server/src/model/modules/modules.db.js

@@ -17,6 +17,23 @@ const getOne = (id) => query(`SELECT ${COLS} FROM installed_modules WHERE id = ?
 // module must not silently disable it, and re-installing a disabled one must not
 // silently switch it back on. A brand-new row lands in `installed`, the transient
 // state the next restart resolves.
+// Provenance is COALESCEd, and that is the whole difference between this
+// working and not.
+//
+// `lifecycle.boot()` re-records every module it scanned with no source and no
+// sha256 — a directory placed on the volume by hand genuinely has neither, and
+// the boot has no way to know where one came from. With a plain
+// `source = VALUES(source)` that refresh overwrote both columns with NULL on
+// EVERY boot, so an admin-panel install's provenance survived exactly until the
+// restart that install asked for. Nothing could catch it before Phase 4: until
+// then no caller ever passed a non-null value, and lifecycle.js's comment
+// asserting that "recordInstalled leaves what it is not given" was a description
+// of an intention rather than of this statement.
+//
+// COALESCE makes that comment true: a value overwrites, a NULL leaves what is
+// there. The cost is that re-placing a DIFFERENT bundle by hand over a row that
+// was once installed from a URL keeps the old provenance — which is wrong but
+// stale, and strictly better than the alternative, which was wrong and blank.
 const upsert = ({ id, name, version, source, sha256 }) =>
   query(
     `INSERT INTO installed_modules (id, name, version, source, sha256, state)
@@ -24,8 +41,8 @@ const upsert = ({ id, name, version, source, sha256 }) =>
      ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE
        name    = VALUES(name),
        version = VALUES(version),
-       source  = VALUES(source),
-       sha256  = VALUES(sha256)`,
+       source  = COALESCE(VALUES(source), source),
+       sha256  = COALESCE(VALUES(sha256), sha256)`,
     [id, name, version, source ?? null, sha256 ?? null],
   )
 

server/src/modules/lifecycle.js

@@ -101,10 +101,16 @@ async function boot({ modules, model } = {}) {
       id: m.id,
       name: m.name,
       version: m.version,
-      // Null provenance is what a hand-placed directory looks like. An install
-      // performed through the admin panel (§2.5, a later phase) writes the row
-      // with its source and hash first; this refresh deliberately does not
-      // overwrite either, because recordInstalled leaves what it is not given.
+      // Null provenance is what a hand-placed directory looks like, and it is
+      // all this step can honestly say: a scan finds a directory, never where it
+      // came from. An install through the admin panel writes source and sha256
+      // first, and this refresh must not undo that.
+      //
+      // It used to. `upsert` assigned both columns unconditionally, so every
+      // boot nulled them and an install's provenance survived only until the
+      // restart it asked for. The statement now COALESCEs — see the note on
+      // modules.db.js's upsert. Nothing could have caught it before Phase 4:
+      // this was the only caller, and it has never had a value to pass.
     }))
   }
 

server/src/router/v1/admin/modules.controller.js

@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ function present(row, live, onVolume) {
     startedAt: row ? row.startedAt : null,
     // What is actually mounted in this process, and what it is answering.
     liveState: live ? live.state : null,
+    // The version RUNNING, which is not always the version installed: an upgrade
+    // writes new files and a new row while the old code stays loaded until the
+    // restart. Without this the screen would report the new version as
+    // "Running", which is the same lie in a different place.
+    liveVersion: live ? live.version : null,
     capabilities: live ? live.capabilities : [],
     // What is on the volume.
     onVolume,
@@ -349,11 +354,24 @@ async function setSources(req, res) {
 // "with no shell access to the box" — which a banner saying "please restart your
 // container" does not deliver.
 //
-// It raises SIGTERM against its own process rather than calling the shutdown
-// path directly. server.js already has a handler that stops the modules, the
-// workers and the listeners in the right order and closes the pool and the log
-// file before exiting 0; reaching that through the signal means there is exactly
-// one graceful-shutdown path and this route cannot drift from it.
+// It reaches server.js's existing SIGTERM handler rather than doing the work
+// itself: that handler stops the modules, the workers and the listeners in the
+// right order and closes the pool and the log file before exiting 0, and going
+// through it means there is exactly one graceful-shutdown path that this route
+// cannot drift from.
+//
+// It gets there by EMITTING the event, not by signalling the process, and that
+// is not a detail. `process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGTERM')` is what this did
+// first, and it works on Linux — but **Windows has no POSIX signals, and Node
+// documents SIGTERM there as unconditional termination of the target process**.
+// So on a Windows host the restart killed the server outright: no module
+// `onShutdown`, no pool close, no log flush. Verified by running it — the
+// process was gone and the shutdown handler had logged nothing.
+//
+// `process.on('SIGTERM', …)` is an ordinary EventEmitter listener, so
+// `process.emit('SIGTERM')` invokes exactly the same handler on every platform
+// without involving the OS at all. Deployment is Linux containers and would
+// never have shown this; development is not.
 //
 // What brings the process BACK is the supervisor, not this. The shipped
 // docker-compose.yml declares `restart: unless-stopped` on `app`, which restarts
@@ -372,7 +390,7 @@ function restart(req, res) {
     .finally(() => {
       // A beat, so the 202 is on the wire. `unref` so this timer is not itself
       // something keeping the process alive.
-      setTimeout(() => process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGTERM'), 250).unref()
+      setTimeout(() => process.emit('SIGTERM'), 250).unref()
     })
 }
 

server/test/adminModules.test.js

@@ -422,42 +422,55 @@ test('an empty allowlist is storable, and means no installs', async () => {
 
 // ── restart ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
-test('restart answers before it signals, and signals its own process', async () => {
-  // It raises SIGTERM rather than calling the shutdown path directly, so that
-  // server.js's handler stays the ONE graceful-shutdown path and this route
-  // cannot drift from it.
-  const originalKill = process.kill
-  const signals = []
-  process.kill = (pid, signal) => { signals.push({ pid, signal }) }
+// These listen for the SIGTERM EVENT rather than stubbing `process.kill`, and
+// that is the whole point of them now.
+//
+// The first version of this route called `process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGTERM')`
+// and the first version of these tests stubbed `process.kill` and asserted it
+// had been called with SIGTERM. Both passed. Both were wrong: Windows has no
+// POSIX signals, and Node documents SIGTERM there as unconditional termination —
+// so on a Windows host the route killed the server outright, with no module
+// `onShutdown`, no pool close and no log flush. A stub of `process.kill` cannot
+// see that, because what it asserts is precisely the call whose MEANING differs
+// by platform.
+//
+// Asserting on the event closes the gap: it is what server.js's handler is
+// actually subscribed to, so a test passing here means the handler would run.
+function onceSigterm() {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const timer = setTimeout(() => {
+      process.removeListener('SIGTERM', handler)
+      reject(new Error('no SIGTERM was emitted within 1s'))
+    }, 1000)
+    function handler() {
+      clearTimeout(timer)
+      process.removeListener('SIGTERM', handler)
+      resolve(true)
+    }
+    process.on('SIGTERM', handler)
+  })
+}
 
-  try {
-    const res = mockRes()
-    ctrl.restart(req(), res)
+test('restart answers first, then triggers the one graceful-shutdown path', async () => {
+  const fired = onceSigterm()
+  const res = mockRes()
 
-    // Answered synchronously: once the signal lands there is no listener left to
-    // flush a response through, so the operator would be told nothing.
-    assert.equal(res.statusCode, 202)
-    assert.equal(res.body.restarting, true)
+  ctrl.restart(req(), res)
 
-    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 400))
-    assert.deepEqual(signals, [{ pid: process.pid, signal: 'SIGTERM' }])
-    assert.equal(logged[0].action, 'module.restart')
-  } finally {
-    process.kill = originalKill
-  }
+  // Answered synchronously: once the shutdown starts there is no listener left
+  // to flush a response through, so the operator would be told nothing.
+  assert.equal(res.statusCode, 202)
+  assert.equal(res.body.restarting, true)
+
+  assert.equal(await fired, true)
+  assert.equal(logged[0].action, 'module.restart')
 })
 
 test('a failure to write the audit entry does not cancel the restart', async () => {
-  const originalKill = process.kill
-  const signals = []
-  process.kill = (pid, signal) => { signals.push(signal) }
   activity.log = async () => { throw new Error('database is gone') }
+  const fired = onceSigterm()
 
-  try {
-    ctrl.restart(req(), mockRes())
-    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 400))
-    assert.deepEqual(signals, ['SIGTERM'])
-  } finally {
-    process.kill = originalKill
-  }
+  ctrl.restart(req(), mockRes())
+
+  assert.equal(await fired, true)
 })

server/test/modules.model.test.js

@@ -38,7 +38,17 @@ modulesDb.getOne = async (id) => (rows.has(id) ? [rows.get(id)] : [])
 modulesDb.upsert = async ({ id, name, version, source, sha256 }) => {
   const existing = rows.get(id)
   if (existing) {
-    Object.assign(existing, { name, version, source: source ?? null, sha256: sha256 ?? null })
+    // COALESCE, matching the real statement: a value overwrites, a NULL leaves
+    // what is there. This fake used to assign unconditionally — faithfully
+    // reproducing the defect it was supposed to be able to catch, which is why
+    // the boot refresh nulling an install's provenance survived until a browser
+    // showed it.
+    Object.assign(existing, {
+      name,
+      version,
+      source: source ?? existing.source ?? null,
+      sha256: sha256 ?? existing.sha256 ?? null,
+    })
     return { affectedRows: 1 }
   }
   rows.set(id, {
@@ -116,6 +126,46 @@ test('a hand-placed module records with no provenance', async () => {
   assert.equal(mod.sha256, null)
 })
 
+test('the boot refresh does not wipe an install\'s provenance', async () => {
+  // The defect a browser found in Phase 4, and the reason the upsert COALESCEs.
+  //
+  // lifecycle.boot() re-records every scanned module with NO source and NO
+  // sha256, because a hand-placed directory genuinely has neither. That refresh
+  // used to write both columns as NULL, so an admin-panel install's provenance
+  // survived exactly until the restart the install asked for — and the screen
+  // then described a module installed from a URL as "placed on the volume by
+  // hand". Nothing could see it until Phase 4: no caller had ever passed a
+  // non-null value.
+  await modules.recordInstalled({
+    id: 'uo',
+    name: 'Ultima Online',
+    version: '1.0.0',
+    source: 'https://gitea.example/x/uo-1.0.0.json',
+    sha256: 'b'.repeat(64),
+  })
+
+  // What the next boot does.
+  const after = await modules.recordInstalled({ id: 'uo', name: 'Ultima Online', version: '1.0.0' })
+
+  assert.equal(after.source, 'https://gitea.example/x/uo-1.0.0.json')
+  assert.equal(after.sha256, 'b'.repeat(64))
+})
+
+test('a re-install from a new URL does replace the provenance', async () => {
+  // The other half: COALESCE must not make the columns write-once, or an upgrade
+  // would for ever show where the FIRST version came from.
+  await modules.recordInstalled({
+    id: 'uo', name: 'Ultima Online', version: '1.0.0', source: 'https://old/x.json', sha256: 'c'.repeat(64),
+  })
+  const after = await modules.recordInstalled({
+    id: 'uo', name: 'Ultima Online', version: '2.0.0', source: 'https://new/y.json', sha256: 'd'.repeat(64),
+  })
+
+  assert.equal(after.source, 'https://new/y.json')
+  assert.equal(after.sha256, 'd'.repeat(64))
+  assert.equal(after.version, '2.0.0')
+})
+
 test('recordInstalled refuses a manifest missing id, name or version', async () => {
   await assert.rejects(
     () => modules.recordInstalled({ id: 'uo', version: '1.0.0' }),