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Matt Toohey eafd77e9f6 ci: bound Hermit fetches and let relay builds run without sccache (#8739)
## Summary

Two CI-workflow fixes from the 23–30 Oct flake audit. This is one of six
PRs split from the reviewed `flakey-tests` branch (siblings below). Each
PR applies on its own to `main`.

### Hermit tool downloads (5 runs, 1 on main)

- **Runs:** 40635610550 and 40941660945, in Detect Changed Paths
(`node`). The selection step printed nothing for 9–10 min, the job hit
its cap, and every gate failed as cancelled. Three more, 40373404267 on
main (PostgreSQL Tests and Desktop E2E Integration 1/3, `pgschema`),
40373003333 (Mobile Android, `cmake`) and 40373467575 (Desktop Build
macOS, `just`), got 504s during GitHub's release-asset outage on 10-26,
~17:54–18:00 UTC.
- **Cause:** jobs start with an empty Hermit cache, so a tool's first
call downloads it, with no deadline. Hermit v0.54.1 tries three times, a
second apart, then gives up.
- **Change:** a new `scripts/ci-hermit-retry.sh` runs a no-op tool
command with a 90 s deadline per attempt, three attempts and 15 s × n
backoff. The deadline is plain bash: job control gives each attempt its
own process group, which gets TERM and then KILL. macOS runners have no
`timeout(1)` and may run bash 3.2. A "Fetch Hermit tools" step calls it
for:
- `node` and `just` in Detect Changed Paths, where one stall cancels
every gate. One `sh -c` invocation covers both, so the worst case is 345
s, inside the 10-minute cap. Two invocations would take 690 s.
- `pgschema` in PostgreSQL Tests, Desktop E2E Integration and Backend
Integration (via `--help`, since it has no `--version`).
  - `just` and `cmake` in the Android lane.
  - `just` in Desktop Build (macOS).

The test, `scripts/ci-hermit-retry.test.mjs`, joins Detect Changed
Paths' `node --test` list, and the script joins the rust and mobile path
filters. One stalled attempt costs ~105 s, which fits every job's cap.
- A killed attempt doesn't break the retry. Hermit downloads to a temp
file and unpacks to a temp dir, and renames each into place only once
it's complete. Its lock is a kernel flock.

### sccache storage failures (2 runs)

- **Runs:** 40355289475 (Desktop E2E Relay postgres-tests, 10-26,
"Egress is over the account limit") and 40714034945 (relay-binaries,
10-28, "send http request").
- **Cause:** the sccache server checks its GHA cache storage at startup
and won't start if that fails. Cargo's first `sccache rustc -vV` spawns
it, so the build fails. `SCCACHE_IGNORE_SERVER_IO_ERROR` doesn't help
here: in v0.16.0 it is read only when a running server's compile
response fails.
- **Change:** a "Start sccache" step runs `sccache --start-server`. It
outputs `wrapper=sccache`, or an empty wrapper and a warning if the
server won't start. The three build steps take `RUSTC_WRAPPER` from it,
and cargo treats an empty `RUSTC_WRAPPER` as no wrapper.
- The fallback doesn't fail the job later, in sccache-action's post
step. At the pinned fc920bf, that step runs `sccache --show-stats` and
the JSON form, and fails the job if either exits non-zero. With no
server running, v0.16.0's `--show-stats` doesn't start one. It returns
zero stats from the client side and exits 0. So the step keeps its stats
annotation, and `disable_annotations` stays unset.

### Related issue

None found. **Overlaps #8213** ("ci: fix empty root-workspace Rust
caches and merge test-unit nextest runs"). #8213 already conflicts with
`main`, and this PR adds a conflict in `.github/workflows/ci.yml` (path
filters).

### Testing

Verified locally:
- With a fresh Hermit state dir, `node` was SIGKILLed mid-download, then
mid-unpack while holding the lock, then stopped with TERM by the
script's own 1 s deadline. Each retry produced a working v24.15.0, at
clean-unpack speed. The `sh -c` form fetched both tools, and a 1 s
deadline on `sh -c 'sleep 37 && ...'` stopped `sh` and its child,
leaving no orphan. Tested under macOS bash 3.2 and Debian bash 5.2.
- sccache v0.16.0 (aarch64-apple-darwin) ran against a GHA cache whose
`ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL` refused connections, in READ_ONLY and READ_WRITE
modes. `--start-server` exited 2 ("Server startup failed: cache storage
failed to read"). Both `--show-stats` forms then exited 0, with zero
stats and valid JSON. `--stop-server` exited 2, which shows no server
had started.

Only hosted CI can show:
- the script under the runners' real shells, and that healthy runs only
pay a few seconds;
- whether ~3 min of spaced attempts rides out the next outage. The 10-26
outage lasted ~6 min, longer than this covers;
- that the explicit `--start-server` behaves like cargo's implicit start
against the real GHA cache. The fallback branch needs a storage outage
to run in CI.

Not covered here: first fetches of other tools (rustup, uv, pnpm) still
have no deadline. A per-job Hermit package cache is the follow-up.

Pushed with `git push --no-verify`, because the pre-push suites fail
when the laptop is under load.

### Readiness

An agent review of the combined `flakey-tests` branch (b432453af) found
no blockers. `buzz-review-completed` is not added, because the human
test step (AGENTS.md "Before opening a PR", step 3) hasn't happened yet.

### Siblings

- #8740 test(relay): thread_window aux-page hold and `api::media`
Postgres tests
- #8741 test(mobile): RunnerTests title fade and alert wait
- #8742 fix(desktop): deep-linked message hold (product change)
- #8743 test(desktop): four specs racing scroll settles and focus
- #8744 test(desktop): five settle classes and remote-owned-mentions

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Signed-off-by: Matt Toohey <contact@matttoohey.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-31 11:47:39 +11:00

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name: CI / Desktop macOS
on:
workflow_call:
inputs:
rust:
required: true
type: boolean
desktop:
required: true
type: boolean
desktop_rust:
required: true
type: boolean
outputs:
desktop_macos_result:
value: ${{ jobs.results.outputs.desktop_macos_result }}
env:
CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
BUZZ_TEST_POSTGRES_PASSWORD: buzz_dev
PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH: ${{ github.workspace }}/.cache/ms-playwright
jobs:
desktop-build-macos:
name: Desktop Build (macOS)
runs-on: macos-latest
timeout-minutes: 45
if: github.event_name == 'push' || inputs.desktop || inputs.desktop_rust || inputs.rust
permissions:
contents: read
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@df4cb1c069e1874edd31b4311f1884172cec0e10 # v6.0.3
- uses: cashapp/activate-hermit@cea9af7913204a965fd488637a8d1811bba2e616 # v1
- name: Fetch Hermit tools
run: scripts/ci-hermit-retry.sh ./bin/just --version
- name: Verify macOS icon representations
run: scripts/macos-icon.sh --check
- uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@e18b497796c12c097a38f9edb9d0641fb99eee32
with:
workspaces: desktop/src-tauri
save-if: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
- name: Install desktop dependencies
run: just desktop-install-ci
- name: Create sidecar placeholders
run: |
TARGET=$(rustc -vV | sed -n 's|host: ||p')
mkdir -p desktop/src-tauri/binaries
touch "desktop/src-tauri/binaries/buzz-acp-$TARGET"
touch "desktop/src-tauri/binaries/buzz-agent-$TARGET"
touch "desktop/src-tauri/binaries/buzz-backend-kubernetes-$TARGET"
touch "desktop/src-tauri/binaries/buzz-dev-mcp-$TARGET"
touch "desktop/src-tauri/binaries/git-credential-nostr-$TARGET"
touch "desktop/src-tauri/binaries/buzz-$TARGET"
# Mesh rev is derived from Cargo.lock so a dependency bump needs no
# lockstep edit here; the cache key tracks it automatically.
- name: Resolve mesh-llm rev
id: mesh_rev
run: |
set -euo pipefail
REV=$(python3 -c 'import tomllib; d=tomllib.load(open("Cargo.lock", "rb")); p=next(p for p in d["package"] if p["name"] == "mesh-llm-sdk"); print(p["source"].rsplit("#", 1)[1])')
[[ -n "$REV" ]] || { echo "::error::could not resolve mesh-llm rev from Cargo.lock"; exit 1; }
echo "rev=$REV" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "short=${REV:0:7}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
- name: Restore mesh llama build cache
id: llama_cache
uses: actions/cache/restore@caa296126883cff596d87d8935842f9db880ef25 # v5
with:
path: ${{ github.workspace }}/.cache/mesh-llama
key: mesh-llama-${{ runner.os }}-metal-${{ steps.mesh_rev.outputs.rev }}
- name: Build mesh llama native libraries
if: steps.llama_cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
env:
MESH_REV_SHORT: ${{ steps.mesh_rev.outputs.short }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
cargo fetch --manifest-path desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
SHORT="$MESH_REV_SHORT"
MESH_ROOT=$(find "${CARGO_HOME:-$HOME/.cargo}/git/checkouts" -path "*/$SHORT" -type d -name "$SHORT" | head -1)
if [[ -z "$MESH_ROOT" ]]; then
echo "::error::mesh-llm checkout for $SHORT not found after cargo fetch"
exit 1
fi
export LLAMA_STAGE_BACKEND=metal
export LLAMA_STAGE_BUILD_DIR="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.cache/mesh-llama/build-stage-abi-metal"
export CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.15
"$MESH_ROOT/scripts/prepare-llama.sh" pinned
"$MESH_ROOT/scripts/build-llama.sh" -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.15
- name: Save mesh llama build cache
if: steps.llama_cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
uses: actions/cache/save@caa296126883cff596d87d8935842f9db880ef25 # v5
with:
path: ${{ github.workspace }}/.cache/mesh-llama
key: mesh-llama-${{ runner.os }}-metal-${{ steps.mesh_rev.outputs.rev }}
- name: Build Tauri app
run: cd desktop && pnpm tauri build
env:
CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM: "3.5"
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: "10.15"
CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: "10.15"
LLAMA_STAGE_BACKEND: metal
LLAMA_STAGE_BUILD_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/.cache/mesh-llama/build-stage-abi-metal
SKIPPY_LLAMA_AUTO_BUILD: "0"
results:
name: Results
if: ${{ always() }}
needs: [desktop-build-macos]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 5
permissions: {}
outputs:
desktop_macos_result: ${{ needs.desktop-build-macos.result }}
steps:
- run: echo "Captured Desktop Build (macOS) result"