fix(onboard): make the Ollama upgrade reach the required version by laitingsheng · Pull Request #9284 · NVIDIA/NemoClaw · GitHub

Summary

A Linux Ollama upgrade ran the official installer without naming a version, so on a host whose latest release is below the required minimum the install reported success, the version never moved, and non-interactive onboarding exited 1 while advising a daemon restart that could not help. The upgrade now asks the installer for the minimum version by name, reads the binary's own version separately from the daemon's, restarts the service even when the current listener is already loopback-only, and names which side is stale in the failure. When the installed binary is already current and only the daemon is stale, recovery restarts the daemon without replacing or downgrading that binary.

Related Issue

Fixes #9276

Changes

runOfficialInstallScript in src/lib/onboard/install-ollama-linux.ts prefixes the installer with OLLAMA_VERSION=<minimum> when upgrade recovery must install or replace a stale binary. A fresh install stays unpinned and takes the latest version. When an installed binary already meets the floor and only the daemon is stale, Linux recovery skips the installer and restarts that daemon, preventing a downgrade.
getInstalledOllamaVersion in src/lib/inference/ollama-version.ts prefers the client version is X line. ollama --version reports the version of the daemon it can reach and prints the client's own version only when the two differ, so the previous first-match read returned the daemon's version for both probes and collapsed the stale-binary and stale-daemon cases the install menu distinguishes.
ensureOllamaLoopbackSystemdOverride in src/lib/onboard/ollama-systemd.ts takes an isUpgrade flag, passed by installOllamaSystem. The existing shortcut that skips the drop-in rewrite when the active listener is already loopback-only also skips the service restart, which an upgrade needs to move the daemon onto the new binary, so the flag refuses that shortcut and reports the missing sudo instead.
assertOllamaUpgradeApplied in src/lib/onboard/ollama-install-menu.ts now requires both the daemon and installed binary to be readable and at or above the minimum. It selects remediation from both probes: restart when the binary is current but the daemon is stale, run the pinned installer when the binary is stale, check the binary and PATH when only its version is unreadable, and check installation and daemon state when neither version is readable.
docs/inference/set-up-ollama.mdx records the pinned upgrade, the daemon-only restart that preserves a current binary, the ollama --version reporting behavior, the restart requirement, and the three failure outcomes.

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Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — command/result or justification: npx vitest run src/lib/inference/ollama-version.test.ts src/lib/onboard/ollama-install-menu.test.ts src/lib/onboard/install-ollama-linux-upgrade.test.ts src/lib/onboard/install-ollama-linux.test.ts src/lib/onboard/ollama-systemd.test.ts src/lib/onboard/setup-nim-ollama.test.ts test/onboard-ollama-upgrade-version-floor.test.ts test/onboard-selection.test.ts — 8 files, 174 tests passed. Also npm run typecheck, npm run typecheck:cli, npm run lint, npm run docs, npm run test-size:check, and npm run validate:pr passed.
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Signed-off-by: Tinson Lai tinsonl@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

Bug Fixes
- Ollama upgrades now install the required minimum version, while fresh installations continue to use the latest release.
- Existing newer binaries can recover stale services without reinstalling.
- Upgrade validation checks both the running service and installed binary, with clearer guidance when either is outdated or unavailable.
- Upgrades fail safely when the service cannot restart onto the newly installed version.
- Version detection correctly prioritizes the installed client version.
Documentation
- Updated Linux Ollama setup guidance to explain version-pinned upgrades, required permissions, and validation behavior.

The upgrade ran the official installer unpinned, so on a host whose latest release is below the minimum the install reported success, the version never moved, and non-interactive onboarding aborted while advising a daemon restart that could not help. An upgrade now asks the installer for the minimum version by name, reads the binary's own version from the client-version line that `ollama --version` prints when the binary and the daemon differ, restarts the service even when the current listener is already loopback-only, and names which side is stale in the failure. Signed-off-by: Tinson Lai <tinsonl@nvidia.com>

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📝 Walkthrough

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Linux Ollama upgrades now pin version 0.32.9, support restart-only recovery, and validate daemon and binary versions independently. Failure messages identify stale or unreadable components. Fresh installs remain unpinned.

Changes

Ollama upgrade validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Client version detection src/lib/inference/ollama-version.ts, src/lib/inference/ollama-version.test.ts	Version parsing prioritizes the explicit client version when CLI output contains both versions.
Pinned Linux upgrade installation src/lib/onboard/install-ollama-linux.ts, src/lib/onboard/install-ollama-linux-upgrade.test.ts	Upgrade commands pin OLLAMA_VERSION to MIN_OLLAMA_VERSION. Restart-only upgrades skip installation. Fresh installs remain unpinned.
Upgrade-specific systemd handling src/lib/onboard/ollama-systemd.ts, src/lib/onboard/ollama-systemd.test.ts	Non-interactive upgrades exit when sudo cannot restart the service onto the replaced binary.
Version validation and onboarding recovery src/lib/onboard/ollama-install-menu.ts, src/lib/onboard/setup-nim-ollama.ts, src/lib/onboard/ollama-install-menu.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/setup-nim-ollama.test.ts, test/onboard-ollama-upgrade-version-floor.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/__test-helpers__/setup-nim-flow.ts, docs/inference/set-up-ollama.mdx	Upgrade checks distinguish stale daemon and binary versions. Setup selects installation or restart-only recovery. Tests and documentation cover the updated validation and remediation paths.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 08348

The PR pins Linux Ollama upgrades to the required minimum, distinguishes stale binaries from stale daemons, and restarts services when needed; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Onboarding
  participant OllamaInstaller
  participant SystemdOverride
  participant VersionValidator
  Onboarding->>OllamaInstaller: Run upgrade with OLLAMA_VERSION=MIN_OLLAMA_VERSION
  OllamaInstaller->>SystemdOverride: Configure override with isUpgrade=true
  SystemdOverride-->>Onboarding: Restart or exit when sudo is unavailable
  Onboarding->>VersionValidator: Read daemon and binary versions
  VersionValidator-->>Onboarding: Return upgrade status and remediation

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In `@src/lib/onboard/ollama-install-menu.ts`:
- Around line 242-246: Update the detectedBinaryVersion branch in
resolveUpgradeRemedy to account for an available detectedDaemonVersion: either
pass that daemon version into the remedy logic and report it accurately, or
revise the message to state only that the binary version could not be read.
- Around line 226-231: Update the Ollama upgrade success condition in the
surrounding onboarding validation flow so both detectedDaemonVersion and
detectedBinaryVersion are present and meet MIN_OLLAMA_VERSION; otherwise
preserve the failure response and remediation behavior. Add coverage for daemon
version 0.32.9 with binary version 0.23.4 to ensure onboarding does not succeed
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established — running daemon at docs/inference/set-up-ollama.mdx:41: Keep `running daemon` for the process that currently serves inference requests.
established — installed binary at docs/inference/set-up-ollama.mdx:34: Keep `installed binary` for the host executable distinguished from the running daemon.
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Blocking correctness

assertOllamaUpgradeApplied returns success solely when the daemon meets MIN_OLLAMA_VERSION; it does not require the detected binary to be present and at the floor. Issue #9276 explicitly requires both the binary and serving daemon to meet the minimum. A daemon at 0.32.9 with a PATH-resolved binary at 0.23.4 is therefore incorrectly accepted. Require both versions to be present and at least the minimum, and add the existing requested regression case.
When the daemon version is known but the binary version is unavailable, resolveUpgradeRemedy says neither could be read. Preserve the detected daemon state in the remediation message (or state only that the binary could not be read).

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PASS: secrets/credentials, input validation, authentication/authorization, dependency provenance, cryptography/data protection, and restrictive configuration. The new version value is a repository constant and does not create an injection surface or widen credential/configuration boundaries.
WARNING (error handling): the missing-binary message misreports known daemon state, as noted above.
WARNING (security testing): the daemon-new/binary-stale state is not covered and currently reaches success.
WARNING (system security, non-blocking baseline): the non-systemd fallback still uses name-wide pkill -x ollama. That command predates this PR and this diff does not widen when it runs, so I am not attributing it as a new blocker here, but it should be tracked separately with ownership-bounded termination.

Validation: all five focused changed-file suites passed locally (66/66); required GitHub checks were green at review time. The two current CodeRabbit correctness threads remain valid and unresolved.

Require both post-upgrade versions to meet the minimum. Report unreadable daemon and binary states accurately. Cover the mismatched-version regression without growing conditional test setup. Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>

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- Around line 14-22: Narrow the captureOllamaVersions mock so responses are
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Requested changes were addressed in commits 2b5a013 and 2d04b98. The focused tests, full validate:pr suite, independent documentation review, required GitHub checks, and CodeRabbit all pass on the current head.

Reviewed commit 2d04b984ebc1fa78306caa83edb45b36ebb42c43 against #9276, the full diff, all review threads, current CI, the official installer behavior, and the sensitive-path security rubric. The two blockers from my earlier dismissed review are fixed.

Blocking correctness

The new daemon-version gate creates a downgrade path on Linux. If the installed binary already meets or exceeds the floor (for example 0.40.0) but the running daemon is stale, resolveOllamaInstallMenuEntry sets hasUpgradableOllama; handleInstallOllamaSelection maps that directly to isUpgrade: true; and runOfficialInstallScript then pins OLLAMA_VERSION=0.32.9. The official installer honors that exact version, so onboarding overwrites a newer binary when only a service restart was needed. Preserve the newer installed binary in the daemon-only stale case—skip replacement and restart it, or choose a target no lower than the installed version—and add an end-to-end handler/install regression for that state.

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PASS: secrets, untrusted input, authentication/authorization, dependency provenance, cryptography/data protection, and restrictive configuration. BLOCKING WARNING: error/recovery and system integrity—the remediation path can destructively downgrade a valid installation. Existing tests cover menu detection and the pinned installer separately, but not their problematic composition.

Validation: all six focused suites passed locally (91/91); all resolved review threads were rechecked. One OpenClaw startup job was still running at review time.

Restart a stale daemon without invoking the version-pinned installer. Keep an installed binary that already meets the minimum. Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>

Addressed in 0834862: daemon-only recovery now skips the pinned installer only with positive evidence that the installed binary meets the floor; a stale daemon with a missing or stale binary runs installer recovery. Added the requested end-to-end handler/install regression plus missing-binary resolver and handler coverage. All 174 focused tests and npm run validate:pr pass; required checks are green on the exact commit.

Approved at 0834862. The requested no-downgrade fix is present: when the installed Linux binary already meets the minimum and only the daemon is stale, onboarding selects restart-only recovery and does not invoke the version-pinned installer. Positive version evidence is required, and post-repair validation still checks both daemon and binary. I re-reviewed the implementation, tests, documentation, and system-integrity impact; all six focused test files pass locally (94 tests total).

## Summary Add the canonical dated changelog entry required before planning the v0.0.110 release. The entry summarizes user-facing changes merged since v0.0.109 and links each change to its published documentation route and source PR. ## Changes - Add `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx` with the exact `## v0.0.110` release heading. - Cover managed local inference, endpoint validation, onboarding and recovery, explicit experimental Portable OpenClaw, messaging and policy cleanup, backup and security hardening, and release qualification. - Preserve the documentation skip list and the current supported-agent matrix; test-only refactors, dormant activation work, and Pi-only changes are intentionally excluded. ### Source-to-doc mapping - #8711 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Add the Muse Glimmer llama.cpp profile. - #9099 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Update the Muse Glimmer vLLM runtime. - #9319 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Select the provider required by an explicit serving profile. - #9311 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Report probe-image pull failures separately. - #9345 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Reuse mirrored Windows Ollama. - #9284 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Complete the required Ollama upgrade. - #9320 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Reject unsafe custom endpoint URLs before mutation. - #9119 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Reject unsupported custom endpoint URL components. - #9236 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Require native Anthropic tool-use evidence. - #9347 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Distinguish Gemini runtime 404 diagnostics. - #9307 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Preserve the recorded API family when only the model drifts. - #9233 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Fail incomplete Hermes route synchronization. - #9185 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Serialize Model Router lifecycle work across gateways. - #9112 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Stop Model Router after the last routed sandbox is destroyed. - #9229 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Verify fresh sandbox execution readiness. - 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Require both post-upgrade versions to meet the minimum. Report unreadable daemon and binary states accurately. Cover the mismatched-version regression without growing conditional test setup. Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>

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Restart a stale daemon without invoking the version-pinned installer. Keep an installed binary that already meets the minimum. Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>

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fix(onboard): make the Ollama upgrade reach the required version by laitingsheng · Pull Request #9284 · NVIDIA/NemoClaw · GitHub

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