Stop the session you started, so the next one can begin

Logging out of plain Hyprland left the desktop running. autostart.lua starts
about ten user units, none of them children of the compositor, and the shutdown
handler that was meant to stop them stopped hyprland-session.target -- a unit
Fedora does not ship. systemctl says 'Unit not found', the handler reports
nothing, and hyprpaper, hypridle, vicinae and the polkit agent keep running
after logout. Each of them Requires=graphical-session.target, so that target
stayed active with no session behind it.

The symptom was not a broken Hyprland. Both uwsm and gnome-session refuse to
start into a session that is already running, so 'Hyprland (uwsm-managed)' and
GNOME both bounced back to the login screen, and plain Hyprland -- which makes
no such check -- was the only one that worked. The session that looked healthy
was the one leaving the mess, and it was the one Panama tells people not to use.

Now stops graphical-session.target, which every one of those units is PartOf,
so a unit added to the start handler later cannot be forgotten here.

panama-crash-watch had the same leak and no PartOf at all: a journal follower
per login, and a 'once per program per session' dedup that had quietly become
once per boot.
This commit is contained in:
Gabriel Brown
2026-08-23 13:55:47 -04:00
parent c0eee076b4
commit e723fabed3
4 changed files with 109 additions and 2 deletions
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@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ docs/ Settings reference, and the design specs behind the work
## Tests ## Tests
158 of them, under `tests/`. Run the lot, or a subset by pattern: 159 of them, under `tests/`. Run the lot, or a subset by pattern:
```sh ```sh
panama test # everything panama test # everything
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@@ -91,8 +91,28 @@ hl.on("hyprland.start", function()
-- session on its own. Starting it here as well would give you two trays. -- session on its own. Starting it here as well would give you two trays.
end) end)
-- Tear down what the start handler brought up.
--
-- This stopped `hyprland-session.target`, which does not exist on Fedora --
-- systemctl reports "Unit not found" and the handler achieves nothing. The
-- units started above are not children of the compositor, so nothing else
-- stopped them either: hyprpaper, hypridle, vicinae and the polkit agent kept
-- running after logout, and each one Requires=graphical-session.target, so
-- that target stayed active with no session behind it.
--
-- The next login then failed. Both uwsm and gnome-session refuse to start into
-- a session that is already running ("A compositor or graphical-session*
-- target is already active!"), so "Hyprland (uwsm-managed)" and GNOME both
-- bounced straight back to the login screen while plain Hyprland -- which
-- makes no such check -- kept working. The desktop appeared to be the only one
-- that functioned, when it was the one leaving the mess.
--
-- Stopping graphical-session.target is enough on its own: every unit above is
-- PartOf= it, so they come down with it, and it carries StopWhenUnneeded=yes.
-- It is stopped rather than the units listed individually so that a unit added
-- to the start handler later cannot be forgotten here.
hl.on("hyprland.shutdown", function() hl.on("hyprland.shutdown", function()
hl.exec_cmd("systemctl --user stop hyprland-session.target") hl.exec_cmd("systemctl --user stop graphical-session.target")
end) end)
return true return true
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ Documentation=https://github.com/gibbyb/Panama
# the same reason as every other Panama unit: graphical-session.target is # the same reason as every other Panama unit: graphical-session.target is
# active under GNOME too, and this reports through the Hyprland shell's # active under GNOME too, and this reports through the Hyprland shell's
# notification server. # notification server.
#
# PartOf, so it stops with the session that started it. Without it this
# outlived logout -- a journal follower per login, accumulating -- and its
# "once per program per session" dedup silently became once per boot, which is
# the opposite of what it promises: the second crash of the day went unreported
# because the first session had already spoken.
PartOf=graphical-session.target
After=graphical-session.target
[Service] [Service]
Type=simple Type=simple
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@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# What the session starts, the session must stop.
#
# autostart.lua starts about ten user units on hyprland.start. None of them is
# a child of the compositor, so when Hyprland exits they keep running -- and
# each one carries Requires=graphical-session.target, so that target stays
# active with no session behind it.
#
# The shutdown handler was supposed to prevent exactly that, and did not: it
# stopped `hyprland-session.target`, a unit Fedora does not ship. systemctl
# reports "Unit not found" and exits, the handler reports nothing, and the
# stale session survives to the login screen.
#
# The symptom was not a broken Hyprland. It was that "Hyprland (uwsm-managed)"
# and GNOME both bounced back to the login screen -- both refuse to start into
# a session that is already running -- while plain Hyprland, which makes no
# such check, kept working. The one session that appeared healthy was the one
# doing the damage.
#
# Pinned here because the failure is silent in both directions: a handler that
# stops nothing looks identical to one that works, until the next login.
set -uo pipefail
repo_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../.." && pwd)"
autostart="$repo_dir/config/dot/hypr/autostart.lua"
findings=()
note() { findings+=("$1"); }
[[ -r "$autostart" ]] || { printf 'session teardown contract: no autostart.lua\n' >&2; exit 1; }
# Comments stripped: the header above the handler explains the whole bug at
# length, and matching that would be matching documentation rather than code.
uncommented() { grep -vE '^\s*--' "$autostart"; }
shutdown_body="$(uncommented | sed -n '/hl\.on("hyprland\.shutdown"/,/^end)/p')"
[[ -n "$shutdown_body" ]] \
|| note 'there is no hyprland.shutdown handler, so nothing tears the session down'
# ── It must stop something that exists ──────────────────────────────────────
grep -q 'hyprland-session\.target' <<<"$shutdown_body" \
&& note 'the shutdown handler stops hyprland-session.target, which Fedora does not ship -- it is a no-op'
grep -q 'stop graphical-session\.target' <<<"$shutdown_body" \
|| note 'the shutdown handler does not stop graphical-session.target, so the units outlive the session'
# ── The mechanism it relies on ──────────────────────────────────────────────
#
# Stopping the target only takes the units with it while they are PartOf= it.
# A unit shipped without that line would survive the teardown and hold the
# target back up, which is the original bug wearing a different hat.
units_dir="$repo_dir/config/local/share/systemd/user"
if [[ -d "$units_dir" ]]; then
for unit in "$units_dir"/*.service; do
[[ -e "$unit" ]] || continue
name="$(basename "$unit")"
# Only the ones the session starts and expects to outlive nothing. A
# oneshot notifier exits on its own and needs no teardown.
grep -q "start .*$name" "$autostart" || continue
grep -qE '^\s*Type\s*=\s*oneshot' "$unit" && continue
grep -qE '^\s*PartOf\s*=.*graphical-session\.target' "$unit" \
|| note "$name is started by the session but is not PartOf graphical-session.target, so it survives logout"
done
fi
if (( ${#findings[@]} > 0 )); then
printf 'session teardown contract: %d finding(s)\n' "${#findings[@]}" >&2
printf ' - %s\n' "${findings[@]}" >&2
exit 1
fi
printf 'session teardown contract: PASS\n'