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fix(desktop): fall back to Windows when a wsl-only primary never becomes ready - #14399
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…mes ready In wsl-only mode the "Connecting to WSL…" splash closes only once the WSL primary reports ready. Preflight failures already fall back to Windows, but failures after a clean preflight looped forever: a backend alive at an address Windows cannot reach (readiness re-probed every minute), or one that exited before readiness (restarted with no cap). The frameless splash left no way to reach Settings. The backend manager now counts consecutive readiness timeouts and pre-ready exits and, after three, calls a new onStartupFailed hook. For a wsl-only primary the pool shows an error and applies the in-memory Windows fallback for this launch, and the manager replaces the stuck run so the main window opens. A Windows primary declines and keeps its existing retry behavior.
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ApprovabilityVerdict: Not approved Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This focused desktop recovery change adds automatic WSL-to-Windows switching, native error UI, in-memory setting mutation, and new process-lifecycle coordination after repeated startup failures. Because it changes production backend selection and has unresolved recovery-path risks, human review is warranted. Not approved because:
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Priority: ⬆️ High Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DesktopBackendManager
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DesktopBackendManager->>PrimaryBackendHandler: pass failure reason and run config after failure limit
PrimaryBackendHandler->>ErrorDialog: attempt to show startup error when config has running distro
ErrorDialog-->>PrimaryBackendHandler: return dialog result or failure
PrimaryBackendHandler-->>DesktopBackendManager: return replacement decision
DesktopBackendManager->>DesktopBackendManager: replace eligible run when requested
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…stops The startup-failure hook for an unreachable run was forked into the instance scope, so an intentional stop() right after the third readiness timeout could still show the fallback dialog and switch settings for a backend that was no longer running. Fork it into the run scope instead so stopping the run interrupts it, and fork only the replacement into the instance scope, since replacing the run closes the run scope.
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🟠 Major · Make pre-ready exit hooks cancelable without holding mutex. · DesktopBackendManager.ts:915
apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopBackendManager.ts:915
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftMake pre-ready exit hooks cancelable without holding
mutex.When the third pre-ready exit invokes a pending
onStartupFailed,finalizeRunawaits the hook while holdingmutex. Unlike the readiness-timeout path, this hook runs in the process fiber owned byparentScope.stop()must acquire the samemutexbefore it can perform cleanup.A hook blocked on a deferred operation therefore blocks
stop()until the hook finishes. The hook can apply fallback after the stop request.Move the hook outside the locked section. Retain explicit ownership of the pending hook so
stop()can cancel it even afterfinalizeRunclearsactive. Cover this path with the deferred-hook cancellation scenario using three pre-ready exits.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopBackendManager.ts:
- Line 988: Update replaceRun and the replacement start path to track external
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- Line 915: Update finalizeRun so the pending onStartupFailed hook runs outside
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it even after active is cleared. Add coverage for deferred-hook cancellation
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Pass the failing run's config to onStartupFailed so the pool falls back only when that run actually used WSL, instead of trusting the saved settings (the primary resolves to Windows when WSL is unavailable). Skip the hook and the run replacement once the backend is ready, so a backend that comes up while the hook is pending is not torn down. Keep applying the in-memory fallback if the error dialog itself fails.
…stops After a pre-ready exit the hook ran inside finalizeRun while holding the instance mutex, so stop() and app quit had to wait for it and could not cancel it. Both failure paths now only count under the mutex and run the hook on its own fiber, which stop() interrupts like a scheduled restart. replaceRun also checks a stop counter after its own stop(), so a stop that lands while the replacement is tearing down the old run is not followed by a fresh start.
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Note This comment is posted by Julius' dot The recovery follows the direction approved in #14393, but I'm closing for missing UI verification. The new native error box and timed transition out of the stuck splash have no before/after images or recording. Please attach that evidence from the Windows/WSL reproduction, showing the fallback reaches the app, then request reconsideration. |
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Fixes #14393
What Changed
DesktopBackendManager: counts consecutive startup failures after a clean preflight (readiness rounds that time out, and exits before the backend was ever ready), and resets the count once the backend is ready. After 3 in a row it calls a new optionalonStartupFailedhook. If the hook returns true, the stuck run gets replaced so the next start re-resolves its config.DesktopBackendPool: in wsl-only mode the hook shows an error box ("WSL backend isn't responding") and applies the existingapplyWslWindowsFallbackInMemory, the same thing bounded preflight failures already do. WSL is tried again on the next launch. A Windows primary returns false and keeps its current retry behavior.DesktopBackendManager.test.ts: a live but unreachable run gets replaced once the cap is hit, repeated exits before ready get surfaced (and the restart loop continues if the hook declines), and exits after the backend was ready never count toward the cap. The last one is the guard against kicking a working WSL backend over to Windows.Why
In wsl-only mode the "Connecting to WSL..." splash only closes once the WSL backend is ready. If the backend crashes on boot or can't be reached after preflight passes, it retries forever and the splash has no controls, so you can't get to Settings to turn WSL-only off. On my machine the backend crashed every ~10s indefinitely. With this change it shows an error after ~30s and opens on Windows. Three 60s readiness rounds still leave room for slow cold boots like #4535.
It doesn't overlap with #13745, which changes which address gets probed. This only bounds the failure case.
Tested on Windows 10 + WSL2 Ubuntu 22.04: desktop tests and
tsc --noEmitpass, and WSL-only still starts normally on a healthy distro. Each new test fails when the behavior it covers is removed.UI Changes
No UI changes, apart from a native error box on the failure path.
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