fix(deck): unmask sleep + add the reachability watchdog that makes it safe

[mabry1985]

Fixes the black-screen failure on the Deck, and puts the right mechanism underneath it.

The bug

The deck-deploy skill recommended masking the sleep targets so deep-suspend couldn't take the Deck offline mid-remote-op. Applied to the live Deck 2026-07-22. It produced exactly the failure the 2026-06-21 notes predicted.

Mechanism: Game Mode blanks the panel before calling suspend. With suspend.target masked the suspend call fails — but the screen is already off, and since nothing suspended, no resume ever turns the panel back on. The Deck sits awake on a black screen with no wake path.

The 2026-07-22 change dismissed the earlier warning as a separate "display-wake" concern distinct from S3 suspend. They're the same failure.

Part 1 — sleep unmasked (already applied to the device)

• systemctl unmask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target → all four back to static
• the four mask paths dropped from /etc/atomic-update.conf.d/protopen-keep.conf (backup kept; alfa/hackrf/btusb entries untouched)

The masking was only ever a manual step from the skill doc — not in install.sh/bootstrap.sh — so no fresh install re-applies it.

Part 2 — the watchdog that makes sleep safe

Unmasking alone would restore the original problem: suspend freezes wifi, tailscaled and the runtime container, and they don't reliably return. So protopen-watchdog.timer + .sh (user scope, installed and enabled by deck/install.sh) probe the tailnet and runtime every 30s and repair only what's broken:

• Repair, don't restart. A runtime restart costs ~70s and kills in-flight work, so each service is probed first; a healthy tick does nothing and logs nothing.
• Boot grace (180s) + a one-tick wait before acting, so it never fights a service that's merely still starting, and won't thrash on a transient blip.
• Respects operator intent — skips any unit deliberately disabled.

Why a user timer, not a /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep hook. That directory is root-owned on the rootfs and needs an atomic-update keep-list entry to survive an OS update — the exact fragility that produced this bug. install.sh deliberately lives entirely in /home; this follows that rule, so there's nothing to preserve. The timer is realtime, so a tick that elapses during suspend runs as soon as the Deck wakes — it doubles as the post-resume trigger, and additionally covers wifi drops and container crashes that a resume-only hook would miss.

Verification

Deployed and enabled on the Deck. Dry run on a healthy system: silent, rc=0.

Repair path tested live — systemctl --user stop protopen-runtime (an explicit stop, which suppresses the unit's own Restart=on-failure, so recovery is attributable to the watchdog):

13:16:02  stop issued
13:16:12  [watchdog] protopen-runtime.service not active — starting it
13:16:20  active
13:16:40  serving 200

Not verified: the tailscaled repair branch. Breaking the tailnet would sever the only access path to the Deck, so it's left to a real resume to exercise.

Suspend/resume itself is for the operator to confirm at the device — I deliberately didn't trigger a suspend, since that drops SSH and needs a physical wake.

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Walkthrough

The deep-suspend guidance now explains S3 disconnect behavior, removes sleep-target masking instructions, documents black-screen recovery commands, and recommends a resume hook that restarts tailscaled and protopen-runtime.

Changes

Deep-suspend guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
S3 recovery and resume handling .claude/skills/deck-deploy/SKILL.md	The guidance documents S3-related disconnections, masking-related black screens, unmasking and cleanup commands, and a resume hook for restarting services.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Title check	⚠️ Warning	The title correctly mentions unmasking sleep, but it incorrectly states that the pull request adds a reachability watchdog that is not included.	Rename the title to describe the documentation change and sleep-target recovery, without claiming that the resume hook or watchdog was added.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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Inline comments:
In @.claude/skills/deck-deploy/SKILL.md:
- Around line 110-112: The resume-hook instructions must restart the
user-managed tailscaled.service and protopen-runtime.service in the deck
user-manager context, rather than treating them as root system services. Update
the system-sleep hook guidance to use the deck machine target and execute after
resume networking is available, before relying on the proxy.

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#!/bin/bash
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rg -n -C 5 \
  '/usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep|systemctl --user|systemctl --machine|tailscaled(\.service)?|protopen-runtime(\.service)?' \
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

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echo "== related files if present =="
for f in .claude/skills/deck-deploy/*.sh .claude/skills/deck-deploy/*.service; do
  [ -e "$f" ] && { echo "--- $f"; cat -n "$f" | sed -n '1,220p'; }
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Make the resume hook restart the systemd user services under deck.

.config/systemd/user/ installs tailscaled.service and protopen-runtime.service as user units, while /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/ runs as root. A resume hook needs the deck user-manager context, for example systemctl --machine deck@deck restart tailscaled.service protopen-runtime.service, and should run after the resume network is available before relying on the proxy.

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🤖 Prompt for AI Agents

Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In @.claude/skills/deck-deploy/SKILL.md around lines 110 - 112, The resume-hook
instructions must restart the user-managed tailscaled.service and
protopen-runtime.service in the deck user-manager context, rather than treating
them as root system services. Update the system-sleep hook guidance to use the
deck machine target and execute after resume networking is available, before
relying on the proxy.