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Problem

client_mode::federated_client_starts_without_local_and_survives_its_restart is the
recurring client_mode failure on the ubuntu (and macos) runners. It has failed at
least five times since late September:

• remote must be usable before Local exists (12s budget)
• remote reconnect 2 must restore visible input and preserve the shell
• remote reconnect 3 must restore visible input and preserve the shell
• remote reconnect 3 must restore visible input and preserve the shell
• remote reconnect 2 must restore visible input and preserve the shell

Root cause

Every failure is a wait_until timeout in the test, not an incorrect client state.

The two budgets that keep expiring are shorter than the client's own connection
and activation deadlines:

• saved-SSH discovery probes run as SSH commands, each bounded by a 15s timeout
  (NONINTERACTIVE_SSH_COMMAND_TIMEOUT), and the endpoint handshake read timeout
  is 60s (REMOTE_HANDSHAKE_READ_TIMEOUT);
• each endpoint activation phase has its own 5s deadline (ACTIVATION_TIMEOUT)
  and can roll back and retry, during which pane input stays frozen.

On a loaded runner the client can still be legitimately connecting, or still
holding input closed through an activation retry, when the test gives up. The
reconnect screen assertion (15s) never fails — only the shorter input (8s) and
initial-connect (12s) budgets do.

Fix

Give the remote-readiness and remote-input waits budgets that exceed the
client's own deadlines:

• remote usable before Local exists: 12s → 30s
• remote reconnect / remote survived / recovered Local input: 8s → 20s

wait_until still returns as soon as its condition holds, so only the failure
path gets slower. The intentionally tight 3s waits that prove Local does not
wait for a stalled remote are unchanged.

Validation

• cargo fmt --check passes.
• cargo check --tests --locked passes (native Windows; the pre-commit just lint also passed).
• tests/client_mode.rs is #![cfg(unix)], so the unix compile and test run are
  covered by the ubuntu/macos CI jobs on this PR.

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The federated client restart test now uses a 30-second timeout when waiting for the initial remote frame. It uses a 20-second timeout for checks of remote input after bridge reconnects, Local shutdown, and Local recovery.

Suggested reviewers: ogulcancelik

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9a3ee

The federated restart test may still time out on loaded CI if connection or activation work outlasts the enlarged waits. This is a bounded test-reliability risk, not an established production failure.

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Summary

Raises readiness and input wait budgets in the federated restart test.

• Federated client checks give remote readiness and input more time.

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- Around line 991-992: Increase REMOTE_READY_TIMEOUT to cover the 60-second
inactive-endpoint handshake and up to 120 seconds of supervisor reconnect
backoff, and increase REMOTE_INPUT_TIMEOUT to cover the cumulative deadlines for
PendingEndpointActivation phases and rollback. Alternatively, replace these
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