🤖 Move child process to separate cgroup for Linux uninstall script (#37131)

For #36619. Zed + Opus 4.5, prompt was just "fix
https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/issues/36619"

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Co-authored-by: Allen Houchins <allenhouchins@mac.com>
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Ian Littman
2025-12-31 12:16:35 -06:00
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co-authored by Allen Houchins
parent a3cc31dac8
commit 79cd166c85
@@ -11,20 +11,22 @@ function remove_fleet {
systemctl stop orbit.service || true
systemctl disable orbit.service || true
rm -rf /var/lib/orbit /opt/orbit /var/log/orbit /usr/local/bin/orbit /etc/default/orbit /usr/lib/systemd/system/orbit.service
# Remove any package references
if command -v dpkg > /dev/null; then
dpkg --purge fleet-osquery || true
elif command -v rpm > /dev/null; then
rpm -e fleet-osquery || true
elif command -v pacman > /dev/null; then
pacman -Rns --noconfirm fleet-osquery || true
fi
# Kill any running Fleet processes
pkill -f fleet-desktop || true
# Reload systemd configuration
systemctl daemon-reload
echo "Fleetd has been successfully removed from the system."
}
@@ -33,14 +35,22 @@ if [ "$1" = "remove" ]; then
# Give the parent process time to report the success before removing
echo "inside remove process" >>/tmp/fleet_remove_log.txt
sleep 15
# We are root
remove_fleet >>/tmp/fleet_remove_log.txt 2>&1
else
# We are in the parent shell, start the detached child and return success
echo "Removing fleetd, system will be unenrolled in 15 seconds..."
echo "Executing detached child process"
# We are root
bash -c "bash $0 remove >/dev/null 2>/dev/null </dev/null &"
# Use systemd-run to spawn the removal process in a separate transient unit.
# This ensures the process escapes the orbit.service cgroup, so when
# orbit.service is stopped, the removal script continues running.
if command -v systemd-run > /dev/null; then
systemd-run --quiet bash "$0" remove
else
# Fallback for non-systemd systems (rare for modern Linux)
bash -c "bash $0 remove >/dev/null 2>/dev/null </dev/null &"
fi
fi