fix(sandbox): retry forward start through OpenShell's readiness handoff - #10675
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`nemoclaw <sandbox> start` intermittently exited 1 after a `stop`, failing in
the dashboard-forward recovery path on Ubuntu, WSL2 ARM, DGX Station, and
macOS alike.
Recovery issued `openshell forward start --background` exactly once, discarded
its diagnostic by ignoring the child's descriptors, and treated any nonzero
exit with no local listener as terminal. OpenShell 0.0.106 can reject that
command while a sandbox is still between its container phase and forward-ready
state, and can exit nonzero after spawning an ssh child whose listener opens
milliseconds later. Both windows are transient, and onboarding already absorbs
them.
`start` reaches the same window after a restart because readiness only proves
the container phase: READY_PHASES is {Ready, Running}. Until #7227 the fail-fast
was masked -- a stopped sandbox left its host listener behind, so the
reachability check absorbed the rejection. Releasing the forward on stop was
correct, and it removed the accidental tolerance, which is why the same recovery
contract fails again.
Move the OpenShell forward-start compatibility policy into one shared helper so
recovery honours the same bounded settle-and-retry as onboarding instead of
declaring a second policy. The retry stays narrow: only OpenShell's own
listener/readiness diagnostics qualify, an authoritative occupied verdict still
fails closed immediately so a sibling sandbox's forward is never contended, and
an unrelated failure still fails on the first attempt. Capturing the diagnostic
uses a temporary file rather than a pipe, because OpenShell leaves the
background forward attached to the descriptors it inherits; if that file cannot
be created the start still runs, just without a retry.
Assertions that pinned the discarded-descriptor argument now match on the
ignore-error option alone, since the descriptors carry a per-attempt handle.
Closes #10640.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughForward startup now returns structured retry results with separate readiness and listener limits. Sandbox recovery classifies failures, reports them through callbacks, and provides reason-specific recovery guidance. Tests cover retry termination, ownership changes, unavailable state, retry limits, and compatible command options. ChangesSandbox forward recovery
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change is mergeable with owner awareness: some sandbox forward-recovery failures can still produce generic guidance instead of explaining an occupied port or unavailable forward. The bounded follow-up is to route those failures through the existing reason-specific reporting callback. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Connect
participant ProcessRecovery
participant SandboxForwardRecovery
participant ForwardStartRetry
participant OpenShell
Connect->>ProcessRecovery: recover sandbox processes and forwards
ProcessRecovery->>SandboxForwardRecovery: restore primary forward with callback
SandboxForwardRecovery->>ForwardStartRetry: start forward with retry policy
ForwardStartRetry->>OpenShell: start forward and check readiness
OpenShell-->>ForwardStartRetry: return forward health and state
ForwardStartRetry-->>SandboxForwardRecovery: return status and failure reason
SandboxForwardRecovery-->>ProcessRecovery: return structured failure
ProcessRecovery-->>Connect: display reason-specific guidance
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320-320: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReport pre-start ownership conflicts through
onFailure.If another sandbox claims the port after the caller probes health, either branch returns
falsewithout invokingonFailure.src/lib/actions/sandbox/process-recovery.tsthen emits the generic fallback instead of the specific ownership-conflict detail.Call
options.onFailurewithport-ownership-conflictbefore both returns.Also applies to: 365-365
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1576-1576: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReport direct forward-health failures through the callback.
These branches return
forwardRecoveryFailedwithout callingonForwardRecoveryFailure.runSandboxConnectProbegets its failure reason only from that callback. It then shows generic manual-start guidance for an occupied port or unavailable forward state, instead of the safe reason-specific guidance.Send
port-ownership-conflictandforward-state-unavailablethrough the callback before each return. Add coverage for both paths.Also applies to: 1593-1593
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- Line 1576: Update the direct forward-health failure branches in the recovery
flow around forwardHealthy, including the occupied and unavailable-state cases,
to invoke onForwardRecoveryFailure with port-ownership-conflict and
forward-state-unavailable respectively before returning forwardRecoveryFailed.
Add coverage confirming both callback reasons reach runSandboxConnectProbe and
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Resolved: retry owners remain separate Fresh PR Review Advisor reviews resolve the earlier conflicting Code Reduction result. Code Reduction, Design and Architecture, Dependency Use, and Migration Completion agree that the two helpers have different process models.
Combining them would change lifecycle authority. This PR retains both owners; no architecture change is required here. Advisor evidence: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/33538822613 The same cycle found two test cases coupled to the checked-in Dockerfile. Commit 142b922 replaces both with synthetic managed-Dockerfile fixtures and keeps the zero source-shape budget. |
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Summary
nemoclaw <sandbox> startintermittently exited 1 after astop, failing in the dashboard-forward recovery path on Ubuntu 24.04, WSL2 ARM, DGX Station, and macOS alike.Recovery ran
openshell forward start --backgroundexactly once, discarded its diagnostic by ignoring the child's descriptors, and treated any nonzero exit with no local listener as terminal:OpenShell 0.0.106 can reject that command while a sandbox is still between its container phase and forward-ready state, and can exit nonzero after spawning an ssh child whose listener opens milliseconds later. This repository already documents both windows and already absorbs them — but only on the onboarding path (
src/lib/onboard/forward-start.ts:133):startreaches the same window after a restart, because readiness only proves the container phase —READY_PHASESis{Ready, Running}(src/lib/adapters/openshell/sandbox-observer-cli.ts:19), which does not imply the in-sandbox ssh channel the host forward needs is accepting yet.This PR moves that compatibility policy into one shared helper so recovery honours the same bounded settle-and-retry as onboarding, instead of declaring a second policy.
Why this is a regression of #7227
The fail-fast at
:370is older than #7227, but it was unreachable in this flow before it. A stopped sandbox used to leave its host listener behind, soisLocalForwardReachable(port)was usually true and absorbed the rejection. #7227 madestopgenuinely release the port — which is correct — and in doing so removed the accidental tolerance, making the single-shot start load-bearing. That is why the same recovery contract fails again rather than the earlier fix being wrong.Failure chain, end to end:
stopreleases the host port and waits for the listener to retirestop.ts:306→forward-recovery.ts:154→forward-cleanup.ts:36startwaits only for phaseReady/Runningstart.ts:214→connect.ts:1705→sandbox-observer-cli.ts:19process-recovery.ts:1787→forward-recovery.ts:370falsebecomesforwardRecoveryFailedprocess-recovery.ts:1833start.ts:118→start.ts:253src/commands/sandbox/start.ts:24Changes
src/lib/onboard/forward-start.ts— addrunBackgroundForwardStartWithReadinessRetry, which owns the OpenShell forward-start compatibility policy for both callers. It reuses the existinglooksLikeForwardListenerStartFailureclassifier and the existingSANDBOX_READY_MAX_RETRIES/SANDBOX_READY_RETRY_SETTLE_MSbudget rather than introducing new constants.src/lib/actions/sandbox/forward-recovery.ts— call it instead of the single-shot start.ci/source-architecture-budget.json— record the resulting fan-out forforward-recovery.ts(20 → 21). This is a real new dependency on the OpenShell forward-start contract, not incidental debt.The retry is deliberately narrow, per the repository's retry contract:
occupiedverdict fails closed immediately, so a sibling sandbox's forward is never contended;Capturing the diagnostic redirects the child's descriptors to a temporary file rather than a pipe, because OpenShell leaves the background forward attached to whatever it inherits and a pipe would block on an EOF that only arrives when the forward dies. This is the same technique the onboarding path already uses. If that file cannot be created, the start still runs — just without a retry — so the change can never fail where the previous code succeeded.
Reproduction and regression evidence
The defect reproduces at the recovery boundary that owns it. Two new tests fail on
origin/mainand pass with the fix:Two further tests are state-safety evidence and pass both before and after, proving the retry did not widen:
fails without retrying when OpenShell reports an unrelated forward failure(asserts exactly 1 attempt)stops retrying when another sandbox takes the port during the readiness settle(asserts exactly 1 attempt)The fixture feeds the authentic wrapped OpenShell rejection, including its box-drawing layout, so the diagnostic normalisation is exercised rather than bypassed. Setup branching lives in
test/process-recovery/forward-readiness-retry-fixtures.tsso the owning tests stay assertion-only.No live E2E target is added: this is observable at a stable local boundary, which the E2E selection guidance prefers.
test/e2e/live/double-onboard.test.ts:783already asserts the product contract (startexits 0 afterstop, forward re-owned by the sandbox); this PR makes that assertion deterministic rather than duplicating it.Validation
Run in a clean worktree at
origin/main(b6b593e7e):npm run typecheck:clitest/process-recovery/src/lib/onboard/forward-start.test.tssrc/lib/actions/sandbox/(cli project)test/networking/agent-fixed-forward,messaging-host-forward-lifecycle, onboarding forward tests)npm run checks:repositorynpm run source-shape:check,test-size:check,test:titles:check,test:projects:checknpx oxfmt --check,npx oxlint,scripts/check-spdx-headers.shon changed filesnpx commitlint --from origin/main --to HEADFive failures in
test/networking/dashboard-remote-bind-lifecycle.test.ts(NemoClaw cannot bake a corporate CA without the staged Dockerfile agent identity) are pre-existing and environmental on this host, which has corporate CA certificates installed. I confirmed they reproduce identically on the unmodified tree with the source change stashed; they are unrelated to this fix and touch none of the changed code.Git hooks were not run:
prekcannot install here because this network returns HTTP 503 for theprekrelease download. The equivalent checks were run directly and are listed above.Scope
Investigated and deliberately not changed, so a reviewer can triage them separately:
stopreleases only the primary dashboard forward while recovery requires the Hermes dashboard, messaging webhook, and agent-declared forwards too. I examined this as a candidate cause and concluded it does not explain the reported failure: those helpers returnnull(skip) for an ordinary OpenClaw sandbox, so the branch is not reached for the shape the issue describes.forward-recovery.ts:382) — after a successful start, recovery polls for the authoritative forward-list row forNEMOCLAW_FORWARD_RECOVERY_WAIT_MS(default 3s), while onboarding budgets 180s for the same OpenShell publication, with a comment attributing that budget to Docker compatibility gateways. The same variable also governs the pre-start stop-settle wait, so separating them is a genuine change with its own test surface. I have no reproducing evidence that the 3s budget fires in this scenario, unlike the readiness handoff where OpenShell's own diagnostic proves it, so I did not change a shared timing constant on suspicion. This looks like the most likely next cause if [All Platforms][Sandbox] start after stop does not reliably restore dashboard-forward readiness #10640 recurs.Closes #10640.
Signed-off-by: Hai Nguyen haingu@nvidia.com
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