Sunday, July 12, 2026

Re: Salt and proctitle stoppped working a while ago, probably PY3.14

On Wed, Jul 01, 2026 at 02:04:14PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2026/07/01 12:27, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: > > Sometime ago, I think after this year Python upgrades rc.d(8) script > > stopped working with salt minion (I don't have master on -current > > OpenBSD). I see that on OpenBSD 7.9 proctitle works correctly, so it > > was after the 7.9 release. > > I don't know about salt, but setproctitle does work properly on -current > > $ python3 > Python 3.14.6 (main, Jun 28 2026, 14:43:55) [Clang 22.1.6 ] on openbsd7 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import setproctitle > >>> setproctitle.setproctitle('foo') > >>> > > $ pgrep -lf python3 > 52780 python3: foo > <snip others> > Here is a very minimal patch to fix the rc.d(8) proc title issue. Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/sysutils/salt/Makefile,v diff -u -p -u -r1.201 Makefile --- Makefile 28 Feb 2026 07:01:30 -0000 1.201 +++ Makefile 12 Jul 2026 20:38:52 -0000 @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ COMMENT = remote execution and configur MODPY_DISTV = 3007.13 DISTNAME = salt-${MODPY_DISTV} +REVISION = 0 CATEGORIES = sysutils net devel Index: patches/patch-salt_scripts_py =================================================================== RCS file: patches/patch-salt_scripts_py diff -N patches/patch-salt_scripts_py --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ patches/patch-salt_scripts_py 12 Jul 2026 20:38:52 -0000 @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Force the multiprocessing "fork" start method. Python 3.14 changed the +POSIX default to "forkserver" (cpython gh-84559), which breaks Salt's +fork-based process model, setproctitle output and rc.d(8) pgrep matching. + +Index: salt/scripts.py +--- salt/scripts.py.orig ++++ salt/scripts.py +@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ This module contains the function calls to execute com + import contextlib + import functools + import logging ++import multiprocessing + import os + import signal + import subprocess +@@ -16,6 +17,17 @@ from random import randint + + import salt.defaults.exitcodes + from salt.exceptions import SaltClientError, SaltReqTimeoutError, SaltSystemExit ++ ++if sys.platform != "win32": ++ # Salt's process model (ProcessManager, appendproctitle, signal ++ # escalation, daemonization) assumes fork semantics. Python 3.14 ++ # changed the default POSIX start method from "fork" to "forkserver" ++ # (https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/84559), which breaks ++ # process titles and process supervision. Force "fork" explicitly. ++ try: ++ multiprocessing.set_start_method("fork", force=True) ++ except (RuntimeError, ValueError): ++ pass + + log = logging.getLogger(__name__) + -- Regards, Mikolaj

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