heavy-duty/box
7
0
Fork 1
Code Issues 9 Pull requests Projects Releases 4 Packages Wiki Activity Actions

Merge pull request #42 from claude-hdb/fix/doctor-probe-hangs

Browse source 
fix(doctor): pin the probes' stdin — an interactive exec cannot be timed out
This commit is contained in:
Daniel Marin 2026-07-14 12:54:37 +01:00 committed by GitHub
commit 1c24fa7ef0
No known key found for this signature in database
GPG key ID: B5690EEEBB952194
1 changed files with 8 additions and 4 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

12
drill/doctor.sh
View file

@ -205,20 +205,24 @@ head_ "Can a box actually resolve DNS?"
probe="$(incus list "user.claudebox=1" --format csv --columns ns 2>/dev/null \
| awk -F, '$2 == "RUNNING" { print $1; exit }')"
if [ -n "$probe" ] && [ "$FIX" != 1 ]; then
# Stdin MUST be pinned to /dev/null: with a TTY on stdin, 'incus exec' goes
# interactive and puts the terminal in raw mode — the probe hangs forever,
# timeout's TERM never takes (hence -k), and ^C is forwarded INTO the box
# instead of killing the script. The drill learned this in #22; same rule here.
inf "probing inside '$probe' — this separates DNS from routing, which is the whole question:"
inf "its resolv.conf: $(timeout 20 incus exec "$probe" -- sh -c 'grep -m2 nameserver /etc/resolv.conf' 2>/dev/null | tr '\n' ' ')"
inf "its resolv.conf: $(timeout -k 5 20 incus exec "$probe" -- sh -c 'grep -m2 nameserver /etc/resolv.conf' </dev/null 2>/dev/null | tr '\n' ' ')"
timeout 20 incus exec "$probe" -- ping -c1 -W2 10.87.0.1 >/dev/null 2>&1 \
timeout -k 5 20 incus exec "$probe" -- ping -c1 -W2 10.87.0.1 </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 \
&& ok "reaches the gateway (10.87.0.1) — routing is fine" \
|| no "cannot even reach the gateway — this is routing, not DNS"
if timeout 25 incus exec "$probe" -- getent hosts deb.debian.org >/dev/null 2>&1; then
if timeout -k 5 25 incus exec "$probe" -- getent hosts deb.debian.org </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1; then
ok "resolves deb.debian.org — DNS works"
else
no "CANNOT resolve deb.debian.org — this is exactly what kills cloud-init on every cold mint"
# Does the box reach the internet at all WITHOUT DNS? If yes, the fault is
# purely name resolution — i.e. the forwarder, i.e. issue #33.
if timeout 25 incus exec "$probe" -- curl -sS -m 10 -o /dev/null https://1.1.1.1 2>/dev/null; then
if timeout -k 5 25 incus exec "$probe" -- curl -sS -m 10 -o /dev/null https://1.1.1.1 </dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
inf "…but it CAN reach 1.1.1.1 by address. So egress works and only NAME RESOLUTION is broken:"
inf "the fault is the forwarder the box inherits from the host — issue #33."
inf "test the fix: bash drill/doctor.sh --pin-dns then re-run the drill"