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Summary

nemoclaw onboard --experimental-profile portable failed deterministically at network creation. Podman's netavark backend refuses to allocate any bridge network inside the RFC 3927 link-local block, so creating the sandbox network on 169.254.1.0/24 always returned subnet 169.254.1.0/24 is already used on the host or by another config, and onboarding aborted before any sandbox, registry, or gateway state existed. The sandbox subnet and the managed registry address now use 10.87.0.0/24, which both runtimes leave free.

Related Issue

Closes #9707

Changes

  • src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-profile.tsPORTABLE_DOCKER_NETWORK_SUBNET moves from 169.254.1.0/24 to 10.87.0.0/24, and PORTABLE_REGISTRY_IP from 169.254.1.3 to 10.87.0.3, preserving the existing host offset. The bridge gateway follows to 10.87.0.1; production code reads it from docker network inspect (src/lib/onboard/gateway-sandbox-reachability.ts:182) and never hardcodes it, so no other production value changes.
  • src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-host-preparation.ts — the network reuse guard rejected a pre-existing network on the old subnet with a message that did not say what to do. It now names the retired subnet and, only after proving the network is empty or holds nothing but the verified NemoClaw registry, prints an ordered force-free removal sequence. This follows the RETIRED_PORTABLE_HOST_GATEWAY_IP precedent from Portable gateway address overlaps the sandbox network #9587 in the same file.
  • src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-retired-subnet-recovery.test.ts — new focused suite for that recovery path.
  • test/e2e/live/portable-cpu-delegation-proof.test.ts, test/helpers/hermes-portable-ollama-test-harness.ts, and the remaining test fixtures follow the new address values and the new inspection field separator.
  • docs/inference/set-up-openai-compatible-endpoint.mdx — new address values, and a recovery section that matches what the code actually prints.

Why this range

The claim I can source precisely is about Podman, which is the runtime that fails here. containers/common ships default_subnet_pools with bases 10.89.0.0/16, 10.90.0.0/15, 10.92.0.0/14, 10.96.0.0/11, and 10.128.0.0/9. Together those cover 10.89.0.0-10.255.255.255. 10.87.0.0/24 is below all of them and below Podman's own 10.88.0.0/16 default bridge, so netavark does not auto-allocate it.

For Docker I am deliberately not asserting a documented default. dockerd documentation does not state the effective default for default-address-pools; its daemon.json example shows 172.30.0.0/16 and 172.31.0.0/16 at size 24, which is an example rather than a stated default. What I rely on is narrower and checkable: 10.87.0.0/24 is not in the 172.16.0.0/12 space Docker bridges conventionally occupy, and not in 192.168.0.0/16. A host that has explicitly configured default-address-pools over 10.87.0.0/24 would still collide, and the retired-subnet guard would report that as an unexpected subnet rather than silently reusing it.

The issue suggested 10.250.1.0/24. That address is inside netavark's 10.128.0.0/9 pool base, so Podman could allocate it to an unrelated network and reproduce the same "already used" failure from the other direction.

Why the host gateway does not move

PORTABLE_HOST_GATEWAY_IP keeps 169.254.2.2/32. Netavark validates bridge subnets, not loopback aliases, so that address is not affected by this defect. #9587 placed it outside the sandbox subnet deliberately, and moving it would additionally churn the TLS SANs (docker-driver-gateway-local-tls.ts:198,219), the gateway TOML (docker-driver-gateway-config.ts:625), the endpoint URLs (docker-driver-gateway-env.ts:113,253), and would require a second retired-address migration.

Why not probe the backend's allowed ranges

The issue offered this alternative. Netavark exposes no machine-readable allowed-range API — the only signal is the error string, and classifying by stderr text is the failure mode #9308 removed. A probed subnet would also make the frozen authority digest in hermes-portable-ollama-authority.ts host-dependent, invalidate pinned gateway certificate SANs across a re-onboard, and turn the single retired-address preflight into a persisted history. That is a new supported surface for address selection and belongs behind the Product Scope Gate, not in a release-blocker fix.

Type of Change

  • Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
  • Code change with doc updates
  • Doc only (prose changes, no code sample modifications)
  • Doc only (includes code sample changes)

Quality Gates

  • Tests added or updated for changed behavior
  • Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
  • Tests not applicable — justification:
  • Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight, onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
  • Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification: requested from maintainers as part of this review
  • Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue: cli-test-shards (9), see "Failing check on this head" below. Not claimed as accepted; recorded for a maintainer to decide.

Security note

169.254.0.0/16 is never operator-trustable, while 10.0.0.0/8 is (src/lib/security/trusted-private-endpoint.ts). Both stay blocked for MCP targets (src/lib/security/mcp-url-target.ts). The registry address therefore moves from "never pinnable" to "pinnable by an explicit operator allowlist". This is stated for review rather than left to be discovered.

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  • PR description includes a Signed-off-by: line and every commit appears as Verified in GitHub
  • Normal pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks passed, or npm run validate:pr passed after refreshing origin/main when hooks were skipped or unavailable
  • Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — command/result: npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-host-preparation.test.ts src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-retired-subnet-recovery.test.ts src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-ollama-inference.test.ts src/lib/onboard/gateway-sandbox-reachability.test.ts → 4 files, 142 passed, at 8ddf0600da. npm run typecheck:cli and npm run checks:repository pass.
  • Applicable broad gate passed — npm test for broad runtime/test-harness changes; npm run check for repo-wide validation/coverage changes — command/result: not applicable. The production change is two address constants plus one preflight refusal path in a single experimental-profile file; it adds no runtime or test-harness surface that a broad gate would cover.
  • Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or waivers
  • No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
  • npm run docs builds without warnings (doc changes only)
  • Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
  • New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

Review round 2

7eeb9e783b made the retired-subnet recovery ownership-aware. 4a441a025a extended it after review: the check now enumerates every running and stopped container connected to the retired network through the verified current-user Podman socket, and prints removal commands with full container and network IDs only when the network is empty or the verified NemoClaw registry is its sole connected container. A foreign container, or any probe that cannot be read, stops onboarding with no removal command at all.

That round also fixed a parsing defect the first version introduced: a missing ownership label renders as <no value>, which contains a space, so whitespace splitting misread both the label and the network address. The inspection fields now use an explicit separator, which also repairs the same latent misparse in the pre-existing ensureRegistryContainer reader.

Review round 3

8ddf0600da closed the last gap between what the message promised and what it printed. The registry case said "without --force" while printing podman rm -f, so it now prints podman stop <id>, podman rm <id>, then podman network rm <network-id> — no step uses --force. The documentation section was rewritten to match: the ordered force-free sequence, the foreign-container case where NemoClaw names nothing and the operator must identify the owner first, and the failed-probe case.

Coverage added

The new cases live in src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-retired-subnet-recovery.test.ts (10 tests) rather than in portable-host-preparation.test.ts. Adding them in place pushed that file to 1540 lines, past the 1500-line growth budget, so the recovery path got its own focused suite.

The suite pins that the sandbox subnet and registry address sit outside 169.254.0.0/16 — which fails on the pre-fix constants — and pins each refusal message: empty network, verified sole registry, foreign container, registry sharing the network, same-name container without the ownership label, and each of the four probe failures. The refusal cases assert both that no removal command was issued and that none appears in the message text.

portable-host-preparation.test.ts keeps the existing #9587 contract test's intent — the host gateway stays outside the sandbox subnet — but its assertion that the retired 169.254.1.2 falls inside that subnet was removed rather than re-valued, because it is meaningless once the subnet is no longer link-local.

Not reproduced on hardware

The failing configuration is a DGX Spark with rootless Podman 4.9.3 and netavark 1.4.0, which I do not have. Verification here is static and unit-level. The reporter's own probe on the failing host confirms the range class works: podman network create --subnet 169.254.1.0/24 fails, and an ordinary private /24 succeeds. A maintainer with the reporter's host should confirm the portable onboard reaches Ready.

Failing check on this head

cli-test-shards (9) is red at 8ddf0600da, which also fails cli-tests and checks. It is not caused by this change. The shard exhausted the 4 GB Node.js heap in test/onboard-selection.test.ts:1472, and the reported AssertionError: null !== 0 is the spawned child's status after the OOM kill, not a behavior assertion. That is the same failure PR #9725 ("fail closed on unscripted child prompts") was opened to fix, from the same unbounded model-selection retry loop. This PR touches no file in that suite's import graph.

Pre-existing failures on this base

Re-verified at the current merge base 1f1bb19cd1 with this change applied: created-sandbox-finalization, experimental/hermes-portable-lifecycle, experimental/hermes-portable-onboarding, runtime-provider/docker-llama-cpp-managed-lifecycle, and runtime-provider/docker-operation-authority still fail. None of them import or exercise the files this PR changes. The same list was confirmed earlier at fa3ff84fec with the change fully reverted.


Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang dongniy@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Updated Portable networking to use the 10.87.0.0/24 subnet, with gateway 10.87.0.1 and registry address 10.87.0.3.
    • Improved recovery for retired network configurations with ownership-aware guidance.
    • Added safeguards to prevent removal of unmanaged containers or networks.
    • Clarified recovery steps for failed environment checks and registry cleanup.
  • Documentation

    • Updated Portable networking setup instructions with the new addresses and recovery steps.
    • Clarified when onboarding must be rerun after network cleanup.

`nemoclaw onboard --experimental-profile portable` failed deterministically at
network creation. Podman's netavark backend refuses to allocate any bridge
network inside the RFC 3927 link-local block, so creating the sandbox network
on 169.254.1.0/24 always returned "subnet 169.254.1.0/24 is already used on
the host or by another config" and onboarding aborted before any sandbox,
registry, or gateway state existed.

The sandbox subnet and the managed registry address now use 10.87.0.0/24.
That range sits below Podman's own 10.88.0.0/16 bridge and every base in its
default_subnet_pools, and outside Docker's 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16
default pools, so neither runtime allocates it for another network.

The host gateway keeps its 169.254.2.2/32 loopback alias. Netavark validates
bridge subnets, not loopback aliases, so that address is unaffected, and
#9587 placed it outside the sandbox subnet on purpose.

A host onboarded before this change keeps a network on the retired subnet,
which the reuse guard would reject with a message that does not say what to
do. Name the retired subnet so that host gets the removal command instead.

Refs: #9587
Closes: #9707
Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang <dongniy@nvidia.com>
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Portable networking now uses the private 10.87.0.0/24 subnet, gateway 10.87.0.1, and registry address 10.87.0.3. Onboarding validates stale-network evidence and provides conditional Podman recovery commands. Rootless E2E tests validate resource identity, cleanup, revisions, and workflow behavior.

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Portable networking

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Network address contract
src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-profile.ts, test/helpers/..., src/lib/onboard/...test.ts, test/e2e/live/...
Portable networking and fixtures use the new subnet, gateway, and registry addresses.
Retired subnet recovery
src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-host-preparation.ts, src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-retired-subnet-recovery.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-host-preparation.test.ts, docs/inference/...
Onboarding validates network identity, attachment data, registry ownership, resource IDs, and socket authority. Recovery handles empty networks and verified registries without forced removal.
Rootless E2E validation
test/e2e/live/portable-profile-rootless-linux.test.ts, test/e2e/support/..., ci/source-shape-test-budget.json
E2E tests validate exact revisions, full IDs, non-force removal, portable resources, cleanup, receipt artifacts, and workflow contracts.
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.github/workflows/portable-profile-e2e.yaml
The workflow supports pull requests, pins the head revision, groups concurrent runs, and includes the revision in artifact names.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 39c12

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  PortableOnboarding->>Podman: inspect retired network and registry
  Podman-->>PortableOnboarding: return validated resource evidence
  PortableOnboarding-->>Operator: provide conditional recovery commands
  Operator->>Podman: remove permitted resources without force
  E2EWorkflow->>Podman: verify network identity and cleanup
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Comment thread src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-host-preparation.ts
@senthilr-nv senthilr-nv added bug-fix PR fixes a bug or regression integration: hermes Hermes integration behavior area: networking DNS, proxy, TLS, ports, host aliases, or connectivity area: onboarding Onboarding FSM, provider setup, sandbox launch, or first-run flow platform: container Affects Docker, containerd, Podman, or images security v0.0.113 labels Aug 20, 2026
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CHANGE REQUEST

The retired-subnet recovery is incomplete for an upgraded Portable host.

preparePortableExperimentalHost calls ensurePortableSandboxNetwork before ensureRegistryContainer. When openshell-docker still uses 169.254.1.0/24, onboarding stops with podman network rm openshell-docker. A NemoClaw-managed nemoclaw-portable-registry can still be attached to that network, so Podman refuses the removal. Using network rm --force would risk deleting unrelated containers and is not acceptable.

Please make the recovery ownership-aware before recommending or performing mutation:

  • Inspect the existing nemoclaw-portable-registry and require the exact NemoClaw ownership label.
  • For an owned registry attached to the retired network, either migrate it automatically in the safe order or provide an exact ordered recovery: remove only the verified managed registry, remove the retired network without --force, then rerun onboarding.
  • Refuse automatic removal and deletion guidance for an unmanaged same-name container or ambiguous attachment.
  • Update the owning documentation with the same ordered recovery.
  • Add regression coverage for the retired network with an attached owned registry, plus a negative case proving an unmanaged same-name registry is never removed.

This must be resolved before merge because the current guidance cannot complete the supported upgrade state.

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CHANGE REQUEST REVIEW BLOCK

This review blocks merge at commit 67e1fe58169b69014f45bb7aba7c60dec070d157 until the retired-subnet recovery is ownership-aware and can complete without --force. The exact required correction and regression evidence are recorded in #9714 (comment).

The retired-subnet guidance named `podman network rm` on its own. Podman
refuses that removal while a container is attached, and the managed registry
can still be attached because the network check runs before the registry
step. `network rm --force` would clear the attachment but also deletes
containers NemoClaw does not own, so it is not an acceptable instruction.

Inspect the registry for the NemoClaw ownership label before naming anything
for removal. An owned registry gets an ordered recovery that removes the
registry first and the network without `--force`. A container that does not
carry the label is never named for removal; the operator resolves it. The
retired-subnet path still performs no mutation of its own.

The retired-subnet cases move to their own test file. Adding them in place
put portable-host-preparation.test.ts over the 1500-line budget.

Refs: #9707
Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang <dongniy@nvidia.com>
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Addressed in 7eeb9e7. The finding was correct: ensurePortableSandboxNetwork runs before ensureRegistryContainer, so an attached managed registry makes a plain podman network rm exit non-zero, and --force would delete containers NemoClaw does not own.

Ownership check before any name is printed. retiredNetworkRegistryAttachment inspects nemoclaw-portable-registry through the same label format ensureRegistryContainer already uses, now shared as registryInspectionArgs. It classifies three states:

  • detached — container absent, or present but not attached to the retired network. Guidance names only podman network rm <network>.
  • owned-attached — label com.nvidia.nemoclaw.portable=1 present and attached. Guidance is ordered and --force-free: podman rm -f nemoclaw-portable-registry, then podman network rm <network>, then rerun.
  • unmanaged — label absent, an unexpected value, or unreadable evidence. NemoClaw does not name that container for removal and tells the operator to resolve it.

I chose ordered guidance over automatic migration. Automatic removal on an upgrade path mutates host state before the operator has seen the diagnosis, and the recovery is two commands. The retired-subnet path still issues no mutating command of its own.

Coverage is in the new src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-retired-subnet-recovery.test.ts: the retired network with an attached owned registry, the negative case proving an unmanaged same-name registry is never named for removal, and the detached case. Each asserts the exact guidance and additionally asserts no issued command matches /\brm\b|--force/, so the no-mutation property is pinned rather than implied.

The cases went to their own file because adding them in place put portable-host-preparation.test.ts at 1540 lines, over the 1500-line budget the growth guardrail enforces.

Docs in docs/inference/set-up-openai-compatible-endpoint.mdx now carry the same ordered recovery, including the explicit note that --force on the network removal would delete containers NemoClaw does not own, and the unmanaged-container case.

Verification: portable-retired-subnet-recovery and portable-host-preparation → 50 passed; npm run typecheck:cli, npm run checks:repository, and test/growth-guardrails.test.ts (32 passed) all clean.

Still unreproduced on hardware, as noted in the description — I have no DGX Spark or rootless Podman host, so the netavark rejection and this recovery path are verified statically and at unit level only.

Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang dongniy@nvidia.com

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Thanks for the update. I am keeping CHANGES_REQUESTED on 7eeb9e7.

This needs another code revision before the final rootless Podman test. The current check looks only for nemoclaw-portable-registry; it does not check whether any other running or stopped container is connected to openshell-docker. It also treats every failed registry inspection as if the registry were absent. Either case can produce network-removal instructions without proving they are safe.

Please update the code to inspect all running and stopped containers connected to the retired network through the verified current-user Podman socket. This is a local Podman check; no files, logs, or sensitive data should be uploaded. If inspection fails or any other container is connected, stop without showing removal commands. Show ordered commands with full container and network IDs only when the network is empty or the verified NemoClaw registry is its sole connected container. Add the matching negative tests and docs, narrow the Docker pool claim, and select the rootless PR test that proves non-force removal by full network ID.

This remains blocked until those changes land and the maintainer rootless check passes.

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src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-retired-subnet-recovery.test.ts (1)

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Remove the exact CLI call-count assertion.

Line 130 locks the test to the current three inspection calls. A future non-mutating probe will fail this test without changing recovery behavior. Lines 131-132 already verify that recovery does not issue a destructive command.

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In `@src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-retired-subnet-recovery.test.ts` around
lines 130 - 132, Remove the exact docker call-count assertion in the recovery
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In `@docs/inference/set-up-openai-compatible-endpoint.mdx`:
- Around line 157-174: Update the Portable onboarding recovery guidance to
distinguish registry inspection failures from a confirmed detached/no-registry
state; instruct operators to resolve any non-zero inspection result before
removing the openshell-docker network or containers, while preserving the
existing removal order for confirmed managed-registry cases.

In `@src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-host-preparation.ts`:
- Around line 454-460: Update the registry inspection parsing in the relevant
classification logic to use a fixed field delimiter, return "detached" whenever
networkIp is empty before evaluating owner, and retain ownership checks for
attached registries. Apply the same change to the additional classification
site, and update portable-retired-subnet-recovery.test.ts fixtures to use the
delimiter and cover an unmanaged detached registry receiving the normal
network-removal guidance.

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In `@src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-retired-subnet-recovery.test.ts`:
- Around line 130-132: Remove the exact docker call-count assertion in the
recovery test, including the toHaveBeenCalledTimes(3) check. Retain the
issued-command inspection and its assertion that no destructive rm or force
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The recovery guidance checked only the managed registry by name. Any other
running or stopped container connected to the retired network also blocks a
non-force removal, so the printed commands could still fail. A failed
registry inspection was also read as absence, which produced removal
guidance from evidence that was never obtained.

Enumerate every container connected to the retired network through the
verified current-user Podman socket, including stopped ones. Print ordered
removal commands, with full container and network IDs, only when the network
has no connected container or the verified NemoClaw registry is its sole
connected container. Any other container, or any probe that cannot be read,
stops onboarding with no removal command at all.

Join the container inspection fields with an explicit separator. A missing
ownership label renders as `<no value>`, which contains a space, so
whitespace splitting misread both the label and the network address.

Refs: #9707
Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang <dongniy@nvidia.com>
The portable CPU delegation proof pins the exact Docker-compatible commands
preparation may issue. The registry inspection now joins its fields with an
explicit separator, so the pinned command and its stubbed result have to
carry the same separator.

Refs: #9707
Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang <dongniy@nvidia.com>

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removal is safe before disconnecting or deleting it. If ownership or safety
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The recovery said the sequence used no `--force` while printing
`podman rm -f`, and the documentation told an operator to remove a foreign
container that onboarding had just refused to name.

Print `podman stop` then `podman rm` for the verified registry, so every
printed step is force-free and matches what the text claims. For a container
NemoClaw does not own, the documentation now requires identifying the owner
and confirming removal is safe, and says to leave the container in place and
use a separate recovery process otherwise.

Refs: #9707
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Landed across 4a441a025a, 55ea38ad74, and 8ddf0600da. Your points in order.

Inspect all connected containers, running and stopped. inspectRetiredNetworkOccupancy runs ps -a --no-trunc --filter network=<network> over the same verified current-user Podman socket the rest of preparation uses. ps -a is deliberate: a stopped container keeps its endpoint and still blocks a non-force removal. Local read-only probe; nothing is uploaded.

Inspection failure is no longer absence. The network-identity probe, the connected-container list, and the ownership inspection all go through requireCommand, so a non-zero status or spawn error throws instead of falling into the empty-network branch. An empty network ID also throws rather than emitting a command with a blank argument.

Stop without removal commands. Commands print only when the network has no connected container, or the sole connected container is named nemoclaw-portable-registry and carries com.nvidia.nemoclaw.portable=1. A foreign container, the registry sharing the network, a same-name container without the label, or any unreadable probe produces an error containing no removal command.

Full IDs. Network ID from network inspect --format {{.Id}}, container ID from ps --no-trunc.

Negative tests. Four refusal cases and three foreign-container cases, each asserting no mutating command was issued and that the message contains no podman rm / podman network rm and no network ID. My first version asserted only issued commands, which was too weak.

Docker pool claim narrowed. The description no longer asserts a documented Docker default. dockerd docs do not state the effective default for default-address-pools; the daemon.json example showing 172.30.0.0/16 and 172.31.0.0/16 is an example. I now claim only what I can source: Podman's default_subnet_pools bases from containers/common cover 10.89.0.0-10.255.255.255, and 10.87.0.0/24 sits below all of them and below the 10.88.0.0/16 default bridge. For Docker I claim only that it is outside the conventional 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16 space. That also rules out the reporter's suggested 10.250.1.0/24, which falls inside the 10.128.0.0/9 base.

Two further corrections from this round's review, both of which I agree were wrong in my previous push:

  • The message claimed the sequence used no --force while printing podman rm -f. The registry sequence is now podman stop <id>, podman rm <id>, then podman network rm <id> — every printed step is force-free and matches the text.
  • The documentation told an operator to "disconnect or remove" a foreign container immediately after onboarding refused to name it. It now requires identifying the owner and confirming removal is safe, and says to leave the container in place and use a separate recovery process otherwise.

One defect your review surfaced indirectly. A missing ownership label renders as <no value>, which contains a space, so whitespace splitting misread both the label and the network address. Fields now use an explicit separator, which also repairs the same latent misparse in the pre-existing ensureRegistryContainer reader. 55ea38ad74 updates the portable CPU delegation proof, which pins the exact command string and failed on the new separator.

Rootless PR test — I want your call before touching it. The fitting lane is Runtime / Podman CPU Proof / Rootless Podman CPU lifecycle with Docker disabled (podman-cpu-lifecycle in .github/workflows/podman-cpu-proof.yaml), since it exercises real rootless Podman with Docker disabled. Portable CPU delegation admission on Ubuntu 22.04 stubs the Docker-compatible surface and cannot prove a real removal.

The proof I would add: create a network on 169.254.1.0/24, attach the managed registry, run onboarding to capture the printed sequence, execute it verbatim, and assert podman network rm <full-network-id> succeeds with no --force and the network is gone. I have not written it, because it extends the qualification harness you own and you gated merge on the maintainer rootless check. Tell me whether to add that step or whether you would rather run the check against these commits.

Standing caveat: I have no DGX Spark and no rootless Podman host, so all of the above is verified statically and at unit level.

Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang dongniy@nvidia.com

Signed-off-by: Senthil Ravichandran <senthilr@nvidia.com>

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test/e2e/support/portable-profile-rootless-runtime-workflow.test.ts (1)

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Read the live test through readRepoText.

Line 23 reads the live test with a relative path, so the read depends on the process working directory. Line 100 reads the same file through readRepoText, which joins REPO_ROOT. Use one mechanism for both reads.

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-    const liveTest = fs.readFileSync(
-      "test/e2e/live/portable-profile-rootless-linux.test.ts",
-      "utf-8",
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The node:fs import at line 4 then becomes unused; remove it if no other read remains.

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In `@test/e2e/support/portable-profile-rootless-runtime-workflow.test.ts` around
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Reviewed exact head .\n\nSecurity verdict: PASS — no blocking findings. The retired-subnet path fails closed, reasserts the verified current-user Podman socket around every read, inventories running and stopped attachments, accepts only an empty network or the sole exact NemoClaw-owned registry, and emits full 64-character IDs in ordered non-force commands without performing mutation. The PR workflow uses an ephemeral GitHub-hosted runner, read-only token access, credential-free exact-SHA checkout, and the exact-head rootless proof passed all phases.\n\nThe remaining CodeRabbit note is non-blocking test maintainability and does not weaken the contract or evidence.\n\n@senthilr-nv, the conditions in the older change-request review appear satisfied at the current head; please clear or refresh that review when ready.

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Resolved on the current commit. Recovery verifies the exact managed registry ownership label and complete attachment set, emits an ordered force-free stop/remove/network-remove sequence only for the sole owned registry, refuses ambiguous or unmanaged cases, and keeps documentation and focused tests aligned.

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Maintainer CI follow-up: reran the sole required CLI failure on the unchanged head 1622e99. The original failure was an unrelated 5-second timeout in src/lib/inference/serving/profile-list.test.ts; the rerun passed in 7m36s, and the aggregate cli-tests plus required checks gate are now green.

Review remains APPROVED, all eight commits are verified, DCO and CodeRabbit threads pass, and GitHub reports MERGEABLE. The only remaining failing statuses are the two advisory trusted-private MCP discovery repetitions; they reproduce the same concurrent-add race outside this portable-subnet diff. No PR code was changed.

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