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Two live-reproduced bugs in Windows node start/stop, found sideloading the
0.14.0 build:
- node:start's crash-recovery step killed a service-mode daemon with
taskkill/CTRL_BREAK, both of which fail with "Access is denied" against a
process running under the Scheduled Task's own S4U logon session (a
different session from the Electron app's). The daemon it was meant to
replace just kept running, unreplaced, and schtasks /run on a task Windows
still considered Running was then a silent no-op too. Route through
winServiceTaskEnd() (schtasks /end) first, the way nodeServiceStop/
nodeServiceRestart already correctly do. service-mode.ps1 also now starts
the task right after registering it -- Register-ScheduledTask's own
AtStartup trigger does not run it immediately, so nothing was listening
until the next reboot.
- The Node page's Start button called node.start() with no arguments, so an
unlinked node (a fresh install, or one whose hub-side link was lost) could
never link on Start alone -- only create-group-page.js's own call passed
{hubUrl, username, token}. Reproduced on a fresh non-service install signed
in to the real hub: Start hung for ~105s and failed with "could not link",
pointing at a "Link Node" control that lives on Settings, not the Node
page (that message is fixed too).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The per-user Startup-folder launcher (W3) only ever runs after this user
signs in. A real Windows Service would start earlier, but under
LocalSystem/NetworkService -- accounts with no normal profile, so
%LOCALAPPDATA%\meshbay\ (config, keystore, data) would not exist for it.
Relocating storage to make that work is real surgery, deliberately not
done here.
Instead: a Scheduled Task, created once with admin rights, that runs AS
THIS USER at boot without needing them to sign in first.
`schtasks /create ... /ru <user> /rp ""` with no `/it` registers an S4U
(Service For User) logon -- no password stored anywhere, and unlike
LocalSystem it loads this account's own profile, so config_dir()/
data_dir() need zero changes. The cost: S4U carries no network credential,
which the node never needed -- everything it touches is local disk plus
outbound internet. Creating the task needs admin (a boot trigger touches
system-wide scheduler state, the same reason /sc onlogon needed it);
querying/starting/stopping an existing one does not -- Task Scheduler
grants the owning user that much itself, which is what lets the Node
page's Start/Stop/Restart drive it with no further UAC prompts.
meshbay_node/platform.py
service_install/_remove/_status/_run/_end -- mirrors autostart_* but
for the Scheduled Task; TASK_NAME moved here (was decorative before)
meshbay_node/daemon.py
new `service install|remove|start|stop|status` verb; restart-daemon and
reset now check for the service task too
packaging/win/service.ps1
the installer-side equivalent (extraResource); status/run/end never
self-elevate -- only install/remove do, exactly matching what
Task Scheduler itself requires
packaging/win/service-mode.ps1
ONE elevated helper running service.ps1 + firewall.ps1 together, so
choosing service mode costs exactly one UAC prompt, not two
build/installer.nsh
the install-time choice: "run as a background service?" (one
elevation, both jobs) vs the existing per-user + separate firewall
question. Checked first, unelevated, so re-running setup with
everything already configured asks nothing. Uninstall offers the
matching one-elevation cleanup, default No.
src/main.js
winServiceTaskStatus/Run/End, wired into node:installed,
node:service-status/-stop/-restart and node:start: when the Scheduled
Task exists, drive it; otherwise fall back to the existing per-user
spawn/kill path. This is the hard requirement -- Start/Stop/Restart
from the Node page must work in either mode.
node-page.js / locales
a hint explaining why the per-user autostart toggle is absent when
service mode is active (info.mode from the backend, no new field to
gate on -- it just isn't sent in that case)
package.json: 0.1.0 -> 1.0.0.
Verified: electron-builder compiles the new NSIS choice logic and ships
all three scripts; service.ps1's S4U install fails cleanly (Access
denied) when run unelevated, and its status/run/end never touch "runas".
Cannot verify the elevated success path myself (no admin in this
session) -- that needs a real UAC click. Node suite 843 pass / 25 skip;
test_packaging_win.py pins the one-elevation property, the S4U flags,
and that main.js actually checks the service task in all three handlers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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