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fix(server): a locked database no longer leaves a thread stuck in "starting" - #36635
The proof run failed because the SQLite writer connection itself got wedged, not because of the worker retry. In the shared client's worker (packages/shared/src/nodeSqliteClient.ts), a statement with result columns (e.g. UPDATE … RETURNING) whose step threw SQLITE_BUSY after busy_timeout stayed active: node:sqlite does not reset an iterator whose next() throws. That active write made every later COMMIT on the writer fail with 'cannot commit transaction - SQL statements in progress', which left the transaction open, so every later BEGIN failed with 'cannot start a transaction within a transaction'. Those are exactly the errors the proof logged on head, and why the requeued provider-turn.start row stayed running. Fix: the worker keeps the iterator and calls iterator.return() in its catch, which resets the statement. I reproduced this with a standalone node:sqlite script (same two errors; resetting fixes them). The in-process path uses statement.all(), which resets itself and is unaffected. The earlier worker change, retrying the fallback requeue/terminalize writes on LockTimeoutError every 100 ms with interruptible shutdown, is still needed: base drops the requeue ('Failed to requeue effect after unexpected worker failure'). Macroscope approved 2b68680. CodeRabbit's only line finding is Trivial (wrap retryWhileLocked in Effect.fn) and was left as below threshold.
Supersedes #26626. The change is @ReneFr81's; their commits are kept.
Each run: start the dev server on a fresh database, add a project, finish one Replay turn (baseline), then send a second message while the external connection holds the write lock from the moment its provider-turn.start is claimed.
Run 2 (60 s lock): 'Orchestration effect execution failed' (EventSink write, database is locked). The main-path retry failed. At 09:39:05 the server logged 'ERROR Failed to requeue effect after unexpected worker failure'. That is the PR's path: the fallback requeue failed and the claim was dropped. After the lock was released at 09:39:50, the outbox row stayed provider-turn.start|running|attempt 1, and the thread never got its reply. thread show failed with LockTimeoutError.
Run 3 (lock released 1 ms after the server logged 'Failed to requeue'): same result. The row stayed running at attempt 1 and the thread stayed stuck.
In both runs, and in run 1 where the fallback requeue actually succeeded, the server itself kept SQLite's WAL write lock after the external lock was gone. /proc/locks shows a WRITE lock on shm byte 120 held by the T3 server process, and an outside BEGIN IMMEDIATE times out. The log shows 'cannot commit transaction - SQL statements in progress' followed by 'cannot start a transaction within a transaction': after a claim statement hit the lock timeout, the writer connection was left inside an open transaction. The whole database stayed locked until the server stopped, and 'V2 orchestration shutdown reconciliation failed' was logged at shutdown.
Controls on one fresh server: a 7 s lock recovered (retry succeeded on attempt 2, write lock free). A 13 s lock caused one claim failure and the same permanent server-held write lock, with no 'Failed to requeue' at all.
Conclusion: the PR's reported behaviour happens on main (fallback requeue fails on lock timeout, claim dropped, row stays running, the thread's later work is blocked until restart) and it is a defect. But on main, contention long enough to reach that path also triggers a separate failure that leaves the server's writer connection holding the database's write lock. That failure needs no 'Failed to requeue' (13 s control). Its cause is not in requeueClaim/terminalizeClaim, the code the PR changes. I could not show the dropped claim blocking the thread separately from that, so the PR's retries may not be enough to clear the thread.
Evidence
Complete a baseline Replay turn, then send a second message while an external SQLite connection holds BEGIN IMMEDIATE for 60 seconds immediately after provider-turn.start is claimed. Release the lock and observe recovery without restarting. Environment: Chromium web client, 1280×800, light theme, fresh synthetic database per commit.
Shutdown interrupting settlement retries was not exercised: both scenario servers were stopped after the external lock had cleared.
Tests
New test 'commits on the worker writer after a returning write timed out on a lock' in packages/shared/src/nodeSqliteClient.test.ts: fails before the fix with 'cannot commit transaction - SQL statements in progress', passes after. vp test run src/nodeSqliteClient.test.ts: 27 passed. vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck (35 packages), tests (3 files) all pass. CI on 2b68680: all 36 checks passed.
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The success path (outbox.succeed) has no lock-timeout retry; it already falls back to terminalizeClaim/requeueClaim, which now retry, so it was left unchanged.
CodeRabbit (Trivial): define retryWhileLocked with a named Effect.fn so one tracing span covers the retries. Left because it is below the high threshold.
The success path (outbox.succeed) has no lock-timeout retry. It already falls back to the requeue and terminalize writes, which now retry.
CodeRabbit (Trivial): define retryWhileLocked with a named Effect.fn for a tracing span. Left because it is below the high threshold.
retryWhileLocked has no attempt cap: a lock that is never released keeps retrying every 100 ms until shutdown interrupts it. That is the author's design, and it stays interruptible.
The real-app scenario was not re-run in this step; the proof step owns that.
Who did the work
Written by Claude Opus 5.5, in Claude Code
Reviewed by GPT-6.1 Sol, in Codex, and by Claude Opus 5.5, each on its own
Proof captured by GPT-6.1 Sol and checked by Claude Opus 5.5
… stalls its thread
When an effect fails and the worker's write to requeue it hits SQLite's
lock timeout, the worker logged the error and dropped the claim. The row
stayed `running`, and a running row blocks every later effect on its
thread, so the next run's provider-turn.start was never claimed and the
thread sat in "starting" until the server restarted again.
The fallback requeue and terminalize writes now retry while the failure
is a lock timeout. Only the claiming worker can settle its row, and each
lock timeout has already waited out busy_timeout.
Error cleanup masks interruption, so settlement retries could keep the
worker group alive until SQLite released its lock. Restore interruption
and space lock retries by 100 ms to avoid spinning on immediate errors.
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This change prevents database lock failures from stranding thread work by retrying settlement and releasing failed SQLite iterators. Existing lease ownership and replay-safety boundaries remain unchanged, limiting the recovery change's exposure.
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Settlement requeue and terminalization retry SQL lock-timeout failures. The SQLite worker attempts to close an active query iterator when execution fails. Tests cover settlement retry timing, daemon interruption, and SQLite lock-timeout behavior.
Changes: Lock-timeout handling
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Summary
Retry settlement on lock timeouts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.test.ts
A 100 ms schedule retries requeue and terminalization when the outbox error cause is a SQL LockTimeoutError. Tests cover retry timing and daemon interruption during settlement.
Close query iterators after errors packages/shared/src/nodeSqliteClient.ts, packages/shared/src/nodeSqliteClient.test.ts
The SQLite worker attempts to close the active query iterator after an execution error. A regression test checks that a worker-writer query fails with LockTimeoutError under an immediate lock and that a later transaction commits a value of 2.
The change makes the effect worker retry its fallback database writes when SQLite reports a lock timeout, and it cleans up failed query iterators. This should keep threads from getting stuck after a brief lock. No merge-blocking risk was identified.
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The title names the fix and its user-visible effect: a locked database no longer leaves a thread stuck in "starting". The changeset adds lock-timeout retries for the fallback requeue and terminalize writes in EffectWorker.ts, which targets that symptom. The title does not mention the writer-connection iterator cleanup in nodeSqliteClient.ts, but that is a secondary change. The title follows the conventional commit form that the template recommends.
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The description is detailed and covers the problem (writer connection wedged by an unreset RETURNING iterator, plus the retry change), the change (iterator.return() in the worker catch and the retryWhileLocked wrapper), scope (links a superseded PR and a related PR, and explains the change is a fix), and verification (reproduction on main, before/after evidence, and a new regression test with vp test and check:changed results). It does not follow the template's required headings exactly, and the Scope section does not explicitly link the issue that shows the bug. It also has a duplicated bullet block in 'Not in this change'. The evidence section is thorough. The problem is clearly stated, but the 'Problem' and 'Scope' headings are not used, so the structure differs from the template. Overall the description is mostly complete and covers the required information.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts:
- Around line 677-680: Define the reusable retryWhileLocked operation with a
named Effect.fn so one span covers the settlement attempts and backoff; keep
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Use Effect.fn for the reusable settlement retry operation.
Both fallback paths call retryWhileLocked. Define it with a named Effect.fn so one span covers the settlement attempts and backoff. Keep Effect.interruptible around the complete retry program.
As per path instructions, “For reusable Effect functions, use Effect.fn("Service.operation").”
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Define the reusable retryWhileLocked operation with a named Effect.fn so one span covers the settlement attempts and backoff; keep Effect.interruptible around the complete retry program.
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…Lite writer
When a RETURNING statement threw while stepping in the worker (SQLITE_BUSY
after busy_timeout), the statement stayed active on the writer connection.
Every later COMMIT then failed with "SQL statements in progress", leaving
the transaction open so each next BEGIN failed too. Reset the iterator when
it throws.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The proof run failed because the SQLite writer connection itself got wedged, not because of the worker retry. In the shared client's worker (packages/shared/src/nodeSqliteClient.ts), a statement with result columns (e.g. UPDATE … RETURNING) whose step threw SQLITE_BUSY after busy_timeout stayed active: node:sqlite does not reset an iterator whose next() throws. That active write made every later COMMIT on the writer fail with 'cannot commit transaction - SQL statements in progress', which left the transaction open, so every later BEGIN failed with 'cannot start a transaction within a transaction'. Those are exactly the errors the proof logged on head, and why the requeued provider-turn.start row stayed running. Fix: the worker keeps the iterator and calls iterator.return() in its catch, which resets the statement. I reproduced this with a standalone node:sqlite script (same two errors; resetting fixes them). The in-process path uses statement.all(), which resets itself and is unaffected. The earlier worker change, retrying the fallback requeue/terminalize writes on LockTimeoutError every 100 ms with interruptible shutdown, is still needed: base drops the requeue ('Failed to requeue effect after unexpected worker failure'). Macroscope approved 2b68680. CodeRabbit's only line finding is Trivial (wrap retryWhileLocked in Effect.fn) and was left as below threshold.
Supersedes #26626. The change is @ReneFr81's; their commits are kept.
Reproduction on main
Reproduced on main at d6244ac:
Each run: start the dev server on a fresh database, add a project, finish one Replay turn (baseline), then send a second message while the external connection holds the write lock from the moment its provider-turn.start is claimed.
Run 2 (60 s lock): 'Orchestration effect execution failed' (EventSink write, database is locked). The main-path retry failed. At 09:39:05 the server logged 'ERROR Failed to requeue effect after unexpected worker failure'. That is the PR's path: the fallback requeue failed and the claim was dropped. After the lock was released at 09:39:50, the outbox row stayed provider-turn.start|running|attempt 1, and the thread never got its reply. thread show failed with LockTimeoutError.
Run 3 (lock released 1 ms after the server logged 'Failed to requeue'): same result. The row stayed running at attempt 1 and the thread stayed stuck.
In both runs, and in run 1 where the fallback requeue actually succeeded, the server itself kept SQLite's WAL write lock after the external lock was gone. /proc/locks shows a WRITE lock on shm byte 120 held by the T3 server process, and an outside BEGIN IMMEDIATE times out. The log shows 'cannot commit transaction - SQL statements in progress' followed by 'cannot start a transaction within a transaction': after a claim statement hit the lock timeout, the writer connection was left inside an open transaction. The whole database stayed locked until the server stopped, and 'V2 orchestration shutdown reconciliation failed' was logged at shutdown.
Controls on one fresh server: a 7 s lock recovered (retry succeeded on attempt 2, write lock free). A 13 s lock caused one claim failure and the same permanent server-held write lock, with no 'Failed to requeue' at all.
Conclusion: the PR's reported behaviour happens on main (fallback requeue fails on lock timeout, claim dropped, row stays running, the thread's later work is blocked until restart) and it is a defect. But on main, contention long enough to reach that path also triggers a separate failure that leaves the server's writer connection holding the database's write lock. That failure needs no 'Failed to requeue' (13 s control). Its cause is not in requeueClaim/terminalizeClaim, the code the PR changes. I could not show the dropped claim blocking the thread separately from that, so the PR's retries may not be enough to clear the thread.
Evidence
Complete a baseline Replay turn, then send a second message while an external SQLite connection holds BEGIN IMMEDIATE for 60 seconds immediately after provider-turn.start is claimed. Release the lock and observe recovery without restarting. Environment: Chromium web client, 1280×800, light theme, fresh synthetic database per commit.
Scenario with embedded lock driver · Runtime transcript · Base server log · Head server log · Runner output
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Tests
New test 'commits on the worker writer after a returning write timed out on a lock' in packages/shared/src/nodeSqliteClient.test.ts: fails before the fix with 'cannot commit transaction - SQL statements in progress', passes after. vp test run src/nodeSqliteClient.test.ts: 27 passed. vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck (35 packages), tests (3 files) all pass. CI on 2b68680: all 36 checks passed.
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Who did the work
Run by the t3code factory in T3 Code.