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Emil SimeonovandDevin <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> fe9f66afb5 fix: runner self-healing — fix service startup order, add Docker restart override
Three fixes for runner reliability:

1. Fix service startup order (install_runner.yml)
   - Move service.yml include BEFORE register.yml
   - Previously, register.yml tried to start gitea-runner.service
     before service.yml created the systemd unit file, causing
     "Unit gitea-runner.service not found" on first install
   - This only failed when registration actually happened (new runner);
     on idempotent re-runs registration was skipped so the bug was masked

2. Restart runner after (re-)registration (register.yml)
   - Add "Restart runner service after (re-)registration" task
   - When a runner is re-registered (force-reregister or auto-recovery),
     the service must be restarted to pick up the new .runner file
   - The old premature start task was already removed; this adds it back
     in the correct position (after service.yml has created the unit)

3. Docker daemon restart override (rootless_docker.yml)
   - Add Restart=always, RestartSec=5, StartLimitIntervalSec=300,
     StartLimitBurst=10 to both Docker service override blocks
   - Upstream dockerd-rootless-setuptool.sh defaults to
     StartLimitBurst=3 in 60s — too aggressive for OOM-prone hosts
   - If Docker crashes 3 times in a minute, it stops restarting
     permanently, taking the runner down with it
   - New settings allow 10 restarts in 5 minutes, matching the
     runner service's own restart policy

Note: Auto-recovery (--auto-recover-token) already exists in the CLI
and healthcheck script but defaults to disabled. Operators should pass
--auto-recover-token <token> during grm install to enable automatic
re-registration when runners become unregistered.

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Co-Authored-By: Devin <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-24 04:36:21 +02:00
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