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I think I've run into this before when trying to do something similar. In my case, ROS had already shutdown when my destructor was called which meant that no actionlib related messages were going over the wire.

There's actually a tool called bond that would be perfect for your use case. Not only will it let you know when nodes go down cleanly, it'll also let you know if they go down from a crash. Hope this helps.