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JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 cae050fcfb Bound the wedge diagnostics, so a wedged leg reports as a wedge (#122)
A wedge already reports itself correctly, and then the leg spends half an hour
not saying so. From #151, run 33071570911:

    12:31:29  > Task :app:connectedDebugAndroidTest
    12:48:44  wedged: yes -- gradle was killed after 1200s and never returned
    12:49:20  ::warning::E2E api37 WEDGED (api37)
              ... 36 minutes of nothing ...
    13:25:05  ##[error]The operation was canceled.        <- timeout-minutes: 60
    13:25:09  Terminate orphan process: qemu-system-x86_64-headless, adb, java, java

WEDGE_TIMEOUT=1200 fired exactly as designed. What overran was everything after
it: `capture_wedge` and `dump_diagnostics` probe the device with adb, and the
device they are probing has just finished proving it stopped answering.

WHY `|| true` DID NOT COVER THIS. Every probe carries one, and the file header
says why:

    # Every probe is guarded with `|| true`. A diagnostic must never be the thing
    # that turns a run red.

`|| true` guards a probe that exits non-zero. It does nothing about one that
never exits at all. The discipline was enforced for exit codes and not for time,
and this is the other half of it.

WHAT IT COSTS BEYOND THE 36 MINUTES. The job ends `cancelled` rather than failing
with the wedge's own status, so `gh pr checks` renders a failure with no cause and
the carefully-built `wedged:` row sits above half an hour of silence -- the one
mechanism built to explain a wedge is the least likely to be read. `kill
"$LOGCAT_PID"` never runs either, which is the orphaned adb and qemu above. And a
cancelled required check blocks merges: this one stopped a seven-PR stack.

THE FIX. An `adbq` wrapper -- `timeout -k 5s 20 adb "$@"` -- applied to all 18
probes in `capture_wedge`, `dump_diagnostics`, and the pre-run memory snapshot.
20s is far more than any of them needs on a healthy device and far less than any
costs on a dead one; `-k` because adb itself can ignore the first signal when its
server is wedged.

WHAT IS DELIBERATELY LEFT UNBOUNDED, and it is not everything else by accident:

  - The API 37 SystemUI disable machinery (`adb shell stop`/`start`, the
    `service check` loop). Functional, not diagnostic, and it already carries its
    own verify-and-retry -- see the comment block above it.
  - The backgrounded `adb logcat -v time` stream. It is meant to run for the whole
    leg; bounding it would truncate the log at 20 seconds.

Verified rather than assumed. Wrapper semantics, smoke-tested against a fake adb:
passthrough works, a non-zero exit is preserved (rc=7), a hang is killed at the
deadline (rc=124 after 2s), and `|| true` still swallows that -- so a bounded
probe cannot turn a run red either, which is the property the header demands.

shellcheck clean at the pinned digest over `git ls-files '*.sh'`, actionlint clean
at its pinned digest, `bash -n` clean.

One thing this does NOT do: it does not stop the wedge. #122 is still open for
that. It stops a wedge from being reported as a cancellation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-01 20:45:38 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 0f41bc3f6b Count the annotation, not the comment saying a test does not carry it
The advisory baseline check has announced a deviation on every PR since #113:
the tree "carries 4 tests marked @FailsOnEmulatorApi37" where it carries three
and FAILS_ON_EMULATOR_API37_BASELINE says three. The fourth is a KDoc in
Media3EngineTest saying the opposite -- "Deliberately not
`@FailsOnEmulatorApi37`: nothing here decodes or encodes" -- which the old
matcher counted because it looked for the string anywhere on any line.

Neither ingredient was wrong on its own, and the number is not the real damage.
#83 added this check so that a new failure joining the known ones could not be
invisible; a notice that is wrong every single time teaches everyone to skim
past deviation notices, which is precisely the signal it was built to create.
Editing the baseline to 4 would have silenced it by breaking it -- the check
would then have been wrong the moment someone added or removed a real marker.

Anchor the pattern at line start and require whitespace or end-of-line after the
name. The second half is the part that is easy to get wrong: "only the
annotation on a line of its own" also stops counting `@FailsOnEmulatorApi37
@Test`, which is legal Kotlin, and undercounting is the dangerous direction --
it hides a genuine new marker, the one thing this exists to catch. Measured
against a fixture carrying every shape at once: the old matcher 5, own-line-only
2, this one 3; on the real tree 4 / 3 / 3, so the baseline is untouched.
`grep -v import` goes too, since `^[[:space:]]*@` cannot match an import.

The check is a pure function of the working tree, so the fixture is committed
and e2e-report-shape-test.sh runs the real report against it -- inside a
throwaway repo root, which the script finds from BASH_SOURCE, so no knob had to
be added that could point the live count somewhere else. The fixture sits under
.github/, where Gradle does not compile it and :app's ktlint and detekt do not
see it; running the report against the real root with it committed still
reports 3.

Every other path through the report is byte-identical to the previous version on
both stdout and the job summary -- passing, failing, wedged, no-run, and
advisory-with-an-unreadable-baseline all diff empty -- and the two advisory legs
differ only by the false line disappearing. No job's status or pass/fail rules
change; the advisory leg stays continue-on-error and stays red by design.

The test is deliberately not wired into CI: adding a step to Static analysis
would add a new way for a gating job to go red, which #120 ruled out. shellcheck
still covers the file, since that step reads `git ls-files '*.sh'`.

Closes #120

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 23:30:55 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 25aac95db9 Say in the run-shape table when the wedge timeout was what killed the leg
The report added by #111 runs on every path out of e2e-run.sh, including the
wedge, and until now it answered a question it had not been asked. On job
98035980326 -- API 34, a docs-only PR -- it printed `received: 59` and
`completed cleanly: yes` six seconds before `##[warning] ... WEDGED`, for a leg
the WEDGE_TIMEOUT had killed 22 minutes in. `completed cleanly` means only
"instrumentation was not aborted", which was true; a reader scanning the table
had to notice a separate warning line to learn the leg had died.

The wedge cannot be read out of the log, which is why it is passed in: a wedge
is gradle never returning, so gradle printed no verdict, no truncation line and
no INSTRUMENTATION_ABORTED, and the log it leaves is the log of a run that just
stops. Only e2e-run.sh saw `timeout` exit 124. It now derives that fact once and
tells the report as E2E_WEDGED_AFTER, and reuses the same variable for
capture_wedge so the two cannot drift.

The table gains a `wedged:` row above `completed cleanly`, and `completed
cleanly` flips to no -- but only where it would have said yes. An abort already
says no and names the abort, which the wedge row does not, and a run that left
no evidence still says unknown; a wedge on top of either prints both facts.

`received`'s source line told the same lie in the same table -- "the run was not
truncated, so every expected test reported" is only "gradle never got as far as
saying so" when the leg was killed -- so it is qualified on that path. The
number itself is unchanged, and so is `failed: unknown`: gradle printed no
summary line, so that count genuinely is not knowable.

Nothing here decides anything. No exit status, no pass/fail rule, no baseline
comparison and no `::notice::` behaviour changes; the leg already failed
correctly and still does.

Verified against captured CI output rather than a live emulator, as #111 was and
for the same reason -- this host cannot run API 37 and cannot wedge on demand.
Four real logs (the wedged leg, a green API 34 leg, a failing gating leg, and an
advisory leg with its baseline deviation) through both versions of the script,
in both env states, comparing stdout and the job summary: only the wedged run
with the signal set differs, byte for byte.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 21:59:54 -05:00
JMR-dev 994ea8a3dd Say in the step log that the summary was written, since nothing else can
The job summary is the deliverable #83 asked for -- "readable without opening a
log" -- and GitHub exposes no API that reads a job summary back: the check-run
output for the advisory job returns summary: null, so a write that silently did
not happen would be invisible to everything except a human on the run page. The
step log can be read, so it now carries one line saying which of the two
happened, including the case where GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY is unset entirely, which
is what running the script by hand looks like.
2026-08-25 20:23:05 -05:00
JMR-dev 3e9528454c Announce a baseline it cannot read, rather than falling quiet
"A comparison was asked for" and "a number was found to compare against" were one
variable, and collapsing them put the report one refactor away from being the
thing #83 filed. The sed that reads FAILS_ON_EMULATOR_API37_BASELINE is anchored
at the line start, so indenting the const into an object -- or renaming it, or
moving it -- empties it, and the old code then skipped the whole comparison while
the table kept printing exactly as before. Silent, and indistinguishable from a
run that matched.

Now an unreadable baseline is itself a deviation, with the notice naming the
const so the fix is obvious. Verified against the real captured log of run
32865281555 three ways: baseline file absent, const indented into an object, and
the committed file unchanged -- the first two announce, the third stays silent.
2026-08-25 20:20:59 -05:00
JMR-dev 0702916229 Say what the advisory API 37 job actually found, so a new failure is not invisible
That job is continue-on-error and red on every PR by design, which CLAUDE.md
states plainly -- and that instruction is exactly why nobody reads it. Nothing in
a red X separates "the known three" from "the known three plus yours".

A bare failure count would not have fixed it, and this is measured rather than
assumed. The run is usually truncated: seven of eight advisory runs read on
2026-08-25 ended in `Test run failed to complete. Expected 3 tests, received 2.`
with INSTRUMENTATION_ABORTED, and one did not. A count taken from a truncated run
misleads in both directions -- a fourth marked test can still yield the same
number if the abort lands earlier, and the known set getting worse can lower it.

The test XML does not rescue it either, which was the thing worth checking before
building on it: it IS written for an aborted run, and it reports a tidy
tests="3" failures="3" for a run the runner had just described as truncated. So
the XML is the authority on how many results landed, the runner's own output is
the only authority on whether the run finished, and the report reads both and
says which number came from where.

The baseline is one number beside the marker, because the marker means "cannot
pass on this image": the count is both how many tests the advisory leg runs and
how many should fail. A smaller failure count is the interesting direction -- it
means one now passes, which is the documented trigger for deleting the
annotation.

Nothing about the job's status changes. It stays continue-on-error, stays red,
stays out of the required contexts; a deviation is a ::notice::, never an
::error::. The report is a separate script so it can be run against a real log
saved from a real CI run, which is how the comparison was shown to fire.

The gating legs get the shape without the comparison: they run the whole suite,
so comparing there would announce a deviation five times a run -- but a truncated
run reporting fewer results than it ran is what #108 looks like, and "completed
cleanly" is the field that would show it.

Closes #83
2026-08-25 16:04:13 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 225ecdd7e6 Split the API 37 leg so the part that works can gate
CI has never run the API level this app targets. The reason it did not was
never "API 37 is untestable" -- it was that two tests fail on the emulator
image, so one row would be permanently red or permanently allow-listed. This
splits that row instead of choosing between those two.

E2E API 37 gates. It runs 55 of the suite's 57 instrumented tests and must be
green. E2E API 37 Media3 hardware transcode runs the other two, reports, and
never blocks (continue-on-error). Both are driven off ONE marker,
@FailsOnEmulatorApi37: the gating job passes notAnnotation, the advisory job
passes annotation. Two lists would drift, and drift is silent in both
directions -- a test that ends up in neither job reads as green. Excluding by
class was not an option either: Media3EngineTest has four tests and two of
them pass here, so notClass would have thrown away real coverage.

The advisory job is named for what it runs, not for what we think is wrong.
Both its tests drive a full H.264 -> H.265 hardware transcode, which is what
distinguishes them from the two Media3EngineTest cases that pass -- those
never decode video. The goldfish-decoder theory sits in a comment inside the
job, where it can be corrected without renaming a check people have learned to
look for; docs/api-37-emulator-crash.md keeps measurement and inference apart.

The SystemUI disable moves into .github/scripts/e2e-run.sh behind
E2E_DISABLE_SYSTEM_UI, unset everywhere but the two API 37 jobs, so the other
four legs run byte-identical commands -- the same shape as
E2E_EXTRA_GRADLE_ARGS. It runs BEFORE the streamed logcat starts, deliberately:
`adb shell stop` would end that logcat and nothing restarts it, so a disable
placed after it would cost the leg its diagnostics for the part of the run that
matters. The body is probe v2 from api37-debug.yml -- the version measured 4/4
-- not the older one-round form: three rounds, waits for system_server to
actually be gone, verifies against `pm list packages -d`, and requires a 45 s
window with zero new aborts. The weaker probe reported success on a run that
then started SystemUI eight more times.

The caveat is written next to the row rather than left implicit: this leg runs
with SystemUI disabled and the framework restarted under it, a device
configuration no other leg and no Pixel run uses. Anything that touches system
UI must not trust it, and the Pixel check before each release is still the only
API 37 run with SystemUI intact.

docs/api-37-emulator-crash.md's "So should CI take API 37?" said no on three
reasons. Two were claims about CI that had never been measured; the section now
carries the eight runs that measured them, and the third reason is what the
split answers. docs/local-emulator.md and api37-debug.yml's header carried the
same "the matrix stops at 36" claim and are corrected with it.

CLAUDE.md is left alone deliberately -- its "CI's matrix therefore stops at API
36" clause is now false, and that correction is parked in the doc's existing
"Correction owed to CLAUDE.md" section, where two others are already waiting.

Making E2E API 37 an actually-required check is a repository-settings change
and must come after this is on main: adding a required context that does not
exist on the default branch blocks every PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 17:20:49 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 22c7914395 Find out why the emulators segfault, and make them run
CLAUDE.md has said "Emulators segfault on this host -- qemu dies on every AVD"
since the E2E matrix landed, and the PR that introduced it called the failure
"exit 139 across three AVDs and both GPU backends, environmental". That is
accurate about the symptom and wrong about the cause, and the cost of being
wrong was the whole instrumented suite being unrunnable here.

SwiftShader's Reactor JIT writes generated GLES shader code onto the heap and
mprotects it executable. Fedora's SELinux policy denies that -- execheap is not
granted to unconfined_t and selinuxuser_execheap is off -- so the mprotect
fails and the emulator takes SIGSEGV the moment it calls the routine it just
generated. The AVC denial and the core are the same event, one second apart.

The predictor is mechanical and held 7 for 7 across every -gpu mode: a run
crashes if and only if it dlopens gles_swiftshader/libGLESv2.so. host,
angle_indirect and swangle_indirect boot. auto, off, guest and
swiftshader_indirect crash -- and auto is the default, which is why the failure
looked universal rather than renderer-specific.

tools/local-emulator/run-e2e.sh picks a renderer that works and refuses the
ones that do not. It reuses .github/scripts/e2e-run.sh rather than forking it,
so the local and CI diagnostics cannot drift; the one change there adds an
optional E2E_EXTRA_GRADLE_ARGS that is unset in CI, so CI runs byte-identical
commands.

The API 33-36 sweep has now been run and is written down. All four levels are green
on a local emulator and match the physical Pixel 10 Pro XL baseline exactly: 49 tests,
0 failures, 0 errors, 2 skipped, every level. Those counts come from the result XML,
not the UTP console counter, which double-counts skips and reported "Finished 51 tests"
on all four. No boot log dlopens SwiftShader GLES and the sweep window holds no AVC
denial and no qemu core -- which is confirmation of the mode matrix's first row rather
than new coverage, since every one of these runs is -gpu host. The table is still seven
modes measured once each.

Two things the sweep surfaced that the doc now records: pre-build before sweeping, or a
fresh checkout spends API 33's 20-minute wrapper budget compiling and wedges before a
test runs; and the device pinning is untested by this run, because the Pixel dropped off
USB five seconds before it started.

Still offered for review rather than applied: the CLAUDE.md correction the doc drafts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 20:02:46 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 39e0900928 Adapt LibreMail's emulator instrumentation for the E2E matrix
The E2E legs could fail with almost nothing to show for it. The previous handler
was a single line of semicolons printing meminfo and 60 lines of crash logcat,
and it only ran when gradle RETURNED non-zero -- a hang left nothing at all, and
`adb logcat -d` at the end only holds whatever survived in the ring buffer, which
a chatty run evicts.

The two failure shapes want different evidence, so they are handled separately:

  FAILED  -- gradle returned non-zero. The test reports already say which test and
             why, so this captures the surrounding state: guest memory and
             storage, whether the app even installed, native crashes, and the
             runner's own kvm/memory/disk.

  WEDGED  -- gradle never returned and the wrapper timeout killed it. There are no
             reports, so the evidence has to come off the live device: which test
             was in flight per the TestRunner logcat, whether the binder services
             are published, and SIGQUIT thread dumps of both processes. That last
             one is the point -- ART writes full stacks to logcat and /data/anr,
             which is what separates a deadlocked test from a stuck MediaCodec
             from a device that stopped answering. dumpsys media.player is in
             there because both engines transcode through MediaCodec, so a hung
             conversion shows up in it.

Logcat is now streamed to a file from the start of the step and uploaded whichever
way the leg goes, since the leg worth reading is usually the one that went red once
and green on re-run -- by which time the emulator is gone.

It is a script rather than inline YAML because it has to be. The action splits its
`script` input on newlines and runs each line as its own `sh -c`, so functions and
`if` blocks cannot survive there; that constraint is what produced the one-line
handler in the first place. One line calls the script now.

The wrapper timeout is 1200s against measured ~5-minute healthy legs, so it cannot
trip on a slow-but-working run, and sits far enough under the 60-minute cap to
leave room for the capture. It wraps only the foreground gradle client, never the
emulator the action owns, so it cannot hang the leg itself.

Not adopted from LibreMail: the hand-provisioned AVD boot, its SDK-integrity
installer and its focus gate. Those answer failures this repo has not had, and
replacing a boot path that works to fix problems we do not have is how a working
matrix breaks. Every emulator setting here -- ram-size, disk-size, the ABI filter,
swiftshader -- is untouched, along with the reasoning already written next to it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 15:20:23 -05:00