fix(platform): probe Docker with the environment its commands run in - #10379
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The Docker reachability probe ran `docker version` in a four-name environment (HOME, USER, LOGNAME, PATH), while every Docker command the CLI runs afterwards gets the full subprocess allowlist. On a host whose daemon answers only through one of the dropped names, the probe reports the host's default authority unreachable, detection falls through to the socket candidates, and the CLI pins DOCKER_HOST to Podman's rootless socket. Preflight then reports Docker unreachable and names the docker group, so onboarding stops before its first step on a host whose Docker is healthy. Probe with the allowlist real commands get, keep the authority under test pinned, hold the host default when a probe reaches no verdict (a spawn failure or a timeout is not an observed refusal), and put the Docker sockets — including the rootless one — ahead of Podman's in the Linux candidate order. The probe now reads the shared subprocess allowlist, which raises the recorded fan-in of `src/lib/subprocess-env.ts` by one. Refs #10367 Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang <dongniy@nvidia.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 10 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughDocker probing now preserves validated subprocess environment variables, excludes ambient ChangesDocker authority detection
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change aligns Docker probing with the environment used by subsequent commands and avoids redirecting the CLI when probing is inconclusive. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant platform_ts as platform.ts
participant docker_cli as Docker CLI
participant socket_candidates as Docker and Podman sockets
platform_ts->>docker_cli: Run default Docker probe with filtered environment
docker_cli-->>platform_ts: Return reachable, unreachable, or inconclusive
alt Confirmed unreachable
platform_ts->>socket_candidates: Probe prioritized socket candidates
socket_candidates-->>platform_ts: Return engine identity
else Reachable or inconclusive
platform_ts-->>platform_ts: Do not select fallback
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In `@src/lib/platform.ts`:
- Around line 267-271: Update detectDockerHost to retain a reachable Docker
socket when a later Podman candidate is also reachable, ensuring Docker priority
over Podman and avoiding a null result that preserves the unreachable default
authority. Add a regression test covering both Docker and Podman sockets being
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`buildDockerProbeEnv` forwards the proxy names now, but skipped the `withLocalNoProxy` augmentation that `buildSubprocessEnv` applies to every Docker command the CLI runs. A host with `HTTP_PROXY` set and a local `tcp://` authority could therefore route the probe through the proxy while the real commands went direct, so the probe could report an authority unreachable that every later command reaches — the same defect class this branch fixes. Fold the separate probe-environment test into the default-authority fixture that already owns this boundary, and let that one fixture pin the Docker context, the runtime directory, the proxy exclusions, and the credential boundary together. Also correct the Linux candidate-order comment: order decides only between candidates of the same engine identity, because two engines that both answer still abort the selection. Refs #10367 Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang <dongniy@nvidia.com>
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Addressed the automated review on PR Review Advisor — migration completion (blocker) and operations. Both found the same gap: PR Review Advisor — test design. Folded the second Docker CLI fixture into the existing default-authority one. That single fixture now pins the Docker context and config, the runtime directory, the proxy exclusions, and the credential boundary together. The inconclusive-probe test stays separate, as recommended. PR Review Advisor — code reduction. Kept CodeRabbit — merge risk on the mixed-identity bail. Real, and pre-existing: |
The inconclusive branch is the load-bearing half of the fix, but only its consequence was tested, through an injected probe. Drive the real probe with a Docker CLI that dies without an exit status — the same shape the probe timeout produces — while a Podman socket answers right after it. Without the branch, detection selects that socket. Correct two claims in the explanatory text. `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` does not select a rootless daemon socket for the Docker CLI; the verifiable mechanisms are `SSH_AUTH_SOCK` for an `ssh://` context and the proxy names for a `tcp://` one, and the general contract is that the probe predicts what the real commands do and must not ask under a narrower environment. Also name the third inconclusive case, an answer too large for the probe buffer, and record that the timeout now biases toward holding the host default. Refs #10367 Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang <dongniy@nvidia.com>
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CI note for reviewers: Worth noting for anyone reading the check list: two other workflow runs on the same commit report For completeness on why the change itself cannot slow that suite: detection now returns immediately when the ambient probe reaches no verdict, instead of scanning candidate sockets, and the scan is unchanged otherwise. The change can only remove probe work, never add it. |
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Reviewed exact head bcf31b5. The Docker probe now uses the command environment, preserves timeout/unavailable evidence through host readiness, avoids false daemon-unreachable remediation, and retains local proxy exclusions. Focused readiness/preflight tests (43), targeted runner tests (8), growth tests (39), docs/Fern validation, typecheck, formatting, lint, and diff checks passed. The broad runner suite had one unrelated macOS subprocess timeout; changed runner tests passed. The latest Advisor jobs all failed on provider 429, while all prior substantive findings were resolved.
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Reviewed commit 82efb29 after the automated conflict resolution with main. The combined diff retains the Docker authority and inconclusive-probe fixes; 158 focused root and plugin tests pass. The latest source-changing commit's Advisor run produced only provider 429 failures. The current aggregate CI failure is workflow infrastructure: the bot-authored synchronize event did not produce the required current-commit OpenShell SDK artifact.
…alue This branch routes the Docker probe through the same environment builder its commands use, which removes one importer of `src/lib/subprocess-env.ts`. The architecture budget is a ratchet, so a limit left above the measured value fails the gate: - src/lib/subprocess-env.ts: fan-in is 23; lower or remove its 24 limit. Record the measured 23. This is the single root cause behind `static-checks`, `cli-test-shards (12)` (test/repository/source-architecture.test.ts), and the `cli-tests` aggregator on this PR. Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang <dongniy@nvidia.com>
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Summary
NemoClaw probes Docker reachability by running
docker versionin a four-name environment (HOME,USER,LOGNAME,PATH), but every Docker command it runs afterwards gets the full subprocess allowlist. On a host whose daemon answers only through one of the dropped names, the probe reports the host's own default authority unreachable, detection falls through to the socket candidates, and the CLI pinsDOCKER_HOSTto Podman's rootless socket. Preflight then reportsDocker is not reachableand points at the docker group, so onboarding stops at its first step on a host whose Docker is healthy. After this change the probe asks the same question the later commands answer, and detection never redirects the CLI on no evidence.Related Issue
Closes #10367
This removes the mechanisms that produce the reported outcome: a probe environment narrower than the one the predicted commands run in, and a probe that reaches no verdict counting as a refusal. Either can send
DOCKER_HOSTto Podman's socket on a host whose Docker daemon is live.One honest caveat for whoever merges this. The reporter runs a DGX Spark with Docker and Podman installed; I have no such host and they have not yet answered the two diagnostic commands I asked for on the issue, so the cure is reasoned from the code path, not observed on their machine. If their
docker versionunder the old four-name environment turns out to exit0quickly, neither fix explains their failure and the issue should be reopened rather than left closed. Two details from the report stay out of scope either way: the docker-group remediation text that names the wrong cause, and thedocker infoversusdocker versiondisagreement on an unhealthy daemon.Changes
buildDockerProbeEnvnow selects names withisSubprocessEnvNameAllowed, the same allowlistbuildSubprocessEnvgives real Docker commands, and drops an ambientDOCKER_HOSTso the probe still pins the authority under test. The probe predicts whether those commands reach a daemon, so it must not ask under a narrower environment:SSH_AUTH_SOCKauthenticates anssh://Docker context and the proxy names decide how atcp://one is routed. (An earlier revision of this description claimedXDG_RUNTIME_DIRselects a rootless daemon socket for the Docker CLI. I tested that and it is false — the CLI ignores a listeningdocker.sockin the runtime directory — so the justification is corrected here and in the code comment.)probeDockerHostreportsinconclusivewhen the Docker CLI cannot be spawned or the 3-second probe timeout kills it, anddetectDockerHostholds the host default in that case. A probe that never answered is not an observed refusal, so it must not move the whole CLI to a fallback socket./run/docker.sock,/var/run/docker.sock,/run/user/<uid>/docker.sock, then Podman's. Rootless Docker's socket sits beside Podman's in the same runtime directory and was never a candidate.buildDockerProbeEnvalso applieswithLocalNoProxy, whichbuildSubprocessEnvgives every real Docker command. Without it, forwarding the proxy names could route a probe of a localtcp://authority through a host proxy that the real commands bypass — the same defect class, reintroduced by the fix.ci/source-architecture-budget.json: reading the shared allowlist raises the recorded fan-in ofsrc/lib/subprocess-env.tsfrom 24 to 25.docker infoanddocker versionpreflight calls at 15 seconds, so preserving an inconclusive default authority cannot leave onboarding waiting without a limit.Risk family
src/lib/platform.tsputs this PR in the tier-3platform-installfamily, whose required job iscloud-onboard. That workflow has nopull_requesttrigger, so it selects on the post-merge push tomainrather than here. Say the word if you want acloud-onboardrun before merge and I will arrange it.Not in this PR
CodeRabbit's merge-risk note and the PR Review Advisor both point at the mixed-identity bail: when the default authority is dead and both a Docker socket and a Podman socket answer,
detectDockerHostreturnsnulland the CLI keeps its dead default. That path is pre-existing and unchanged here, and removing it reverses a decision recorded in #8823 and #10253, whose security review cited it as a pass criterion. It is a maintainer call, so it is a separate stacked PR — #10387 — with the reversal argued. This PR leaves the guard exactly as it was.Type of Change
Quality Gates
The probe environment stays an allowlist.
test/e2e-runtime/platform.test.tsfails the probe binary whenNVIDIA_INFERENCE_API_KEYcrosses the boundary, in the new test and in the existing#8816one.Verification
Signed-off-by:line and every commit appears asVerifiedin GitHubpre-commit,commit-msg, andpre-pushhooks passed, ornpm run validate:prpassed after refreshingorigin/mainwhen hooks were skipped or unavailablenpx vitest run test/e2e-runtime/platform.test.tsgives 38 passed, and a focused sweep over the Docker-authority files (platform,runner,preflight-docker-host,domain/docker-host,subprocess-env,readiness/host,container-engine,docker-authority-profile) gives 187 passed.npm run typecheck:cliandnpm run lintpass. The focused platform and Docker-preflight timeout suites cover 2 files and 40 tests, and the codebase growth guardrails cover 33 tests. All three original probe changes were confirmed red first: without the probe-environment change the default-authority test returnsunix:///run/user/1000/podman/podman.sockwherenullis expected; withoutwithLocalNoProxythat same test fails on the proxy-exclusion guard; and without the no-verdict branch, the test whose Docker CLI dies without an exit status selects the Podman socket.npm run docsbuilds without warnings (doc changes only)Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang dongniy@nvidia.com
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main(7d1476a7a1, 2026-09-09)reviewed-npm-auditfailed onb20e7fcd22withTencent WeChat plugin 2.4.3 locked runtime graph lock SHA-256 mismatch: the branch carried the pre-#11023/#11253 expected hash inci/reviewed-npm-audit.jsonwhile the trusted action computes the current one.mainalready records the current hash, so this is a clean merge ofmain(104 commits, no conflicts) with no change to the fix itself. It also picks up the patchedjs-yamlpin from #11264.