[Bug]: macOS App fails to load #17792

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1. aashishsingla567

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2. juliusmarminge commented on Oct 10, 2026

   

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   Thanks for the report and the full stack trace.

   What happened: on launch, the desktop app swaps its bootstrap credential for a bearer session by calling the local backend's /oauth/token over loopback (apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopLocalEnvironmentAuth.ts). If that single request fails, for example because the backend is still starting or the loopback connection is refused or reset, the error comes back as DesktopLocalEnvironmentAuthSessionBootstrapError, and the root beforeLoad shows it as PrimaryEnvironmentRequestError. The token isn't cached on failure, so reloading tries again, which is why reload fixed it.

   Status: in 0.0.45 (6c8fed35dded, released Oct 2) that exchange runs exactly once with no retry. Since then, #10298 (merged Oct 6, commit 365aa87) added a retry on main. Connection failures, timeouts, and 502/503/504 responses are now retried every 500 ms for up to 15 seconds. Rejected credentials and other server errors still fail immediately. This looks like the same transient failure as #12918, which was closed when that change landed.

   We haven't confirmed which error was underneath in your case, because the cause isn't shown in the stack. So this should be fixed in the next release, but that isn't certain yet. If it still happens on a build newer than 0.0.45, please reopen this and attach the desktop log from around launch so we can see the underlying cause.

   Related: #12918 (same error, transient loopback failure), #17367 / #17568 (Windows web-mode bootstrap failure that reload doesn't fix, so a different issue), #3513 (a beforeLoad error that stays until reload).
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