[robobun]

Problem

• test/js/sql/postgres-prepared-pipeline-reorder.test.ts went red on :alpine: 3.23 x64 in build 98746 with Failed to start service postgres_plain (via coordinator): Docker is not available. Please ensure Docker is installed and running. (thrown at test/docker/index.ts:336), on all four in-shard attempts. The same shard shape hit postgres-simple-query-pipeline and sql-onconnect-onclose-throw (98647), integration/mysql2 (98707) and sql.test.ts (97891); the second form of the failure is A functional \docker` is required in CI for some tests.fromisDockerEnabled()intest/harness.ts`.
• Every one of those jobs is an alpine agent whose job started before dockerd was listening: the runner's --- Docker section prints dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: no such file or directory, the coordinator's prestart fails at ~+20s, the test files fail at +140..270s (the daemon is still down at the last of those), and in the three logs that run long enough the daemon is up by +305..405s. In build 98746, 6 of the 24 alpine jobs had no daemon at job start (5 of them got one within the next ~10s); all 116 debian/ubuntu jobs had one.
• Root cause: scripts/agent.mjs installs the openrc buildkite-agent service with no ordering against docker. openrc starts a runlevel's unrelated services one at a time in name order, so the agent ("b") starts and acquires its job before the boot reaches "docker"; usually that is seconds later, and when a service in between is slow it is minutes. systemd images start everything in parallel, which is why this is alpine-only. Alpine's docker service also returns as soon as dockerd is spawned, so ordering alone still leaves dockerd's own start-up time.
• Why it fails the tests: test/docker/coordinator.ts (since ci: serialize docker service startup through a per-shard coordinator #32033) runs a single docker version per request and fails the request on the spot, and the runner's retries of a file run within seconds of each other, so a late daemon fails the file four times; isDockerEnabled() additionally runs docker info at import time of ~25 test files and throws in CI when the daemon is down.
• No single commit to revert: the probe has been one-shot since the coordinator was introduced and the unit has been unordered since it was written; the daemon has been getting later on the alpine images recently. ci: wait for dockerd before launching the test-service coordinator on Linux agents #34480 was an earlier attempt (30s poll in the runner, then exit 75 to re-run the shard on a new VM); closed as superseded by this PR.

Fix

Two layers, plus a way to see which one is doing the work:

• Boot (the root-cause fix; scripts/agent.mjs, active from the next image publish): the openrc unit gets after docker, and start(), which is the boot command of the Linux images, polls docker version for up to two minutes before it starts buildkite-agent. The machine already holds its job (--acquire-job), so this only moves the job's start, and it covers everything in the job that talks to the daemon, including the few tests that call docker directly and the runner's own docker ps. Ordering is after, not need, so images without docker still boot; the poll is bounded, so a dead daemon delays a job by two minutes instead of never starting it. Activating it needs a [publish linux images] run per the flow documented in .buildkite/ci.mjs (no bootstrap version bump is needed for an agent.mjs change; ci: refresh builder images #35996 was the same kind of republish). I have not triggered a publish from this PR since it replaces the live images; happy to amend the subject if a maintainer wants it done here, otherwise it rides along with the next publish.
• Test infrastructure (what fixes CI on the images running today, and covers whatever daemon start-up time remains after the republish):
  • test/docker/index.ts: waitForDockerDaemon() runs one poll loop over docker version (each probe killed after 10s, so a CLI stuck on a half-up daemon counts as unreachable instead of stalling the loop) and returns waitFor(capMs): resolves once a probe succeeds, rejects a caller after its own cap while the loop keeps going, and after the 10-minute window every later caller fails immediately. A daemon that is up costs one probe and logs nothing.
  • test/docker/coordinator.ts: starts the wait at launch, so it overlaps the non-container tests the runner schedules first, and every ensure (prestart and test requests) awaits it for up to 90s before running compose. 90s is the per-test budget the runner gives the hook that is usually awaiting the request (--timeout = testTimeout / 2 on the release lanes), so a request gets the daemon or a clear error within the time its caller has anyway, the 3-minute file budget keeps room for compose up and the tests, and a file's four attempts cover ~6 minutes of lateness from its first request (container-backed files are also scheduled late in the shard), which covers every arrival seen above. The 10-minute window is well past the latest arrival seen (~6.7 minutes into the job) and bounds the cost of a daemon that never comes up to one window per shard instead of 4 x 90s per file.
  • test/harness.ts: isDockerEnabled() returns true when BUN_DOCKER_COORDINATOR is set (after the existing CLI and linux-arm64 checks) instead of probing the daemon itself, as describeWithContainer() and test/js/valkey/test-utils.ts already do; this is what lets sql.test.ts, sql-mysql.test.ts, s3.test.ts, autobahn, ... benefit from the wait, and it removes a docker info per file. Files that then use docker directly: bun-install-proxy.test.ts (converted below) and the four js/bun/test/parallel/test-docker-build-*.ts files, which the runner only runs after every other file in the shard has finished.
  • test/cli/install/bun-install-proxy.test.ts + test/docker/prestart-map.mjs: this file gated on isDockerEnabled() but then ran docker run -p 3128:3128 ubuntu/squid itself, so with the harness change it would have failed on its own 60s squid poll instead of at import. It now starts the compose squid service (built from the same image) through ensure(), keeps an HTTP readiness poll as before (the service's healthcheck only checks the process exists; each probe is bounded), and is in the prestart map so it runs late with squid prestarted, like websocket-proxy. It is in this PR because the harness change is what makes it necessary; test(install-proxy): run iterations sequentially to avoid squid saturation #34175 touches the same file and will need a small rebase, noted there.
• Visibility (scripts/utils.mjs): when docker ps fails in the job's --- Docker section, print rc-status (which boot step the daemon was behind) and append one info-style line to a per-build annotation, so the rate of jobs starting without the daemon can be read off builds before and after the republish. If it drops to zero after the publish, the coordinator wait is pure insurance and could be simplified; if not, it is still load-bearing. Info style keeps it out of bun run ci:errors, which lists error-style annotations only.
• Why this shape: the daemon being up is a condition to wait for, and the two places to wait are where the invariant belongs (agent start-up, which needs a publish to reach the fleet) and the one process per shard that already owns docker and lives for the whole shard (which fixes the builds failing now and overlaps the wait with tests that do not need docker). Compared with ci: wait for dockerd before launching the test-service coordinator on Linux agents #34480, nothing is added to the Buildkite retry rules (since rewritten to cover agent loss only), no shard is thrown away, and a 30s poll would not have covered any of the four builds above.
• Unchanged behavior: local runs without a coordinator still fail fast in ensureDocker(); isDockerEnabled() still returns false on linux-arm64 and still probes when no coordinator is set; the runner still decides whether to spawn the coordinator from docker compose version, which does not need a daemon, so a late daemon still gets a coordinator; the systemd unit is untouched (the daemon has been up at job start on all 116 debian/ubuntu jobs sampled, and the start() poll covers those images too once published).
• Verified: bun bd test test/internal/docker-coordinator.test.ts (8 pass). Scripted-probe tests cover a daemon that is up, concurrent waiters sharing one loop, a capped request followed by a successful retry, a request pending when the window closes, and the window closing with nobody waiting (fails with an escaped rejection if the internal catch is removed); a docker on PATH that sleeps pins the probe bound (fails without it); a fake docker whose first version fails checks isDockerEnabled() in a fresh process with and without the coordinator variable, and runs the real coordinator end to end (request answered with the port mapping; calls.log shows probe, probe, then compose). With test/docker/coordinator.ts reverted the end-to-end test fails with exactly the CI error; with test/harness.ts reverted the harness test fails with threw: A functional \docker` is required in CI for some tests.. The agent.mjs poll was run standalone against a docker that answers on the second probe (returns after 1s) and against none (returns at the budget); printEnvironment()was run with a fakerc-statusand a fakebuildkite-agenton PATH and produced the rc-status dump and the expectedannotate --append --style infocall;node --checkpasses on both scripts.bun-install-proxy.test.tshas no docker here, so its hook was exercised by pointingBUN_TEST_SERVICE_squidat a localBun.servestand-in: the hook resolves and the installs go through the stand-in's port. On the earlier CI runs of this branch the new test file passed on alpine x64, debian ASAN and darwin aarch64 (checked in the job logs), and an alpine shard'spostgres-listen-notify` log shows it getting postgres through the coordinator.

Background

• Test-service coordinator: scripts/runner.node.mjs spawns test/docker/coordinator.ts once per Linux shard and exports its unix socket as BUN_DOCKER_COORDINATOR. ensure(service) in test/docker/index.ts, used by describeWithContainer() and the sql/valkey/s3 tests, sends the service name over that socket and gets back the container's host port mapping; the coordinator is the only process that runs docker compose up, and it prestarts the services the shard's files are known to need (prestart-map.mjs, which the runner also uses to schedule those files last). Without the variable (local runs) ensure() runs compose itself.
• Runner retries and budgets: in CI a failing test file is re-run up to 3 more times immediately (--retries=3); each file's process gets 3 minutes (testTimeout), and bun test --timeout is set to half of that for individual tests and hooks (three times as much on ASAN lanes).
• docker version vs docker compose version: the former talks to the daemon and exits non-zero until it is listening; the latter only checks the compose CLI plugin and succeeds with no daemon at all.
• Ephemeral agents and images: each Linux test job gets a fresh VM booted from a pre-baked image whose boot command is scripts/agent.mjs start; the agent starts with --acquire-job and takes its job the moment it registers, so anything the boot has not finished by then races the job. Image contents (including agent.mjs) change only when images are republished ([publish images] on a PR, see .buildkite/ci.mjs).
• openrc: Alpine's init system. Unless rc_parallel is enabled (it is not on these images) a runlevel's services start one at a time, ordered by declared dependencies and otherwise by name; after X orders a service after X when X is in the runlevel without making it a hard dependency. Alpine's docker service runs dockerd under supervise-daemon, so its start returns as soon as dockerd is spawned.
• Buildkite annotations: buildkite-agent annotate --append --context X appends to one annotation per build, so many jobs appending a line each yields a single list per build.

Timelines from the four builds (seconds after job start)

98746  alpine 3.23 x64  (ip-172-31-33-40-1)
  +11s  --- Docker: dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: no such file or directory
  +22s  COORDINATOR_READY; redis_unified, mysql_plain prestart fail: Docker is not available
 +170s  postgres-prepared-pipeline-reorder: 4 attempts, all "Docker is not available" (+170, +179, +190, +205)
 +210s  valkey: redis_unified request fails           <- still down
 +405s  coordinator: ensuring redis_unified -> ready at +416s   <- up
 +416s  coordinator: ensuring mysql_plain   -> ready at +445s

98647  alpine 3.23 x64
  +10s  --- Docker: socket missing;  +21s prestart fails
 +207..238s  postgres_plain requests fail;  +243..267s sql-onconnect-onclose-throw: isDockerEnabled() throws
 +310s  coordinator: postgres_plain ready                <- up (down at +267s)

98707  alpine 3.23 aarch64
  +10s  socket missing;  +18s prestart of 6 services fails
 +143..172s  mysql_plain / mysql_native_password / redis_unified requests fail
 +365s  coordinator: redis_unified ready                 <- up (down at +172s)

97891  alpine 3.23 x64
  +11s  socket missing;  +22s prestart fails
 +190..222s  sql.test.ts x4: isDockerEnabled() throws ("A functional `docker` is required in CI")

98746, all 140 Linux test jobs: daemon missing at job start on 6/24 alpine jobs (5 recovered within
~10s, before the coordinator's first probe), 0/116 debian + ubuntu jobs.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

Changes

The pull request adds shared Docker daemon readiness polling, integrates it into the Docker service coordinator, migrates the Squid proxy test to coordinated services, and improves OpenRC startup ordering and Docker diagnostics.

Changes

Docker readiness and service startup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Docker daemon readiness API test/docker/index.ts, test/internal/docker-coordinator.test.ts	Adds shared daemon probing, polling, logging, timeout handling, and availability checks with unit coverage.
Coordinator startup and service migration test/docker/coordinator.ts, test/docker/prestart-map.mjs, test/cli/install/bun-install-proxy.test.ts, test/harness.ts, test/internal/docker-coordinator.test.ts	The coordinator waits for Docker before starting services. The Squid test uses coordinator-assigned endpoints, and coordinator-managed environments bypass redundant Docker probing.
Host startup ordering and diagnostics scripts/agent.mjs, scripts/utils.mjs	The OpenRC agent starts after Docker when available, while Docker remains optional. Failed Docker checks can also print OpenRC service status.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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[robobun]

Status: fix for the alpine shards whose job starts before dockerd is listening (build 98746 postgres-prepared-pipeline-reorder, plus the same failure on 97891 / 98647 / 98707).

Reproduced hermetically rather than against a real daemon: test/internal/docker-coordinator.test.ts runs the real coordinator against a fake docker CLI whose first docker version fails. With test/docker/coordinator.ts reverted it answers ok: false, error: "Docker is not available. Please ensure Docker is installed and running.", the exact CI error; with this branch it waits and answers with the port mapping. The isDockerEnabled() test likewise reproduces the A functional \docker` is required in CI` form against the unmodified harness.

After self-review the PR also carries the boot-level fix in scripts/agent.mjs (openrc ordering plus a bounded daemon wait before the agent registers), which needs an image publish to take effect; see the PR body. Supersedes #34480.

[claude]

Thanks for addressing the earlier feedback — 8c10315 covers both points (stderr drained and asserted empty, listening rejects on EOF-before-READY, and the socket exchange rejects on close-without-reply). I re-reviewed and found no further issues. Since this touches the openrc agent unit that gets baked into CI images and changes isDockerEnabled()'s gating for ~25 test files, a human sign-off on the shape (10min window / 90s cap, trusting the coordinator over the daemon probe) would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• waitForDockerDaemon: checked the Promise.race for unhandled rejections — ready.catch(() => {}) covers the shared promise, and clearTimeout in .finally prevents the loser cap from ever settling.
• isDockerEnabled(): the coordinator short-circuit is placed after the linux-arm64 check, so arm64 shards keep skipping as before.
• End-to-end test: on the happy path onExitedFirst fires after stdout EOF but is a no-op on the already-resolved listening; stdoutDrained is awaited before the final assertions.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes alpine CI shards that start before dockerd is listening. It adds a shared poll-for-daemon loop (waitForDockerDaemon in test/docker/index.ts) that the coordinator awaits before every ensure, short-circuits isDockerEnabled() in test/harness.ts when a coordinator is running, adds after docker to the openrc buildkite-agent unit in scripts/agent.mjs, prints rc-status on a failed docker ps in scripts/utils.mjs, and ships a new 7-test file driving the wait with a scripted probe and a fake docker CLI.

Security risks

None. This is CI/test infrastructure only; no runtime code, no untrusted input parsing, no auth/crypto paths.

Level of scrutiny

Medium. Nothing here ships in the bun binary, but: (1) scripts/agent.mjs is baked into every Linux CI VM image and controls agent bootstrap — the after docker ordering is well-reasoned but only takes effect at the next image publish; (2) the isDockerEnabled() change alters gating for every test file that calls it (~25) — on linux-arm64 the existing skip still wins because the new check is placed after it, and locally without a coordinator behavior is unchanged; (3) the 10-minute window and 90s per-request cap are derived from runner budgets and observed CI timelines rather than tuned by hand, but they're still policy choices a maintainer should confirm.

Other factors

My earlier review flagged two subprocess-test hygiene gaps in the end-to-end coordinator test (undrained stderr, unwired listening reject); the author addressed both in 8c10315 and verified the failure path by blanking BUN_DOCKER_COORDINATOR_SOCKET. I re-checked the promise-race in waitFor for unhandled-rejection leaks: ready.catch(() => {}) handles the shared promise regardless of waiters, and when ready settles first .finally(() => clearTimeout(timer)) prevents the cap promise from ever rejecting, so neither leg leaks. In the end-to-end test, calling onExitedFirst after the stdout loop on the happy path is a no-op on an already-resolved promise. The spawnSync return-value destructure in scripts/utils.mjs matches the existing spawnSync helper's return shape (it always returns { exitCode, ... } even with stdio: 'inherit'). Given the breadth (agent bootstrap + harness gating + new timing abstraction), I'm deferring rather than approving.

[robobun]

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[claude]

LGTM — my earlier feedback on the end-to-end test (stderr drain, listening reject) was addressed in 8c10315, and the remaining inline nit about bun-install-proxy.test.ts is a failure-shape change on an already-failing path, not a pass→fail regression.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

CI test-infrastructure fix for alpine shards whose Buildkite job starts before dockerd is listening. Touches six files: test/docker/index.ts adds waitForDockerDaemon() (a shared poll loop with per-request caps and a 10-minute window); test/docker/coordinator.ts awaits it before every ensure; test/harness.ts makes isDockerEnabled() trust BUN_DOCKER_COORDINATOR instead of probing the daemon at import time; scripts/agent.mjs adds after docker to the openrc unit; scripts/utils.mjs prints rc-status when docker ps fails at job start; and a new 300-line hermetic test file drives the wait with scripted probes and runs the real coordinator against a fake docker CLI.

Security risks

None. This is CI test infrastructure — no runtime code, no user-facing API, no auth/crypto/permissions. The fake docker shell script is written into a per-test tempdir and only put on PATH of freshly-spawned subprocesses.

Level of scrutiny

Medium. It runs on every Linux shard (the coordinator is spawned once per shard), so a bug in the wait logic could slow or hang healthy shards. That risk is directly covered by the tests: the "daemon already up costs one probe and logs nothing" case, concurrent waiters sharing one loop, a capped request whose retry succeeds, the window closing with a pending waiter, and the window closing with nobody waiting (unhandled-rejection guard). The end-to-end test spawns the real coordinator with a fake CLI whose first docker version fails and asserts the request is answered with the port mapping and the call sequence is probe→probe→compose. The PR description includes build-by-build timelines proving the root cause and verifies each fix fails-as-expected when reverted.

Other factors

My prior inline review (subprocess-test hygiene: undrained stderr, unwired listening reject) was fully addressed in 8c10315 and the thread is resolved. The one remaining nit — bun-install-proxy.test.ts gates on isDockerEnabled() but then runs docker run directly, so on late-daemon shards it now polls squid for 60s instead of throwing immediately — is real but bounded: the file already fails on those shards before this PR, only the failure shape changes, and it affects ~6/24 alpine jobs on the days the daemon is late. It can be fixed by adding the file to prestart-map.mjs or switching to ensure("squid") in a follow-up. The ready.catch(() => {}) and clearTimeout in waitFor correctly prevent unhandled rejections and timer leaks; ensureDocker()'s local (no-coordinator) path is unchanged.

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[claude]

I reviewed this PR and found no bugs; both issues flagged on earlier revisions (the coordinator test's stderr/READY handling, and bun-install-proxy.test.ts bypassing the coordinator after the isDockerEnabled() short-circuit) have been addressed. Given it reshapes how the whole CI shard waits for dockerd — new waitForDockerDaemon machinery, the isDockerEnabled() semantic change, the openrc after docker ordering, and the bun-install-proxy rewrite onto compose — a human sign-off on the design and the chosen bounds (10-minute window, 90s per-request cap) would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• waitForDockerDaemon: shared poll loop, per-request cap via Promise.race with timer cleared in .finally, and ready.catch(() => {}) so a window close with no waiter doesn't surface as an unhandled rejection — covered by the scripted-probe tests.
• isDockerEnabled() short-circuit ordering: still after the CLI check and the linux-arm64 opt-out; grepped callers and confirmed the one direct-docker user (bun-install-proxy) now goes through ensure().
• End-to-end coordinator test: stderr drained, READY-before-exit failure path wired, socket close-without-reply rejects; fake docker on PATH keeps it hermetic.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes flaky alpine CI shards where the buildkite agent acquires its job before dockerd is listening, causing every container-backed test file to fail with "Docker is not available". It touches eight files: test/docker/index.ts adds waitForDockerDaemon() (a shared poll loop returning per-request-capped waiters); test/docker/coordinator.ts starts that wait at launch and awaits it before every compose up; test/harness.ts makes isDockerEnabled() trust the coordinator instead of probing the daemon at import time; test/cli/install/bun-install-proxy.test.ts is rewritten from a bare docker run on a fixed port to the compose squid service via ensure(); test/docker/prestart-map.mjs adds that file so it's scheduled late; scripts/agent.mjs adds after docker to the openrc unit; scripts/utils.mjs prints rc-status when docker ps fails; and test/internal/docker-coordinator.test.ts is a new 300-line hermetic test file driving the wait with a scripted probe and a fake docker CLI.

Security risks

None. This is test/CI infrastructure only — no runtime code, no user-facing surface, no auth/crypto/permissions. The fake docker shell script and PATH manipulation are confined to a per-test tempdir.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. Nothing here ships in the bun binary, so the blast radius is CI reliability rather than user-facing behavior. But the coordinator and isDockerEnabled() are load-bearing for every container-backed test file across all Linux shards, and the openrc change affects how future alpine images boot. The design choices (10-minute window, 90s per-request cap, trusting BUN_DOCKER_COORDINATOR as "docker is enabled") are well-justified in the PR description and code comments, but they are design choices a maintainer should ratify.

Other factors

All three prior review threads (two from me, one from CodeRabbit) are resolved with fix commits. The new test file is hermetic (fake docker on PATH, scripted probes, no real daemon), covers the happy path plus four edge cases (already-up, cap-then-retry, window-close-with-waiter, window-close-without-waiter → unhandled-rejection guard), and the PR description states it fails against the reverted coordinator.ts/harness.ts with the exact CI errors. The bun-install-proxy rewrite is a strict improvement (free port instead of hardcoded 3128, coordinator daemon wait, prestarted, bounded fetch probes). I'm deferring rather than approving because the change is substantial enough — new shared-wait abstraction, harness semantic change, CI image boot ordering — that it falls outside "simple and mechanical".

[claude]

I re-reviewed after the fixes in 8c10315 / a226b87 / 3a7cde1 / 10d6026 / 2c5c81b and found no further issues. Because this touches the buildkite agent bootstrap (scripts/agent.mjs openrc ordering + pre-registration daemon wait) and reshapes how the whole shard's docker-backed test files gate on dockerd across ~8 files, a maintainer sign-off would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed

• waitForDockerDaemon: shared poll loop, per-request cap, window-close rejection — checked the ready.catch(() => {}) prevents an unhandled rejection when the window closes with no waiter, and clearTimeout in .finally clears the cap timer on both resolve and reject.
• isDockerEnabled() short-circuit: confirmed every remaining isDockerEnabled() caller now reaches docker through ensure() (bun-install-proxy was the last direct docker run; the parallel-phase docker-build tests run after the shard's other files).
• isDockerDaemonReachable timeout and the spawnSync timeout in agent.mjs both bound a hung CLI; the new hanging-docker test pins the former.
• End-to-end coordinator test: stderr drained and asserted, listening rejects on early exit, socket close-without-reply rejects — the earlier hygiene gaps are closed.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR addresses alpine CI shards whose buildkite agent starts before dockerd is listening, causing every container-backed test file to fail on a one-shot docker version probe. It touches 8 files: test/docker/index.ts adds waitForDockerDaemon() (shared poll loop returning per-caller waitFor(capMs)) and isDockerDaemonReachable() with a bounded CLI timeout; test/docker/coordinator.ts starts that wait at launch and awaits it (90s cap) before every ensure; test/harness.ts makes isDockerEnabled() trust BUN_DOCKER_COORDINATOR instead of probing per-file; test/cli/install/bun-install-proxy.test.ts is migrated from a raw docker run to the compose squid service via ensure(); test/docker/prestart-map.mjs gains its entry; scripts/agent.mjs adds after docker to the openrc unit and a 2-minute pre-registration daemon wait; scripts/utils.mjs prints rc-status and posts an info-level BuildKite annotation when docker ps fails at job start; and test/internal/docker-coordinator.test.ts is a new 332-line test file.

Security risks

None identified. The changes are confined to CI/test infrastructure: polling docker version, an openrc depend() ordering hint, a diagnostic rc-status spawn, and a BuildKite annotation. No auth, crypto, network-facing surface, or user-input parsing is touched. The fake-docker fixture is a shell script written into a fresh tempDir and put first on PATH of a fresh subprocess, which is the standard hermetic pattern.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. None of this ships in the runtime, but scripts/agent.mjs is baked into every Linux CI image and controls when the buildkite agent registers; a mistake there could delay or wedge agent startup fleet-wide on the next image publish. The coordinator/harness changes affect every container-backed test file's gating. The design choices (10-minute window, 90s per-request cap, after docker as ordering-only, pre-registration 2-minute wait that proceeds anyway on timeout) are well-argued in the PR description and derived from observed CI timings, but they are design choices a maintainer should confirm.

Other factors

Both of my earlier findings (subprocess hygiene in the coordinator test; bun-install-proxy bypassing the coordinator after the isDockerEnabled short-circuit) were addressed, as was CodeRabbit's unbounded readiness fetch. The new test file exercises the wait with a scripted probe (already-up, late-up with concurrent waiters, per-request cap then retry, window-close with a pending waiter, window-close with no waiter surfacing as an unhandled rejection), the CLI-hang bound, the harness short-circuit in a fresh process, and the real coordinator end-to-end against a fake docker whose first probe fails. CI passed on this branch (build #98905). The PR description is unusually thorough and documents the failure-mode timelines and why each bound was chosen. Given the breadth (8 files, ~500 net lines) and that it touches agent bootstrap, deferring to a human for final sign-off.

[robobun]

New data point from build 101966, which hit this again (test/js/sql/sql.test.ts, sql-empty-column-name.test.ts and test-docker-build-distroless.ts on :alpine: 3.23 x64, agent ip-172-31-9-243-1, all four attempts of each file).

Job logs of the 40 alpine test-bun jobs in that build:

• 7 of 40 had no daemon when the runner's --- Docker section ran (about 10 s into the job). The docker CLI is installed on all of them (the error is the CLI's "dial unix /var/run/docker.sock"), and the other 39 jobs on the same image used the daemon, so the daemon is installed and only late.
• 6 of the 7 had the daemon by the time the coordinator prestarted its services (+15 s to +17 s) and passed.
• On ip-172-31-9-243-1 the daemon was still down when the job ended at +290 s. The coordinator prestart at +20 s, sql.test.ts at +173 s to +203 s, sql-empty-column-name at +204 s to +238 s and test-docker-build-distroless at +249 s to +290 s all failed on it.

Builds 99610, 100968, 101268 and 101666 carry the same two signatures, so this recurs in roughly one build out of a few hundred since this PR was opened.

The branch still merges cleanly onto main (0d34bf2). The scripts/utils.mjs helpers it calls (reportAnnotationToBuildKite, getBuildLabel, getBuildUrl, getHostname) are still exported after the dead code removal in #39249. This PR covers the failure path of the files above (isDockerEnabled() trusts the coordinator, the coordinator waits for the daemon), so I am not opening a second PR. After it merges, the scripts/agent.mjs part needs a [publish linux images] run to reach the fleet.

[robobun]

Note for the bun-install-proxy.test.ts change here: once it goes through ensure("squid"), #39850 adds isDockerServiceEnabled("squid") in the harness for exactly this kind of gate. It is true when BUN_TEST_SERVICE_squid or BUN_DOCKER_COORDINATOR is set and falls back to isDockerEnabled() otherwise, so the file would also run where the service is provided without a local daemon. Whichever PR lands second can make that one-line swap. The two branches merge cleanly as they are.

[robobun]

New sighting of the same condition: build 114862, :alpine: 3.23 x64, shard 4 of 20, agent ip-172-31-36-59-1. test/js/sql/sql-mysql-bind-oob.test.ts and test/js/sql/sql-mysql-mediumint.test.ts fail all four attempts with A functional `docker` is required in CI for some tests. from isDockerEnabled().

Timeline of that job, in seconds after job start:

  +11s      --- Docker: dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: no such file or directory
  +15s      coordinator prestart of 5 services fails: Docker is not available
 +116..146s sql-mysql-bind-oob: isDockerEnabled() throws, 4 attempts
 +146..176s sql-mysql-mediumint: isDockerEnabled() throws, 4 attempts
 +176s      valkey complex-operations: redis_unified request fails    <- daemon still down
 +483s      coordinator: ensuring redis_unified, ready at +490s       <- daemon up

The daemon was late, not dead. It arrived between +176s and +483s. The other 39 alpine test-bun jobs of the build passed.

The coordinator form continues too. test/js/sql/sql-prepare-false.test.ts failed with Failed to start service postgres_plain (via coordinator): Docker is not available on :alpine: 3.23 aarch64 in builds 112824, 112995 and 113993. That is four builds on four unrelated branches between 09-08 and 09-12.

What this branch does for the 114862 job: isDockerEnabled() returns true under the coordinator, so the four attempts of sql-mysql-bind-oob wait at the coordinator until about +476s. The log only bounds the arrival to +176s..+483s, so I cannot prove from it that the test-side wait alone is enough for this job. The boot-side change in scripts/agent.mjs removes the window, and it needs the image publish.

State of main today: isDockerEnabled() and the coordinator still probe once, and the openrc unit in scripts/agent.mjs still has no order against docker. This branch merges into current main (b993710) with no conflicts. On that merge, test/internal/docker-coordinator.test.ts passes (8 pass, 0 fail) and node --check passes on scripts/agent.mjs and scripts/utils.mjs.

[robobun]

Superseded by #44046.

The CI scripts changed after this PR opened: scripts/agent.mjs and scripts/utils.mjs are now scripts/agent.ts and scripts/buildkite.ts, and a change to scripts/agent.ts bakes new images in the same build. So the boot fix no longer needs a separate publish, and #44046 carries it alone:

• The OpenRC service of the agent has after docker, as here.
• On an OpenRC machine the agent waits for the daemon before it registers, as here.

#44046 does not carry the wait in the coordinator, the change to isDockerEnabled(), or the move of bun-install-proxy.test.ts to the compose service. With the order fixed, docker no longer waits for the slow services, so the job starts with the daemon up. Build 120918 is one more sighting of the failure this PR describes.