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fix(server): keep slow device hosts from blocking other hosts - #23498
With a second device host configured, one slow host holds up every other host, the local machine included. Open the Device panel while an SSH host is unreachable or still installing: the panel says "No simulators or emulators were found on this environment." until that host gives up, even though this machine's emulators are ready.
Change
readiness and agentReadinessIfSupported now start the host outside the lifecycle lock. Local and SSH hosts already serialize their own starts and stops with their own semaphores. EAS and Simlock hosts cache their ready state; a stop now clears that cache, and a start that a stop overtook fails instead of reporting ready.
Scope
Bug fix: one unreachable host blocks the local device list. No issue: a focused fix for a bug the code shows directly, one lock held across a step that may run for minutes, shared by every host.
Verification
To see it on Linux web: 1. add an SSH device host at an address that never answers (here 192.0.2.1); 2. open the Device panel with a local emulator available; 3. on main the local emulator is listed only after the SSH probe fails.
Re-checked on 2026-11-13: main 290182d, which has #35928, #35988 and #35993, and this branch merged with it (1639b51). Dev server and web client from source, fresh state, one SSH host "Build box" that never answers, one stopped local AVD, Pixel_Test; one cold run each, main first:
Seconds after opening the Device panel until Pixel_Test is listed / until the Build box error shows
web, Browser panel main 290182dc83 11.1 / 10.4
1639b51e8e 1.1 / 10.4
Web, 6.8 s after opening the Device panel, main 290182d: no simulators or emulators found
Web, 6.8 s after opening the Device panel, 1639b51: Pixel_Test is listed
With main 290182d's code and this branch's test files, 11 of its 113 device tests fail, eight of them in DeviceMultiHost.test.ts (six wait out the 120 s lock); on 1639b51 all pass, and #35928's and #35988's own tests pass.
Not checked:
A real SSH host stuck in its hub install; the unreachable address makes the wait on main about 10 s, not minutes.
In the real app, a disable while the local host itself starts: Settings keeps the switch disabled until a host is ready. The tests cover it.
Linux desktop, and turning Device hub off while Build box is still connecting: not run on 1639b51. Earlier runs were on 67e3a53 (desktop) and 95da7ce (turning it off), before main's SshDeviceHost.ts change was merged in.
EAS hosts, iOS simulators, and macOS and Windows hosts.
Mobile: its device screen shows an open device session and a "Retry" item for failed hosts, from the same server state and the same device.list call, and this PR changes no client code. This machine's only booted emulator belongs to other work, so I didn't run a phone client against these servers.
Change detail, method, tests and more captures
Cause: DeviceService has one lifecycle lock, and readiness held it for the whole of host.ensureReady. For an SSH host that includes the hub start, which allows up to about 22 minutes for a first-time install.
Without the long lock, turning device support or agent access off can land during a start. So:
However a start ends, it then takes the lock and rereads the settings. If the start is no longer wanted it stops the host (or its agent) and drops the statuses it published.
An unwanted successful start fails readiness with "Device support was turned off while the host was starting." agentReadinessIfSupported returns null, so a host retry falls back to the device hub alone.
list and retryHost publish a host's failure under the lock, only while device support is on, so a late failure can't turn the setup switch back on.
agentReadinessIfSupported reads host summaries before the lock and publishes them only if no host was added, removed or replaced meanwhile.
Turning device support off still stops each host in turn, and an SSH host's stop still waits for its own start. A failed start still shows main's actionable message (an SSH probe failure or a missing npm).
Prior PRs: none for this bug. #21478, merged, also edited DeviceService.ts, in other hunks.
Linux, at 1639b51 (this branch with main 290182d merged; the only conflict was one hunk of DeviceService.test.ts, which takes main's shape from #35993 with this branch's one expect line re-applied), from apps/server, Node 26.12.1:
vp test run src/device/ src/mcp/McpDeviceToolkit.test.ts: 17 files, 240 tests pass.
vp run check:changed passes.
Real app: dev server and web client from source for main 290182d and for 1639b51, fresh state dirs, in a sandbox named "Test machine". One SSH device host, "Build box", at 192.0.2.1, a documentation address that never answers, so ssh waits out its 10 s ConnectTimeout. The local host has the Android SDK and one stopped AVD, Pixel_Test. After a warm-up, I restarted the server before each run. Times count from opening the Device panel. In the server trace on main, the local hub start waits until Build box's SSH probe fails (10.36 s); on 1639b51 it starts at 0.35 s, while the probe is still running.
Web, 14 s, main 290182d: the Build box error and Pixel_Test
DeviceService held its one lifecycle lock while a host started, so an SSH
host that was slow to connect or still installing its hub (its bootstrap
allows about 22 minutes) blocked readiness, listing and state publication
for every other host, the local one included.
Start hosts outside the lock; each host already serializes its own starts
and stops. The lock now covers only the check that the start is still
wanted and the ready publication. A start that finishes after device
support or agent access was turned off stops that host again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With starts outside the lifecycle lock, turning device support off can
finish before a start takes its host's lock. If that start then failed or
was interrupted, for example when the agent tools install failed after the
hub came up, nothing stopped the hub, because the check ran only on
success.
However a start ends, it now rereads the settings under the lock, stops
the host (or its agent) when it is no longer wanted, and drops the
statuses it published after configure cleared them. A successful start
still fails when it is unwanted or its host was replaced.
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…urned off
The device list and host retry published a start's failure without
checking settings, so a start that ended after device support was
turned off marked the local host "failed", and the setup switch read
that as enabled. They now publish under the lifecycle lock and only
while device support is on. An agent start that ends after agent
access was turned off returns no readiness, so a retry starts the
device hub alone, as before the lock change.
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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused DeviceService bug fix that removes a shared lock around potentially minute-long host startup while preserving per-host serialization and synchronized cleanup. Added tests cover slow-host independence and disablement races; no product defaults, schemas, deployment configuration, or static-analysis suppressions are changed.
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Device and agent startup now runs outside the lifecycle lock and checks current settings and host identity after startup. The service stops revoked starts and limits failure status updates to current hosts while device support remains enabled. SSH hosts reject operations after retirement.
Changes: Device startup lifecycle
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Summary
Startup and revocation handling apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts, apps/server/src/device/DeviceMultiHost.test.ts, apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.test.ts
Device and agent startup confirm settings and host identity after startup. The service stops revoked starts and clears their host status. Tests cover overlapping starts, access changes, host replacement during startup, and session publication.
Startup failure status apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts, apps/server/src/device/DeviceMultiHost.test.ts
list and retryHost publish failed status under a locked check when the host is current and device support remains enabled. Retry suppresses agent-readiness errors when device or agent access changes during the check.
SSH hosts reject readiness and agent changes after retirement. The finalizer marks the host retired before stopping it. SSH status callbacks ignore writes from replaced host scopes. Tests cover scope closure during agent activation.
SSH device hosts don't work on Windows machines #27302: The change allows other host startup work to proceed while a host is starting, but it does not address the issue’s Windows SSH failures or bootstrap session handling.
Host replacement can hide actionable retry guidance, and slow host summaries can block other device operations.
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The description follows the repository template closely. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections. The Problem section names the bug: one slow device host blocks the local device list while the lifecycle lock is held. The Change section explains that readiness and agentReadinessIfSupported start hosts outside the lock, and that EAS and Simlock hosts clear their ready cache on stop. The Scope section calls this a bug fix and explains why no issue is linked. The Verification section gives reproduction steps, before and after timings, test counts, the environment, and a list of checks not run. The template asks for a linked issue for bug fixes; the author gives a reason for having none, which the template allows for small obvious bugs. The description does not link a maintainer request, which the template does not require. The description also states the agent model used, as the template requests.
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Use Effect.fn for the named publishStartFailure operation.
publishStartFailure is a reusable arrow function that returns an Effect. It has no named span. The path instructions require Effect.fn("Service.operation") for reusable functions, not an arrow returning Effect.gen.
As per path instructions, hold changed code to docs/internals/effect-services.md. That document says reusable functions use Effect.fn("Service.operation").
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts around lines 506 -
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Update the reusable publishStartFailure operation to use Effect.fn with the
DeviceService.publishStartFailure span name, while preserving its lifecycleLock
permit, status update, and ignored-effect behavior.
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- Line 508: Update the `retryHost` failure handling so an `ensureAgentReady`
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Verified unchanged head d2177db2687e00b96c4ef003aef7e2b918e4cb6f against github/main at b1bd06432d on this Linux VM. Installed dependencies in both checkouts and ran one background dev server at a time. Used the repository's Playwright with /usr/bin/google-chrome. Created a real git project, threads, and device settings through the web app. Real Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns completed on both revisions.
Configured the real local Android AVD Verification_API_35 and an unreachable SSH host at 192.0.2.1. On a cold Device panel load, main began local startup only after SSH failed: the local AVD appeared 11.281 seconds after device.list. This head published the local AVD after 1.457 seconds, while SSH was still connecting; SSH failed at 10.059 seconds. These are observed timings for this run, with each revision's bundled hub version. WebSocket events confirm the changed startup ordering.
Nearby behavior: local Start progressed during an SSH Retry, and the emulator booted. A fresh Codex session called the real t3-code.device_list MCP tool and received Verification_API_35, Android 15.0, booted: true, alongside the SSH failure. The all-host MCP response still waited about 10 seconds for SSH; the web state updates arrived independently. Disabled Device hub about one second after starting another SSH retry: after the late failure, the setting remained off. Re-enabled it and the local device returned.
blacksmith-check passed the eight focused device tests and vp run check:changed (format, lint, knip, GraphQL, affected types, and three test files). No source changes or pushes were needed. Captures were inspected, and uploaded videos were played through and sought successfully.
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Native iOS/Android clients, Electron, macOS/Windows, EAS, successful SSH bootstrap or a minutes-long tool install, host replacement during startup, and agent-access revocation during a failing agent-tools install were not exercised here. SSH slowness used a real connection timeout, not a remote installation. Emulator video/control streaming was not verified; discovery, startup, boot state, and provider MCP listing were verified.
Merged current main at 61c3794c32b0 without rebasing. Main includes the fix for the previously failing Astro lint-argument test. Pushed final head ec6a4e71eccccdb4521e4be95dbddab0b9332163 to the contributor's existing branch without force.
Addressed both new review findings: EAS and Simlock now clear cached readiness on stop and reject readiness crossing their existing stop counters. SSH retirement now returns the existing cause-free DeviceHostUnavailableError, preserved through both service readiness paths so the retry instruction reaches callers. Also fixed a reviewed disablement race: status publication checks current settings inside the state update, so late startup callbacks cannot make disabled support appear enabled, while direct settings enablement still works.
Extended existing tests only. Reproduced the stale readiness failures and the intermediate disabled-to-installing regression before their fixes. Blacksmith passed the focused 100-test run including the formerly failing scripts/check-changed.test.ts. On the final tree, vp run check:changed 61c3794c32b0eeebfac09add43e403618c65d2d7 passed format, lint, both knip passes, GraphQL, three package typechecks, and all 86 selected tests. Two independent scoped reviewers approved the final SHA. Both new bot threads are resolved.
No fresh external SSH, EAS, Simlock, real provider, browser, or native-client runtime verification was performed in this pass. The captures above document the earlier head. No dev servers were started; the task's Blacksmith worker was stopped.
merge with main (2026-11-06)
Merged main at 10af8eed73 without rebasing. One conflict in DeviceService.ts: kept main's discovery-detail restoration in setHostStatus inside this PR's stale-host guard and enabled-only publish. Main renamed the hub option androidAvailable to platformAvailable, so the two test fakes this PR added now use it. No other changes.
Blacksmith vp run check:changed 10af8eed73 passed format, lint, knip, GraphQL, three package typechecks, and all six affected test files. CI at e35f4379fb025f6209ca33ae94346cac46a25df2: 29 of 29 checks pass. GitHub reports CLEAN and MERGEABLE with no open review threads. No runtime re-verification of the merged head. Not merged by this run.
After agentReadinessIfSupported starts one host, it awaits every reachable host's summary while holding the shared lifecycle permit. A slow Local or EAS summary can therefore delay configure and other host operations. Collect the summaries before acquiring the permit, then keep confirmStarted, publish, and the ready status update under the permit.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts around lines 584 -
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In agentReadinessIfSupported, collect summaries from hosts.values() before
acquiring lifecycleLock; keep confirmStarted, publish, and setHostStatus inside
the permit, using the collected summaries for the publish update.
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…lock
Agent readiness read every host's summary while holding the shared
lifecycle lock, so a slow summary on one host held up lifecycle work on
the others. Collect the summaries first, as refresh already does.
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Re this review: applied in 545b6d4. agentReadinessIfSupported now collects every host's summary before it takes lifecycleLock, the same way refresh does. confirmStarted, publish and the ready status stay under the lock.
The new test "reads host summaries outside the lifecycle lock when agent tools start" in DeviceMultiHost.test.ts pauses another host's summary while agent tools start, then checks that the other host's readiness still finishes. On the previous head it timed out waiting for the lock. With the change, all 16 files in src/device/ pass (214 tests).
…le summaries ran
Agent readiness reads host summaries before it takes the lifecycle lock. If a
host was removed or replaced in that window, publishing that snapshot put the
old host back in the list. Publish it only when the hosts are unchanged.
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@maria-rcks your run was on d2177db; the head is now 67e3a53. Since then: your commits 3cb8fc0, 5a1a98f, ec6a4e7 and e35f437; my 545b6d4; a merge of current main (95da7ce) where the #28258 conflict in DeviceService.ts now keeps main's actionableHostFailure messages; and 67e3a53, where agent readiness publishes the host summaries it read before the lock only if no host was added, removed or replaced meanwhile.
…g-oth
The import block of SshDeviceHost.test.ts was resolved by hand, keeping this branch's Scope and Exit imports and main's Deferred import for the interrupted bootstrap test.
I merged main to clear the conflict with #35928.
The only part I resolved by hand is the import block of SshDeviceHost.test.ts, where both sides' imports are kept; nothing else changed.
…g-oth
DeviceService.test.ts follows main's shape from pingdotgg#35993, without the Effect.scoped wrapper, with this branch's one changed expect line re-applied.
I merged main again to clear a new conflict in one test file. That test now follows main's shape, and nothing else in the fix changed.
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Problem
With a second device host configured, one slow host holds up every other host, the local machine included. Open the Device panel while an SSH host is unreachable or still installing: the panel says "No simulators or emulators were found on this environment." until that host gives up, even though this machine's emulators are ready.
Change
readinessandagentReadinessIfSupportednow start the host outside the lifecycle lock. Local and SSH hosts already serialize their own starts and stops with their own semaphores. EAS and Simlock hosts cache their ready state; a stop now clears that cache, and a start that a stop overtook fails instead of reporting ready.Scope
Bug fix: one unreachable host blocks the local device list. No issue: a focused fix for a bug the code shows directly, one lock held across a step that may run for minutes, shared by every host.
Verification
To see it on Linux web: 1. add an SSH device host at an address that never answers (here
192.0.2.1); 2. open the Device panel with a local emulator available; 3. on main the local emulator is listed only after the SSH probe fails.Re-checked on 2026-11-13: main 290182d, which has #35928, #35988 and #35993, and this branch merged with it (1639b51). Dev server and web client from source, fresh state, one SSH host "Build box" that never answers, one stopped local AVD, Pixel_Test; one cold run each, main first:
Web, 6.8 s after opening the Device panel, main 290182d: no simulators or emulators found
Web, 6.8 s after opening the Device panel, 1639b51: Pixel_Test is listed
With main 290182d's code and this branch's test files, 11 of its 113 device tests fail, eight of them in
DeviceMultiHost.test.ts(six wait out the 120 s lock); on 1639b51 all pass, and #35928's and #35988's own tests pass.Not checked:
SshDeviceHost.tschange was merged in.device.listcall, and this PR changes no client code. This machine's only booted emulator belongs to other work, so I didn't run a phone client against these servers.Change detail, method, tests and more captures
Cause:
DeviceServicehas one lifecycle lock, andreadinessheld it for the whole ofhost.ensureReady. For an SSH host that includes the hub start, which allows up to about 22 minutes for a first-time install.Without the long lock, turning device support or agent access off can land during a start. So:
readinesswith "Device support was turned off while the host was starting."agentReadinessIfSupportedreturnsnull, so a host retry falls back to the device hub alone.listandretryHostpublish a host's failure under the lock, only while device support is on, so a late failure can't turn the setup switch back on.agentReadinessIfSupportedreads host summaries before the lock and publishes them only if no host was added, removed or replaced meanwhile.Turning device support off still stops each host in turn, and an SSH host's stop still waits for its own start. A failed start still shows main's actionable message (an SSH probe failure or a missing npm).
Prior PRs: none for this bug. #21478, merged, also edited
DeviceService.ts, in other hunks.Linux, at 1639b51 (this branch with main 290182d merged; the only conflict was one hunk of
DeviceService.test.ts, which takes main's shape from #35993 with this branch's oneexpectline re-applied), fromapps/server, Node 26.12.1:vp test runon the five device test files this PR changes: 113 pass,releases the forward of a bootstrap interrupted before its hub answered(fix(server): interrupted SSH device bootstrap no longer leaks its forward #35928) andkeeps a watched lease renewed when the gateway caps lease TTLs(fix(server): Simlock renewals no longer exceed the gateway's lease TTL cap #35988) among them. Fake hosts' starts and summaries wait on aDeferred.vp test run src/device/ src/mcp/McpDeviceToolkit.test.ts: 17 files, 240 tests pass.vp run check:changedpasses.Real app: dev server and web client from source for main 290182d and for 1639b51, fresh state dirs, in a sandbox named "Test machine". One SSH device host, "Build box", at
192.0.2.1, a documentation address that never answers, so ssh waits out its 10 sConnectTimeout. The local host has the Android SDK and one stopped AVD, Pixel_Test. After a warm-up, I restarted the server before each run. Times count from opening the Device panel. In the server trace on main, the local hub start waits until Build box's SSH probe fails (10.36 s); on 1639b51 it starts at 0.35 s, while the probe is still running.Web, 14 s, main 290182d: the Build box error and Pixel_Test
Web, 14 s, 1639b51: the same final state
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