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fix(desktop): wait through a busy backend during startup - #23805
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Regression for #23378: a backend that answers nothing for ~30s after launch makes getBearerToken give up at the 15s retry timeout instead of waiting for the backend to recover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… launch The transient retry budget was 15s, so a backend that accepted connections but answered nothing for ~30s after readiness made the bearer exchange fail with a fatal HTTP 500. Raise the overall budget to 60s; the 500ms retry interval, per-request timeout, and immediate failure on permanent errors are unchanged. Fixes #23378 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. The Problem and Change sections state the failure, the reproduction, and the fix… | 1) Move the timing tradeoff into the Change section. State that a persistently unresponsive backend now keeps the loading state for up to 60 seconds before failing, with 45 seconds more than before, and name the maintainer decision that acc… |
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title "fix(desktop): wait through a busy backend during startup" follows conventional commit form and names the main change. The changeset raises the transient bearer bootstrap retry budget from 1… Linked Issues check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Out of Scope Changes check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Full details: Title check
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The title "fix(desktop): wait through a busy backend during startup" follows conventional commit form and names the main change. The changeset raises the transient bearer bootstrap retry budget from 15 to 60 seconds in the desktop-local auth path, so the backend busy-at-startup case is the core fix. The title is specific and does not describe unrelated work.
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The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. The Problem and Change sections state the failure, the reproduction, and the fix clearly. The Scope section links issue
#23378and says the change only touches the desktop-local bootstrap retry budget. The Verification section gives focused test results, check:changed results, and real Linux Electron captures with links. Two points are weak. The description is very long, and much of it is evidence detail and a review log that the template does not ask for. The description also includes an unresolved product-policy disagreement. The review log says the 15 s to 60 s change extends the failure wait by 45 s and that a maintainer decision is still open. That tradeoff should be stated in the Change section, not only in the review log. The template also asks for a short note on the model and harness, and the description provides this. Evidence about the seed-evidence.py script is mentioned, but the review log says that script is out of scope, which conflicts with the Change section and should be resolved.Resolution
- Move the timing tradeoff into the Change section. State that a persistently unresponsive backend now keeps the loading state for up to 60 seconds before failing, with 45 seconds more than before, and name the maintainer decision that accepts it. 2) Resolve the scope conflict for scripts/issue-23378/seed-evidence.py. Either remove it from this PR or explain in the Change section why a reusable evidence fixture belongs in this PR. The Change section currently says it adds one, while the review log says it is out of scope. 3) Shorten the description. Keep the Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections. Move the review log and long evidence tables to a linked comment or to the evidence index.
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- Around line 14-15: Update the home-path validation in the seed-evidence setup
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The seed script now requires an ISSUE_23378_DISPOSABLE_FIXTURE marker in a user-owned evidence home before opening its database, refuses symlinked or world-writable userdata, database, sidecar, and settings paths, and creates its demo workspace with mkdtemp inside the evidence home instead of a fixed /tmp path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixed both seeder findings in 0f12ba695a: a disposable-fixture marker is required before database access, database symlinks are refused, and the workspace is created atomically with mkdtemp inside the evidence home. Disposable SQLite checks covered missing marker, symlinked marker/userdata/database/sidecar, live-home aliases, world-writable home, and successful seeding; victim data stayed intact. check:changed passed, including 4/4 auth tests. Desktop auth code is unchanged. |
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Reject group-writable fixture directories.
When userdata is group-writable, a group member can replace the checked database entry with a symlink before sqlite3.connect opens it. The table reset can then delete rows from another database accessible to the script user. The 0o002 check permits this state. Reject group-writable directories before database access.
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--- "a/scripts/issue-23378/seed-evidence.py"
+++ "b/scripts/issue-23378/seed-evidence.py"
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def private_entry(path, kind):
# lstat so a planted symlink is refused instead of followed.
info = os.lstat(path)
- if not kind(info.st_mode) or info.st_uid != os.getuid() or info.st_mode & 0o002:
+ if not kind(info.st_mode) or info.st_uid != os.getuid() or info.st_mode & 0o022:
raise SystemExit(f'Refusing {path}: expected your own non-symlink entry, not world writable')
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| if not kind(info.st_mode) or info.st_uid != os.getuid() or info.st_mode & 0o002: | |
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Update the fixture-directory permission check using kind(info.st_mode) to reject
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A group member could replace a checked userdata entry between lstat and the sqlite open, so the seed guard refuses group as well as world write (0o022). The usage now creates the evidence home, marker, and dev database under umask 077 instead of weakening the guard for umask 002 hosts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixed the group-write guard in 6fd3a70a42: checked entries now reject mode 0022, and documented home/marker/database initialization uses umask 077. Disposable SQLite checks refused group-writable home, userdata, database and WAL sidecar, and world-writable userdata; a private fixture seeded successfully. The documented marker setup produced home mode 700 and marker 600 even from umask 002. check:changed passed, including 4/4 auth tests. |
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apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopLocalEnvironmentAuth.test.ts: 1
221-245: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert that the timeout starts a retry before releasing the backend.
The shared
resumedDeferred lets one request wait for 30 seconds and then succeed. The test can therefore pass if the 10-second request timeout is removed. It also does not detect removed retries or an incorrect retry interval.Track request count. Assert one request at 10 seconds and two requests at 10.5 seconds, then release the backend at the existing 30-second mark.
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// A stopped backend accepts connections but answers nothing until resumed. const resumed = yield* Deferred.make<void>(); + const requestCount = yield* Ref.make(0); const layerHttpClient = Layer.succeed( HttpClient.HttpClient, - HttpClient.make((request) => - Deferred.await(resumed).pipe(Effect.as(tokenResponse(request))), + HttpClient.make((request) => + Effect.gen(function* () { + yield* Ref.update(requestCount, (count) => count + 1); + yield* Deferred.await(resumed); + return tokenResponse(request); + }), ), ); @@ ); const fiber = yield* auth.getBearerToken.pipe(Effect.forkChild); - yield* TestClock.adjust(Duration.seconds(30)); + yield* TestClock.adjust(Duration.seconds(10)); + assert.strictEqual(yield* Ref.get(requestCount), 1); + yield* TestClock.adjust(Duration.millis(500)); + assert.strictEqual(yield* Ref.get(requestCount), 2); + yield* TestClock.adjust(Duration.millis(19_500)); yield* Deferred.succeed(resumed, undefined); yield* TestClock.adjust(Duration.seconds(11));🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 221-245: Update the “waits out a backend that stays unresponsive
for 30 seconds after launch” test to track requests made by the mock HttpClient.
Assert one request after advancing the test clock by 10 seconds and a second
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Reviewed the retry-count nitpick against the source. Keeping the existing regression focused on this defect: it fails with the old 15-second outer budget and succeeds after 30 seconds of backend silence with the 60-second budget. Removing retries alone still makes it fail while the unchanged 10-second request timeout remains. Assertions at exactly 10 and 10.5 seconds would pin unchanged request-timeout and retry-spacing policy rather than add proof for this one-constant fix; the real desktop recordings separately show timeout/recovery behavior. |
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Problem
Desktop startup can show a fatal
fetch-session-state (HTTP 500)screen while its local backend is briefly busy after reporting ready. Pausing the real backend for 30 seconds reproduces the error: a 10-second token attempt times out, its retry is interrupted, and the overall bearer bootstrap fails at 15 seconds.Change
Allow the existing transient bearer bootstrap retries to run for up to 60 seconds. Individual requests remain bounded at 10 seconds, retries remain spaced by 500 ms, and rejected credentials still fail immediately. Add a deterministic 30-second-stall regression and a reusable isolated evidence fixture.
Scope and approval
Fixes #23378
Triaged bug via the automated issue flow: #23378. This only changes the desktop-local bootstrap retry budget.
Verification
TimeoutError: Operation timed out after '15s'; the other three controls pass. All four desktop-auth tests pass with the fix.vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, affected typechecks, and focused tests passed. After merging current main in e5e1ba9384, all checks passed again, including 4/4 focused tests.Independent proof audit: all four rows passed; independently rebuilt final capture differed by 0/2,073,600 pixels.
Evidence uses base e54e71d725 and fix/fixture head e38f845adb. The fixture commit adds no implementation change. Follow-up 0f12ba695a only hardens the offline seeder: require the documented disposable marker before database access, reject symlinked database paths, and create a unique private workspace beneath the evidence home. Disposable SQLite validation confirmed refusal leaves victim data intact and successful seeding keeps migrations and creates one project/thread;
check:changedpassed again (4/4 tests). Rebuilds with the hardened seeder have a unique workspace path; captures remain exact to the stated earlier SHA. Each recording starts at backend readiness.Stills below use identical times and full surfaces. Diff0 is absolute RGB difference amplified ×8; DiffT marks any RGB channel difference >16/255.
What else changed: healthy final images have zero changed pixels. At 25 s of the stall, the base's fatal card, error text, and background replace the splash; the fix retains the splash while waiting. The full recordings show subsequent recovery. No other visual difference is claimed.
The original macOS 26.6.2 / MacBook Air M4 / nightly installation and its 17 GB database remain unverified. Linux Electron verifies the shared desktop timeout mechanism; this does not fix the underlying slow SQLite query. Standalone web, mobile, providers, and remote/relay/tunnel auth do not execute the changed service.
Models: Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1-Sol, through the T3 Code Claude Code and Codex harnesses.
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Two fresh independent read-only reviews of the full diff against merge-base at 6fd3a70. Earlier rounds 1–2 did not run because their VMs stalled.
scripts/issue-23378/seed-evidence.pyis OUT OF SCOPE; its disposition is deferred to the maintainer's repo-wide decision and is not a review blocker.Models: GPT-6.1-Sol through the Codex harness and Claude Opus 5.5 through the Claude Code harness, delegated in parallel through T3 Code on fs-21. Reconciliation: implementation has no confirmed blocker; maintainer acceptance of the longer failure wait remains the outstanding product decision. No merge performed.