ci: Probe runner filesystems for symlink limits
CI repro (readLinkAt) / Reproduce determinate-nix test failure (push) Successful in 24s

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-08-03 23:55:11 +01:00
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@@ -28,17 +28,37 @@ jobs:
extra-substituters = https://nix-cache.nul.ie extra-substituters = https://nix-cache.nul.ie
extra-trusted-public-keys = nix-cache.nul.ie-1:BzH5yMfF4HbzY1C977XzOxoPhEc9Zbu39ftPkUbH+m4= extra-trusted-public-keys = nix-cache.nul.ie-1:BzH5yMfF4HbzY1C977XzOxoPhEc9Zbu39ftPkUbH+m4=
- name: Build devshell with full logs - name: Nix build-dir / store settings
run: | run: |
set -eo pipefail echo "===== nix config (build-dir / store / sandbox) ====="
# -L prints full build logs inline (including the gtest assertion that nix config show 2>/dev/null | grep -iE 'build-dir|store|sandbox|temp' || true
# fails); --keep-going surfaces the failure without aborting early. echo "===== TMPDIR/env ====="
# determinate-nix isn't in the cache yet (the failing master run never echo "TMPDIR=$TMPDIR RUNNER_TEMP=$RUNNER_TEMP GITHUB_WORKSPACE=$GITHUB_WORKSPACE HOME=$HOME"
# pushed it), so this rebuilds it and reruns the unit tests.
nix build -L --keep-going --no-link .#ci.x86_64-linux.shell 2>&1 | tee repro.log
- name: Show failing assertion - name: Mount table
if: failure()
run: | run: |
echo "===== readLinkAt / gtest failure detail =====" echo "===== df -T ====="
grep -nE 'FAILED|readLinkAt|Failure|Expected|Actual|Value of|which is|error:' repro.log || true df -T || df -h
echo "===== mount ====="
mount 2>/dev/null | grep -iE 'overlay|tmpfs|/nix|ext4|xfs|btrfs|9p|fuse' || mount
- name: Symlink-length probe
run: |
# Determine, per candidate dir, the longest symlink target that can be
# created (the test needs PATH_MAX/2 = 2048 and PATH_MAX-1 = 4095).
probe() {
local d="$1"
[ -d "$d" ] || { echo " $d: (absent)"; return; }
local fstype; fstype=$(stat -f -c %T "$d" 2>/dev/null || echo '?')
local res=""
for n in 256 1000 2048 3000 4095; do
local tgt; tgt=$(head -c "$n" < /dev/zero | tr '\0' 'y')
if ln -sf "$tgt" "$d/.symtest.$n" 2>/dev/null; then res="$res $n"; else res="$res !$n"; fi
rm -f "$d/.symtest.$n" 2>/dev/null || true
done
echo " $d [$fstype]:$res"
}
echo "===== max symlink target length per dir (n = ok, !n = ENAMETOOLONG) ====="
for d in /tmp /var/tmp /dev/shm /nix /nix/var "$HOME" "$RUNNER_TEMP" "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE" /root /build; do
probe "$d"
done