fix(daemon/remote): a failed or interrupted bundle extract no longer destroys the work tree - #993
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…hen-rename extractBundle removed the live extraction and only then renamed the new clone into place, so anything that went wrong in between left the link holding neither tree: the deferred staging cleanup deleted the replacement on the way out. The doc comment claimed the opposite, that staging plus rename kept dest intact on error, which is true only of a clone failure. Two reachable ways to hit it, both reproduced. A removal that fails partway (a subdirectory the daemon cannot delete) reports an error with the prior tree already gutted. And every upload is handled in its own goroutine, so two uploads of one link id interleaved their removal and rename, failing with "directory not empty" and letting one call's removal wipe a tree another had just published. Move the live tree aside into staging instead of deleting it, rename the clone into place, and put the old tree back if that fails. If the restore fails too, keep staging so the only remaining copy survives and name it in the error. A refcounted per-destination lock serializes extracts. Swapping a directory is two renames and cannot be made atomic, so the comment now says what the code actually guarantees: on every error return dest holds one of the two trees, but a crash between the renames leaves it in staging with nothing to reap it on restart. The clone's deadline now starts once the lock is held, and bundle verify gets its own. Sharing one gitTimeout meant an upload queued behind a slow clone spent its budget waiting and then failed on the clone. A staging cleanup that fails is logged rather than dropped, since staging now holds a whole copy of the prior tree.
Extracts stage into .staging-* directories created beside dest, in the bundle dir itself, but sanitizeLinkID accepted .staging-123, .git and ..foo. Link ids come from the client's --id flag and travel over the wire, so an id could name another extract's in-flight staging dir, whose removal then deletes that clone mid-flight. Refuse a leading '.' outright rather than only the two traversal names. That keeps the staging namespace out of reach by construction and drops the hidden-directory ids along with it. The check runs on the upload path too, so a bad id fails before the client dials. This rejects ids that used to be accepted. Nothing documents the charset and a dot-prefixed id was never useful, but an existing link named that way stops working and needs renaming.
Two holes were left after the swap fix. Swapping a directory is two renames, so a crash between them leaves the link's only tree sitting in a staging dir with nothing to put it back. And the lock that serializes extracts is in-process, so a second daemon pointed at the same --bundle-dir does not see it. Take a per-link advisory file lock (lockutil, the same kernel-held locks cron and swarm use) alongside the in-process one, under the lock dir .extract-locks, which link ids cannot name. The wait is bounded and respects the caller's context. Record the link id in the staging dir before moving its tree, then have NewBridge repair the dir once before it serves. A backup whose link has no live tree is put back, one whose link already has a tree is dropped, and a staging dir with no backup is only reaped once it is older than any clone could be, so a running extract is never swept out from under itself. A marker that does not name a valid link inside the bundle dir is refused and the tree left where it is, so a corrupt marker cannot steer a rename. Verified end to end against a real bridge over TLS: a daemon started on a bundle dir left mid-swap restores the link and logs it, where the previous build leaves it gone for good.
downloadVerifyExtract removed destDir and only then renamed the freshly extracted stage over it, the same shape just fixed in the remote bundle extractor. A rename that fails after the removal (or a crash in that window) leaves the user with no engine at all, and the deferred stage cleanup takes the replacement with it. Pull the promotion into promoteStagedDir, which sets the previous install aside instead of deleting it and puts it back if the rename fails. If that restore fails too, the set-aside copy is kept rather than cleaned up, and the error names it.
… tree A crashed extract and a running one leave the same thing on disk: the backup set aside in staging and dest briefly absent between the two renames. Recovery could not tell them apart, so a second daemon starting in that window restored the backup out from under the running extract. The upload then failed with a rename error and an apology naming a backup path that no longer existed. Only the per-link lock separates the two cases. Recovery now tries that lock without waiting and skips any link something still owns, which is also the right answer for a link another daemon is actively serving.
…restore Two ways the new startup recovery lost data, both found by an adversarial review on a second model and both reproduced before fixing. A link can have more than one staged backup: a staging cleanup that could not finish leaves one behind, and a later crash adds another. Recovery walked them in directory order, so an older leftover could be restored first and the newer backup then deleted as superseded. Order staged dirs newest backup first, and only drop a backup that is provably older than the live tree; a backup that is not may be the newer copy no restart has published yet. Link ids starting with '.' were legal until the previous commit, so a work tree may already be published under a name that now matches the staging prefix. The age reaper treated it as an abandoned extract and deleted it on the first start after upgrading. A directory with a .git at its root is not a staged extract, so leave it alone and say so.
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In `@internal/dictation/download.go`:
- Around line 771-784: The installation promotion flow around renameStagedDir
must persist a promotion marker after moving destDir into the .previous-*
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…tion promoteStagedDir sets the previous install aside before renaming the new one into place. A process stop between those two renames leaves destDir absent and the only usable install inside the .previous-* holder, and nothing looked at that holder: EnsureLocalEngine gates on fileExists and would download a fresh engine instead, so a host that cannot reach the network stayed without dictation while holding a working copy. Put the holder back before the idempotency check. Anything already at destDir wins, and that check is explicit rather than leaning on os.Rename refusing an existing directory.
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[P2] Restore interrupted model promotion before checking model availability
internal/dictation/download.go:521
The root cause is thatpromoteStagedDiris shared by engine and model updates, while the new recovery wiring is specific toengineDir. If a process stops after the model directory is renamed to<modelDir>.previous-*/installbut before the staged directory is published,modelDiris absent. The next startup callsdirHasModel(modelDir)directly, falls intoresolveAsset/download, and never examines the holder containing the already verified model. Offline or restricted-network users therefore lose usable dictation until a download succeeds.Apply recovery at every consumer of the shared promotion transaction: restore
modelDirimmediately after it is derived and beforedirHasModel(modelDir), mirroring the engine path. Add a regression that plants an interrupted model holder, makes network resolution unavailable, and provesEnsureLocalEnginerestores and uses the local model rather than downloading. Keep the existing model digest and presence validation intact after restoration. -
[P3] Recover the newest retained installation, not the first glob match
internal/dictation/download.go:769
A cleanup failure can leave an old.previous-*holder. If a later promotion is interrupted, there are then two validinstalldirectories: the older leftover and the most recent live copy that was just moved aside. The root cause is that recovery takes the firstfilepath.Globmatch and returns; Glob's lexical ordering is unrelated toMkdirTempcreation order or install recency. Depending on the random suffixes, startup can silently restore the older engine/model and leave the most recent retained copy stranded.Establish an explicit recency rule for recoverable holders—e.g. persist sequence/timestamp metadata as part of the promotion transaction, or select the newest valid holder by verified metadata—and restore only that candidate. Cover the two-holder sequence (old cleanup survivor followed by a newer interrupted promotion) so recovery cannot regress to arbitrary lexical selection. Do not replace a live destination or discard a holder whose ordering cannot be established safely.
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[P2] Make stale-backup cleanup independent of equal directory mtimes
internal/daemon/remote/bundle.go:371
The root cause is thatrestoreStagedBackupuses a strict directory-mtime comparison as its only proof that a backup is stale. A normal backup-and-publish sequence can assign equal directory mtimes on filesystems with coarse resolution, makingbackupInfo.ModTime().Before(destInfo.ModTime())false. Recovery then retains the supposedly superseded hidden work tree; the newTestRecoverBundleDirDropsBackupWhenTheLinkAlreadyHasATreealready fails on the current PR head in this state.Make both the recovery ordering and its test deterministic. Record or derive ordering from transaction-specific state rather than incidental directory timestamp precision, or explicitly control distinct mtimes in the fixture when the production contract intentionally treats ties as ambiguous. Preserve the fail-safe rule: a backup whose recency is genuinely unknown must remain intact rather than being deleted.
…t one promoteStagedDir is shared by the engine and the model, but only the engine path called restoreInterruptedPromotion. A stop after the model directory was renamed into its holder left modelDir absent, so the next start went straight to dirHasModel, missed the verified model sitting in the holder, and fell into resolveAsset. Offline that is not a slow path, it is no dictation at all. Recovery also took the first Glob match, whose lexical order says nothing about which install is more recent. A cleanup that could not finish leaves an older holder behind, and a later interrupted promotion then gives recovery two valid installs to choose between. The promotion now records its creation time in the holder name and recovery restores the newest, leaving any holder it cannot order intact rather than deleting it on a guess.
restoreStagedBackup proved a backup stale by comparing directory mtimes, which two directories can tie on: a filesystem with coarse timestamps gives the backup and the tree published over it the same value, and recovery then keeps a superseded work tree forever. The proof does not need a timestamp. A backup is filled by renaming dest aside, so it only ever holds the tree that was live before dest, and dest holding anything at all means a later extract published over it. That leaves one case where the ordering is genuinely unknown: a tree recovery itself just put back was not published over anything. Extracts now stamp their staging name with a creation time, so recovery restores the newest backup and drops the older ones it can order against it. A backup carrying no comparable order is kept and reported. The two tests that pinned the mtime contract move to this one. A backup newer than the live tree was reachable only by setting mtimes by hand, never by the transaction, so that case is replaced by the fail-safe that does hold.
destDir is a path, not a pattern, and filepath.Glob reads it as one. A '[' anywhere in the install root opens a character class, the pattern then matches nothing, and recovery quietly leaves the interrupted install stranded: the same outcome as having no recovery at all, for a user whose config directory happens to contain a bracket. Scanning the parent for the name prefix has no such reading, and is what the bundle side already does. The end-to-end test covers both consumers by driving the real promotion into the state a killed process leaves, then recovering it with no network to fall back on. It also asserts the holder name promoteStagedDir wrote is one holderStamp can read: restoring a lone holder works either way, so nothing else would notice the two halves drifting apart until a second holder appeared.
The recovery tests all planted their fixtures by hand, so none of them ran a name extractBundle actually writes. The new end-to-end test uploads over a real bridge, interrupts the swap the way a killed daemon interrupts it, and starts a fresh bridge over the same directory, asserting on the way through that the staging name recovery has to order by is the one the extract wrote. Also covers what recovery must not do: decide one link by another link's outcome, change anything on a second pass, or tell two backups stamped in the same instant apart. The reap path now runs against both name shapes.
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All three are fixed, in 23da589, 1179915 and 46d12d8. [P2] Restore interrupted model promotion. Confirmed before touching anything: with a model holder planted and release resolution pointed at a closed listener, [P3] Recover the newest retained installation. Fixed by recording the order rather than inferring it. [P2] Stale-backup cleanup. One correction on the premise: I took the first option you offered rather than controlling mtimes in the fixture, because the comparison was not the right proof to start with. That leaves one case the argument does not cover: a tree recovery itself just restored was not published over anything. So extracts stamp their staging name as well, recovery restores the newest backup and drops only the older ones it can order against it, and one it cannot order is kept and logged. Two backups stamped in the same instant count as unorderable. Two things beyond what you flagged, both surfaced while covering the above. The sort feeding recovery was mtime-based too, so fixing only the drop side would have let recovery restore an older backup and then delete the newer one as superseded. It orders by the stamp now. Two tests that pinned the old contract moved with it, and the one asserting a backup newer than the live tree was reachable only by setting mtimes by hand, never by the transaction, so it is replaced by the fail-safe that does hold.
Recovery is now covered end to end on both sides through names the production code generates rather than fixtures, which is what caught the glob bug and a case where the holder writer and reader could have drifted apart with the suite still green. The PR body is updated: it still described the mtime rule, and its residual about the dictation promotion having no repair pass was stale. |
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UploadRepoBundlereachesextractBundlein the bridge connection goroutine. The test writes and restores the package-levelrenameDirvariable without a Go synchronization primitive. Socket traffic does not establish a happens-before relationship for these accesses, so-racecan report a data race. Protect the hook with an atomic or mutex-guarded accessor.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@internal/daemon/remote/bundle.go`:
- Line 424: Update recoverBundleDir and the restored assignment path so a backup
deliberately retained after restoring a tree is moved or renamed outside the
stagingPrefix namespace before returning. Ensure subsequent recoverBundleDir
calls do not classify or delete that retained directory, while ordinary staging
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In `@internal/daemon/remote/bundle_test.go`:
- Around line 927-930: Synchronize the test hook used by UploadRepoBundle and
extractBundle by replacing direct access to the package-level renameDir variable
with an atomic- or mutex-guarded accessor. Update the failure injection and
restoration in the test, plus the production read in extractBundle, so all reads
and writes use the same synchronization mechanism.
In `@internal/daemon/remote/bundle.go`:
- Line 408: Update the condition in the restored-entry check around restored and
stamped to apply De Morgan’s law, replacing the negated conjunction with the
equivalent disjunction while preserving the existing behavior.
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- [P1] Repair the failing Windows smoke check
internal/dictation/download_test.go:642
Smoke (windows-latest)fails on the PR head because the newsta*randque?rycases reachplantHolder, which callsos.MkdirAllfor a directory Windows rejects. The failure happens beforerestoreInterruptedPromotionis exercised, so the test does not validate the glob-free recovery behavior it was added to cover and the required Windows gate cannot pass. The root cause is treating POSIX glob metacharacters as portable filename characters. Keep coverage for the realfilepath.Globregression, but make the case table platform-aware: test portable names such as[/]everywhere and either skip or avoid*/?where Windows cannot create them.
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[P2] Do not report a replacement upload as successful when its old tree could not be cleaned up
internal/daemon/remote/bundle.go:465
The swap moves the live checkout tostaging/backupbefore publishingstaging/repo. Once that publish succeeds, the deferred cleanup is the only step that removes the full previous checkout. Ifos.RemoveAll(staging)fails—for example due to a permission problem or a Windows process holding a file—the deferred function only logs and returns toreceiveBundle, which sendsOK: true; with no bridge logger, the stranded tree is entirely invisible. Repeated replacement uploads can consume the bundle volume with hidden.staging-*checkouts. The root cause is treating transactional cleanup as best-effort after declaring the operation successful. Make the cleanup outcome part of the operation result, or persist durable retryable cleanup state that startup can report and retry; preserve the intentional retained-backup behavior when publish or rollback itself fails. -
[P2] Surface failed cleanup of a previous dictation install
internal/dictation/download.go:850
promoteStagedDirfirst renames the prior engine/model intoholder/install, then publishes the staged install. On a successful publish, the deferred cleanup discards everyRemoveAll(holder)error even though that holder contains the complete old installation. This is not recovered on the next startup:restoreInterruptedPromotionreturns immediately wheneverdestDirexists, so old holders remain invisible and each future replacement can add another full engine/model. The root cause is the same post-commit cleanup blind spot, compounded by a recovery routine that only handles an absent destination. Propagate cleanup failure or persist/retry cleanup for holders after a successful commit; keep the current behavior that retains and names the holder when publishing or rollback fails. -
[P2] Do not use wall-clock time as proof of transaction order during recovery
internal/daemon/remote/bundle.go:458
The recovery sort treats thetime.Now().UnixNano()embedded in a staging name as a durable ordering key, but that value is wall-clock time—the monotonic component is not persisted—and can move backward after a VM resume, clock correction, or manual change. Consider an old staging backup left by a failed cleanup, followed by a later successful publish, then a newer interrupted publish after the clock moves backward. Recovery sorts the old backup first, restores it, and then classifies the newer backup as superseded and removes it; the link has been rolled back and its newest recoverable tree destroyed. The identical holder ordering ininternal/dictation/download.go:859can restore an old engine/model for the same reason. The root cause is using a non-monotonic timestamp as evidence of transaction order. Use an ordering that remains valid across wall-clock regressions, or treat candidates whose order cannot be established as unordered and retain them; preserve the current equal/unknown-order fail-safe.
The awkward-path case builds a directory per glob metacharacter, but '*' and '?' are illegal in a Windows filename, so the two subtests died in their own os.MkdirAll before reaching restoreInterruptedPromotion. Run those two off Windows only; the bracket names are legal everywhere and still cover '[', the metacharacter that matches nothing rather than failing. Also apply De Morgan's law to the restored-backup check that staticcheck flagged (QF1001). Same predicate, checked over all 36 input combinations.
Recovery keeps a staged backup it cannot order against a tree it just put back, because neither name says which of the two is current. That fail-safe only held for one pass: the map recording what this pass restored is per-call, so on the next start dest looks published-over by a later extract and the retained copy was reaped as superseded. Park a retained staging dir under a prefix the scan does not enumerate, so a later pass leaves it alone. The rename is not forced, so an occupied name keeps its occupant and the copy simply stays put. Reported by CodeRabbit on Gitlawb#993.
The recency sort claims an unstamped holder is the least recent thing recovery can read, so it loses to any stamped one. Only the newest-of-two-stamped half of that was covered: inverting the stamped/unstamped branch left the suite green. The name sorts first lexically, so nothing but the rule under test can produce the wanted answer.
… the clock Recovery ordered its leftover directories by a time.Now().UnixNano() stamp in the directory name. Wall-clock time is not monotonic across persistence, so a VM resume, an NTP correction, or a manual change can leave the earlier of two writes carrying the larger stamp. Recovery then restores the older tree and, at the bundle site, deletes the newer one as superseded, which loses the only copy of the work tree that was live last. The dictation site cannot delete a tree but restores a stale engine or model. Both writers now number a new directory one past the highest already present and claim it with an exclusive create, retrying upward when the name is taken. An extract or promotion that reads an existing entry always numbers above it, which no clock movement can invert, and exclusive creation arbitrates the racers that neither site fully locks. Seeding from the highest present is also the whole migration: a nanosecond name written by a released binary just sets a high starting point, so old and new names keep sorting correctly together with no upgrade step. The bundle allocator counts parked .kept- names as well as staging ones. parkKeptBackup derives the parked name from the staging name, so a number handed out twice makes the second park land on an occupied name; that rename refuses, the backup stays under the scanned prefix, and the next pass deletes it as superseded. Counting parked names keeps a retained backup retained. Directory mode stays 0o700, which is what os.MkdirTemp produced. os.Mkdir takes a mode where MkdirTemp did not, so replacing the call forces the choice.
nextStagingSeq fed every directory entry to stagingStamp, which trims its prefix with TrimPrefix, a no-op on a name that does not carry it. The sibling directories in a bundle dir are the per-link work trees, and a link id is whatever the uploading client sent, so a link named "2024-project" set the next sequence to 2025 and one named for int64's maximum made the allocator refuse to allocate at all. That refusal aborts extractBundle before it does anything else, for every link in the directory, on every later upload and across restarts, until someone removes the directory by hand. Filter the scan the way recoverBundleDir already filters its own, so only staging and kept names reach the parser. Also make two guards mean what they claim. The permission assertion could not tell a correct 0700 from a widened 0755 under a umask of 077, where both come back 0700; it now creates a control directory first and skips with a reason rather than passing on evidence it does not have. The concurrency tests raced 16 allocators, which caught a check-then-create allocator in about half of runs; at 128 it is caught in every run.
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The wall-clock ordering finding is fixed in aa68c04, with a follow-up in 1580a59 that fixes a defect the first fix introduced. Both writers now number a new directory one past the highest already present and claim it with an exclusive create, retrying upward when the name is taken. A writer that reads an existing entry always numbers above it, which no clock movement can invert, and exclusive creation arbitrates the racers neither site fully locks. Seeding from the highest present is also the whole migration: a nanosecond name written by a released binary just sets a high starting point, so old and new names sort correctly together with no upgrade step. Reproduced before fixing, as you described it. With an older backup carrying a future stamp, recovery restored the stale tree and no copy of the tree that was live last was left anywhere under the bundle dir. After the fix it restores the right one and supersedes the stale one. The dictation site had the same inversion without the deletion and carries the same regression test. Worth flagging since I introduced it: the first version of the allocator scanned every entry in the bundle dir, and The mtime reaper is deliberately untouched. It is a second wall-clock dependency, but a different claim: it does not order anything, and it is reachable only when the stat on a staging dir's backup fails, which is normally a staging dir that never held a tree. It can still reach one that does if a non-ENOENT stat error coincides with an aged mtime, and a forward clock jump can make a live clone's staging look abandoned, since that path does not check the per-link lock. Both seem to me to belong with the cleanup findings rather than with this one. Still open from your review: reporting a replacement upload as successful when its old tree could not be cleaned up, and surfacing a failed cleanup of a previous dictation install. I have not started either yet, so I am not re-requesting review. |
… install promoteStagedDir renames the previous install into a holder, publishes the new one, then removes the holder. When that removal failed the holder survived with a complete copy of the old engine or model inside it, and nothing ever removed it: restoreInterruptedPromotion returned as soon as destDir existed, so every later replacement stranded another whole install beside the live one. Recovery now reaps a holder the live install superseded. A holder is only ever filled by renaming destDir aside, so a destDir that holds something means a later promotion published over it. An EMPTY destDir is deliberately not that evidence: a husk can outlive a failed or partial promotion, and reaping on its account would delete the only surviving copy, so those holders are still left alone. The scan both paths use is now one function so they cannot drift. The bundle side already reclaimed its equivalent leftover on the next daemon start, which bounds that leak to one daemon lifetime rather than for good, but it did so silently. Since the upload reported success to its client while a whole copy of the prior tree was still on disk, and the cleanup failure itself is only logged, recovery now names what it reclaims.
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In `@internal/dictation/download.go`:
- Line 881: Update restoreInterruptedPromotion and its caller EnsureLocalEngine
so holder cleanup occurs only after validating destDir as a usable engine/model
installation, rather than relying solely on dirHasEntries; otherwise restore the
valid holder copy before downloading and preserve offline dictation
availability.
- Line 883: Update the cleanup around os.RemoveAll(holder) to handle its
returned error instead of discarding it. When removal fails, report both the
holder path and cleanup error through the existing startup error-reporting
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Report holder cleanup failures.
os.RemoveAll can fail, but this result is discarded. Startup then succeeds without reporting that an old installation remains and may accumulate after later promotions.
Log or otherwise surface the holder path and cleanup error. This conflicts with the stated objective to report preserved copies when cleanup fails.
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In `@internal/dictation/download.go` at line 883, Update the cleanup around
os.RemoveAll(holder) to handle its returned error instead of discarding it. When
removal fails, report both the holder path and cleanup error through the
existing startup error-reporting mechanism, while preserving successful cleanup
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Not taking this one, and the reason is plumbing rather than disagreement.
internal/dictation has no logger. The only channel out of EnsureLocalEngine is opts.Progress, which carries the user-facing download status line ("Engine 45% - 57/126 MB"), so pushing a cleanup error through it would put an internal failure in front of the user in the wrong voice. Threading a real reporter through restoreInterruptedPromotion and its two call sites is a wider change than this fix, and this PR is already carrying more than its original scope.
What the code does instead is retry rather than forget. A removal that fails leaves the holder in place, and the next EnsureLocalEngine call reaches the same branch with the same live destination and tries again, so a transient failure clears itself and a persistent one is bounded by the holders that already exist rather than growing per promotion. That is stated in the comment at the branch.
Happy to add a reporting channel if a maintainer wants it, but I would rather do that as its own change than widen this one.
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@beardthelion, understood. The retry behavior prevents transient cleanup failures from being silently permanent, and opts.Progress is not an appropriate channel for internal recovery diagnostics.
I will keep this finding open without requesting changes in this PR. If you want to track explicit cleanup reporting, I can open a follow-up issue for a dedicated reporter in internal/dictation.
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Learning: In Gitlawb/zero `internal/dictation/download.go`, `DownloadOptions.Progress` is a user-facing download-status callback and must not carry internal cleanup or recovery errors. `internal/dictation` currently has no dedicated logger or reporter. Failed `os.RemoveAll` cleanup in `restoreInterruptedPromotion` leaves the holder for a later `EnsureLocalEngine` call to retry when the destination has a usable installation.
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Learning: In `internal/dictation/download.go`, `EnsureLocalEngine` calls `restoreInterruptedPromotion(engineDir)` before its idempotency check. `restoreInterruptedPromotion` restores an absent installation from a sibling `<destDir>.previous-*` holder. An existing `destDir`, including an empty directory, takes precedence and leaves the holder unchanged.
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Both remaining cleanup findings are addressed in e17255e. Failed cleanup of a previous dictation install. An empty Replacement upload reported successful when the old tree could not be cleaned up. Worth correcting the premise slightly, because it changes what was actually needed here: that leftover already self-heals. I planted the post-success shape (dest live, the prior tree still staged beside it) and ran one recovery pass, and the staging dir is reclaimed with dest untouched, so the leak is bounded by a daemon lifetime rather than persisting. What was missing is the reporting half. The reclaim was completely silent, and That is a log line, not the cleanup outcome in the operation result. I went that way because the publish has succeeded by then and the tree at All four items from your review are now covered: the Windows smoke failure, the wall-clock ordering, and these two. Checks are green on every platform. One residual I have not closed, so it is not hiding: the staging and holder names are deterministic now and are reused as soon as the directory is clear, so on Windows a directory still in DELETE_PENDING can return a permission error rather than an exists error and escape the retry loop. Nothing exercises that path, and I did not widen the error check on a guess. |
… usable The reap added in e17255e gated on destDir being non-empty, which is not the same claim as a promotion having published there. A destination holding a half populated tree, left by anything outside this transaction, reads as non-empty while the only usable copy of the engine or model sits in the holder beside it. Recovery then deleted that copy, and EnsureLocalEngine went to the network for a replacement, which an offline caller does not have. That is the loss the holder exists to prevent. restoreInterruptedPromotion now takes the same predicate its caller already uses to decide whether a download is needed: the engine binary resolving for the engine, dirHasModel for the model. A holder only loses to a destination that predicate accepts. The empty husk case is covered by the same rule rather than by a separate check, so dirHasEntries is gone. Reported by CodeRabbit on Gitlawb#993.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
Why this keeps producing follow-up findings
The findings below are not six unrelated edge cases. They are different manifestations of three missing transaction invariants:
- A name or directory shape is being treated as proof of ownership. Prefixes such as
.staging-and.previous-identify likely candidates, but they do not prove that a directory was created by this transaction, belongs to this destination, is a complete installation, or is safe to delete. This is behind both the prefix-colliding holder deletion and the legacy work-tree/sequence collision. - Recovery and mutation do not share one lifecycle lock. Allocating a unique holder name prevents two writers from claiming the same pathname, but it does not protect the state stored under that name. Recovery can validate a destination, a promotion can move that destination into a holder, and recovery can then delete the live rollback source. This is why concurrency remains unsafe even though sequence allocation itself is race-free.
- Ordered candidates are processed one at a time without preserving failed-candidate provenance. “Newest first” is only safe if a failure on the newest candidate stops recovery for that destination. Continuing to an older candidate loses the fact that a preferred copy exists but could not be restored; a later pass then mistakes the older restored tree for proof that the preferred copy was superseded. The unusable-holder and both restore-fallback findings come from this selection model.
This PR has grown from changing one destructive rename sequence into implementing crash recovery, cross-process coordination, cleanup, ordering, migration of legacy names, and offline restoration in two subsystems. Those behaviors form state machines. Encoding the state implicitly across directory names, existence checks, loop order, and a per-pass map makes each new failure case require another exception, which is why review feedback has continued to surface adjacent variants.
Please address the state model rather than patching only the six examples. A durable fix does not require one particular implementation, but it should establish the following invariants for both bundle and dictation recovery:
- Positive ownership before destructive action. Before recursively deleting a staging directory or holder, prove that this code created it for the exact destination being recovered. A strict generated-name parser is better than a prefix, but an immutable transaction marker tying together transaction kind, destination identity, and sequence is stronger. If a marker is used, create it atomically before the first destructive rename and treat missing, partial, unreadable, or contradictory metadata as “retain and report,” never “safe to delete.”
- One lock for the complete destination lifecycle. Recovery, superseded-copy cleanup, set-aside, publish, rollback, and final cleanup must use the same per-destination synchronization boundary. The lock must cover the check and the action, not only name allocation. Where multiple processes share the cache/bundle root, the boundary must be cross-process as well as in-process. Unrelated link IDs and engine/model destinations should remain independently lockable.
- Reconcile candidates per destination, not per directory entry. First discover and classify every candidate for one destination without mutating anything. Validate ownership and usability, establish the ordering that is actually knowable, and choose an action. Only then mutate filesystem state while holding the destination lock. A directory scan should not independently restore/delete entries whose meaning depends on other candidates in the same group.
- Failure of the preferred candidate is a state, not permission to fall back. If the newest usable candidate cannot be read or moved, retain it, record/report the failure, and stop recovery for that destination. Do not install an older candidate unless the implementation can also preserve durable provenance showing that the failed newer copy was not superseded, so a later pass cannot delete it on the older destination's account.
- Existence, usability, and committed publication are distinct facts.
Statsuccess proves existence; the engine/model predicate proves usability; neither by itself proves that a later transaction committed over every adjacent holder. Cleanup should require evidence of that commit relationship rather than inferring it only from “a usable destination exists.” - Unknown state fails safe. Unparseable names, legacy work trees, tied/unstamped candidates, unreadable metadata, and filesystem-operation failures must retain all potentially valuable copies. Recovery may log and defer intervention, but it must not convert uncertainty into recursive deletion.
- Repeated recovery is part of the contract. For every recovery decision, reason through the next process start with an empty in-memory map. A copy deliberately retained or unsuccessfully restored on pass one must not be reclassified as superseded merely because pass two sees a destination beside it.
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Please exercise the transaction model systematically instead of adding only one regression per reported symptom. For each bundle and dictation destination, cover at least:
- no prior destination; usable prior destination; empty/partial prior destination;
- one candidate; multiple ordered candidates; tied or unorderable candidates; prefix-colliding non-candidates; legacy reserved-looking work trees;
- newest candidate usable; newest candidate unusable; newest candidate unreadable; newest candidate's restore fails while an older candidate could succeed;
- interruption before and after holder/staging allocation, ownership recording, old-destination rename, new-destination publish, rollback, and cleanup;
- cleanup failure followed by another promotion, then one and two fresh recovery passes;
- recovery racing a live promotion in another goroutine/process at each check→rename and check→delete boundary;
- assertions for both sides of every outcome: which tree becomes live and which other copies remain, move, or are deleted.
The most useful fault-injection suite would make each filesystem step fail independently and then rerun recovery twice. For ordered candidates, assert that a failure affecting candidate N never permits candidate N-1 to become evidence that N is disposable. For destructive cleanup, assert that changing only a sibling name or supplying an unrelated directory can never make it owned. These tests would cover the defect classes below and make another drip-review round much less likely.
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[P2] Serialize dictation recovery and promotion as one transaction
internal/dictation/download.go:894
restoreInterruptedPromotionfirst decides thatdestDiris usable and only afterwards enumerates and removes every adjacent holder.promoteStagedDircan run between those steps in another process: it creates a holder and moves the usable destination intoholder/install; recovery then discovers that newly created holder and deletes it as supposedly superseded. If the staged publish subsequently fails, its rollback source has disappeared, so rollback also fails and the prior usable installation is lost. I reproduced this exact ordering through the existing rename seam.The root cause is that exclusive holder-name allocation arbitrates names but does not protect the promotion lifecycle or holder contents. Use the same per-destination, cross-process transaction lock for recovery, cleanup, and the complete set-aside → publish → rollback sequence, or provide equivalent durable ownership that prevents cleanup from deleting a live rollback source. Keep the lock scoped per engine/model destination so unrelated downloads remain independent.
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[P2] Validate each holder with the caller's usability contract before restoring it
internal/dictation/download.go:920
The existing-destination branch correctly uses the supplied engine/model predicate, but the absent-destination branch checks only whetherholder/installexists. A higher-sequence partial holder therefore wins over an older usable holder. Recovery moves the partial tree intodestDir,EnsureLocalEnginerejects it, and an offline startup attempts and fails a download even though a usable retained copy is still present in the older holder. A deterministic regression with an empty sequence-2 install and a valid sequence-1 engine reproduces this.The root cause is treating directory existence as proof of a published installation. Apply the same caller-provided predicate to every
holder/installbefore selecting it. Retain invalid or unreadable candidates rather than deleting them on inference, and continue to preserve the current engine-path flattening and modeltokens.txtvalidation behavior. -
[P2] Do not fall back after restoring the newest dictation holder fails
internal/dictation/download.go:923
Holders are sorted newest-first, but a rename failure for the preferred holder simply continues to the next one. An older holder can then be installed successfully. On the followingEnsureLocalEnginecall, that older install satisfies the published predicate, so cleanup deletes the still-newer holder as superseded. A transient failure affecting only the newest holder is thus converted into a rollback and eventual loss of the preferred copy. A newest-only injected rename failure reproduces the fallback to the older install.The root cause is that ordering information is discarded when an operational restore fails. Group recovery by destination and stop that destination's recovery after the highest-priority usable candidate cannot be restored, or persist enough provenance that installing an older fallback can never authorize deletion of the failed newer candidate. Do not solve this by merely reversing iteration or swallowing the error; the newest copy must remain recoverable across the next call.
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[P2] Preserve the newest bundle backup when its restore fails
internal/daemon/remote/bundle.go:532
Bundle recovery has the same state-selection defect.recoverBundleDirprocesses staged backups newest-first, butrestoreStagedBackuptreats a failed newest rename as handled without recording a per-link failure. The outer loop then restores an older backup for that link. On the next daemon start, the freshrestoredmap sees the older tree atdestand classifies the still-newer staged backup as superseded, deleting it. A regression that makes only the newest staging directory unmovable reproduces restoration of the older tree.The root cause is processing ordered candidates independently while carrying provenance only for successful restores. Recover per link as a unit: select the newest usable/ordered candidate, and if restoring it fails, retain it and prevent lower-ranked candidates from becoming evidence of a later publish. Preserve the existing fail-safe behavior for tied, unstamped, and otherwise unordered backups.
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[P3] Require positive holder ownership before recursive cleanup
internal/dictation/download.go:895
holdersBesidetreats every sibling directory whose name starts with<dest>.previous-as an owned holder, and this branch sends every match toRemoveAllwithout validating the generated-name grammar, a transaction marker, or even theinstalllayout. Engine release tags are configurable and browse-listed model names also feed cache directory names, so a legitimate sibling cache can share that prefix. Ensuring the shorter-named usable destination then deletes the other directory wholesale; a prefix-colliding sibling regression reproduces the deletion.The root cause is using a string prefix as authority for destructive cleanup. Establish positive ownership before deletion—preferably a small transaction marker tying the holder to the exact destination, or at minimum a strict generated-name parser plus the expected transaction layout. Do not broaden the reserved prefix or sanitize unrelated user-selected cache names as a substitute; cleanup must prove that the directory belongs to this promotion.
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[P3] Keep legacy work-tree names out of staging allocator state
internal/daemon/remote/bundle.go:420
The upgrade path intentionally preserves a pre-existing.staging-*link when the directory contains a root.git, because older versions allowed dot-prefixed link IDs.nextStagingSeq, however, still treats every.staging-*or.kept-*directory as allocator-owned. A preserved legacy link named.staging-9223372036854775807-seqis parsed asmath.MaxInt64, after which every upload for every link fails with the maximum-sequence error. This exact current-head state reproduces the global refusal.The root cause is sharing one name prefix between legacy user-owned work trees and internal transaction state, then treating the prefix as provenance. Exclude positively identified work trees before parsing allocator state, or move internal staging metadata under a namespace whose ownership is unambiguous. Preserve the existing work tree during migration and retain the new rejection of future dot-prefixed link IDs.
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Fixes #992.
The bundle extractor deleted a link's live work tree before it had anything to publish, so a failure or a crash in that window left the link holding neither the old tree nor the new one.
internal/dictation/download.gopromoted a downloaded engine the same way.Eleven commits, each with its own regression tests.
Publish by swap, not destroy-then-rename. The live tree moves aside into staging, the clone is renamed into place, and the old tree goes back if that fails. If the restore fails too, staging is kept so the only remaining copy survives and the error names it.
Serialize extracts per link id. In-process, plus a
lockutiladvisory file lock so a second daemon over the same--bundle-diris excluded too. The lock dir is dot-prefixed and link ids can no longer start with., which also keeps ids out of the.staging-namespace they could previously collide with.Repair on start. Swapping a directory is two renames and cannot be made atomic, so a crash between them still leaves the tree in staging.
NewBridgenow repairs the bundle dir once before serving: a backup whose link has no live tree is restored, one whose link already has a tree is dropped, and a staging dir with no backup is only reaped once it is older than any clone could be. Recovery takes the per-link lock first, so it never touches a link a live extract owns.Dropping rests on the shape of the transaction rather than on timestamps. A backup is filled by renaming the live tree aside, so it only ever holds the tree that was live beforehand, and the link having a tree at all means a later extract published over it. The one case that reasoning does not cover is a tree recovery itself just put back, since nothing was published over that. Extracts stamp their staging name with a creation time so recovery can restore the newest backup and drop only the older ones it can order against it; a backup it cannot order is kept and logged.
Dictation. The promotion is now
promoteStagedDir, which sets the previous install aside rather than deleting it and restores it if the rename fails. A stop between its two renames leaves the install in the holder with nothing at the destination, so both consumers of that transaction, the engine and the model, put it back before deciding anything needs downloading. The model is the one that matters offline: there is no download to fall back on. Holders carry the same creation stamp as staging dirs, so a holder left by a cleanup that could not finish cannot shadow a more recent one.Behavior change
sanitizeLinkIDnow rejects any id starting with., where it previously rejected only.and... Nothing documents the charset and a dot-prefixed id was never useful, but an existing link named that way stops working and needs renaming. A work tree already published under such a name is left alone by the repair pass rather than reaped, so upgrading does not delete it.Verification
Every claim here was run, not argued. Each defect was reproduced first with passing controls, then each guard was ablated individually and confirmed to fail without it, repeated 5 or 10 times where timing mattered.
End to end against a real bridge over TLS via
zero daemon serve-remoteandzero daemon link: upload, replace, a refused dot-prefixed id, four concurrent uploads of one link id, and two daemons sharing a bundle dir. For crash recovery there is a real control: on a bundle dir left mid-swap, a binary built frommainstarts and leaves the link gone, while this branch restores it, logs it, and the link accepts a fresh upload afterwards.Recovery is also covered end to end on both sides, through names the production code generates rather than fixtures: a real upload over the bridge, interrupted the way a killed daemon interrupts it, then repaired by a fresh bridge over the same directory; and a real engine and model install, interrupted mid-promotion, then recovered with release resolution pointed at a closed listener. Each fix was ablated again afterwards, including the two that only a second holder or a second backup would ever have exposed.
gofmt,go vet,go test ./... -raceacross 85 packages,zero-release buildandzero-release smokeall clean on linux/arm64, with the two changed packages repeated at-count=5.govulncheckwas clean on the first round and no dependency has changed since. macOS and Windows are untested locally and rest on CI; the change is built out of directory renames and advisory locks, which is where Windows differs most, so that is the run worth watching.Known residuals
zeroprocesses downloading the same engine at once can still interfere. Neither can lose the install: the loser fails with the holder named in its error.Summary by CodeRabbit
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