fix: stop the boot-time restart loop that leaves NetBird disconnected - #40
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR removes duplicate boot-time restarts and serializes daemon lifecycle operations, but installation or upgrade can still trigger an unnecessary restart if a NetBird CLI process is mistaken for the daemon. This is a bounded operational risk that should have explicit owner awareness or follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ArrayEvent as array_started event
participant Reconcile as reconcile.sh
participant RCNetBird as rc.netbird
participant NetBirdDaemon as NetBird daemon
ArrayEvent->>Reconcile: invoke asynchronously
Reconcile->>RCNetBird: wait five seconds, then start
RCNetBird->>NetBirdDaemon: acquire lifecycle lock and launch
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In `@plugin/netbird.plg`:
- Around line 237-245: Update the daemon check in the plugin installation
restart logic to match only the NetBird service-run command line, reusing the
same process-matching approach as running_pids in rc.netbird. Do not treat
arbitrary netbird CLI processes as a live daemon; select restart only when the
service daemon is present, otherwise retain the start path.
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Fixes #39 that reported NetBird going into a restart loop after every reboot, plus an email and a blue banner in the WebGUI each time. Confirmed on Unraid 7.3.2.
Three things restarted the daemon on every boot:
netbird.plgranrc.netbird restart. Unraid reinstalls plugins at boot, so this ran each time.event/array_startedranrestart.sh, which scheduledat now: sleep 5 ; rc.netbird restart.event/startedran the same thing.doinst.shlinked both events, and both fire on a boot.Nothing serialized them. A stop allows ~6s for a graceful exit plus ~10s to escalate to SIGKILL, and the two
atjobs were only 5s apart, so one job's stop hit the daemon another had just started:Two daemons come up at once. Both run
start_netbird, which begins withrm -f "$SOCKFILE", so one can delete the socket the other just bound. That leaves a daemon running that nothing can talk to, which the UI reports as down. That's the "constant restart" in the issue.The email is
atdmailing each job's stdout to root, and the banner islog()echoing to stdout.The event hooks never needed to restart anything.
rc.netbird startis already idempotent and already respectsENABLE_NETBIRD, which is what the hook wanted all along.Changes
rc.netbird: serialize start/stop/restart with flock on/var/run/netbird-rc.lock.statusstays unlocked so the WebGUI doesn't block behind a restart.The lock is held on fd 9 instead of using
flock <file> <command>, andstart_netbirdcloses it with9>&-. That form of flock doesn't set FD_CLOEXEC, so the daemon inherits the lock and holds it until it exits, which blocks every later start/stop until the timeout expires. I hit this on the test box before it went anywhere near a release, so it's worth not undoing.reconcile.sh(new): thearray_startedhook now callsrc.netbird startinstead of restarting. Leaves a healthy daemon alone, leaves a disabled one stopped. Usesnohupinstead ofatso it doesn't block the event dispatcher or mail root.doinst.sh: link onlyarray_started. The existingrm -fclears the stalestartedlink on upgrade.netbird.plg: only restart if a daemon is actually running. At boot nothing is up yet so it starts; on a real upgrade the daemon is on the old binary and still gets restarted.restart.sh,erase.sh: replaceat nowwithnohup. Stops the root mail from #39. Both keep the 5s delay and still log to/var/log/netbird-utils.log.event/README: note that onlyarray_startedis hooked.Testing
Tested on live hardware, Unraid 7.3.2 with NetBird 0.76.3.
After a real reboot:
One start, no stops. The array came up 62s after the plugin install, which is where the old code fired restarts two and three.
75 checks, no failures. Installed files match the package byte for byte,
sh -nandphp -lare clean. Verb semantics cover rc codes, idempotent start, socket and pidfile cleanup. Six concurrent restarts alternate strictly stop/start with no two stops in a row, one daemon left, no lock holders. Recovers from a stale socket file, and a stale pidfile pointing at an unrelated process doesn't kill it. WithENABLE_NETBIRD="0"bothrc.netbird startand the hook refuse to start. The UI restart button returns in about 3ms with noatjobs queued.Not covered:
erase.shwasn't run against a live install since it wipes identity, though itsatremoval matchesrestart.sh. Only tested on 7.3.2 / x86_64.flockis present on 7.3.2; if it were missing the guard falls back to current behavior rather than breaking.Summary by CodeRabbit
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