meshbay.git/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/daemon.py, branch 0.19

fix: set the Windows node up at sign-in, and stop it for real

2026-10-07T20:22:51Z

Found by the first Windows beta tester, then reproduced on a clean install. After a service-mode install nothing set the node up for the account that signed in: the boot task started a node that quit ("hub.username not set"), and the sidebar showed Node / Create group only once the hub held a node key. The only way to the wizard that provisions was the home page's welcome card, which an account already in a group never sees. The way out was `meshbay-node init` and the key pasted on the profile page -- which is also what PACKAGING-GUIDE.md told people to do. - main.js `node:ensure`, called by app.js at sign-in: provisions, starts and links the node this build ships (Windows, bundled node only). A node set up for another account, or an account linked to another node, is left alone. node:start waits for it, so the two never race. - The sidebar shows the Node section when a node exists on this machine. - The Node page's status is the node's: its control API and the process list, not the service task's state (a node started from a terminal ran while the page said Stopped). Stop says Stopped only once no meshbay-node.exe is left, and stays offered for a process that answers nothing. - CLI stop kills the pid that answered when a graceful stop does not finish, and fails with the reason when a node process is still there. - The daemon ends its process 3s after _shutdown(): Python's exit waited for a busy indexer thread, with the control API already closed. Armed by main() only, never by a daemon run inside a test. - node.toml is read as utf-8-sig (PowerShell 5.1 writes a BOM), and a config that cannot be read is logged instead of dying silently in service mode. - "Pair this browser" queues the code for the next group of this node to open instead of saying "Paired successfully"; no banner before a group. - test_e2e_windows_app.py (opt-in, MESHBAY_WIN_E2E=1) drives the installed app against a throwaway hub: fresh account to linked node, Stop, Start, Restart, checked against the real processes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

perf(node): list a group's directories off the event loop

2026-10-07T19:31:10Z

Every full index walked all roots on the loop, and a node with several large roots stopped answering for seconds. Walk directories only, on the roots' disk thread; index_sync is spawned and still answers on failure. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

fix(node): plug an auto-ejected removable root back once its files return

2026-10-05T09:10:50Z

A node started with the desktop session runs before the session has mounted its USB drives. The safety net then auto-ejected every removable root and persisted it exactly like an operator's eject, so after each reboot those roots stayed ejected until someone plugged them by hand (seen on a node whose /media drives were mounted a minute after it started). An auto-eject is now stored as such ("auto" in roster.db). At startup and at every reconcile, an auto-ejected root whose path is readable again is checked against a few files the hash cache knows under it, at the same path with the same size and mtime; one found and the root is plugged back and rescanned. An empty mount point or another drive in its place is not recognised and stays ejected. An operator's eject is never undone automatically. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

fix(node): a revoked account is disconnected, not only refused next time

2026-10-01T11:24:11Z

A user revocation closed nothing: the denylist stopped the next connection and left the live ones streaming and chatting. Revocations now go through one method that closes the account's or the group's sessions (F-21). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

fix(node): one member holds a share of the node, sized past real use

2026-10-01T08:34:26Z

128 peer sessions on the node, at most 64 per account (the hub names the account with each offer; the node's own account is not counted). One account plays at most half the stream slots, rounded up, and runs two subtitle extractions at once. Frames after the handshake are 8 MiB (was 64), decoded with per-container bounds, and a frame refused for either ends the session instead of jamming its buffer (F-16). Sized for the heaviest real member: twenty groups on one node, three devices and a tab, up to 52 sessions. Measured: ~0.15 MiB and one fd per idle session. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat: nodes apply the content blocklist in their public groups

2026-09-28T19:49:14Z

A node hosting a public group syncs the hub's blocklist on every connection (paged, node token only) and applies pushed changes. A blocked file leaves the index and is refused (content_blocked); private groups are untouched. The unused per-hash check route is gone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

refactor: remove the public-content swarm

2026-09-28T19:35:20Z

Nodes registered the hashes of their public groups on the hub and nothing ever read them back. Routes, model and node registration removed; a migration drops swarm_sources. No node sends the hub a content hash now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

fix(node): a Windows daemon that stops properly, starts honestly and runs once

2026-09-27T20:20:35Z

Found by installing the builds and driving every startup mode live: - Stop through the node's own control API first (POST /api/shutdown, loopback and per-run token): the one channel that reaches a daemon in any session without elevation -- a service node runs in session 0 -- and the one that runs its shutdown. Then Task Scheduler, then a forced stop. Nine stops in a row used to log no shutdown at all: each was a TerminateProcess. - The forced stop spares the command running it. The frozen meshbay-node.exe is the daemon and every CLI verb, so `taskkill /IM meshbay-node.exe` killed `autostart stop` and `restart-daemon` themselves: exit 1, no output, and no node after a restart. It excludes its own pid and its parent's, and /T takes a venv launcher's python child and a daemon's ffmpeg children with it. - Start and restart report the version that answered, never "started" about a node nobody asked; `service start` says so when no node answered, and where the log is. - A second instance fails before it touches anything. The daemon wrote ui-token, then failed to bind inside uvicorn's task and exited with the reason on a hidden console; the node still running then refused every stop and status, its token file naming a dead process. The control port is now bound first (exclusively on Windows, where SO_REUSEADDR would share it), and a refusal is logged and exits 2. Linux had the same order. - The daemon logs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\meshbay\state\node.log: Task Scheduler discards its stderr. Only the daemon run opens it, never a CLI verb. - Hub sign-in waits are interruptible, a stop requested before the node is up is honoured, and a hub that answers 429 or restarts leaves the node in waiting_for_hub rather than looking dead. - operator_paired is null until the roster is read, instead of a false that showed "No operator paired" about a node whose pairing was intact. The node test conftest also points HOME, USERPROFILE, LOCALAPPDATA and APPDATA at a throwaway directory for every test, and keeps log_file() away from the developer's own node: redirecting HOME alone isolates nothing on Windows, and the CLI tests had been writing invite and pairing codes into the real profile. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

fix(node,client): survive a transient hub state on login, and surface a failed node-key link

2026-09-25T16:59:20Z

Two defensive gaps turned a routine reset-and-reonboard into "impossible de démarrer le node": 1. daemon._login_with_retry retried a 401 (node key not linked yet) but `raise`d on every other status, so a 429 — the daemon's own 5s retries hitting the sign-in rate limit — or a 502/503 while the hub restarts during a deploy killed the process, and systemd crash-looped it. Those statuses (429, 5xx) are now retried with a back-off that respects Retry-After, so a freshly reset node stays alive (the operator needs it up to read its key) instead of dying. A genuine 4xx (400/422) still raises. 2. create-group's linkNodeKey swallowed every error as "already linked or same key" — but PUT /me/node_key is idempotent and returns 200 on a re-link, so there was no benign error to hide: the catch only ever hid a real failure (a rejected session, a bad key), letting the wizard proceed against a node that looked linked but was not, which then could not authenticate. The link failure now surfaces (detectNode shows it). test_login_retry_is_resilient.py holds the retry behaviour (429/5xx retried, Retry-After honoured, 401 stays alive, 400 still raises); red before, green after. common/node/hub suites green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8

refactor(node): split ops.py into the ops package

2026-09-24T23:30:47Z

Each section of ops.py becomes a module of meshbay_node/ops/ (core, node_toml, members, chat, groups, roots, files, settings, apps), cut as text; ops/__init__.py keeps the docstring and re-exports every name, so `ops.` is unchanged for every caller. Logger name unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5