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ghostty/nix/tests.nix
Nikolay Bryskin 9910a1a475 test: add audio-bell thread-leak NixOS check (GNOME/Wayland)
Adds a bell-leak-check-gnome NixOS test (nix/tests.nix) that launches
Ghostty under GNOME on Wayland, rings 100 bells in the window, and fails
if the GUI process thread count grows per-bell — the end-to-end
signature of the GStreamer pipeline leak fixed in this branch. Verified
locally: growth of ~1 thread over 100 bells, vs ~+400 pre-fix.

Replaces the earlier Xvfb shell script + workflow job: per review, X11
support in GNOME is going away, and this belongs as a Nix check
alongside the other *-gnome tests rather than a standalone script.

The VM has no GPU, so it renders via llvmpipe; the test gives the guest
enough cores/RAM for software GL and tolerates the +new-window D-Bus
activation exceeding its client-side timeout (the window still comes up)
by waiting for the window rather than hard-failing on the call.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-26 01:06:21 +03:00

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Nix

{
self,
system,
nixpkgs,
home-manager,
...
}: let
nixos-version = nixpkgs.lib.trivial.release;
pkgs = import nixpkgs {
inherit system;
overlays = [
self.overlays.debug
];
};
pink_value = "#FF0087";
color_test = ''
import tempfile
import subprocess
def check_for_pink(final=False) -> bool:
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as tmpin:
machine.send_monitor_command("screendump {}".format(tmpin.name))
cmd = 'convert {} -define histogram:unique-colors=true -format "%c" histogram:info:'.format(
tmpin.name
)
ret = subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True, capture_output=True)
if ret.returncode != 0:
raise Exception(
"image analysis failed with exit code {}".format(ret.returncode)
)
text = ret.stdout.decode("utf-8")
return "${pink_value}" in text
'';
mkNodeGnome = {
config,
pkgs,
settings,
sshPort ? null,
...
}: {
imports = [
./vm/wayland-gnome.nix
settings
];
virtualisation = {
forwardPorts = pkgs.lib.optionals (sshPort != null) [
{
from = "host";
host.port = sshPort;
guest.port = 22;
}
];
vmVariant = {
virtualisation.host.pkgs = pkgs;
};
};
services.openssh = {
enable = true;
settings = {
PermitRootLogin = "yes";
PermitEmptyPasswords = "yes";
};
};
security.pam.services.sshd.allowNullPassword = true;
users.groups.ghostty = {
gid = 1000;
};
users.users.ghostty = {
uid = 1000;
};
home-manager = {
users = {
ghostty = {
home = {
username = config.users.users.ghostty.name;
homeDirectory = config.users.users.ghostty.home;
stateVersion = nixos-version;
};
programs.ssh = {
enable = true;
enableDefaultConfig = false;
extraOptionOverrides = {
StrictHostKeyChecking = "accept-new";
UserKnownHostsFile = "/dev/null";
};
};
};
};
};
system.stateVersion = nixos-version;
};
mkTestGnome = {
name,
settings,
testScript,
ocr ? false,
}:
pkgs.testers.runNixOSTest {
name = name;
enableOCR = ocr;
extraBaseModules = {
imports = [
home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager
];
};
nodes = {
machine = {
config,
pkgs,
...
}:
mkNodeGnome {
inherit config pkgs settings;
sshPort = 2222;
};
};
testScript = testScript;
};
in {
basic-version-check = pkgs.testers.runNixOSTest {
name = "basic-version-check";
nodes = {
machine = {pkgs, ...}: {
users.groups.ghostty = {};
users.users.ghostty = {
isNormalUser = true;
group = "ghostty";
extraGroups = ["wheel"];
hashedPassword = "";
packages = [
pkgs.ghostty
];
};
};
};
testScript = {...}: ''
machine.succeed("su - ghostty -c 'ghostty +version'")
'';
};
basic-window-check-gnome = mkTestGnome {
name = "basic-window-check-gnome";
settings = {
home-manager.users.ghostty = {
xdg.configFile = {
"ghostty/config".text = ''
background = ${pink_value}
'';
};
};
};
ocr = true;
testScript = {nodes, ...}: let
user = nodes.machine.users.users.ghostty;
bus_path = "/run/user/${toString user.uid}/bus";
bus = "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=${bus_path}";
gdbus = "${bus} gdbus";
ghostty = "${bus} ghostty";
su = command: "su - ${user.name} -c '${command}'";
gseval = "call --session -d org.gnome.Shell -o /org/gnome/Shell -m org.gnome.Shell.Eval";
wm_class = su "${gdbus} ${gseval} global.display.focus_window.wm_class";
in ''
${color_test}
with subtest("wait for x"):
start_all()
machine.wait_for_x()
machine.wait_for_file("${bus_path}")
with subtest("Ensuring no pink is present without the terminal."):
assert (
check_for_pink() == False
), "Pink was present on the screen before we even launched a terminal!"
machine.systemctl("enable app-com.mitchellh.ghostty-debug.service", user="${user.name}")
machine.succeed("${su "${ghostty} +new-window"}")
machine.wait_until_succeeds("${wm_class} | grep -q 'com.mitchellh.ghostty-debug'")
machine.sleep(2)
with subtest("Have the terminal display a color."):
assert(
check_for_pink() == True
), "Pink was not found on the screen!"
machine.systemctl("stop app-com.mitchellh.ghostty-debug.service", user="${user.name}")
'';
};
ssh-integration-test = pkgs.testers.runNixOSTest {
name = "ssh-integration-test";
extraBaseModules = {
imports = [
home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager
];
};
nodes = {
server = {...}: {
users.groups.ghostty = {};
users.users.ghostty = {
isNormalUser = true;
group = "ghostty";
extraGroups = ["wheel"];
hashedPassword = "";
packages = [];
};
services.openssh = {
enable = true;
settings = {
PermitRootLogin = "yes";
PermitEmptyPasswords = "yes";
};
};
security.pam.services.sshd.allowNullPassword = true;
};
client = {
config,
pkgs,
...
}:
mkNodeGnome {
inherit config pkgs;
settings = {
home-manager.users.ghostty = {
xdg.configFile = {
"ghostty/config".text = let
in ''
shell-integration-features = ssh-terminfo
'';
};
};
};
sshPort = 2222;
};
};
testScript = {nodes, ...}: let
user = nodes.client.users.users.ghostty;
bus_path = "/run/user/${toString user.uid}/bus";
bus = "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=${bus_path}";
gdbus = "${bus} gdbus";
ghostty = "${bus} ghostty";
su = command: "su - ${user.name} -c '${command}'";
gseval = "call --session -d org.gnome.Shell -o /org/gnome/Shell -m org.gnome.Shell.Eval";
wm_class = su "${gdbus} ${gseval} global.display.focus_window.wm_class";
in ''
with subtest("Start server and wait for ssh to be ready."):
server.start()
server.wait_for_open_port(22)
with subtest("Start client and wait for ghostty window."):
client.start()
client.wait_for_x()
client.wait_for_file("${bus_path}")
client.systemctl("enable app-com.mitchellh.ghostty-debug.service", user="${user.name}")
client.succeed("${su "${ghostty} +new-window"}")
client.wait_until_succeeds("${wm_class} | grep -q 'com.mitchellh.ghostty-debug'")
with subtest("SSH from client to server and verify that the Ghostty terminfo is copied."):
client.sleep(2)
client.send_chars("ssh ghostty@server\n")
server.wait_for_file("${user.home}/.terminfo/x/xterm-ghostty", timeout=30)
'';
};
# Regression test for the GTK audio-bell GStreamer thread leak. Each audio
# bell used to allocate a fresh gtk.MediaFile (and thus a GStreamer pipeline
# whose GL sink spawns gstglcontext/gldisplay-event threads that are never
# joined), leaking ~4 threads per ring; the fix reuses one MediaFile per
# surface. This rings many bells and asserts the GUI process thread count
# stays bounded. Runs under GNOME on Wayland so it exercises the real path.
bell-leak-check-gnome = mkTestGnome {
name = "bell-leak-check-gnome";
settings = {
# The VM has no GPU, so GNOME and Ghostty render via llvmpipe. Give the
# guest enough cores/RAM that software GL can bring up Ghostty's window
# before the +new-window D-Bus activation times out, and force clean
# software GL so mesa doesn't stall probing for absent hardware.
virtualisation.cores = 4;
virtualisation.memorySize = 4096;
environment.sessionVariables = {
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE = "1";
GALLIUM_DRIVER = "llvmpipe";
};
home-manager.users.ghostty = {
xdg.configFile = {
"ghostty/config".text = ''
bell-features = audio
bell-audio-path = ${pkgs.sound-theme-freedesktop}/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga
bell-audio-volume = 0
'';
};
};
};
testScript = {nodes, ...}: let
user = nodes.machine.users.users.ghostty;
bus_path = "/run/user/${toString user.uid}/bus";
bus = "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=${bus_path}";
gdbus = "${bus} gdbus";
ghostty = "${bus} ghostty";
su = command: "su - ${user.name} -c '${command}'";
gseval = "call --session -d org.gnome.Shell -o /org/gnome/Shell -m org.gnome.Shell.Eval";
wm_class = su "${gdbus} ${gseval} global.display.focus_window.wm_class";
# Emits N BELs >100ms apart (which clears the bell rate-limit), then holds
# so the window (and its audio pipeline) stays alive while we sample. Run
# by typing its path into the open window; written as a script to avoid
# shell-escaping the BEL byte through the test driver.
ringBells = pkgs.writeShellScript "ring-bells" ''
for _ in $(seq 100); do printf '\a'; sleep 0.12; done
sleep 60
'';
in ''
# Thread count of the ghostty GUI process: the ghostty process with the
# most threads. The CLI also spawns 1-thread launcher/helper stubs (and
# this very command matches the pgrep), but those are filtered by the max.
def ghostty_threads():
out = machine.succeed(
"max=0; "
"for p in $(pgrep -f ghostty); do "
" n=$(ls /proc/$p/task 2>/dev/null | wc -l); "
" [ \"$n\" -gt \"$max\" ] && max=$n; "
"done; "
"echo $max"
).strip()
return int(out)
def window_open():
status, _ = machine.execute("${wm_class} | grep -q 'com.mitchellh.ghostty-debug'")
return status == 0
with subtest("boot and open a keep-alive ghostty window"):
start_all()
machine.wait_for_x()
machine.wait_for_file("${bus_path}")
machine.systemctl("enable app-com.mitchellh.ghostty-debug.service", user="${user.name}")
# Under software GL the +new-window D-Bus activation can exceed its
# client-side timeout even though the window still comes up, so we
# tolerate a failed call and (re)nudge until the window appears.
for _ in range(6):
machine.execute("${su "${ghostty} +new-window"}")
if window_open():
break
machine.sleep(5)
assert window_open(), "ghostty window never appeared"
machine.sleep(2)
with subtest("ring 100 bells and assert the thread count stays bounded"):
baseline = ghostty_threads()
# Ring the bells by running the script inside the focused window (type
# its path + Enter). A separate `ghostty -e` process can't open the
# display from the bare su environment, so we drive the open window.
machine.send_chars("${ringBells}\n")
# 100 bells * 0.12s + settle, within the script's trailing hold so the
# window (and its audio pipeline) is still alive when we sample.
machine.sleep(22)
final = ghostty_threads()
growth = final - baseline
print(f"bell-leak: baseline={baseline} final={final} growth={growth}")
# Pre-fix grows ~4 threads/bell (~+400 over 100 bells); the fix adds
# only one pipeline's worth of threads. 40 sits well clear of both.
assert growth <= 40, (
f"thread count grew by {growth} over 100 bells "
f"(baseline={baseline}, final={final}): audio-bell pipeline leak regressed"
)
'';
};
}