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fix(deploy): WorkingDirectory= prefix - so ExecStartPre can mount the overlay

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systemd applies WorkingDirectory= to every Exec line including ExecStartPre.
With the merged dir not yet existing at boot time (the volatile overlay
mount has been wiped), the chdir into runtime/%i/merged/left4dead2 fails
with status=200/CHDIR before ExecStartPre can run the mount helper.

The `-` prefix makes chdir failure non-fatal: ExecStartPre runs in the
unit's home (cwd doesn't matter for the mount helper); ExecStart re-applies
WorkingDirectory once the mount has landed and chdirs successfully.

Companion to commit 519567e (which added the ExecStartPre mount + helper
idempotency but didn't account for the WorkingDirectory ordering).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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mwiegand 2026-05-09 12:51:58 +02:00
parent 519567e156
commit 3d9b7ef771
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deploy/files/usr/local/lib/systemd/system/left4me-server@.service
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@ -9,7 +9,12 @@ User=left4me
Group=left4me
EnvironmentFile=/etc/left4me/host.env
EnvironmentFile=/var/lib/left4me/instances/%i/instance.env
WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/left4me/runtime/%i/merged/left4dead2
# `-` prefix: chdir failure is non-fatal. systemd applies WorkingDirectory
# before every Exec line — including ExecStartPre — but the merged dir only
# exists once ExecStartPre's overlay mount succeeds. With `-`, ExecStartPre
# runs in the unit's home (cwd doesn't matter for the mount helper); the
# ExecStart re-applies WorkingDirectory after the mount and finds the dir.
WorkingDirectory=-/var/lib/left4me/runtime/%i/merged/left4dead2
# At boot the kernel-overlayfs mount is gone (mounts are volatile); the
# web app's start_instance also pre-mounts but doesn't run on auto-start.
# The helper is idempotent — a no-op if already mounted by the web app.

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deploy/tests/test_deploy_artifacts.py
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@ -63,7 +63,10 @@ def test_server_unit_contains_required_runtime_contract():
assert "Group=left4me" in unit
assert "EnvironmentFile=/etc/left4me/host.env" in unit
assert "EnvironmentFile=/var/lib/left4me/instances/%i/instance.env" in unit
assert "WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/left4me/runtime/%i/merged/left4dead2" in unit
# `-` prefix: chdir failure is non-fatal so ExecStartPre can run the
# mount helper before the merged dir exists. ExecStart re-applies and
# finds the dir once the mount has landed.
assert "WorkingDirectory=-/var/lib/left4me/runtime/%i/merged/left4dead2" in unit
assert "ExecStart=/var/lib/left4me/installation/srcds_run" in unit
assert "$L4D2_ARGS" in unit
assert "${L4D2_ARGS}" not in unit