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Server tests fail as root and under full-suite load #43
Description
From the review of #41. The server suite (npm test -w server, 369 tests) was run in node:22 on Linux. Three failures show up that depend on how the suite is run, not on the code under test.
Fails when run as root
server/test/message-versions.test.mjs fakes a failing disk by making a directory read-only and expecting EACCES:
chmodSync(dir, 0o500);
await assert.rejects(sessions.switchVersion(...), /EACCES|permission/);Root ignores file permissions, so the write succeeds and the test reports Missing expected rejection.:
- Log level setting and more detailed server logs #149 — a switch whose file and then whose putting back both fail still shows what it showed (line 323)
- Show small copies of gallery pictures instead of the whole files (#78) #152 — a switch undone on a disk that takes nothing more still shows the conversation it showed (line 387)
Both pass as a normal user. Containers and CI runners often run as root, so these should be skipped when process.getuid?.() === 0, or fail the write some way that doesn't depend on permissions.
Timing threshold too tight under load
server/test/model-levels.test.mjs:29, "a chat's levels do not wait for pi's catalogue to be built", asserts:
assert.ok(Date.now() - started < 1000, `answered after ${...}ms`);It reported answered after 1226ms during a full parallel run. Run on its own it passed 5 out of 5. The 1000 ms bound needs more room, or the check should measure something other than wall-clock time.
Related: macOS
Separate from Linux, three tests fail on macOS and the suite then hangs until killed. The causes are /var being a symlink to /private/var (paths compared unresolved) and macOS's shorter socket-path limit (104 characters against Linux's 108). Not urgent since the portal ships on Linux, but worth knowing for anyone running the tests on a Mac.
Activity
Merge pull request thecodacus#43 from Piggidragon/fix/reasoning-scroll
Piggidragon commentedon Oct 18, 2026
The as-root part is done: since #245 the full server suite passes as root on Node 22, on a 2-vCPU machine at
--test-concurrency=3like CI.model-levelsuses a clock of its own instead of 1000 ms of wall-clock time. Theauthandloaded-from-foldersfiles are split so that none comes near the 120 s per-file limit under load. Still open: the macOS part (the/varsymlink and the shorter socket-path limit).thecodacus commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Status for 0.2.0: the as-root and under-load parts are done.
What's left is macOS, which I'm keeping here. On main, a macOS run of the server suite now finishes (1553 tests, about two minutes) rather than hanging. These still fail there:
holdDataDirchecks against Linux's 108 bytes and falls back to an abstract socket, which macOS doesn't have. second-instance "too long for a socket" and session-images-route fail withlisten EINVAL. The second one's socket path is 110 bytes after realpath.