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Cause: the server logs with Effect's consolePretty, which calls the global console. stdout is a file (systemd append:boot-service.log) on the data disk. When a write fails with ENOSPC, Node's console only swallows errors while the write call runs, but SyncWriteStream emits the error on the next tick. Node's Worker (the SQLite client) also pipes into process.stdout, and pipe's onerror re-emits when no other listener exists. With no listener the error is unhandled and the process exits 1. The only guard (ignoreClosedLauncherPipe in cli/server.ts) was desktop-only, installed after resolveServerConfig (which already logs and starts the SQLite worker), and re-threw anything but EPIPE/ERR_STREAM_DESTROYED. Fix: remove that guard and attach a no-op 'error' listener to process.stdout and process.stderr at the top of the bin.ts entrypoint. That covers every CLI command, the systemd service launcher (whose stderr writes happen on failure paths a full disk triggers) and desktop, which spawns dist/bin.mjs. Desktop launcher-loss shutdown (awaitLauncherLoss) is unchanged. A failed log line is dropped instead of killing the process. Verified on the real server: with stdout redirected to /dev/full, origin/main exits 1 with the reporter's stack (console.log <- effect.js <- serverLogger.ts:17/24). With the fix it stays up, answers HTTP the same as a control run with writable stdout (503, no web build), and exits on SIGTERM with the same code (130). No regex or parser added. Caveat: after the first failed write Node destroys the stdout SyncWriteStream, so console log lines are dropped until the next restart even once space is freed. The server itself and SQLite recover.

Fixes #34413

Reproduction on main

Commit d2c2595 (origin/main). Mounted a 256 MB tmpfs at /mnt/t3-small, chowned to the user. From apps/server ran the real server as a transient systemd user unit mirroring the generated t3code.service: systemd-run --user --property=StandardOutput=append:/mnt/t3-small/userdata/logs/boot-service.log --property=StandardError=append:<same> --setenv=T3CODE_HOME=/mnt/t3-small node src/bin.ts serve --port 47913 --no-browser --log-level debug. After startup, filled the filesystem with dd until df showed 0 bytes available. The server stayed up for ~3 minutes, because short log lines fit in the partly used last page of the log, and survived an SQL error ('Orchestration history compaction failed'). Then the unit died: 'Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE', with the last log line torn mid-word. A rerun with StandardError=journal captured the stack: Error: ENOSPC: no space left on device, write at writeSync ... SyncWriteStream._write ... [kWriteToConsole] ... console.log ... effect/dist/internal/effect.js:3305 ... apps/server/src/serverLogger.ts:17 ... serverLogger.ts:24, then 'Emitted error event on SyncWriteStream' / 'throw er; // Unhandled error event', exit 1. This is the same stack as the reporter's 0.0.45 log. The restart-into-full-disk/StartLimitBurst half was not re-run; that is generic systemd behaviour with the unit's StartLimitBurst=5 and is covered by open PR #25924.

Evidence

Run each real server in a transient systemd user unit with fresh data on a 256 MiB tmpfs and stdout appended there. Wait for completed startup, align the log to a page boundary, fill the filesystem to zero available bytes, observe for four minutes, free space, and observe without restarting. stderr is captured outside the full filesystem.

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Recording · Transcript	Recording · Transcript
Exits with status 1 within ten seconds of filling the disk. Unhandled ENOSPC from writeSync → SyncWriteStream → console.log. Remains down after freeing space.	Same PID survives four minutes at zero available bytes. After freeing space: descriptor HTTP 200, trace writes recover, and project creation persists without restarting.

Recordings render captured driver output at 10× speed with real elapsed timestamps. The root HTTP probe returns 503 because these source-only runs have no bundled web assets; connection refusal distinguishes the crashed base.

Reproduction driver · Run instructions · Base crash stack · Head failure/recovery log · Persisted recovery write

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Not shown:

• Restarting into an already-full disk and systemd StartLimitBurst behavior were not exercised; the units isolated the logging crash without automatic restarts.
• No advance low-disk warning was demonstrated; this commit changes output-error handling rather than adding a warning.
• A full stderr filesystem and closed desktop-launcher pipes were not exercised; this reproduction targeted the reported stdout logging failure.

Tests

vp run check:changed: pass (format, lint, knip, typecheck of 3 packages, 1 related test file with 2 tests). Manual runtime check: node src/bin.ts serve --port <p> --no-browser --log-level debug >/dev/full on a fresh T3CODE_HOME. origin/main exits 1 with ENOSPC 'Unhandled error event'. The fix stays alive 15s+, gives HTTP 503 (the same as a control run with writable stdout) and exit 130 on SIGTERM (the same as the control). No new test: the failure is Node's process-level stdout handling, and the brief says it couldn't be written as a test.

Not in this change

• Console logging stays off until the next restart once a stdout write fails, because Node destroys the stdout SyncWriteStream on error. Logs coming back by themselves once space is freed would need a logger that writes to fd 1 with try/catch instead of the global console.
• There is no low-disk warning before the disk fills, which the issue also asks for.
• The systemd unit restarting into a full disk until StartLimitBurst=5 runs out is left alone (open PR fix(server): pause service restart when disk is full #25924).

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Verdict: Approved at 37c989d

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Failed stdout/stderr writes are handled at startup so full disks or closed pipes no longer crash the process. Shutdown handling is unchanged; after a stream failure, console logging may remain unavailable until restart.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ The exact PR base did not have a successful artifact. Baseline uses the latest successful main measurement shown below.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 6e6b6a7 · PR result: b689f00 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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The entrypoint now ignores stdout and stderr errors before dispatching to the service launcher or CLI. The server-specific handler and its registrations are removed. The entrypoint check and dispatch conditions remain unchanged.

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Register output error handlers apps/server/src/bin.ts, apps/server/src/cli/server.ts	The entrypoint registers an empty error handler on stdout and stderr before dispatch. The server-specific handler, which rethrew errors other than EPIPE and ERR_STREAM_DESTROYED, and its stream registrations are removed.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Merge Risk: Low · previous review 37c98

The change keeps the server running when log writes fail, which is the intended fix. The document-text helper CLI can now exit successfully with incomplete output if its stdout write fails. This is a narrow edge case, but it should be handled or consciously accepted. A regression test for the output-error path is also recommended.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		[#34413] The new listeners address the reported ENOSPC stdout/stderr crash path. The server can remain available when a console write fails. The issue also requires a low-disk warning before the dis…	Implement and test the remaining #34413 requirements, including a low-disk warning and the required recovery behavior. If service retry remains a separate change, document that split against the issue before closing it.

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[#34413] The new listeners address the reported ENOSPC stdout/stderr crash path. The server can remain available when a console write fails. The issue also requires a low-disk warning before the disk fills. No warning or disk-space state change is present. The issue's service retry behavior remains unchanged as well.

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Add a regression test for output-stream errors.

The entrypoint test does not exercise failed writes. Add a focused test that causes an ENOSPC output error and checks that the server remains available. It should fail on the previous implementation.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/bin.ts at line 45:
Add a focused regression test for the entrypoint’s `process.stdout` error handler, `ignoreOutputError`, that simulates an `ENOSPC` output error and verifies the server remains available; ensure the test fails if the handler is absent or the error otherwise disrupts the server.

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Node.js v26 writable stream write error event callback error stdout process exit

Result:

Sources consulted:
- Stream | Node.js v26.13.0 Documentation — https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html
- API for stream consumers | Node.js 26.13.0 Documentation — https://beta.docs.nodejs.org/stream/api-for-stream-consumers
- Hard crash on `write ENOBUFS` from process.stdout — needs an error handler — GitHub issue 4382 in earendil-works/pi (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- stdio: emit 'error' on a failed write even when a write callback is passed — GitHub pull request 33485 in oven-sh/bun (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- stdio: surface EPIPE from console.log/process.stdout.write as 'error' on process.stdout — GitHub pull request 35064 in oven-sh/bun (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)

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Report CLI result write failures.

If stdout fails, __document-text can exit successfully with incomplete output. It does not handle the write error, and the listener ignores it. Report result write failures without changing server log handling.

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Update the stdout error handling around `ignoreOutputError` so write failures from the `__document-text` result output are reported and cause an unsuccessful CLI exit. Keep server log handling and stderr error handling unchanged.

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