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Problem

  • Darwin shards die mid-run with SystemError [ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR]: uv_os_get_passwd returned ENOENT at spawnBun (scripts/runner.node.mjs:1765), which called os.userInfo() per test file. Builds 113713, 112842, 112537, 104623.
  • The cause is the com.buildkite.cleanup LaunchDaemon from scripts/agent.mjs:217-240 (scripts/agent.mjs: macOS launchd install + start support #29672). At 06:27 local time it wipes builds/* on the bare minis and runs shutdown -r now under the running job. Once shutdown stops opendirectoryd, getpwuid_r finds no entry.
  • The runner exits 1 before the agent dies. Buildkite records a test failure, which getRetry() does not retry.

Fix

Background

  • scripts/runner.node.mjs is the CI test driver. It runs under node and spawns one bun test per file through spawnBun.
  • os.userInfo() is libuv's uv_os_get_passwd, a getpwuid_r call. On macOS opendirectoryd serves it.
  • getRetry() in .buildkite/ci.mjs retries a job whose agent dropped the connection (exit_status: -1).

@alii @dylan-conway: two calls are yours. Whether the runner keeps this once #40349 lands, and who redeploys the 13 minis.

Notes

Timing. Every darwin test-bun job that failed this way, with the host from the job's agent record and the finish time in UTC:

build   host                   exit  finished (UTC)
113713  darwin-arm64-crouton    1    2026-09-10 05:27:23
112537  darwin-arm64-breadstick 1    2026-09-08 05:27:26
112535  biscuit                 1    2026-09-08 05:27:16
104623  darwin-arm64-breadstick 1    2026-08-24 05:27:26
104622  darwin-arm64-crouton    1    2026-08-24 05:27:23
112842  darwin-x64-cornbread    1    2026-09-08 13:27:28
112842  darwin-x64-pita        -1    2026-09-08 13:27:22  (lost agent, retried, passed)
112835  darwin-x64-flatbread    1    2026-09-08 13:27:31
112835  darwin-x64-rye         -1    2026-09-08 13:31:00  (lost agent, retried, passed)
103586  darwin-x64-matzo        1    2026-08-22 13:27:36
103586  darwin-x64-bagel        1    2026-08-22 13:27:31

The agent name darwin-aarch64-26.6.1-1 is shared by crouton, breadstick and biscuit, and darwin-x64-14.8.9-1 by eight x64 minis, which is why the reports looked like one box failing twice at a time. The two -1 rows are the same incident where the kill reached the agent before the runner reached its next userInfo() call. Those jobs were retried and the retries passed. That is the outcome this PR makes the normal one.

On the host. ssh root@darwin-arm64-crouton, 15 minutes after build 113713's shard died:

tz=IST+0100
$ last reboot | head -4
reboot time    Thu Sep 10 06:27
shutdown time  Thu Sep 10 06:27
reboot time    Wed Sep  9 06:27
shutdown time  Wed Sep  9 06:27
$ cat /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.buildkite.cleanup.plist
... rm -rf $BASE_PREFIX/{var,etc}/buildkite-agent/{builds,cache}/* /Users/administrator/Library/Services/buildkite-agent/{builds,cache}/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* ...; { shutdown -r now || reboot; }
StartCalendarInterval Hour 6 Minute 27

In the job log the wipe shows first (Test filter ".../abort.test.ts" had no matches at 05:27:03, the file was gone), then the passwd failure at 05:27:23 when shutdown had stopped opendirectoryd.

Runner repro without a Mac. Copy scripts/{runner.node,utils,p-limit,yocto-queue}.mjs, test/docker/prestart-map.mjs and test/leaksan.supp into a directory with a test/*.test.ts file, then run the copy under node with a preload that replaces os.userInfo (through module.syncBuiltinESMExports()) with a function that throws:

env -u CI -u BUILDKITE node --import=file:///tmp/preload.mjs scripts/runner.node.mjs --exec-path=$(which bun) --quiet

With scripts/ from main this exits 1 at the first test with the stack from the CI log (at spawnBun (runner.node.mjs:1765:33), at spawnBunTest (2007:48), at runTest (696:24)). With this branch os.userInfo() is called once, every file runs with USER and HOME from the environment, and the run ends normally. For the read site, add test/js/node/test/parallel/test-gone.js and a bun test that deletes it: main dies at readFileSync ... at runOneTest (runner.node.mjs:847:29) before the node test's step, this branch reports test-gone.js - code 1 and runs the rest. The agent environment on the minis has USER=administrator LOGNAME=administrator HOME=/Users/administrator, the same values the passwd entry has.

The test. An earlier revision ran the copied runner under node from the test itself. That was cut back to an in-process check of getUserInfo() through mock.module("node:os"), in the style of runner-junit.test.ts, after a similar harness was removed from #40349 in review. The repro above covers the runner end to end.

What remains. mkdtempSync in spawnBun would throw if the temporary directory itself vanished. The wipe removes /tmp/*, not /tmp, so it does not.


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passes on PR (with fix)
Test-only change.

Debug/ASAN (expected pass):
$ bun bd test 'test/internal/runner-user-info.test.ts'
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test test/internal/runner-user-info.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (5f554969b)

test/internal/runner-user-info.test.ts:
os.userInfo() failed, using USER and HOME from the environment instead: warn: A system error occurred: uv_os_get_passwd returned ENOENT (no such file or directory)
      at userInfo (/workspace/bun/test/internal/runner-user-info.test.ts:20:17)
      at getUserInfo (/workspace/bun/scripts/utils.mjs:1630:37)
      at <anonymous> (/workspace/bun/test/internal/runner-user-info.test.ts:27:19)

(pass) getUserInfo() falls back to USER and HOME when os.userInfo() throws, and looks the user up once [16.15ms]

 1 pass
 0 fail
 4 expect() calls
Ran 1 test across 1 file. [2.69s]
Exit: 0
diff hotspot
scripts/runner.node.mjs                | 14 ++++++++++---
 scripts/utils.mjs                      | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 test/internal/runner-user-info.test.ts | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

gate history · 2 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 1

evidence per changed file
file                                    reads  edits  tests
scripts/runner.node.mjs                     6      3     28
scripts/utils.mjs                           2      1     25
test/internal/runner-user-info.test.ts      4      7     18

…Info() fails

spawnBun called os.userInfo() for every test file. On the bare macOS
minis the nightly cleanup daemon reboots the host at 06:27 local time
under a running job, and once opendirectoryd is down the lookup throws
`uv_os_get_passwd returned ENOENT`. The runner then exited 1 mid-shard,
which Buildkite records as a test failure instead of a lost agent, so
the job was not retried.
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Status: ready for review at c18cdbc. CI build 113857 is green for this diff on every lane. Its one red job is test/js/bun/http/serve-pending-promise-abort-leak.test.ts on debian x64-asan, which fails the same way on main and in all three builds of this PR, and which nothing here touches.

Reproduction: the job log of build 113713 (darwin-arm64-crouton, 2026-09-10 05:27:23 UTC) ends with uv_os_get_passwd returned ENOENT at spawnBun (scripts/runner.node.mjs:1765:33), twenty seconds after the first Test filter ... had no matches. Every other occurrence ends in the 06:27 local minute of its host, and last reboot on crouton shows the nightly 06:27 reboot from /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.buildkite.cleanup.plist. Locally, a copy of the runner under node --import=<preload that makes os.userInfo throw> scripts/runner.node.mjs --exec-path=$(which bun) --quiet exits 1 on main with the same stack and runs every file on this branch.

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The runner now uses cached user information with environment fallback when os.userInfo() fails. Node test loading tolerates files removed after discovery. A regression test verifies fallback and caching.

User information fallback

Layer / File(s) Summary
User information resolution
scripts/utils.mjs
getUserInfo() caches lookups, falls back to environment values after failure, and allows getUsername() to return undefined.
Runner integration and regression validation
scripts/runner.node.mjs, test/internal/runner-user-info.test.ts
spawnBun uses getUserInfo(). Node test loading handles removed files. The regression test verifies fallback, caching, and username propagation.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, dylan-conway

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c18cd

Caching user information with environment fallback keeps scheduled-reboot agents retryable, while disappearing test files fail only their own step instead of the whole shard. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

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LGTM — small, well-contained hardening of the CI runner scripts.

What was reviewed:

  • getUserInfo() in scripts/utils.mjs: cache is process-lifetime and keyed on nothing that varies, getEnv(..., false) is the correct non-throwing form, and the Windows env-var fallbacks (USERNAME/USERPROFILE) are covered.
  • getUsername() return-type widening to string | undefined: only caller is printEnvironment's console.log, which handles undefined fine.
  • spawnBun: on the double-fallback (env vars also absent) USER/HOME become undefined in bunEnv — strictly better than the previous throw, and the target scenario (macOS agent) always has them set.
  • Test follows harness conventions: tempDir, await using, concurrent pipe drain, output asserted before exit code, test.skipIf(!node) for the required Node binary.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR touches only CI tooling: scripts/utils.mjs gains a cached getUserInfo() helper that wraps os.userInfo() with a one-time call and an env-var fallback (USER/LOGNAME/USERNAME, HOME/USERPROFILE) when the passwd lookup throws; getUsername() is rewired to it and its JSDoc widened to string | undefined. scripts/runner.node.mjs's spawnBun swaps its per-test-file os.userInfo() call for the cached helper. A new test at test/internal/runner-user-info.test.ts runs the helper under Node with a --import preload that stubs os.userInfo() to throw, and asserts the fallback values, caching (same object reference across calls), single underlying call, and the warning on stderr.

Security risks

None. This is internal CI orchestration code, not shipped in the bun binary. No user-controlled input flows into anything sensitive; the only new data source is the process's own environment variables, which the runner already spreads wholesale into the child env (...process.env) a few lines above. No auth, crypto, or filesystem-path construction from untrusted data is involved.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-moderate. The change is ~30 lines of straightforward defensive code in a Node-run CI script, with a clear failure mode (documented ENOENT from getpwuid_r during macOS shutdown) and a conservative fix (cache + env fallback + warn). It does not touch src/, native code, or any user-facing runtime surface. No CODEOWNERS entry covers scripts/ or test/internal/. The bug-hunting pass ran to a dry streak with no findings.

Other factors

I checked downstream callers of getUsername() for the widened return type — the only call site is printEnvironment's console.log("Username:", ...), which is fine with undefined. In spawnBun, if both the passwd lookup and the env vars are absent, USER/HOME in the constructed bunEnv become undefined; that's still strictly better than the pre-PR behavior (uncaught throw ending the shard), and the motivating environment always exports these. The new test adheres to the repo's harness conventions (REVIEW.md / CLAUDE.md): tempDir, bunEnv spread, await using on the spawned process, Promise.all draining of stdout/stderr/exited, content assertions before exitCode, test.skipIf(!node) for the external Node dependency, and it exercises the actual observable (JSON output + stderr warning) rather than timing.

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❌ @robobun, your commit c18cdbc has 1 failures in Build #113857 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 42174

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-42174 executable, so you can run:

bun-42174 --bun

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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LGTM — the second fixture file addresses the earlier note, so the os.userInfo() calls: 1 assertion now distinguishes the cached lookup from a per-file one.

What was reviewed: the getUserInfo() cache and env fallback in scripts/utils.mjs (getEnv's required=false semantics, POSIX+Windows env var coverage, warn-not-swallow on failure); getUsername() rewired through the same path and its return type loosened; spawnBun no longer calling os.userInfo() per file; the test's two-file setup, preload via syncBuiltinESMExports, pipe draining via Promise.all, and output-before-exit-code ordering.

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Overview

This PR touches CI tooling only: scripts/runner.node.mjs swaps a direct per-file os.userInfo() call for a new cached getUserInfo() helper in scripts/utils.mjs, which falls back to USER/LOGNAME/USERNAME and HOME/USERPROFILE with a console.warn when the passwd lookup throws. getUsername() is rewired through the same helper. A new integration test at test/internal/runner-user-info.test.ts copies the runner scripts into a temp dir, runs them under real Node with a --import preload that makes os.userInfo() throw and count calls, and asserts the fallback warning, the propagated env values in both spawned test files, a single lookup call, and a zero exit.

Security risks

None. The change is confined to the CI test-driver script and its utilities; it reads a handful of well-known environment variables and does not touch runtime, network, auth, or crypto paths. No new external inputs are introduced.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-moderate. This is infrastructure hardening for a well-diagnosed macOS shutdown race, not user-facing runtime behaviour. The fix is small (cache + try/catch + env fallback), the failure mode it addresses is clearly documented in the JSDoc, and the fallback path warns rather than swallowing — satisfying REVIEW.md's "never swallow a failure" rule. getEnv(name, false) was checked to confirm it returns undefined rather than throwing, so the fallback chain is safe even when none of the env vars are set.

Other factors

The prior review's one optional finding — that the calls: 1 assertion was vacuous with a single fixture under --quiet — was addressed in the latest commit by adding a second fixture (test/first.test.ts + test/second.test.ts) so spawnBun runs twice while the counter must still read 1. The test follows harness conventions (tempDir, bunEnv/bunExe, await using, concurrent pipe draining, output asserted before exit code, test.skipIf(!node) when Node is unavailable). No CODEOWNERS entries cover scripts/ or test/internal/. No outstanding CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews; the coderabbit threads were commented-only and followed by fix commits. Exit reason was dry_streak.

… instead of ending the run; shrink the test to a unit check

runTests read each node test file with readFileSync() outside its step.
When the checkout is wiped under the run, that throw ended the shard
with exit 1, the same way the os.userInfo() call did. The read now
yields an empty string and the step fails on the missing file with
bun's own error.

The test is now an in-process check of getUserInfo() through
mock.module("node:os"), in the style of runner-junit.test.ts, instead
of a copy of the runner under node.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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LGTM — the readFileSync catch now maps only ENOENT to the benign path and rethrows everything else, which was my last remaining concern.

Checked: getUserInfo() cache + env fallback chain covers POSIX and Windows vars; the spawnBun call site and getUsername() both route through it and the orphaned userInfo import is removed. The test now calls getUserInfo() three times so calls === 1 genuinely proves memoization (earlier vacuous-assertion concern addressed), and the mock is restored in finally.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR touches CI tooling only: scripts/utils.mjs gains a cached getUserInfo() with an env-var fallback for when os.userInfo() throws (macOS opendirectoryd gone during host shutdown), scripts/runner.node.mjs routes spawnBun through it and wraps the per-node-test readFileSync so an ENOENT on a wiped checkout fails only that test's step instead of aborting the whole shard, and test/internal/runner-user-info.test.ts covers the fallback and caching via mock.module("node:os").

Security risks

None. This is internal CI orchestration script code, not shipped runtime. No user-controlled input reaches new code paths; the env-var fallback reads the runner's own process environment.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-moderate. Small, self-contained defensive change to non-shipped infrastructure. Two prior review rounds raised (1) a vacuous cache-count assertion and (2) a blanket catch {} on the file read; both are now fixed in code — the test invokes getUserInfo() multiple times so the count distinguishes cached from uncached, and the catch rethrows anything that isn't ENOENT, matching REVIEW.md's "map only the specific expected errno to the benign path".

Other factors

The env fallback chain (USER/LOGNAME/USERNAME, HOME/USERPROFILE) covers both POSIX and Windows agents. The dead userInfo import in runner.node.mjs is removed. cachedUserInfo is module-level but nothing populates it at import time, so the test's mock takes effect before the first call. No outstanding CHANGES_REQUESTED from other reviewers; all prior threads correspond to code that has visibly changed to address them.

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Closing: #43595 converted scripts/runner.node.mjs and scripts/utils.mjs to TypeScript, so this branch no longer applies. #43611 carries the same runner change on the new files, together with the cleanup daemon fix from #40349. The failure happened again on 2026-09-20 in builds 118828, 118829 and 118830.

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