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Trusted lifecycle qualification stops the active OpenShell gateway through installer-owned service validation. Recovery testing restarts the same service. The fixture reports service or manager failures and uses the existing PID and container fallback only when no supported user service is available.

Reason

The first ACP qualification stopped before candidate testing. The fixture invoked an unsupported openshell gateway stop command and searched for a legacy gateway container, although supported OpenShell releases run the gateway as a user service. NemoClaw now selects OpenShell v0.0.116 after the cutover in #11251, so this branch includes current main and qualifies that release.

Related issues

Part of #10947

Changes

  • Add installer-owned helpers that validate, stop, and restart supported OpenShell gateway user services.
  • Verify Linux unit paths, executable paths, executable availability, service ownership, and active state before stopping a service.
  • Verify the NVIDIA OpenShell Homebrew service before stopping or restarting it on macOS.
  • Record the exact service selected during shutdown and restart only that service.
  • Preserve service-manager failures, refuse to control foreign services, and use legacy runtime controls only when no supported active user service is available.
  • Cover independent unit and executable ownership checks, inactive-upstream fallback to the marker-owned service, same-owner restart, manager failures, macOS acceptance and rejection, and lifecycle phase routing.
  • Integrate current main so the repair and qualification use OpenShell v0.0.116.

Verification

  • npx vitest run --project e2e-support test/e2e/support/e2e-phase-lifecycle.test.ts — 37 tests passed.
  • npx vitest run --project e2e-support test/e2e/support/lifecycle-user-service.test.ts -t 'managed OpenShell gateway user-service (stop|restart)' — 22 tests passed; four unrelated stage tests were skipped by the filter.
  • npx vitest run --project integration test/install/install-openshell-gateway-service.test.ts test/install/install-openshell-macos-upgrade.test.ts — 84 tests passed.
  • OpenShell v0.0.116 and ACP compatibility checks — 23 tests passed. One Python-backed case could not run locally because the macOS host lacks the yaml module; exact Linux CI must cover that case.
  • NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 npm run typecheck:cli — passed.
  • NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 npm run checks:repository — 19 checks passed.
  • Shell syntax and diff checks — passed.
  • Normal commit and push hooks — passed, including ShellCheck, TypeScript, repository checks, commit lint, and secret scanning.
  • Merge commit bca84d00c61cdb89684233b9a002b197b93238ff is DCO-signed and GitHub Verified.

Signed-off-by: Apurv Kumaria akumaria@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved gateway service stop and restart handling across Linux and macOS.
    • Added safer service selection, ownership validation, and status checks before service operations.
    • Preserved diagnostic details when service status cannot be determined.
    • Added fallback behavior for unavailable or inactive services during shutdown and cleanup.
    • Improved upgrade handling when gateway service inspection fails.
    • Confirmed restarted services reach an active state.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for recovery, repeated stops, service failures, and platform-specific behavior.

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The gateway lifecycle now selects trusted Homebrew or systemd user services through installer helpers. It records successful selections, handles unavailable and failed operations, restarts selected services during cleanup, and expands platform and recovery tests.

Changes

Gateway user-service lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Service inspection and selection
scripts/install.sh, test/e2e/support/lifecycle-user-service.test.ts
The installer detects supported service candidates and validates manager availability, ownership, activity, executable trust, and fallback behavior on Linux and macOS.
Lifecycle stop and restart integration
test/e2e/fixtures/phases/lifecycle.ts
Lifecycle shutdown invokes installer-backed helpers, records successful selections, handles unavailable results, registers restart cleanup, and clears state after restart.
Lifecycle and recovery validation
test/e2e/support/e2e-phase-lifecycle.test.ts
Tests verify stop markers, helper command sequences, cleanup behavior, fallback controls, repeated stops, and stop failure propagation.
Installer and upgrade validation
test/install/install-openshell-gateway-service.test.ts, test/install/install-openshell-macos-upgrade.test.ts
Tests verify inactive and unknown inspection states, retirement behavior, and macOS service identity checks.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GatewayLifecycle
  participant Installer
  participant systemd
  participant Homebrew
  GatewayLifecycle->>Installer: select and stop active user service
  alt Linux
    Installer->>systemd: validate manager and service candidates
    systemd-->>Installer: selected service or unavailable
  else macOS
    Installer->>Homebrew: validate and stop trusted service
    Homebrew-->>Installer: selected service or unavailable
  end
  Installer-->>GatewayLifecycle: stop result
  GatewayLifecycle->>Installer: restart selected service during cleanup
  Installer-->>GatewayLifecycle: restart result
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3979-3979: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve user-manager failures during service retirement.

Both systemctl --user is-active checks treat every nonzero result as inactivity. At line 3979, this status reaches the retirement fallback at line 4150, which can run stop_legacy_openshell_gateway_process after a user-manager bus failure. At line 4025, the same failure can select the managed NemoClaw service instead of preserving the upstream failure. Distinguish an inactive service from a failed systemctl operation and add regression coverage for a late is-active bus failure.

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corresponding NemoClaw selection check, to distinguish an inactive service from
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690-690: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve a pending user-service restart.

stopGatewayRuntime() can run again from registered cleanup after a successful stop. The second stopOpenShellGatewayUserService() call clears the selection, then the installer can report unavailable because the service is already stopped. Cleanup then skips the restart because its selection no longer matches. Return success when a restart is already pending and add a repeated-stop test.

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 private async stopOpenShellGatewayUserService(): Promise<boolean> {
-  this.stoppedOpenShellGatewayUserService = null;
+  if (this.stoppedOpenShellGatewayUserService) return true;
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  • [P2] Refresh this branch onto current main. The candidate was reviewed and tested against base 33d57021c0adf2c9c470a759efeb7eecfdaa19db, but main is now 54e9f493dbb5e8c8afaf476d675a20e0b8222c3b; repository approval policy requires the current base boundary. Please merge or rebase current main and re-request review. I will reuse unchanged review packets and inspect only the resulting delta.

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Approved.

Correction to my previous review: the live required-check ruleset is non-strict, so the base drift is not a contributor blocker. No branch refresh is required for this approval.

The code review is clear: all 21 review packets, required checks, commit verification, and the exact ubuntu-repo-docker-post-reboot-recovery live target passed. The live run confirmed that the owning systemd service was selected, stopped, restarted, and recovered with all state probes healthy.

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## Outcome

Stabilizes the three product-relevant failures observed in main E2E run
[34634519219](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34634519219):
stopped gateways are no longer reported as connected, Hermes resume
safely reclaims its owned dashboard/API ports after sandbox deletion,
and the LangChain Deep Agents Code runtime user can write conversation
state that other non-root UIDs cannot access. The changes preserve
strict ownership checks and do not weaken the Deep Agents Code
JSON-envelope assertion.

## Reason

The failures have three independent root causes:

- The lifecycle fixture stopped a legacy process but did not
consistently stop and restore the installer-owned OpenShell user
service.
- Hermes resume treated its owned direct forwards as reusable before
sandbox deletion had released their listeners, causing `EADDRINUSE` on
port 8643.
- The Deep Agents Code managed image switched to the `sandbox` runtime
user while `/sandbox/.deepagents/conversation_history` remained
root-owned and mode 0700, forcing Deep Agents Code into temporary
offload storage and producing an invalid login-shell JSON result.

### Related issues

Relates to #11526.

## Changes

- Include the reviewed gateway user-service lifecycle fix from #11526,
including service provenance validation, manager-failure propagation,
idempotent stop/restart handling, and Linux lifecycle coverage.
- Defer only an exactly owned Hermes direct-forward port, then perform a
bounded post-deletion rebind that retries `EADDRINUSE` while preserving
every other bind error. Fixed Hermes forwards remain loopback-only even
when dashboard forwarding binds to all host interfaces on WSL or through
an explicit remote-dashboard setting.
- Keep Deep Agents Code conversation history owned by `sandbox:sandbox`
with mode 0700. Under Darwin compatibility, keep the shared parent
sticky with mode 1777 so another UID cannot rename the history
directory. The managed-image workflows run standard and
Darwin-compatible images and verify exact ownership and mode; denial of
cross-UID read, write, file-delete, and directory-rename operations; and
the intentional shared-configuration allowance.

## Verification

- `NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 npm run validate:pr` — passed
for commit `315a404e9f18c9692cf32f78ef0bb4c02ebd2f9f` against upstream
`main` commit `4eaa7c1c222acd38868cdfe8703884b3e99ab10e`.
- Focused Hermes ownership, reservation, finalization, managed-image
workflow, source-shape, and growth-guardrail tests — 168/168 passed.
- Deep Agents Code image contract tests — 121 applicable tests passed;
one unrelated pre-existing dependency-lock test was excluded after
exceeding its 30-second test timeout.
- `npm run build:cli` and `npm --prefix nemoclaw run build` — passed.
- `npm run checks:repository` — passed (19 selected repository checks).
- Source-shape scanner — 33/33 tests passed, and `npm run
source-shape:check` reported no new source-shape tests.
- `bash -n`, ShellCheck, Hadolint, formatting, `git diff --check`, and
the repository secret scan — passed.
- Brev exact Deep Agents Code base-image reproduction — reproduced
`root:sandbox:700` and the non-writable-state warning before the change;
the rebuilt image reports `sandbox:sandbox:700` and `writable=yes` after
the change.
- The diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials.

## Review notes

This PR touches sensitive installer, managed-image, onboarding, and
network-forward paths. Please focus review on user-service provenance
and failure propagation, exact direct-forward ownership matching, the
bounded post-delete port retry, runtime ownership of Deep Agents Code
state, and the final-image cross-UID denial probes. The synthetic Brev
inference stub was sufficient to verify the image startup and
writable-state boundary but not a complete Deep Agents Code chat turn.
Hosted managed-image CI will execute the standard and Darwin-compatible
final-image probes after publication; hosted E2E remains the final
end-to-end confirmation.

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Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved dashboard and Hermes API port handling when ports are already
owned by the sandbox.
- Added safer retries for temporary port conflicts while preserving
immediate reporting of other errors.
- Improved dashboard and loopback forwarding ownership checks across
supported platforms.
- Prevented unnecessary service launches when existing listeners or
readiness conditions indicate they cannot succeed.
- Improved sandbox resume behavior for Hermes agents when compatible
endpoint checks are unavailable.

- **Reliability**
- Added conversation-history permission validation for Linux and
Darwin-compatible managed images.
  - Added Darwin compatibility image validation during staging checks.
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Signed-off-by: Apurv Kumaria <akumaria@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Charan Jagwani <cjagwani@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Julie Yaunches <jyaunches@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Apurv Kumaria <akumaria@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: cjagwani <cjagwani@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Julie Yaunches <jyaunches@nvidia.com>
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