observed), expectedTime = Date.parse(expected);
if (!Number.isFinite(actualTime) || !Number.isFinite(expectedTime)) return false;
return platform === "linux"
? Math.floor(actualTime / 1000) === Math.floor(expectedTime / 1000)
: actualTime === expectedTime;
}
export const UNCERTAIN_GROUP_IDENTITY = "Owned process group identity became uncertain";
/**
* Under load or during a graceful drain a whole group can turn over between
* two inspections: its observed members exit and a member nobody saw start
* is left for a moment, reparented away from every owned anchor. Its identity
* is unproven, so the owner refuses to signal anything. Re-run the step until
* a later inspection settles it or the deadline passes, never signaling
* meanwhile; a straggler that outlives the deadline keeps the original error.
*/
export async function settleUncertainIdentity<T>(step: () => Promise<T>, until: () => number, pollMs = 100): Promise<T> {
for (;;) {
try { return await step(); }
catch (error) {
if (!String(error).includes(UNCERTAIN_GROUP_IDENTITY) || Date.now() >= until()) throw error;
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, pollMs));
}
}
}
export function createProcessTreeOwner(root: ChildProcess, options: {
readTable?: () => Promise<ProcessObservation[] | null>;
signalGroup?: (pid: number, signal: NodeJS.Signals) => void;
} = {}) {
let groups: ObservedProcessGroup[] = [];
let table: ProcessObservation[] = [];
let rootStarted: string | undefined;
let preserved: ObservedProcessGroup[] = [];
let restartRunner: ProcessObservation | undefined;
let observing: Promise<void> | undefined;
const covered = new Set<number>();
const readTable = options.readTable ?? readProcessTable;
const signalGroup = options.signalGroup ?? ((pid, signal) => process.kill(-pid, signal));
const exited = () => root.exitCode !== null || root.signalCode !== null || !root.pid;
const running = (candidate: ProcessObservation) => !candidate.state?.startsWith("Z");
function observe(): Promise<void> {
if (process.platform === "win32") return Promise.resolve();
if (observing) return observing;
observing = (async () => {
const next = await readTable();
if (!next) throw new Error("Could not inspect owned process identities");
const callerGroup = next.find(row => row.pid === process.pid)?.processGroupId;
if (callerGroup === undefined) throw new Error("Cleanup caller group identity is unavailable");
const rootRow = next.find(row => row.pid === root.pid);
if (!rootStarted && !exited()) rootStarted = rootRow?.started;
const retained = revalidateObservedProcessGroups(groups, next);
const trustedAnchors = retained.flatMap(group => group.members
.filter(member => next.some(row => row.pid === member.pid && row.started === member.started
&& row.processGroupId === group.processGroupId)).map(member => member.pid));
if (rootRow && rootStarted === rootRow.started) trustedAnchors.push(rootRow.pid);
const ownedNow = new Set(trustedAnchors.flatMap(pid =>
observeDescendantProcessTree(next, pid).members.map(member => member.process.pid)));
// A short-lived leader can exit between polls while its replacement
// remains a descendant of a separately validated owner. Admit that
// ancestry, never a recycled numeric group or a mixed ownership group.
const lost = groups.filter(group => !retained.includes(group) && next.some(row => row.processGroupId === group.processGroupId && running(row)));
const uncertain = lost.filter(group => next.some(row => row.processGroupId === group.processGroupId
&& running(row) && !ownedNow.has(row.pid)));
if (uncertain.length) {
// Name the unproven members so the next occurrence identifies the process.
const ids = new Set(uncertain.map(group => group.processGroupId));
const members = next.filter(row => ids.has(row.processGroupId) && running(row) && !ownedNow.has(row.pid))
.map(row => `pid=${row.pid} ppid=${row.parentPid} pgid=${row.processGroupId} kind=${row.kind} started=${row.started}`);
throw new Error(`${UNCERTAIN_GROUP_IDENTITY}: ${[...ids].join(",")} (unowned members: ${members.join("; ")})`);
}
const refreshed = refreshContinuouslyLiveProcessGroups([...retained, ...lost], next)
.filter(group => group.processGroupId !== callerGroup);
const anchors = refreshed.flatMap(group => group.members.map(member => member.pid));
if (rootRow && rootStarted === rootRow.started) anchors.push(rootRow.pid);
const byGroup = new Map(refreshed.map(group => [group.processGroupId, group]));
for (const pid of anchors) {
for (const group of observeDescendantProcessTree(next, pid).groups) {
if (group.processGroupId !== callerGroup) {
// A descendant traversal can cover only part of an already
// validated group. Keep every observed peer as an identity anchor.
const previous = byGroup.get(group.processGroupId);
const members = new Map(previous?.members.map(member => [member.pid, member]) ?? []);
for (const member of group.members) members.set(member.pid, member);
byGroup.set(group.processGroupId, { ...group,
depth: Math.max(group.depth, previous?.depth ?? group.depth),
members: [...members.values()],
});
if (covered.has(next.find(row => row.pid === pid)!.processGroupId)) covered.add(group.processGroupId);
}
}
}
groups = [...byGroup.values()];
// Follow only continuously owned members of the admitted daemon tree.
// Orphaned descendants stay owned, but unrelated controller children do not.
const retainedPreserved = refreshContinuouslyLiveProcessGroups(revalidateObservedProcessGroups(preserved, next), next);
const preservedIds = new Set(retainedPreserved.map(group => group.processGroupId));
for (const member of retainedPreserved.flatMap(group => group.members)) {
for (const group of observeDescendantProcessTree(next, member.pid).groups) preservedIds.add(group.processGroupId);
}
preserved = groups.filter(group => preservedIds.has(group.processGroupId));
table = next;
})().finally(() => { observing = undefined; });
return observing;
}
const timer = process.platform === "win32" ? undefined : setInterval(() => {
void observe().catch(() => { /* Stop must obtain a fresh successful inspection. */ });
}, 250);
timer?.unref();
void observe().catch(() => {});
function liveGroups() {
return groups.filter(group => table.some(row => row.processGroupId === group.processGroupId && running(row)));
}
async function preserveRunnerForRestart(identity: RestartRunnerIdentity) {
const expected = parseRestartRunnerIdentity(identity);
await observe();
if (restartRunner || exited()) throw new Error("Restart runner admission must precede controller exit");
const tree = observeDescendantProcessTree(table, root.pid!);
const candidate = tree.members.map(member => member.process).find(row => row.pid === expected.processPid);
if (!candidate || !running(candidate) || candidate.kind !== "paperclip-runnerd"
|| candidate.processGroupId !== expected.processGroupId
|| !restartProcessStartMatches(candidate.started, expected.processStartedAt)
|| candidate.processGroupId === root.pid) throw new Error("Restart runner is not the exact owned durable daemon");
const subtree = observeDescendantProcessTree(table, candidate.pid);
const members = new Set(subtree.members.map(member => member.process.pid));
const ids = new Set(subtree.groups.map(group => group.processGroupId));
if (table.some(row => ids.has(row.processGroupId) && !members.has(row.pid) && running(row))) {
throw new Error("Restart runner shares a process group with an unrelated process");
}
restartRunner = { ...candidate };
preserved = groups.filter(group => ids.has(group.processGroupId));
}
function assertRestartRunnerAlive() {
if (!restartRunner || !table.some(row => row.pid === restartRunner!.pid && row.started === restartRunner!.started
&& row.processGroupId === restartRunner!.processGroupId && running(row))) throw new Error("Admitted restart runner did not survive controller restart");
}
function restartCleanupGroups() {
const ids = new Set(preserved.map(group => group.processGroupId));
return new Set(liveGroups().filter(group => !ids.has(group.processGroupId)).map(group => group.processGroupId));
}
/** Darwin killpg reports EPERM, not ESRCH, when every remaining group member
* has exited but is not yet reaped. A zombie-only group needs no signal; any
* running member keeps EPERM a real failure. */
async function exitedSinceSnapshot(pid: number) {
const fresh = await readTable();
return !!fresh && !fresh.some(row => row.processGroupId === pid && running(row));
}
async function signalSnapshot(signal: NodeJS.Signals, selected?: ReadonlySet<number>) {
const currentProcessGroupId = table.find(row => row.pid === process.pid)?.processGroupId ?? null;
if (currentProcessGroupId === null) throw new Error("Cleanup caller group identity is unavailable");
const live = liveGroups();
const ordered = safeProcessGroupTerminationOrder({ rootProcessGroupId: root.pid ?? -1, currentProcessGroupId, groups: live });
const signaled: number[] = [];
for (const pid of ordered) {
if (selected && !selected.has(pid)) continue;
try { signalGroup(pid, signal); }
catch (error) {
const code = (error as NodeJS.ErrnoException).code;
if (code === "ESRCH" || (code === "EPERM" && await exitedSinceSnapshot(pid))) continue;
throw error;
}
signaled.push(pid);
}
return signaled;
}
async function signal(signal: NodeJS.Signals, selected?: ReadonlySet<number>) {
await observe();
return await signalSnapshot(signal, selected);
}
function gracefulRoots() {
const live = liveGroups();
const ids = new Set(live.map(group => group.processGroupId));
if (root.pid && ids.has(root.pid)) return new Set([root.pid]);
// After the launcher's leader exits, request shutdown only from the
// outermost remaining owners; their wrappers still own child signaling.
const byPid = new Map(table.map(row => [row.pid, row]));
return new Set(live.filter(group => !table.some(row => {
if (row.processGroupId !== group.processGroupId) return false;
const seen = new Set<number>();
let parent = byPid.get(row.parentPid);
while (parent && !seen.has(parent.pid)) {
seen.add(parent.pid);
if (parent.processGroupId !== group.processGroupId && ids.has(parent.processGroupId)) return true;
parent = byPid.get(parent.parentPid);
}
return false;
})).map(group => group.processGroupId));
}
let graceComplete = false;
let directGraceDelivered = false;
async function signalGracefully(signal: "SIGTERM" | "SIGINT" = "SIGTERM") {
if (graceComplete) return;
await observe();
// Choose and deliver from one validated table. ESRCH grants no ownership
// coverage: the next grace poll can select that branch's surviving owner.
const selected = new Set([...gracefulRoots()].filter(pid => !covered.has(pid)));
const delivered = await signalSnapshot(signal, selected);
for (const pid of delivered) {
if (pid === root.pid) directGraceDelivered = true;
covered.add(pid);
for (const member of table.filter(row => row.processGroupId === pid)) {
for (const group of observeDescendantProcessTree(table, member.pid).groups) covered.add(group.processGroupId);
}
}
// Never reselect descendants after their owner received grace, even if it
// exits before their asynchronous close completes.
graceComplete = selected.size > 0 && delivered.length === selected.size;
}
return { observe, signal, liveGroups, gracefulRoots, signalGracefully,
preserveRunnerForRestart, assertRestartRunnerAlive, restartCleanupGroups,
directGraceDelivered: () => directGraceDelivered, stopObserving: () => { if (timer) clearInterval(timer); } };
}
/** Inspection failure grants no group authority. The unreaped ChildProcess
* handle still owns its direct child, so retire only that child within the
* original grace deadline, then report the incomplete tree audit. */
export async function stopKnownDirectChild(child: ChildProcess, phase: { gracefulSent: boolean; forcedDeadline?: number },
deadline: number, forcedMs: number, signal: NodeJS.Signals = "SIGTERM") {
const exited = () => child.exitCode !== null || child.signalCode !== null || !child.pid;
const wait = () => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 25));
if (!exited() && !phase.gracefulSent) {
phase.gracefulSent = child.kill(signal);
}
while (!exited() && Date.now() < deadline) await wait();
if (exited()) return;
child.kill("SIGKILL");
phase.forcedDeadline ??= Date.now() + forcedMs;
while (!exited() && Date.now() < phase.forcedDeadline) await wait();
if (!exited()) throw new Error("Known direct child remained after bounded fallback");
}
export async function incompleteTreeFallback(error: unknown, child: ChildProcess,
phase: { gracefulSent: boolean; forcedDeadline?: number }, deadline: number, forcedMs: number,
signal: "SIGTERM" | "SIGINT" = "SIGTERM") {
let fallbackError: unknown;
try { await stopKnownDirectChild(child, phase, deadline, forcedMs, signal); }
catch (failure) { fallbackError = failure; }
throw new Error(`Owned tree cleanup incomplete: ${String(error)}${fallbackError ? `; ${String(fallbackError)}` : ""}`);
}
/** Give the launcher/wrapper chain sole graceful-signal ownership, then retire
* only still-observed descendants. Used on normal exit as well as cancellation. */
export async function stopOwnedProcessTree(
child: ChildProcess,
owner: ReturnType<typeof createProcessTreeOwner>,
gracefulMs = 45_000,
forcedMs = 5_000,
gracefulSignal: "SIGTERM" | "SIGINT" = "SIGTERM",
): Promise<void> {
const wait = (ms: number) => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
const deadline = Date.now() + gracefulMs;
const phase: { gracefulSent: boolean; forcedDeadline?: number } = { gracefulSent: false };
// Under load a whole group can turn over between two inspections: its
// observed members exit and a member nobody saw start is left behind,
// reparented away from every owned anchor. Its identity is then unproven,
// so the owner refuses to signal anything. That state is usually brief (the
// straggler exits with its group), so wait within the same deadline for a
// later inspection to settle it, never signaling meanwhile. If it persists,
// the original error stands.
const settled = settleUncertainIdentity;
try {
if (process.platform === "win32") {
await stopKnownDirectChild(child, phase, deadline, forcedMs, gracefulSignal);
return;
}
const stopped = async (until: () => number) => {
await settled(() => owner.observe(), until);
return (child.exitCode !== null || child.signalCode !== null) && owner.liveGroups().length === 0;
};
const graceDeadline = () => deadline;
const forcedDeadline = () => phase.forcedDeadline!;
do {
await settled(() => owner.signalGracefully(gracefulSignal), graceDeadline);
phase.gracefulSent ||= owner.directGraceDelivered();
if (await stopped(graceDeadline)) return;
await wait(50);
} while (Date.now() < deadline);
// One forced window covers the escalation retry, the stop check and any fallback.
phase.forcedDeadline = Date.now() + forcedMs;
await settled(() => owner.signal("SIGKILL"), forcedDeadline);
do {
if (await stopped(forcedDeadline)) return;
await wait(50);
} while (Date.now() < phase.forcedDeadline);
throw new Error("Observed launcher descendants remained after bounded cleanup");
} catch (error) {
phase.gracefulSent ||= owner.directGraceDelivered();
await incompleteTreeFallback(error, child, phase, deadline, forcedMs, gracefulSignal);
}
}