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fix(ssh): renaming an SSH connection no longer strands its remote server on an old version - #24107
Changing an SSH connection's alias gives it a new launcher key. The desktop then treats its own running server as external and never updates it. In #24095, that left a Linux remote on 0.0.45 after the desktop updated to 0.1.0, and reconnect failed with ssh_http:401.
The launcher now finds the previous key's ownership record and transfers it only after verifying the live process. It then reuses or replaces the server according to the runner. A shared lock protects launch, pairing and stop. Linux can also recover an older PID-only record when the process's stdout still points to that record's own server.log, with the same process identity before and after the check. A bare PID or mismatched log stays external. The shutdown check also handles a process being reaped between its liveness probes.
Verification at 16508485f205ee78da6339867fc4dcd5f1894418: the genuine Linux legacy upgrade passes, all required CI checks pass, and Macroscope approved this head. Final-head macOS cold-install and ownership-transfer evidence is pending. CodeRabbit reviewed both new commits through this head and reported no actionable findings.
Unproven: final-head macOS cold installation and Darwin process-identity fallback, pending the physical shiv run below. PID-only legacy recovery on remotes without /proc remains unchanged and is not claimed fixed. Native Keychain, signed installer/autoupdater behavior, and migration of nonempty projects and turns were outside the test fixture.
Genuine 0.0.45 to 0.1.0 upgrade
The reporter used Arch Linux under Wayland and an Ubuntu 24.04 x64 SSH target. This test used the actual desktop on physical corex, Ubuntu 26.04.1 with GNOME Wayland, XWayland and Electron 44.9.3. The disposable SSH target was Ubuntu 24.04.5, OpenSSH and dash, with no Node installation. It started with no .t3 directory. Both release archives were downloaded and installed through the real launchers, without preseeded archives.
Before: genuine desktop 0.0.45 connects through legacy-original, then adds legacy-renamed for the same target. Reconnecting with the unfixed 7de13c669bf45b959a30fbd8b4b0bc3603b12161 desktop and the 0.1.0 runner leaves the old server external and reproduces the 401.
legacy-historical-upgrade.mp4
After: a fresh run starts with the genuine released 0.0.45 desktop and both aliases. The final-head desktop reconnects through legacy-renamed, replaces the old server and shows Connected · 0.1.0 in Settings > Connections.
R-E4-legacy-final-short.mp4
Phase
Process
Ownership
Remote version
Released desktop, original alias
PID 115
Managed, original PID-only record
0.0.45
Released desktop, renamed alias
PID 115
New key external, original key still managed
0.0.45
Final-head desktop, renamed alias
PID 581; PID 115 gone
Managed, new process identity
0.1.0
The original record contained only managed, pid, port, run-t3.sh and server.log. The target user verified that /proc/115/fd/1 and the original log had the same device and inode. After reconnect, the new key owned the real versions/0.1.0/t3 process on the same port, and the old key's ownership files were cleared. The public environment descriptor returned HTTP 200, server version 0.1.0 and protocol 2. Bootstrap succeeded without a 401.
Normal database migration preserved all four original auth session IDs and all five pairing-link IDs. Both databases passed integrity checks. This verifies auth migration, not project or turn migration.
Final-head Linux runtime output
Exact excerpts from the recorded target inspections and read-only migration checks.
Build provenance: Boat job j_jtxr3z7f4abofcmap5mz built the exact head with vp run build:desktop, exit 0, all five tasks successful. Desktop main.cjs SHA256 was d1e19397dbb802a8047f5969a5fff8d60b934717afa1e995ff94928861b0d6c8. All 3,240 generated desktop/server/web files retained their checksums after the run. The genuine desktop and runner archives matched published release digests.
Fixture disclosure: the final desktop's package version metadata selected the genuine 0.1.0 runner; its frontend and bundled local server remained 0.1.2. Production bundles were unchanged. An external safeStorage shim stored only disposable test credentials. Both clients used isolated homes and state. The original client was forcibly stopped to preserve its remote across the simulated desktop update. The 42.75-second MP4 records the actual Electron renderer, trims waits and cuts across that restart. It has no synthetic frames or overlays. Owned processes, target container, keys and test state were removed.
macOS verification
A physical shiv run at the final head is queued for a clean macOS SSH target, real cold installation, lock completion, alias transfer, runner replacement and the Darwin ps identity fallback. Results and a new native-window recording will replace this pending section before readiness.
The earlier native-window recording below tested the modern identity-bearing flow on 7de13c669bf45b959a30fbd8b4b0bc3603b12161, with preinstalled release archives. It does not prove cold installation or the final head.
mac-lifecycle.mp4
Linux, macOS and Windows desktop clients all call launchOrReuseRemoteServer and buildRemoteLaunchScript in packages/ssh/src/tunnel.ts. The remote OS selects Linux process identity or the ps fallback. Web, iOS and Android connect to an existing environment and do not launch desktop-managed SSH servers.
Tests and review
The final SSH package passed 44/44 tests. Focused tests cover ownership transfer, runner replacement, concurrent aliases, identity mismatch, unrelated PID-only records, stale locks and cleanup. The new process-reaping regression failed before the shutdown fix with the same error as CI, then passed with the fix. Independent code reviews accepted both new commits; an independent evidence review checked the final Linux recording, runtime output and build provenance.
The ownership lock requires hard links. Older launchers do not participate in it, so concurrent old/new launcher transfer is not guaranteed. Replacing a managed server interrupts its active turns. A revert removes future ownership transfers but cannot restore interrupted turns.
Implemented with Claude Opus 5.5 through Claude Code; investigation, tests, review and the earlier signal-cleanup correction with GPT-6.1-sol through Codex.
…ver on an old version
Editing a connection's alias, host, user, or port gives it a new launcher
state key. The new key found the server the old key had launched and adopted
it as external, so desktop updates never replaced it. The launcher now takes
over the other key's managed record instead, and compares against that key's
runner to decide whether the launch is an update.
Fixespingdotgg#24095
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Remote launch, pairing, and stop operations now use a shared lock with a bounded wait. Launch validates managed process identity and can transfer eligible server ownership between SSH state directories. Stop signals a managed process only when its recorded identity matches. SSH timeouts include the lock-wait allowance.
Launch, pairing, and stop scripts use a shared lock with a bounded wait. Script builders include the lock, and SSH timeouts include the wait allowance. Tests cover stale-lock recovery, contention, recovery races, and wait timing.
Verify and transfer managed server state packages/ssh/src/tunnel.ts, packages/ssh/src/tunnel.test.ts
Launch records process identity and active runner data. It validates identity before reuse or ownership transfer and clears managed identity when adopting an external server. Tests cover alias changes, concurrent claims, identity mismatches, and Linux identity migration.
Validate process identity during shutdown packages/ssh/src/tunnel.ts, packages/ssh/src/tunnel.test.ts
Stop checks process identity and managed status before signaling. Launch waits for shutdown and kills an unreaped child after the wait limit. Tests cover identity-probe failures and process cleanup.
pingdotgg/t3code#24095 — The change transfers eligible managed server state when a connection-key change occurs. It does not cover a server already recorded as external.
pingdotgg/t3code#26948 — The change requires successful process identity checks before publishing ownership state. The issue also describes stop signaling an unverified PID, which this PR does not fully address.
Suggested reviewers:t3dotgg, juliusmarminge
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 16508
Renaming an SSH connection now keeps ownership of the launched server on Linux without depending on ps output format. The launch-script tests fail with a clear message if the script text drifts. No open merge-blocking issues remain from this review. The author's note that final-head desktop recordings and CI are still pending is normal pre-merge verification.
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- Around line 667-670: Update the RUNNER_CHANGED comparison to use the runner
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Matches the external-adoption branch, so a hung server this key still
recorded is not orphaned. The test now starts from the external record
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A stalled server under another key no longer costs this key its own
working server: the takeover waits for readiness first, as the
external-adoption path does, and keeps the current server otherwise.
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Guard ownership transfer, replacement and stop against concurrent aliases and stale process records. Keep active runner identity across failed preparation and preserve external connections after adoption.
Implemented and verified with GPT-6.1-sol in Codex through T3 Code.
The launcher tests had grown to twelve cases and 437 lines. Two cover the
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Restored the deterministic concurrent-ownership regression in a7cba3d after independent review identified the lost coverage. It gates the first transfer and requires the second alias to wait, then verifies one final owner. Disabling the lock makes that assertion fail. On corex-t3, Linux x64, Node 26.12.1, vp run check:changed passes, including all 10 tunnel tests. Launcher runtime code is unchanged. The PR body records the current test result and original desktop-evidence commit.
process_start stores and compares formatted ps lstart output. On Linux, a wall-clock correction can change that output for the same live PID. The mismatch path then clears managed ownership, and the stop path skips the kill before removing the ownership files. A renamed connection can therefore treat the still-running server as external and leave it on its old version.
Read /proc/$1/stat field 22 on Linux and keep the ps fallback for macOS. Accept an existing ps-formatted record once and rewrite it to the new format.
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Do not publish managed state without a process identity.
set -e does not stop this launch because process_start is followed by || true. The redirection creates an empty identity file before the function runs, then the launch writes the PID and managed marker anyway. The stop script skips identity validation when that file is empty and can kill a different process after PID reuse. Keep the legacy nonempty-record compatibility path, but fail the new launch before publishing state when identity recording fails.
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Update the launch flow around process_start so it fails if identity recording
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Addressed the outside-diff identity-recording finding from review 5645629416 in 0ae4ef2. A newly spawned server must return a successful, nonempty process identity before launch publishes its PID and managed marker. If the probe fails or returns no identity, launch removes partial ownership files, signals the captured child PID, waits for exit and reaps it, then fails. Legacy-record compatibility is unchanged.
Both generated-script regressions failed against 1a19b2e because launch incorrectly succeeded. They now verify failure, child cleanup, absent ownership records and lock release. All 27 tunnel tests pass on Linux x64, Node 26.12.1 and dash. check:changed also passes format, lint, four affected-package typechecks and its second knip check. The first knip check still fails solely on main's unrelated agent-device dependency in scripts/package.json:15. Current-head desktop, macOS and Windows remain unverified, as the PR body discloses.
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Launchers before identity records wrote only managed, pid and port, so a
renamed connection adopted their server as external and kept it on its old
version. Every launcher appends its server's output to its own server.log,
so a live process whose stdout is that file is the server that state
launched, never a reused PID or a hand-started server. Transfer such a
server, record its identity bracketed by that check, and replace it, since
its runner is unknown.
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server_running treated an empty ps result as "running" whenever kill -0
had just succeeded. If the server's reaper removed it between the two
probes, wait_for_pid_exit's final check reported a stopped server as
alive and kept its ownership files. Ask kill -0 again after ps, so a
PID that is gone counts as stopped while a missing ps still trusts
kill -0.
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Changing an SSH connection's alias gives it a new launcher key. The desktop then treats its own running server as external and never updates it. In #24095, that left a Linux remote on 0.0.45 after the desktop updated to 0.1.0, and reconnect failed with
ssh_http:401.The launcher now finds the previous key's ownership record and transfers it only after verifying the live process. It then reuses or replaces the server according to the runner. A shared lock protects launch, pairing and stop. Linux can also recover an older PID-only record when the process's stdout still points to that record's own
server.log, with the same process identity before and after the check. A bare PID or mismatched log stays external. The shutdown check also handles a process being reaped between its liveness probes.Verification at
16508485f205ee78da6339867fc4dcd5f1894418: the genuine Linux legacy upgrade passes, all required CI checks pass, and Macroscope approved this head. Final-head macOS cold-install and ownership-transfer evidence is pending. CodeRabbit reviewed both new commits through this head and reported no actionable findings.Unproven: final-head macOS cold installation and Darwin process-identity fallback, pending the physical shiv run below. PID-only legacy recovery on remotes without
/procremains unchanged and is not claimed fixed. Native Keychain, signed installer/autoupdater behavior, and migration of nonempty projects and turns were outside the test fixture.Genuine 0.0.45 to 0.1.0 upgrade
The reporter used Arch Linux under Wayland and an Ubuntu 24.04 x64 SSH target. This test used the actual desktop on physical corex, Ubuntu 26.04.1 with GNOME Wayland, XWayland and Electron 44.9.3. The disposable SSH target was Ubuntu 24.04.5, OpenSSH and dash, with no Node installation. It started with no
.t3directory. Both release archives were downloaded and installed through the real launchers, without preseeded archives.Before: genuine desktop 0.0.45 connects through
legacy-original, then addslegacy-renamedfor the same target. Reconnecting with the unfixed7de13c669bf45b959a30fbd8b4b0bc3603b12161desktop and the 0.1.0 runner leaves the old server external and reproduces the 401.legacy-historical-upgrade.mp4
After: a fresh run starts with the genuine released 0.0.45 desktop and both aliases. The final-head desktop reconnects through
legacy-renamed, replaces the old server and shows Connected · 0.1.0 in Settings > Connections.R-E4-legacy-final-short.mp4
The original record contained only
managed,pid,port,run-t3.shandserver.log. The target user verified that/proc/115/fd/1and the original log had the same device and inode. After reconnect, the new key owned the realversions/0.1.0/t3process on the same port, and the old key's ownership files were cleared. The public environment descriptor returned HTTP 200, server version 0.1.0 and protocol 2. Bootstrap succeeded without a 401.Normal database migration preserved all four original auth session IDs and all five pairing-link IDs. Both databases passed integrity checks. This verifies auth migration, not project or turn migration.
Final-head Linux runtime output
Exact excerpts from the recorded target inspections and read-only migration checks.
Build provenance: Boat job
j_jtxr3z7f4abofcmap5mzbuilt the exact head withvp run build:desktop, exit 0, all five tasks successful. Desktopmain.cjsSHA256 wasd1e19397dbb802a8047f5969a5fff8d60b934717afa1e995ff94928861b0d6c8. All 3,240 generated desktop/server/web files retained their checksums after the run. The genuine desktop and runner archives matched published release digests.Fixture disclosure: the final desktop's package version metadata selected the genuine 0.1.0 runner; its frontend and bundled local server remained 0.1.2. Production bundles were unchanged. An external safeStorage shim stored only disposable test credentials. Both clients used isolated homes and state. The original client was forcibly stopped to preserve its remote across the simulated desktop update. The 42.75-second MP4 records the actual Electron renderer, trims waits and cuts across that restart. It has no synthetic frames or overlays. Owned processes, target container, keys and test state were removed.
macOS verification
A physical shiv run at the final head is queued for a clean macOS SSH target, real cold installation, lock completion, alias transfer, runner replacement and the Darwin
psidentity fallback. Results and a new native-window recording will replace this pending section before readiness.The earlier native-window recording below tested the modern identity-bearing flow on
7de13c669bf45b959a30fbd8b4b0bc3603b12161, with preinstalled release archives. It does not prove cold installation or the final head.mac-lifecycle.mp4
Linux, macOS and Windows desktop clients all call
launchOrReuseRemoteServerandbuildRemoteLaunchScriptinpackages/ssh/src/tunnel.ts. The remote OS selects Linux process identity or thepsfallback. Web, iOS and Android connect to an existing environment and do not launch desktop-managed SSH servers.Tests and review
The final SSH package passed 44/44 tests. Focused tests cover ownership transfer, runner replacement, concurrent aliases, identity mismatch, unrelated PID-only records, stale locks and cleanup. The new process-reaping regression failed before the shutdown fix with the same error as CI, then passed with the fix. Independent code reviews accepted both new commits; an independent evidence review checked the final Linux recording, runtime output and build provenance.
Current-head CI passes, including all eight required checks. Macroscope approved this head. CodeRabbit reviewed through this head and reported no actionable findings. This PR changes only the SSH launcher and its tests, with no contracts, bundling or scroll changes.
The ownership lock requires hard links. Older launchers do not participate in it, so concurrent old/new launcher transfer is not guaranteed. Replacing a managed server interrupts its active turns. A revert removes future ownership transfers but cannot restore interrupted turns.
Refs #24095. The initial ownership-transfer approach came from #21892 by @Gooder24.
Implemented with Claude Opus 5.5 through Claude Code; investigation, tests, review and the earlier signal-cleanup correction with GPT-6.1-sol through Codex.