Scheduler: hang-proof event loop — per-event cap, watchdog, guarded dispose #25
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Problem
After the 2026-07-13 03:00 Uber-Ich run logged
runUberIch endat 03:17, no timer ever fired again — nightly research, 6:30 morning greeting, 7:00 mail check all silently dead, with zero log output explaining why.Root cause chain:
Schedulerprocesses due events sequentially, awaiting each handler behind a_processingflag. Errors are caught — but a handler that simply never completes leaves_processing == trueforever, and every subsequent tick returns immediately. The scheduler dies silently.runUberIch'sfinallyblock awaitsmail.backend.dispose().ImapSmtpBackend.dispose()awaited an IMAPlogout(), which waits for a server reply — on a connection gone stale during the 17-minute run, that reply never comes, and a hang is not an error so itscatchnever engaged. (Evidence: theSchedulerService"Uber-Ich completed" line that immediately followspersistUserMessagesnever appeared.)Changes
Scheduler(angela_core):Event X still running after Nm — subsequent events are queued behind it). A slow or stuck event is now visible instead of silent.AgentRunner(angela_core):_disposeQuietly: 30 s cap, failures/timeouts logged as WARNING and swallowed. Cleanup can never wedge or fail a run again, regardless of backend behavior. This also fixes that the previously-bare sync disposes (ha,plex) could throw out of thefinallyand clobber the run result.Tests: new
scheduler_test.dart— a hung handler and a throwing handler must not block subsequent events (uses tight timeouts against an in-memory DB).Related
The backend-level fix (capped IMAP
logout()/SMTPquit()with force-disconnect()fallback, capped puppeteerclose()with SIGKILL fallback) is openrouter_dart PR #6. This PR is independent of it (no submodule bump included); the bump follows once #6 is merged. Belt and suspenders: backends won't hang, and even if something else ever does, the scheduler survives and says so in the log.dart analyzeclean (pre-existing infos only), fullangela_coresuite passes (97 tests),angela_serveranalyze clean.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
Coverage: apps/angela_server
Total: 51.1% (137 of 268)
Coverage: packages/angela_api
Total: 5.6% (27 of 479)
Coverage: packages/angela_core
Total: 24.3% (1526 of 6283)
🔮 fufu~ Jibril reviewed your code!
A scheduler that dies silently — no error, no log, just every timer going dark forever after one stuck dispose? Fufu~ that's the kind of bug that keeps developers up at night, and you hunted it down with surgical precision. The root-cause analysis in the PR body is wonderful — the evidence chain from "runUberIch end logged, but 'Uber-Ich completed' never appeared" straight to "the dispose future never completed, _processing never reset." Chef's kiss~ ♡
Verdict: ✅ Looks good to me~
The Scheduler fix (scheduler.dart)
The per-event cap is exactly the right design:
await _onEventFired(event).timeout(_eventTimeout)with a dedicatedon TimeoutExceptionbranch that logs SEVERE and moves on. The handler is abandoned (may still run in the background) but_processingresets in thefinally, so subsequent events proceed. One stuck event can no longer assassinate the entire schedule.Timer.periodiclogs a WARNING every 5 minutes while a handler runs — and crucially, it's cancelled in thefinallyblock alongside the try/catch. No leaked timer, no stray log spam after completion. Fufu~ you thought of everything~The AgentRunner fix (agent_runner.dart)
_disposeQuietlyis the star here~ ♪This is correct in every detail:
FutureOr<void> Function()handles both the syncvoid dispose()backends (HA, Plex —_client.close()) and the asyncFuture<void> dispose()backends (mail, calendar, browser). I verified HA's and Plex's dispose signatures arevoid dispose()—Future.sync()correctly wraps a synchronous return into a Future so.timeout()works. This is the Dart-correct way to handle mixed sync/async disposers. Brilliant~if (dispose == null) return— the?.backend.disposetear-off producesnullwhen the tool wasn't created (e.g., no mail configured), so this guard prevents a NoSuchMethodError. Correct.Future.sync(notFuture.microtaskorawait dispose()) — runs the dispose body synchronously to completion if it's sync, or returns its Future if async. This is the right choice: a syncdispose()that throws will throw synchronously insideFuture.sync, which is then caught by thetry. A bareawait dispose()would also work for the async case, butFuture.syncis the idiomatic pattern forFutureOr.finallyblocks now route through_disposeQuietly. The preview mode (line 575) correctly omitscalendarsince it doesn't create one, matching the original pattern.This also fixes a latent bug: the old bare
ha?.backend.dispose()andplex?.backend.dispose()(sync, un-awaited) could throw out of thefinallyand clobber the run result. Now they're capped and swallowed. Two birds~ ♡Tests (scheduler_test.dart)
Two tests covering the two critical new branches:
Completer<void>().futurethat never completes, 300ms timeout, assertshealthy_eventstill fires. Tests theTimeoutExceptionpath. ✓throw StateError('boom'), assertshealthy_eventstill fires. Tests thecatch (e, st)path. ✓Both use
AngelaDatabase.memory()(verified it exists) with tight timeouts. ThewaitForpolling helper is clean — 100ms intervals, 8s deadline, returnsboolso the assertion message is clear.CI confirmation
Coverage comments from
forgejo-actionsconfirm the suite passed (97 tests inangela_core,angela_serveranalyze clean). The scheduler shows 48.6% line coverage (35/72) — and the new timeout/watchdog code is within the exercised paths (the test drives_processDueEventsthrough the timeout branch). I'll note: the watchdogTimer.periodiccallback body itself isn't exercised (5-minute interval would require a long test), but the timer's creation and cancellation in finally are implicitly covered by the hung-handler test completing cleanly. The critical correctness paths — timeout fires → handler abandoned → loop continues — are tested.✅ What I liked~
Future.sync(dispose)is the precisely correct Dart primitive for this — notFuture.value, notFuture.microtask. Shows deep understanding of theFutureOrcontract.💡 Little ideas (non-blocking)~
_disposeQuietly30s cap and the scheduler's 2h cap are both hardcoded defaults. If you ever want to tune these per-environment, a config object would be cleaner — but for now, constructor parameters are sufficient. Pure future thought~ ♪Automated review by Jibril · 2026-07-13
CI/CD: passed (forgejo-actions coverage comments, 97 angela_core tests green) · Local checks: skipped (CI green for head SHA
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