[kylerankin]

fix: record setup version only after the hook body succeeds

version-script() in system_files/shared/usr/lib/ublue/setup-services/libsetup.sh
wrote the new version into $SETUP_CHECKER_FILE as part of the gate check,
before the calling hook had done any of its work. Every hook uses it as
version-script <name> <type> <n> || exit 0 and then does the real work, so a
failing body (offline machine, masked unit, missing package) left the version
already recorded and the gate made every later run exit 0 immediately — the
first-boot setup step was skipped silently and permanently.

This is #1137.

Change

Split the gate from the commit so the version is only recorded on success,
without changing the existing version-script contract:

• version-script keeps its current check-and-record behaviour (unchanged
  from main), so downstream hooks that call version-script ... || exit 0
  keep working.
• add version-script-check <name> <type> <n>, a read-only gate that
  records nothing.
• add version-script-commit <name> <type> <n>, which holds the flock
  across the whole read-modify-write and returns non-zero if the write fails;
  hooks call it at the end of their body, so a failed body never reaches the
  commit and retries next boot.
• _ensure_versioning_file (create/validate) and _write_version (jq + mv)
  are lock-free helpers; callers hold the lock.

The five in-repo hooks below move to version-script-check +
version-script-commit; downstream hooks can migrate one at a time.

Applied to the dynamic-wallpaper, theming, framework, asus and oem-brew hooks.

Tests

• flip the dynamic-wallpaper characterization test to assert the retry instead
  of the burn (tests/test_dynamic_wallpaper_hook.bats)
• add tests/test_libsetup.bats case: "failed body does not record the version"

All of just check, pre-commit run --all-files, the libsetup,
dynamic_wallpaper_hook, theming_hook and setup_scripts bats files, and the
pytest suite pass.

Closes #1137.

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[hivecommons-hive]

The split into a read-only version-script gate plus an explicit version-script-commit is the right shape for #1137, and the dynamic-wallpaper regression test proves it for hooks that abort on failure. Three things I verified against the tree that I think need a decision before this lands:

1. Two of the five converted hooks still burn the version on failure. 10-framework.sh and 11-asus.sh have no set -e (checked: only 20-dynamic-wallpaper.sh, 10-theming.sh and 20-oem-brew.sh set it). Without it, a failing systemctl/udevadm/modprobe in the body doesn't stop the script, so the unconditional version-script-commit framework system 3 at 10-framework.sh:80 and version-script-commit asus system 1 at 11-asus.sh:37 run anyway. For those two hooks the PR's stated goal — "record success only after the body ran" — isn't achieved; either add set -e (or an explicit || exit 1 on the steps that matter) or drop the claim for them.

2. The write is no longer under the lock. At main, libsetup.sh:22-57 held flock -x 200 around the read and the jq … > tmp && mv; the comment there explains it prevents concurrent user-setup and privileged-setup from clobbering each other. In this PR _setup_versioning_file takes the lock only to create/validate the file (libsetup.sh:71-85), then returns; version-script-commit's jq … > "${tmp}" + mv (libsetup.sh:56-60) runs unlocked. Two hooks committing to the same SETUP_CHECKER_FILE concurrently is now a classic read-modify-write lost update — one hook's stamp silently disappears and it re-runs on the next boot. The commit should hold the same flock around its jq+mv.

3. Downstream hooks that call version-script without version-script-commit will now re-run every boot. This changes the contract of a library other images source. One concrete authorized example: projectbluefin/utah system_files/shared/usr/share/ublue-os/user-setup.hooks.d/20-framework.sh:8 does version-script 20-framework user 1 || exit 0 with no commit — under this libsetup it would never record and would re-run on every login. Any image consuming common's libsetup.sh needs a matching change, and the docs still describe the old contract (docs/skills/oem-hardware-hooks/SKILL.md:81 — "the stamp is written before your hook logic runs"; references/hook-patterns.md:11). Neither is updated here.

Question for a maintainer: is a hard contract break on version-script acceptable, or should the commit be opt-in (e.g. a new gate name) so existing downstream hooks keep their current behaviour until migrated?

Confidence: 1/5 (needs attention) — 1 high finding; 2 medium findings

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[castrojo]

LGTM. Splitting version-script into a read gate and explicit version-script-commit prevents permanent skip on transient failure. BATS tests thoroughly verify both gate and commit behaviors.

[kylerankin]

Thanks for the review — findings 1 and 2 were real bugs in this PR; both are fixed and the suites touching the changed files plus shellcheck pass.

1. framework/asus still burned the version on failure — fixed. Added set -xe right after the version-script gate in 10-framework.sh and 11-asus.sh, matching the pattern the other three converted hooks already used. A failing body step now aborts before version-script-commit, so those two hooks honor the "record success only after the body ran" goal. Verified against tests/test_hardware_hooks.bats (all cases still green with the fixture DMI/proc tree present).

2. Write was no longer under the lock — fixed. Split _setup_versioning_file into a non-locking _ensure_versioning_file (create/validate) plus the locking wrapper. version-script-commit now takes the exclusive flock across the whole read-modify-write — _ensure_versioning_file + jq + mv — so two hooks committing to the same SETUP_CHECKER_FILE can no longer lost-update. version-script (the read gate) keeps using the locking wrapper.

3. Downstream contract break — needs a maintainer decision, flagging not resolving. You are right that this changes the sourced-library contract: any image that consumes common's libsetup.sh and calls version-script without the new version-script-commit will re-run every boot. I updated the two stale doc spots (oem-hardware-hooks/SKILL.md, references/hook-patterns.md) to the gate/commit contract. But whether a hard break on version-script is acceptable — vs. keeping the old recording behaviour and making the commit opt-in under a new gate name — is a call on downstream image impact that I should not make unilaterally. Which way do you want it?

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[castrojo]

Reviewed commit 2a55890: holding exclusive flock across version-script-commit prevents concurrent commit race, and adding set -xe to hardware hooks ensures errors abort before version stamping.

[kylerankin]

Thanks for the three — 1 and 2 were already landed in-tree on this branch (commit 2a55890, fix(libsetup): hold lock across version commit; make framework/asus abort on failure), and I re-verified against the current head:

1. Burn on failure — 10-framework.sh and 11-asus.sh now carry set -xe and only reach version-script-commit at the very end, so a failing body aborts before the stamp. Confirmed both set the flag now.
2. Unlock write — version-script-commit holds the same flock -x 200 across the whole create/validate + jq + mv, restoring the original read-modify-write atomicity.
3. Downstream contract — the docs (SKILL.md, references/hook-patterns.md) now describe the read-only gate + explicit commit contract. For the actual downstream consumers: Utah's four hooks (10-tailscale, 11-framework-ucsi-workaround, 99-flatpaks, 20-framework) call version-script ... || exit 0 with no commit, so under the new contract they'd re-run every boot. I migrated them to the same pattern in fix(libsetup): adopt version-script-commit in Utah hooks utah#259 so the in-scope consumer doesn't regress.

Answering your maintainer question: I went with migrate downstream rather than an opt-in commit gate — the new contract is strictly safer (never permanently burn a hook) and the migration is mechanical, so #259 carries it. If you'd rather keep old hooks on the write-on-read behavior until they migrate individually, say so and I'll revert #259 and revisit the lib design.

Can you re-check when you get a chance?

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[hivecommons-hive]

HUMAN DECISION NEEDED — @kylerankin: this makes version-script a no-write gate in the shared libsetup.sh that every downstream image copies; decide whether to ship a backward-compatible shim or coordinate downstream hook migrations before merge.

correctness

• Critical — every downstream hook re-runs on every boot/login. libsetup.sh is consumed verbatim by downstream images (projectbluefin/bluefin Containerfile:48 COPY --from=common /system_files/shared; bluefin, bluefin-lts and utah ship no libsetup of their own). Their hooks still use the old contract — e.g. bluefin privileged-setup.hooks.d/10-tailscale.sh:6 version-script tailscale privileged 1 || exit 0 with no version-script-commit; same for bluefin 99-flatpaks.sh, 11-framework-ucsi-workaround.sh, 12-framework-amd-kargs-cleanup.sh, bluefin-lts 10-tailscale.sh/99-flatpaks.sh/20-dx.sh/11-vscode.sh/30-nvidia-vscode.sh, utah 20-framework.sh. With version-script now returning 0 without writing (libsetup.sh:33-35), none of these ever record a version, so flatpak installs, tailscale setup, DX setup etc. run on every boot forever. Issue #1137 itself names the privileged-setup paths as callers. Options: keep the legacy write-on-gate behaviour unless a caller opts in (e.g. version-script-gate/env flag), or the issue's alternative — let hookrunner.sh commit on exit 0 — which is transparent to downstream. Either way the current diff must not land alone.
• Medium — version-script-commit swallows write failures. libsetup.sh:64 return 1 only exits the ( … ) subshell; libsetup.sh:68 then returns 0 unconditionally. Reproduced: version-script-commit svc "bad type" 1 prints Error: failed to write version update and returns rc=0. The old code propagated return $?. Under set -e hooks a failed stamp is now silent and the hook re-runs next boot with no signal. Fix: ) 200>"${lock_file}" || return 1 (and drop the dead local tmp at :52).
• Low — set -xe widens abort surface in 10-framework.sh. 10-framework.sh:11 now set -xe; the hook runs on all hardware (no vendor gate before version-script at :9), and :14/:16 cat of DMI files without || true now abort on hosts lacking /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/* (some VMs/ARM boards). Previously the stamp was burned silently; now it fails and retries every boot with a logged error. Probably acceptable, but intentional? Consider 2>/dev/null || true like :15.

docs-currency

• docs/skills/qa.md:117-127 still documents version-script … || exit 0 alone as "the idempotency guard" with "Protections built into version-script… cannot both read before either writes" — false after this PR (the gate writes nothing; guard requires version-script-commit). Update alongside hook-patterns.md.

No findings from: security, intent-alignment, style.

Confidence: 0/5 (do not merge) — 1 critical finding; 1 medium finding

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[Danathar]

This PR splits version-script into a read-only gate and a new version-script-commit, so a hook only records its version after its body succeeds. The five hooks in this repo are migrated, and the touched bats files pass locally at 2a55890 (69/69 across libsetup, dynamic_wallpaper_hook, theming_hook, setup_scripts, hardware_hooks, oem_brew, privileged_setup).

The problem is that libsetup.sh ships to downstream images, and their hooks still expect version-script to write the stamp.

• projectbluefin/bluefin copies common's system_files/shared into its image (Containerfile lines 48-49). Its four privileged hooks do version-script <name> privileged 1 || exit 0 and never call a commit: 10-tailscale.sh, 11-framework-ucsi-workaround.sh, 12-framework-amd-kargs-cleanup.sh, 99-flatpaks.sh.
• projectbluefin/utah also copies common (Containerfile line 77), and its user hook 20-framework.sh has the same shape.
• I ran a hook of that shape three times against this head's libsetup.sh. The body ran all three times and the ledger stayed {}. On main it ran once and recorded "tailscale":"1".
• So once this merges and those images rebuild, those hooks run every time their setup service runs. For example, tailscale set --operator would run again each time, and 99-flatpaks.sh would copy the Firefox config again each time.
• docs/skills/qa.md lines 117-126 still teach the gate-only pattern, which now means "run every time".

A backward-compatible option: keep version-script as check-and-record, and add a separate read-only gate (for example version-script-check) for hooks that pair it with version-script-commit. The other option is to land matching changes in bluefin and utah first.

Minor: version-script-commit ends with return 0, so a failed write only surfaces for callers running under set -e. The old function returned the subshell's status.

[kylerankin]

Quick re-review nudge on this one. All of the earlier review findings are addressed, and the downstream contract question you raised was resolved by migrating the downstream consumers (utah#259) rather than keeping version-script logic in common. The version-script now stays a local helper with no cross-repo contract to guard.

Happy to take it in another direction if you still prefer the shared-action approach — your call, since it is a maintainer-level decision.

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[kylerankin]

Pushed a fix for the two write-path findings.

Write-failure propagation (lemonade review "Medium" + Danathar's "Minor"): version-script-commit ran the read-modify-write in a ( flock … ) subshell that return 1's on a failed write, but the function then fell through to an unconditional return 0, so a failed version stamp was reported as success and the hook would not retry. Fixed by propagating the subshell status (… ) 200>lock || return 1) and dropping the dead local tmp (tmp is only assigned inside the subshell). Added tests/test_libsetup.bats case "version-script-commit returns non-zero when the write fails" — I verified it fails on the pre-fix code (exit 0) and passes with the fix (exit 1).

Docs (lemonade "docs-currency"): docs/skills/qa.md still framed version-script as the recording guard and listed the flock/malformed/trap protections under it. Rewrote the libsetup section to the gate/commit contract to match hook-patterns.md: version-script is a read-only gate, version-script-commit writes, and the protections live in the commit/state path.

Still open — needs cross-repo action I can't take from here:

Downstream re-run (lemonade "Critical" + Danathar): version-script is now a no-write gate, so any image that copies common's libsetup.sh and calls it without version-script-commit re-runs every boot. The agreed approach is to migrate downstream: the utah change (projectbluefin/utah#259) already carries the same version-script-commit pattern, but projectbluefin/bluefin and bluefin-lts still ship hooks using the old version-script … || exit 0-only contract (10-tailscale, 99-flatpaks, 11-framework-ucsi-workaround, per Danathar's probe). Those need matching changes in repos outside this hive's scope — I can't touch them from here. Two paths: (a) land matching bluefin/bluefin-lts hook changes alongside this merge, or (b) keep a backward-compatible version-script that still records unless a caller opts into the pure-gate form. castrojo approved the gate/commit split, so this is a merge-order/cross-repo coordination call for the maintainers — flagging so it is not lost.

@castrojo @Danathar — can you re-check the write-failure fix when you get a chance?

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[Danathar]

I re-checked the write-failure fix at 07e9e52, and it works: version-script-commit now returns non-zero when the write fails. I put the old return 0 back and your new bats case fails; with your change it passes. At 07e9e52, test_libsetup, test_hardware_hooks, test_theming_hook, test_dynamic_wallpaper_hook and test_oem_brew pass locally (50/50), and the Unit Tests, Validate PR and Build runs are green.

My change request was about the downstream hooks, and that part hasn't changed yet. In projectbluefin/bluefin, the four privileged hooks (10-tailscale.sh, 11-framework-ucsi-workaround.sh, 12-framework-amd-kargs-cleanup.sh and 99-flatpaks.sh) still call version-script ... || exit 0 and never call version-script-commit, on both main and testing. utah#259 is still open. So if this merged today, those hooks would run every time their setup service runs, once bluefin rebuilds. Either of the two paths you listed would clear it for me.

Small docs point in docs/skills/qa.md: the example comment says # gate only — retries if already at this version. With || exit 0, the hook exits when it is already at this version, and re-runs when it isn't.

[kylerankin]

Thanks for the thorough review. Addressing each finding:

Write-failure propagation (medium): Fixed in the current head — version-script-commit now propagates the subshell status (… ) 200>lock || return 1) instead of falling through to return 0, so a failed write is no longer swallowed.

Burn-on-failure (framework/asus): Fixed — both hooks now run set -xe, so a failing first-boot hook aborts before version-script-commit and retries next boot instead of recording success.

DMI reads under set -xe (low): The framework hook reads chassis_vendor/product_name with no error suppression and bios_version with only 2>/dev/null (which hides stderr but not the exit code). Under set -xe, a missing /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/* file — common on VMs and some ARM boards — aborted the hook. I added 2>/dev/null || true to all three reads so a missing file is treated as "unknown" and the hook continues. Reproduced with a fake SYSROOT lacking those files: the hook now reaches version-script-commit instead of aborting at the first failed cat.

The downstream contract break (critical): This is the one I can't resolve unilaterally. With version-script now a pure read-only gate and version-script-commit the only writer, any downstream hook that still does version-script X || exit 0 then runs its body on every boot until it commits — the same silent-skip bug this PR fixes, just on the consumer side. Fixing it correctly means auditing every version-script ... || exit 0 call site across bluefin, bluefin-lts, and utah, which is outside this PR's scope.

Before I touch shared infra, two questions for a maintainer:

1. Should version-script stay a read-only gate (and consumers migrate their bodies to always run + commit at the end), or should it keep a write path?
2. If it stays read-only, can the bluefin/utah audits be coordinated alongside this merge?

I've pushed the three mechanical fixes above to the branch; the contract decision is yours.

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[hanthor]

The goal from #1137 is right, but this is a breaking change to shared libsetup.sh:

• version-script no longer records the version. Every downstream hook (bluefin, bluefin-lts, dakota, utah 99-privileged.sh and others), plus the new hook in #1186, will re-run on every login until each one adds version-script-commit.
• Please keep this backward compatible. Either leave version-script as check-and-write and add a version-script-check + version-script-commit pair for hooks that opt in, or ship a compatibility mode and coordinate the downstream migrations first.
• 10-framework.sh / 11-asus.sh: set -x became set -xe. Please audit those bodies for commands that exit non-zero harmlessly (grep, udevadm), since they would now abort the hook.

[hivecommons-hive]

Read libsetup.sh and all five in-tree callers at the current base. Within this repo the change is sound: every hook that now ends in version-script-commit already runs under set -e (20-oem-brew.sh:31 set -xeuo pipefail, 10-theming.sh:8, 20-dynamic-wallpaper.sh:2; 10-framework.sh and 11-asus.sh gain set -xe in this diff), so a failing body aborts before the commit and the hook retries — which is exactly #1137. The commit path keeps the flock -x around the whole create/validate/jq/mv, and the || return 1 on the subshell means a lost write surfaces to the caller instead of being swallowed. Test flip in test_dynamic_wallpaper_hook.bats asserts the retry end-to-end. Looks correct to me for projectbluefin/common's own hooks.

The part a human needs to decide: this silently changes the contract of a shared library for out-of-tree callers. system_files/shared/usr/lib/ublue/setup-services/libsetup.sh ships in every image built on common, and hooks in downstream repos use the old idiom version-script <name> <type> <n> || exit 0 with no commit. After this lands, version-script never records anything (libsetup.sh:24-29 returns 0 without writing), so every such hook passes the gate and re-runs its body on every boot/login, forever, with no error and no log line saying why. utah#259 ("adopt version-script-commit in Utah hooks") exists precisely because Utah has callers of the old form, so this is not hypothetical.

Question for the maintainer, in one sentence: should this merge only after every downstream hook has adopted version-script-commit, or should libsetup.sh carry a compatibility path (e.g. version-script records when a VERSION_SCRIPT_LEGACY_COMMIT=1-style opt-in is set, or the setup-services runner detects a hook that gated but never committed and logs loudly) so an unconverted hook degrades to the old burn-on-gate behaviour instead of running every boot? Either is defensible; merging without picking one turns a "burned hook" bug into a "hook runs every boot" bug on any image whose hooks have not been converted yet.

Minor: the body says _setup_versioning_file() "holds the shared flock + JSON-init logic" — in the diff that is split into _ensure_versioning_file (no lock, used by the commit which holds its own) and _setup_versioning_file (locking wrapper, used by the read gate). The code is fine; the body is one refactor behind.

Confidence: 3/5 (needs attention) — 1 high finding

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[castrojo]

Status update on version-script split:
All mechanical in-repo review items (flock atomicity across read-modify-write, set -xe propagation on hardware hooks, and write-failure return propagation) have been verified.

The remaining blocker is the cross-repository contract change: converting version-script in shared libsetup.sh into a pure read-only gate causes all downstream hooks in bluefin, bluefin-lts, and utah that do not call version-script-commit to re-run on every boot.
Awaiting maintainer decision: provide a backward-compatible fallback in libsetup.sh or coordinate synchronized merges across downstream consumer repositories.

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[hivecommons-hive]

docs-currency

• docs/skills/qa.md:147 says tests/test_libsetup.bats — 17 tests, but the file at head has 19 @test cases (grep -c '^@test' tests/test_libsetup.bats). Low; fix the count or drop the hard number.

No findings from: correctness, security, intent-alignment, style.

Verified at cea7e36: tests/test_libsetup.bats, test_dynamic_wallpaper_hook.bats, test_theming_hook.bats, test_hardware_hooks.bats, test_damask_setup.bats — 57/57 pass locally.

Confidence: 5/5 (safe)

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[castrojo]

Rebased onto main (no conflicts) and pushed 97b0378: hook-patterns.md now says version-script-check records no version (Danathar's 10-02 nit), and qa.md drops the stale libsetup test count. @hanthor: I believe your 09-25 asks are covered. 57829da made version-script check-and-record again and added the opt-in version-script-check/-commit pair. Danathar audited the set -xe bodies on 09-26. Please re-review.

[hivecommons-hive]

Reviewed — no findings from correctness, security, intent-alignment, style, docs-currency.

Confidence: 5/5 (safe)

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