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fix(ssh): concurrent launches on one remote home share one server - #32587
Two SSH launches against the same remote T3 home at the same moment (two desktops reconnecting to one host after its server stops, or two aliases for one host) both pass the "is a server running" check, pick the same port and start t3 serve. The second server loses the home's owner lock and exits with ServerAlreadyRunningError, but its launch writes its dead child's PID to ~/.t3/ssh-launch/<key>/pid last. The next connect sees server-runtime.json naming a different PID and adopts the live server as external, so a desktop update no longer replaces it and Disconnect no longer stops it.
Reproduced on main 25bf84a by rendering REMOTE_LAUNCH_SCRIPT for the archive runner 0.1.8-nightly.20261107.4314 and running two launches at once in a throwaway HOME on Linux (dash as sh): 3 of 3 attempts (fresh home, runtime already installed, two state keys sharing one home) ended with the record naming a dead PID, and the next connect printed "serverKind":"external".
Change
REMOTE_LAUNCH_SCRIPT in packages/ssh/src/tunnel.ts holds one lock per remote T3 home (~/.t3/ssh-launch/.launch.lock), using the same noclobber PID-file idiom as the runner's install lock. A launch takes it after the runner is resolved (a cold archive download stays outside it) and keeps it through the runner comparison, reading the records, the start and the readiness wait. A waiting launch then finds the first server:
on the same alias, through the shared record (managed);
on another alias, through server-runtime.json (external), or, when that file is missing or not yet written, through the other alias's launch record: a live managed PID whose port answers the existing reuse probe is adopted as external.
Details:
The server answers HTTP before it writes server-runtime.json, so after a fresh start the launch keeps the lock until that file names its PID, for at most 10 s. A server that publishes later or never is still found through its launch record.
The runner file is compared and replaced under the lock, so a waiting launch on the same record does not see a "changed" runner and restart the server the first launch just started.
A lock left by a killed launch is taken over only under a short recovery lock (.launch.lock.break) that re-reads the owner, so a waiter that judged an older lock stale cannot remove a newer launch's lock. No launch removes another's recovery lock: one is left behind only by a SIGKILL inside those few lines, and waiters then fail after the wait limit with a message naming the file to delete. HUP, INT, PIPE and TERM exit through the cleanup, which removes only locks this shell owns.
The lock wait is derived from the existing timeouts (82 s). The node-script runner's SSH timeout becomes that wait plus the previous 90 s (172 s); the archive runner's 900 s still covers install wait, download, lock wait and readiness. The tunnel connect timeout from main stays at the 90 s base.
vp test run packages/ssh/src/tunnel.test.ts: 15 passed. The test ssh tunnel scripts > concurrent launches on one remote home record the server that owns it runs the real launch script under local sh for two aliases sharing one temp home, with a fake t3 serve that takes an owner lock, and a pre-seeded stale launch lock, in two rows: runtime record published 1.5 s after listening, and never published. It asserts one managed and one external result on the same port, exactly one server process started, and that the record names the server that owns the home. Against main's tunnel.ts it fails (the second alias's server loses the home lock and the launch never becomes ready).
vp run check:changed on f91433d (main merged, no packages/ssh change from main): format, lint, knip, typecheck (5 packages) and tests pass.
Three review rounds, each by two independent reviewers. Round 1 found two races, both reproduced and fixed in 29975cd: a waiter could delete a successor's recovery lock and admit two launches, and a server whose runtime record arrived after 10 s was not found by another alias. Round 2: no code bugs. Round 3, on f91433d, two fresh reviewers: no code bugs, both MERGE.
Proof audit: the fixture matrix (23 rows) was re-derived from the code at f91433d. Pass 1 found four rows without current captures (F01, F03, F12b, F19); they were captured on f91433d, and pass 2 is sufficient, with F12 and F19 rebuilt independently from the uploaded drivers. Rows F07-F10 (saved external port, invalid saved state, unready existing server, port selection failure) are paths the diff does not change and have no capture.
Evidence
Rows F01, F03, F12b and F19: before = merge-base d313b2a, after = f91433d, same drivers, same environment (index and drivers). The other rows: before = merge-base 0a9abdd, after = 29975cd, whose packages/ssh is identical to f91433d.
Before = merge-base 0a9abdd, after = 29975cd (the later merge of main touches no packages/ssh file). Ubuntu 24.04.4 x86_64, sh = dash 0.5.12-6ubuntu5, archive runner 0.1.8-nightly.20261107.4314 (0.1.9-nightly.20261110.4465 for F05), throwaway HOME; fixture rows use a fake t3 serve and say so. Index with every row, the "what else changed" list and all drivers: index.md. Matrix: matrix.md.
Cold archive launch, two aliases on one home, reconnect and lock-recovery interleaving (rows F04, F13, F16; F01 and F03 are recaptured above on f91433d) were captured on 6016bfa with the real archive runner; the later changes do not reach those paths (audit pass 2): transcripts and drivers.
What else changed: signal exits now end with exit status 1 instead of dying by the signal; a leftover recovery lock produces its own error message; on main, F05's concurrent update also hit a Permission denied race publishing the runner, which the lock removes.
Not checked: a real two-desktop run over SSH, macOS /bin/sh and zsh as sh (dash, bash and busybox ash were exercised). Older desktops do not take the lock and race as before.
AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.
…er (#32549)
These tests reproduce #32549: two launches against one remote
T3 home both start `t3 serve`, the second dies on the home owner lock, yet both
report a managed server and one launch records the dead server's PID.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two SSH launches against the same remote T3 home could both start `t3 serve`.
The second lost the home's owner lock and died, but its launch recorded the
dead PID, so the next connect adopted the live server as external and desktop
updates and Disconnect no longer managed it.
The launch script now holds one lock per remote home, using the runner's
noclobber install-lock idiom, from comparing the runner through recording and
readiness. A waiting launch then finds the first server through the record or
server-runtime.json. The runner is resolved before the lock, so a cold archive
download stays outside it, and the runner comparison moves inside it so a
waiting launch with the same record does not replace the server just started.
Fixes#32549
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The server answers HTTP before it writes server-runtime.json, so a launch
for another alias could take the lock in that gap and start a second
server. The fresh-launch path now keeps the lock until the runtime record
names its server, bounded by a short wait that never fails the launch.
Stale-lock takeover renames the lock aside so only one waiter can claim
it, and puts back a lock that turned out to be live. Cleanup removes the
lock only while it still names this shell, and HUP/INT/TERM exit through
cleanup. The node-script SSH budget now includes the lock wait.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Recovering a launch lock left by a killed launch now runs under its own
noclobber lock and re-reads the owner there, so a waiter that judged an
earlier lock stale cannot remove the lock a newer launch has taken. The
regression test takes the home's owner from the server's owner lock, so on
main it fails on the recorded PID rather than on a missing runtime record.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A waiter that cannot take the recovery lock now sleeps and counts toward the
lock-wait limit instead of retrying at once, and a launch killed by SIGPIPE
from a dropped SSH session also releases its lock.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Concurrent SSH launches now coordinate through a per-home lock and reuse the same remote server, including when runtime metadata is delayed. The change preserves existing server exposure and adds bounded waits and lock cleanup.
No code changes detected at f91433d. Prior analysis still applies.
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Handoff for #32549 from our #32581. All findings below concern our implementation, not verification of this PR.
Reproduced on the real Linux desktop app on corex: two isolated Electron clients connected through real loopback OpenSSH to a throwaway T3 home and built server. On base 25bf84ab07f53f141c20239c63e383823a9d5ea0, concurrent desktop IPC connections selected different ports; one failed readiness, and its cleanup deleted the survivor's launch record. A separate concurrent Settings → Add SSH run connected both clients but logged a rejected second server (ServerAlreadyRunningError); its saved PID happened to be correct. The deterministic generated-shell regression reproduced the dead-PID variant: saved PID 1286075 versus runtime owner 1286066.
On our fixed desktop build at 251a450a39c0386673a4110b6a1d669db1bdfc2f, Settings additions started 1 ms apart, both connected, exactly one server listened, and saved/runtime PID 985936 matched with managed ownership. A formatting-different runner then exercised managed replacement to PID 988912; the next identical launch reused 988912 as managed. Production source stayed unchanged through final head 33e4a3f65f042414ee7415c941d770ad3029a721.
Our four focused SSH suites passed 30/30 at the implementation commit; bash-as-sh also passed. Boat check:changed passed format, lint, both knip steps, typecheck of five packages, and 13 tests in two files at 9f514fa1784503607b125fdb84bc3ae517326eea. At final head 33e4a3f65f042414ee7415c941d770ad3029a721, the tunnel suite passed 11/11 and lint/format passed after fixing CodeRabbit's empty-PID cleanup finding. Implementation and Windows-fixture-guard reviews had no findings. The final-head Boat run was stopped during takeover cleanup, so no pass is claimed for it.
Evidence: #32581 contains the before/after Settings screenshots, runtime transcript, desktop bundle hashes, and limits. Base Settings result · Fixed Settings result. Screenshots show the real connection flow; the regression and runtime diagnostics establish the ownership correction. Captures used the test desktops' owned DevTools endpoints after Cua capture/binding failed. No account login or live user home was used; temporary test processes and files were cleaned.
Not verified here: native macOS/Windows userlands, cold public archive downloads, different-alias lifecycle, network filesystems, mixed-version launches, or launch-versus-stop/pairing races. Our evidence does not establish those cases or this PR's different implementation. Work and pushes on our branch have stopped.
SSH launches that share a remote home now use a home-wide lock while checking and starting a server. The launch script recovers stale locks, waits for runtime metadata, and checks sibling launch records for a live managed server. A concurrent-launch test verifies server ownership and lock cleanup.
Changes: SSH launch coordination
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Summary
Home lock and launch lifecycle packages/ssh/src/tunnel.ts
The launch script calculates a lock-wait allowance, recovers stale or unowned locks, and holds the home-wide lock through server reconciliation and runtime-record publication. PID-exit and runtime-record waits use configured limits. If the default runtime record is absent, the script checks sibling launch records for a live managed server.
A test launches two targets against one temporary home with a stale lock. It checks that one launch reports the managed server and the other reports it as external, that both use the same port, and that the server PID owns the home. It also checks stale-lock removal and cleans up spawned servers.
sequenceDiagram
participant LaunchScript as REMOTE_LAUNCH_SCRIPT
participant HomeLock as Home-wide lock
participant Server as t3 serve
participant Runtime as server-runtime.json
LaunchScript->>HomeLock: Acquire or recover launch lock
LaunchScript->>Server: Reconcile runner and start server
Server->>Runtime: Publish server PID
LaunchScript->>Runtime: Wait for matching PID
LaunchScript->>HomeLock: Release owned lock
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Possibly related issues
pingdotgg/t3code#24095 — The issue describes a changed alias adopting a server without managed ownership. This change checks sibling launch records for a live managed server.
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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 29975
Concurrent SSH launches against one remote home now coordinate through a home-wide lock and reuse a single server. No concrete merge-blocking risk was identified. Shell portability beyond Linux/dash was not verified by the author.
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[#32549] REMOTE_LAUNCH_SCRIPT acquires a lock under the shared T3 home before it compares the runner or checks and starts a server. It holds the lock through readiness and waits for runtime metadata…
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[#32549] REMOTE_LAUNCH_SCRIPT acquires a lock under the shared T3 home before it compares the runner or checks and starts a server. It holds the lock through readiness and waits for runtime metadata after startup. Its stale-lock recovery uses a separate recovery lock and rechecks the owner before removal. The added concurrency test covers two aliases, a pre-seeded stale lock, and delayed or absent runtime metadata. The implementation and test address the linked issue's per-home serialization and server-owner PID requirements.
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- Around line 587-593: Update the break-lock recovery using LAUNCH_BREAK_OWNER
and LAUNCH_BREAK_LOCK: give empty-owner locks repeated observations before
treating them as stale, consistent with the main lock’s grace behavior. Ensure
stale-lock cleanup cannot delete a replacement lock; a pathname re-read alone
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Keep the home lock until another alias can identify the started server, or fail
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A waiter could delete a recovery lock that a live launch had just taken,
letting two launches into the critical section. Waiters now never remove
another launch's recovery lock; a launch SIGKILLed inside that window
leaves one behind, and the bounded wait fails naming the file to delete.
A launch that finds no server-runtime.json now checks the other aliases'
launch records for a live managed server that answers the reuse probe and
adopts it as external, instead of starting a second server that loses the
home's owner lock.
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Upstream runs it on 8 vCPU Blacksmith; on GitHub's 4 vCPU runner the ssh
concurrent-launch test (pingdotgg#32587) needs about 5 s per row, the vitest default.
Same treatment Test Web already gets.
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Problem
Two SSH launches against the same remote T3 home at the same moment (two desktops reconnecting to one host after its server stops, or two aliases for one host) both pass the "is a server running" check, pick the same port and start
t3 serve. The second server loses the home's owner lock and exits withServerAlreadyRunningError, but its launch writes its dead child's PID to~/.t3/ssh-launch/<key>/pidlast. The next connect seesserver-runtime.jsonnaming a different PID and adopts the live server asexternal, so a desktop update no longer replaces it and Disconnect no longer stops it.Reproduced on main 25bf84a by rendering
REMOTE_LAUNCH_SCRIPTfor the archive runner 0.1.8-nightly.20261107.4314 and running two launches at once in a throwawayHOMEon Linux (dash assh): 3 of 3 attempts (fresh home, runtime already installed, two state keys sharing one home) ended with the record naming a dead PID, and the next connect printed"serverKind":"external".Change
REMOTE_LAUNCH_SCRIPTinpackages/ssh/src/tunnel.tsholds one lock per remote T3 home (~/.t3/ssh-launch/.launch.lock), using the same noclobber PID-file idiom as the runner's install lock. A launch takes it after the runner is resolved (a cold archive download stays outside it) and keeps it through the runner comparison, reading the records, the start and the readiness wait. A waiting launch then finds the first server:managed);server-runtime.json(external), or, when that file is missing or not yet written, through the other alias's launch record: a livemanagedPID whose port answers the existing reuse probe is adopted asexternal.Details:
server-runtime.json, so after a fresh start the launch keeps the lock until that file names its PID, for at most 10 s. A server that publishes later or never is still found through its launch record..launch.lock.break) that re-reads the owner, so a waiter that judged an older lock stale cannot remove a newer launch's lock. No launch removes another's recovery lock: one is left behind only by a SIGKILL inside those few lines, and waiters then fail after the wait limit with a message naming the file to delete.HUP,INT,PIPEandTERMexit through the cleanup, which removes only locks this shell owns.Scope and approval
Fixes #32549
Triaged via the automated issue flow; GitCafe issue https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/32549.
Verification
vp test run packages/ssh/src/tunnel.test.ts: 15 passed. The testssh tunnel scripts > concurrent launches on one remote home record the server that owns itruns the real launch script under localshfor two aliases sharing one temp home, with a faket3 servethat takes an owner lock, and a pre-seeded stale launch lock, in two rows: runtime record published 1.5 s after listening, and never published. It asserts onemanagedand oneexternalresult on the same port, exactly one server process started, and that the record names the server that owns the home. Against main'stunnel.tsit fails (the second alias's server loses the home lock and the launch never becomes ready).vp run check:changedon f91433d (main merged, nopackages/sshchange from main): format, lint, knip, typecheck (5 packages) and tests pass.Evidence
Rows F01, F03, F12b and F19: before = merge-base d313b2a, after = f91433d, same drivers, same environment (index and drivers). The other rows: before = merge-base 0a9abdd, after = 29975cd, whose
packages/sshis identical to f91433d.Before = merge-base 0a9abdd, after = 29975cd (the later merge of main touches no
packages/sshfile). Ubuntu 24.04.4 x86_64,sh= dash 0.5.12-6ubuntu5, archive runner 0.1.8-nightly.20261107.4314 (0.1.9-nightly.20261110.4465 for F05), throwawayHOME; fixture rows use a faket3 serveand say so. Index with every row, the "what else changed" list and all drivers: index.md. Matrix: matrix.md.managedownerserver-runtime.jsonasexternalmanagedmanaged+externalon one portCold archive launch, two aliases on one home, reconnect and lock-recovery interleaving (rows F04, F13, F16; F01 and F03 are recaptured above on f91433d) were captured on 6016bfa with the real archive runner; the later changes do not reach those paths (audit pass 2): transcripts and drivers.
What else changed: signal exits now end with exit status 1 instead of dying by the signal; a leftover recovery lock produces its own error message; on main, F05's concurrent update also hit a
Permission deniedrace publishing the runner, which the lock removes.Not checked: a real two-desktop run over SSH, macOS
/bin/shand zsh assh(dash, bash and busybox ash were exercised). Older desktops do not take the lock and race as before.AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.