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Regression since v1.15.0, seen in v1.16.0-beta.1: after creating/launching a new workspace and connecting via SSH, the terminal repeatedly shows:
ERROR port 12049 not available (another session may own the credentials server): listen tcp 127.0.0.1:12049: bind: address already in use
at increasing intervals, making it hard to type in the terminal.
Root cause
Two client-side processes race to run internal agent container credentials-server inside the same devcontainer on the fixed port (12049): the IDE opener's background services daemon (started when the workspace launches) and the interactive devsy ssh session's own services startup (started when a terminal connects). By design, only one session's credentials-server can hold the port at a time (see claimPort's doc comment) — the loser is expected to just skip, since the winning session already serves credentials for the container.
Previously, claimPort's EADDRINUSE failure was returned as a generic error. The client's retry.OnError backoff (10 steps, up to ~17 minutes) kept retrying it, and the remote process's stderr was logged at whatever level cobra rendered it. Before #1083 (ee31e61f8), that stderr was piped through log.Writer(log.LevelDebug), which force-logged everything at Debug regardless of embedded level — accidentally hiding this benign race. ee31e61f8 correctly fixed double-wrapped JSON logging by switching to log.PipeJSONStream(), which preserves the original level — which surfaced this pre-existing retry storm as repeated, user-visible ERROR lines.
Fix
Commit 1 (cmd/internal/agentcontainer/credentials_server.go): stop the retry storm.
claimPort wraps EADDRINUSE in a distinct errPortOwnedByAnotherSession sentinel, separate from other bind failures.
Run claims the port first (before creating the tunnel client), and when it loses to another session, no longer returns an error at all — it's a benign, expected outcome, not a failure worth retrying.
Commit 2 (pkg/credentials/server.go, cmd/internal/agentcontainer/credentials_server.go): the correct long-term fix for a gap commit 1 leaves silent.
Every credential/docker/signing helper the losing session would have configured (configureGitCredentialHelper, configureDockerHelper, configureGitUserLocally, configureGitSigningKey) is keyed by cmd.User (the container-side unix user), not by the port. If the winning session and the losing session run as different container users, commit 1's blanket no-op would silently leave the losing user's git/docker/signing helpers never configured, with zero signal that anything is wrong.
To close that gap:
The credentials-server HTTP handler now serves a new /owner endpoint reporting the container user it was started for.
A session that loses the port claim calls credentials.FetchOwner to look up the winner's user before deciding how to react:
same user (or owner unknown — e.g. an older binary predating this endpoint) → Debug log, silent no-op. This is the common case (IDE opener daemon and an interactive devsy ssh session typically run as the same container user) and stays completely silent.
different user → Warn log naming both users, still returns nil (retrying wouldn't help; the other session isn't going away). This makes a previously-invisible functional gap loud instead of silently swallowed.
Other bind failures (permission denied, bad port, etc.) are unaffected and still error normally.
Commit 3 (e2e/tests/ssh/credentials_server_race_test.go + cleanup): e2e coverage and comment trim.
Adds a real, docker-backed e2e test that reproduces the exact reported scenario: two concurrent devsy ssh sessions against the same freshly-created workspace must not surface credentials-server port errors in either session's stderr.
Trims comments introduced by the two prior commits down to what's required to understand non-obvious rationale, and removes comments entirely from the Go test files touched by this change (test files self-document through names and structure).
Testing
go build ./..., go vet ./... clean (one pre-existing, unrelated vet note in pkg/pty/ptytest, untouched by this change).
go test ./cmd/internal/agentcontainer/... ./pkg/credentials/... ./pkg/tunnel/... passes.
go build ./e2e/... clean (the new e2e spec requires a docker daemon to actually run, consistent with every other test in e2e/tests/ssh).
TestClaimPort_WrapsNonAddrInUseErrorsWithoutSentinel: non-EADDRINUSE failures aren't misclassified as benign.
TestOwnerEndpoint_ReturnsConfiguredOwner, TestFetchOwner_ReturnsConfiguredOwner, TestFetchOwner_EmptyWhenEndpointMissing: the new /owner endpoint and client-side lookup.
TestCredentialsServerCmd_Run_SameOwnerCollisionIsSilentNoOp: same-user collision produces no Warn log and no error.
TestCredentialsServerCmd_Run_DifferentOwnerCollisionWarnsButDoesNotError: different-user collision logs a Warn naming both users but still returns nil.
New e2e test: should not surface credentials-server port errors when two ssh sessions race for the same workspace — brings up a real workspace, runs two concurrent devsy ssh sessions, asserts neither's stderr contains "not available" or "credentials server".
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Improved SSH tunnel testing and reliability for concurrent SSH sessions.
Credentials servers now expose ownership information for improved coordination.
Bug Fixes
Prevented duplicate credentials-server startup conflicts from causing unnecessary failures.
Added clearer handling for port-availability errors.
Tests
Expanded integration coverage for SSH agent forwarding, port attributes, tunnel mode, and concurrent connections.
When a workspace is opened via IDE, two client-side processes race to
run `credentials-server` inside the same devcontainer on the fixed
port: the background services daemon started on workspace open, and
the interactive `devsy ssh` session started when a terminal connects.
Only one session's credentials-server can hold the port at a time by
design; losing is expected, not a failure.
Previously claimPort's EADDRINUSE failure was returned as a generic
error, so the losing session's client-side retry.OnError loop kept
retrying with exponential backoff (up to ~17 minutes), and each
attempt logged an ERROR-level line. ee31e61 fixed a JSON
double-logging bug that had been accidentally hiding these lines at
Debug level, which surfaced this retry storm directly in the user's
SSH terminal on every workspace connect, making it hard to type.
Wrap EADDRINUSE in a distinct errPortOwnedByAnotherSession sentinel
and short-circuit Run to log once at Debug and exit cleanly (0)
instead of erroring, so the retry loop never fires and nothing is
logged to the terminal by default.
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pkg/credentials/server.go
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The PR adds credentials-server owner propagation and lookup, handles port collisions by session owner, introduces managed SSH tunnel and concurrent-session tests, updates SSH labels and platform checks, and adds four Ubuntu integration-test configurations.
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Credentials-server race handling
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Summary
Credentials-server owner API pkg/credentials/server.go, pkg/credentials/server_test.go, pkg/credentials/start.go
The server accepts an owner, exposes /owner, and adds FetchOwner with timeout and empty-owner handling. Tests cover endpoint and lookup behavior.
Port ownership and startup handling cmd/internal/agentcontainer/credentials_server.go, cmd/internal/agentcontainer/credentials_server_test.go
Startup claims the port before initialization, classifies address-in-use errors, checks the current owner, and handles same-owner and different-owner collisions.
Managed tunnel and concurrent SSH coverage e2e/tests/ssh/ssh_tunnel_mode.go, e2e/tests/ssh/credentials_server_race.go
Tunnel tests manage the subprocess lifecycle and wait for activation. A new test runs two concurrent SSH sessions and checks their results and stderr.
SSH test selection and CI coverage e2e/tests/ssh/agent_forward.go, e2e/tests/ssh/ports_attributes.go, e2e/tests/ssh/ssh.go, .github/workflows/pr-ci.yml
SSH labels are refined, Windows checks use osWindows, GPG labels are removed, and four Ubuntu integration-test entries are added.
The new credentials-owner lookup can follow unexpected redirects and accept an unbounded response, which could send requests to unintended destinations or consume excessive resources during session startup. Merge should wait for redirect rejection, status validation, and a bounded response body.
Sequence Diagram(s)
sequenceDiagram
participant SSHRaceTest
participant DevsyUpTunnel
participant CredentialsServer
participant SSHSessionA
participant SSHSessionB
SSHRaceTest->>DevsyUpTunnel: Start managed SSH tunnel
DevsyUpTunnel->>CredentialsServer: Claim credentials-server port
CredentialsServer-->>DevsyUpTunnel: Return listener or owner collision
SSHRaceTest->>SSHSessionA: Run SSH session
SSHRaceTest->>SSHSessionB: Run concurrent SSH session
SSHSessionA-->>SSHRaceTest: Return stderr and result
SSHSessionB-->>SSHRaceTest: Return stderr and result
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devsy-org/devsy#20: Modifies the credentials-server API and startup paths.
devsy-org/devsy#405: Introduces the SSH tunnel mode exercised by the lifecycle changes.
devsy-org/devsy#854: Modifies credentials-server port claiming and startup logic.
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The short-term fix (previous commit) silently no-ops any port claim
loss, which is correct when the winning session serves the same
container user (redundant, harmless) but silently wrong when it
serves a different one: that user's git/docker/signing credential
helpers never get configured, with no signal that anything is
missing, since claimPort/configureGitCredentialHelper/etc are all
keyed by cmd.User rather than by the shared, fixed 12049 port.
Expose an /owner endpoint on the credentials-server HTTP handler
reporting which container user it was started for. A session that
loses the port claim now calls credentials.FetchOwner to look up the
winner's user before deciding how to react:
- same user (or owner unknown, e.g. an older binary without this
endpoint) -> Debug log, silent no-op, as before.
- different user -> Warn log naming both users, still returns nil
(retrying wouldn't help; the other session isn't going away).
This keeps the common case (IDE opener daemon and an interactive
devsy ssh session run as the same container user) completely silent
while making the previously-invisible cross-user gap loud instead of
silently swallowed.
skevetter
changed the title
fix(agentcontainer): treat credentials-server port race as a no-op
fix(agentcontainer,credentials): fix credentials-server port race noise, distinguish cross-user collisions
Aug 19, 2026
…m comments
Adds a real docker-backed e2e test: two concurrent devsy ssh sessions
against the same freshly-created workspace must not surface
credentials-server port errors in either session's stderr, matching
the reported regression exactly (create workspace, connect via SSH,
watch the terminal).
Also trims comments across the two prior commits down to what's
required to understand non-obvious rationale, and removes all
comments from the Go test files touched by this change per project
convention.
…ix rows
Each file in e2e/tests/ssh previously shared the 'ssh' label, with
agent_forward.go and ssh.go additionally nesting 'agent-forward' and
'gpg' labels on individual specs, so a single CI matrix row ran every
file's tests together and the secondary labels filtered nothing (no
matching matrix entry existed for them).
Give every file its own unique, top-level label and drop the nested
per-spec labels:
- ssh.go -> ssh
- agent_forward.go -> agent-forward
- ports_attributes_test.go -> ports-attributes
- ssh_tunnel_mode_test.go -> ssh-tunnel-mode
- credentials_server_race_test.go -> credentials-server-race
No two files in the directory share a label, so no consolidation was
needed. Split pr-ci.yml's single 'ssh' matrix row into five rows (one
per label above) with the same settings as before, so each file's
suite now runs as its own CI job.
agent-forward, ports-attributes, and credentials-server-race become
ssh-agent-forward, ssh-ports-attributes, and ssh-credentials-server-race
in both the ginkgo.Label calls and the matching pr-ci.yml matrix rows.
ssh and ssh-tunnel-mode already carried the prefix.
…ually run
go test -c ./e2e builds the top-level e2e package, which pulls in
e2e/tests/ssh only as a regular blank-imported dependency; Go only
compiles a package's *_test.go files when that package itself is
under test, not when another package merely imports it. So
ssh_tunnel_mode_test.go, ports_attributes_test.go, and
credentials_server_race_test.go were silently excluded from the e2e
binary the whole time - their specs never registered at all.
This was invisible while all ssh/tests/ssh files shared the 'ssh'
label, since ssh.go's own specs (which aren't _test.go-suffixed) kept
that label's spec count above zero. Splitting into per-file labels
surfaced it: --ginkgo.label-filter="ssh-tunnel-mode" (etc.) matched
zero specs and failed --fail-on-empty.
Renamed the three files to drop the _test.go suffix, matching the
existing ssh.go/agent_forward.go convention. Verified via a locally
built e2e.test binary that all five ssh labels now match a nonzero
spec count (previously ssh-tunnel-mode/ssh-ports-attributes/
ssh-credentials-server-race matched 0).
ssh_tunnel_mode.go never actually ran before (it was _test.go-suffixed
and thus excluded from the e2e binary, per the prior commit), so this
bug in the test itself was never caught: devsy up --ssh-tunnel holds
the CLI process open in the foreground until it receives a shutdown
signal (cmd/workspace/up/up.go's finalizeUp blocks on <-ctx.Done()
once a tunnel is active, by design - matching a long-running
port-forward tool). The test called it through the framework's
synchronous ExecCommandCapture and waited for it to return, so it
just hung until the 5-minute spec timeout killed it.
Added a small tunnelUpProcess helper that starts devsy up in the
background, polls its combined output for the 'waiting for shutdown
signal' line devsy already logs once the tunnel is active (config
write and IDE launch happen before that point, so it's a safe
readiness marker), then on cleanup sends SIGINT and waits for a clean
exit (falling back to SIGKILL after 15s). Updated the four specs that
pass --ssh-tunnel to use it; the fifth (ProxyCommand fallback, tunnel
disabled) is unaffected and unchanged.
Verified the process-management logic in isolation against a fake
long-running script that mimics devsy up's exact behavior (prints the
marker, blocks until SIGINT): waitUntilActive detects readiness and
early-exit failures correctly, stop() shuts the process down cleanly
via SIGINT well under the 15s force-kill fallback.
Also fixed a pre-existing goconst violation in ports_attributes.go
(bare "windows" literal instead of the existing osWindows const)
surfaced by lint now that the file is no longer test-only.
…led poll loop
waitUntilActive reinvented gomega.Eventually with a manual
for{select{time.After()}} loop. This codebase already has an
established convention for polling a growing log/output buffer for a
marker - gomega.Eventually(fn).WithTimeout(...).WithPolling(...).
Should(gomega.ContainSubstring(...)) - used throughout e2e/tests
(e.g. ide/browser_returns.go's getTunnelLogsFn). Switched to it,
threading the spec's ctx via WithContext so the poll also stops on
spec cancellation, and using gomega.StopTrying(...).Wrap(err) to fail
fast (with the process's real exit error) instead of waiting out the
full timeout when devsy up exits early.
waitUntilActive now asserts directly via Eventually rather than
returning an error for callers to pass through ExpectNoError,
matching how Eventently is used as the assertion itself elsewhere in
this suite. stop()'s SIGINT+bounded-kill logic is unchanged: it is
plain process lifecycle cleanup, not a spec assertion, and already
uses the more precise cmd.Wait()-driven signal this repo's other
raw-process helpers (e2e/framework/ssh_agent.go) rely on rather than
a Gomega poll.
Verified via a standalone program exercising the exact refactored
waitUntilActive against fake scripts: the success case detects
readiness and shuts down cleanly, and the early-exit case triggers
StopTrying and fails immediately with the process's real error
instead of hanging until the timeout.
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In `@pkg/credentials/server.go`:
- Around line 159-173: Update the HTTP request flow around http.DefaultClient.Do
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FetchOwner is only called after claimPort's own bind failed with
EADDRINUSE, so whatever answers on that port isn't necessarily our
own credentials server - it could be another local user's unrelated
or malicious process squatting the port inside a shared devcontainer,
which is exactly the cross-user scenario this owner-lookup exists to
detect in the first place. Trusting that response unconditionally was
wrong:
- http.DefaultClient follows redirects (up to 10), so a squatter
could redirect the probe to an arbitrary URL (e.g. a cloud
metadata endpoint) and have some of that response reflected into
devsy's log output via the cross-user Warn message.
- io.ReadAll(resp.Body) had no size limit.
- resp.StatusCode >= 400 treated any 2xx/3xx as success; once
redirects are rejected, a bare 3xx would otherwise fall through
and get parsed as an owner value.
Use a client with CheckRedirect returning http.ErrUseLastResponse
(never follows, returns the 3xx response itself), require exactly
http.StatusOK, and cap the body read with io.LimitReader. /owner only
ever legitimately returns 200 with a short plain-text body, so none
of this changes behavior against a real devsy credentials-server.
Added TestFetchOwner_DoesNotFollowRedirects and
TestFetchOwner_CapsResponseSize.
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Problem
Regression since v1.15.0, seen in v1.16.0-beta.1: after creating/launching a new workspace and connecting via SSH, the terminal repeatedly shows:
at increasing intervals, making it hard to type in the terminal.
Root cause
Two client-side processes race to run
internal agent container credentials-serverinside the same devcontainer on the fixed port (12049): the IDE opener's background services daemon (started when the workspace launches) and the interactivedevsy sshsession's own services startup (started when a terminal connects). By design, only one session's credentials-server can hold the port at a time (seeclaimPort's doc comment) — the loser is expected to just skip, since the winning session already serves credentials for the container.Previously,
claimPort'sEADDRINUSEfailure was returned as a generic error. The client'sretry.OnErrorbackoff (10 steps, up to ~17 minutes) kept retrying it, and the remote process's stderr was logged at whatever level cobra rendered it. Before #1083 (ee31e61f8), that stderr was piped throughlog.Writer(log.LevelDebug), which force-logged everything at Debug regardless of embedded level — accidentally hiding this benign race.ee31e61f8correctly fixed double-wrapped JSON logging by switching tolog.PipeJSONStream(), which preserves the original level — which surfaced this pre-existing retry storm as repeated, user-visibleERRORlines.Fix
Commit 1 (
cmd/internal/agentcontainer/credentials_server.go): stop the retry storm.claimPortwrapsEADDRINUSEin a distincterrPortOwnedByAnotherSessionsentinel, separate from other bind failures.Runclaims the port first (before creating the tunnel client), and when it loses to another session, no longer returns an error at all — it's a benign, expected outcome, not a failure worth retrying.Commit 2 (
pkg/credentials/server.go,cmd/internal/agentcontainer/credentials_server.go): the correct long-term fix for a gap commit 1 leaves silent.Every credential/docker/signing helper the losing session would have configured (
configureGitCredentialHelper,configureDockerHelper,configureGitUserLocally,configureGitSigningKey) is keyed bycmd.User(the container-side unix user), not by the port. If the winning session and the losing session run as different container users, commit 1's blanket no-op would silently leave the losing user's git/docker/signing helpers never configured, with zero signal that anything is wrong.To close that gap:
/ownerendpoint reporting the container user it was started for.credentials.FetchOwnerto look up the winner's user before deciding how to react:Debuglog, silent no-op. This is the common case (IDE opener daemon and an interactivedevsy sshsession typically run as the same container user) and stays completely silent.Warnlog naming both users, still returnsnil(retrying wouldn't help; the other session isn't going away). This makes a previously-invisible functional gap loud instead of silently swallowed.Other bind failures (permission denied, bad port, etc.) are unaffected and still error normally.
Commit 3 (
e2e/tests/ssh/credentials_server_race_test.go+ cleanup): e2e coverage and comment trim.devsy sshsessions against the same freshly-created workspace must not surface credentials-server port errors in either session's stderr.Testing
go build ./...,go vet ./...clean (one pre-existing, unrelated vet note inpkg/pty/ptytest, untouched by this change).go test ./cmd/internal/agentcontainer/... ./pkg/credentials/... ./pkg/tunnel/...passes.go build ./e2e/...clean (the new e2e spec requires a docker daemon to actually run, consistent with every other test ine2e/tests/ssh).TestClaimPort_ErrorsWhenPortHeldassertserrors.Is(err, errPortOwnedByAnotherSession).TestClaimPort_WrapsNonAddrInUseErrorsWithoutSentinel: non-EADDRINUSEfailures aren't misclassified as benign.TestOwnerEndpoint_ReturnsConfiguredOwner,TestFetchOwner_ReturnsConfiguredOwner,TestFetchOwner_EmptyWhenEndpointMissing: the new/ownerendpoint and client-side lookup.TestCredentialsServerCmd_Run_SameOwnerCollisionIsSilentNoOp: same-user collision produces noWarnlog and no error.TestCredentialsServerCmd_Run_DifferentOwnerCollisionWarnsButDoesNotError: different-user collision logs aWarnnaming both users but still returnsnil.should not surface credentials-server port errors when two ssh sessions race for the same workspace— brings up a real workspace, runs two concurrentdevsy sshsessions, asserts neither's stderr contains"not available"or"credentials server".Summary by CodeRabbit