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Unix socket always be deleted after 3 hours when client disconnect

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript

Research direction

Start with code-server's --socket and --socket-mode handling, then follow the ManagementConnection reconnection-grace path described in the logs. Reproduce the disconnect through the provided nginx and config.yaml setup, and verify that the Unix socket remains available after the three-hour grace period and is removed only when code-server stops.

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Description

bug triage
Is there an existing issue for this?
  • #7087
OS/Web Information
  • Web Browser: Safari
  • Local OS: iPadOS 17.1
  • Remote OS: Archlinux
  • Remote Architecture: amd64
  • code-server --version: 4.95.2
Steps to Reproduce
  1. run code-server with —socket and —socket-mode options behind nginx
  2. client to code-server, write something and disconnect
  3. wait for 3 hours
  4. the socket file is disappeared

logs below:


 [<unknown>][8ae2717b][ManagementConnection] The client has disconnected, will wait for reconnection 3h b>
11月 21 23:30:33 archlinux code-server[561098]: [23:30:33] [<unknown>][31fa6d6d][ExtensionHostConnection] <576182> Extension Host Process exited with code: 0, sign>
11月 21 23:30:36 archlinux code-server[561098]: [23:30:36] [<unknown>][4fe5bbb1][ExtensionHostConnection] <589581> Extension Host Process exited with code: 0, sign>
11月 21 23:30:36 archlinux code-server[561098]: [23:30:36] [<unknown>][4bad56e8][ExtensionHostConnection] <565453> Extension Host Process exited with code: 0, sign>
11月 21 23:30:42 archlinux code-server[561098]: [23:30:42] [<unknown>][550a7a3d][ExtensionHostConnection] <573629> Extension Host Process exited with code: 0, sign>
11月 21 23:31:09 archlinux code-server[561098]: [23:31:09] [<unknown>][8ae2717b][ManagementConnection] The reconnection grace time of 3h has expired, so the connec>

You will never reconnect to code-server because the socket file is delete.

Expected

Never delete the socket file unless code-server is stopped

Actual

It deleted!

Logs

Screenshot/Video

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Does this bug reproduce in native VS Code?

This cannot be tested in native VS Code

Does this bug reproduce in GitHub Codespaces?

I did not test GitHub Codespaces

Are you accessing code-server over a secure context?
  • I am using a secure context.
Notes

my nginx config:


server {
    include common/listen-8096;
    server_name my.super.server;
    # set max upload size
    client_max_body_size 32G;
    fastcgi_buffers 64 4K;

  
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://unix:/dev/shm/code-server.sock;
        
        add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
         add_header Access-Control-Allow-Methods *;
         add_header Access-Control-Allow-Headers *;
 
         # proxy_ssl_verify off;
         proxy_set_header Host $host;
         proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding gzip;
         #proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
         proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host:$server_port;
 
         proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
         proxy_set_header Connection $http_connection;
         proxy_http_version 1.1;

        access_log /var/log/nginx/code.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/code.error.log;
    }  
}

And systemctl edit code-server.service:


### Anything between here and the comment below will become the contents of the drop-in file

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/code-server /my/super/path
User=superuser
Group=superuser

### Edits below this comment will be discarded


### /usr/lib/systemd/system/code-server@.service
# [Unit]
# Description=code-server
# After=network.target
# 
# [Service]
# Type=exec
# ExecStart=/usr/bin/code-server
# Restart=always
# User=%i
# 
# [Install]
# WantedBy=default.target

And the config.yaml

auth: password
password: mysuperpassword
cert: false
socket: /dev/shm/code-server.sock
socket-mode: 666
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