fix(tui): make the dashboard immune to stray console output - #1382
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 5 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe TUI now isolates dashboard output, captures Unix console writes, restores terminal state across failure paths, supports explicit full repaint repair, adapts process tables to narrow layouts, and routes runtime warnings through structured tracing. ChangesDashboard terminal integrity
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A terminal setup failure can leave the dashboard without a usable terminal while the alternate screen remains active, leaving users with a stranded or unusable display. This concrete lifecycle issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Formatter as InteractiveDashboardFormatter
participant Output as TerminalOut
participant Capture as ConsoleCapture
participant Dashboard
Formatter->>Output: open dashboard destination
Formatter->>Capture: install capture for private output
Capture->>Capture: redirect stdout and stderr
Capture->>Dashboard: emit classified OutputEvent
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crates/mesh-llm-tui/src/output/console_capture.rs (1)
195-205: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueAvoid a zero timeout as the conversion fallback.
unwrap_or_default()yields a zeroTimespec.pollthen returns immediately and the reader loop spins on a core. The currentIDLE_FLUSHof 150 ms always converts, so this path is unreachable today, but the fallback direction is wrong. Make the timeout aconstTimespec, or treat a conversion failure as an error that stops the reader.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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95-113: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider extracting the shared table builder.
The
LlamaCppandWebserverarms now build the sameTablewith identicalcolumn_spacing,highlight_symbol,highlight_spacing, androw_highlight_style, plus the same selected-index andTableStatelogic. Only the row source and the four cell expressions differ. A helper that takeswidths, the header labels, the rows, andis_focusedwould keep the two tables from drifting apart.Also applies to: 154-172
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69-83: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueBuffer
TerminalOutwrites
CrosstermBackendflushes at the end of eachTerminal::draw. WrapTerminalOutinBufWriterto reduce write syscalls without delaying complete frames.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/mesh-llm-tui/src/output/console_capture.rs`:
- Around line 77-85: Update spawn_reader to return and propagate the
Builder::spawn failure, and make install restore saved_stdout and saved_stderr
before returning the error when reader creation fails; do not report successful
installation or leave stdout/stderr connected to an undrained pipe unless the
reader thread was successfully created.
In `@crates/mesh-llm-tui/src/output/dashboard.rs`:
- Around line 1650-1653: Update the TuiEvent key match for the refresh action in
the dashboard event handler to accept uppercase Char('R') in addition to
lowercase Char('r'), while preserving the existing !self.events_filter.editing
guard and RequestFullRepaint behavior.
In `@crates/mesh-llm-tui/src/output/formatting.rs`:
- Around line 789-791: Update the pending_full_repaint handling so it is cleared
only after repair_tui_terminal(terminal) succeeds; avoid taking or otherwise
resetting the flag before the fallible repair call, preserving the repaint
request when repair returns an error.
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In `@crates/mesh-llm-tui/src/output/console_capture.rs`:
- Around line 195-205: Update wait_for_input so timeout conversion cannot fall
back to a zero Timespec: use a valid nonzero constant Timespec or propagate
conversion failure as an I/O error that stops the reader, while preserving the
existing poll, interrupt-retry, and timeout-result behavior.
In `@crates/mesh-llm-tui/src/output/rendering/processes.rs`:
- Around line 95-113: The LlamaCpp and Webserver branches duplicate table
construction and selection state logic. Extract the shared builder into a helper
near the rendering code, accepting the differing widths, header/cell inputs,
rows, and is_focused value, then have both branches reuse it while preserving
their distinct row sources and cell expressions.
In `@crates/mesh-llm-tui/src/output/terminal_out.rs`:
- Around line 69-83: Wrap the underlying TTY and stderr writers used by
TerminalOut in BufWriter so writes are batched while each flush still forwards
at draw boundaries. Update the TerminalOut variants and the Write
implementation’s write and flush methods consistently, preserving complete-frame
flushing behavior.
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`spawn_reader` discarded the `thread::Builder::spawn` result, so a failed spawn still left fd 1 and fd 2 pointing at a pipe with nothing draining it. The failure mode is the worst kind: everything works until the 64 KiB pipe buffer fills, and then every write to stdout or stderr — in this process and in every child that inherited those descriptors — blocks forever, while the dashboard keeps painting as if nothing is wrong. The spawn result is now propagated and `install` puts the saved descriptors back before returning the error. Capture is optional at the call site (`enter_terminal` treats a failure as "no capture"), so the dashboard still comes up — just without interception. Also stop dropping tabs from captured lines. `char::is_control` counts `\t`, and llama.cpp's loader lines are tab-separated, so stripping it ran two columns together; it degrades to a space instead. Raised by CodeRabbit on #1382. Refs #1340 Co-authored-by: Nick DiZazzo <nick.dizazzo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nick DiZazzo <nick.dizazzo@gmail.com>
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Two ways the repair could fail to repair.
The handler matched only `Char('r')`, but the status bar reads
`R Refresh` and Shift+R arrives as `Char('R')` — pressing the advertised
key did nothing. It now accepts either, with the existing guard that
keeps both as filter text while the events filter is being edited.
`render_if_dirty` also cleared `pending_full_repaint` with `mem::take`
before the fallible repair ran. If the erase failed, the request was gone
and the next dirty render was an ordinary diff against a screen ratatui
still believed was intact — so the damage survived a key press the
operator had already made. The flag is now cleared only after
`repair_tui_terminal` succeeds, and the propagated error leaves `dirty`
set so the next render retries.
Raised by CodeRabbit on #1382.
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726-736: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRestore terminal state before returning a setup error.
If
Terminal::neworterminal.hide_cursorfails after Line 732,terminal_activeandtui_enteredremain true whileself.terminalisNone. A laterenter_terminalcall then returns early, andrender_if_dirtyfails with the missing-terminal error. The terminal can also remain in the alternate screen.Roll back the escape sequences and reset the active state before returning either setup error.
Proposed fix
+ fn rollback_terminal_enter(&mut self) { + let _ = write_tui_exit(); + self.terminal_active = false; + self.dirty = false; + self.tui_entered.store(false, Ordering::Release); + } + pub(super) fn enter_terminal(&mut self) -> io::Result<()> { // ... - let mut terminal = Terminal::new(backend).map_err(io::Error::other)?; - terminal.hide_cursor().map_err(io::Error::other)?; + let mut terminal = match Terminal::new(backend).map_err(io::Error::other) { + Ok(terminal) => terminal, + Err(error) => { + self.rollback_terminal_enter(); + return Err(error); + } + }; + if let Err(error) = terminal.hide_cursor().map_err(io::Error::other) { + self.rollback_terminal_enter(); + return Err(error); + }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/mesh-llm-tui/src/output/formatting.rs`:
- Around line 726-736: Update the terminal setup flow around Terminal::new and
hide_cursor so either setup error rolls back the TUI escape state, exits the
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The dashboard rendered to `io::stderr()` — the same descriptor used by `eprintln!`, tracing's default writer, inherited plugin child stderr, and every noisy C library in the process. Sharing that descriptor is why a stray write lands *on top of* the dashboard and never heals: ratatui diffs against its own idea of the screen, so damaged cells already match the buffer it believes is displayed. Converting individual call sites cannot close this. `plugin/runtime.rs` hands spawned plugins `Stdio::inherit()`, the staged llama.cpp runtime is C, and third-party crates print whatever they like. So the fix is at the descriptor layer: - Render to the controlling terminal (`/dev/tty`, `CONOUT$`) instead of fd 2, giving the dashboard a channel nothing else holds. This is why `less`, `fzf`, and `vim` open the tty directly. - With that in place, redirect fd 1 and fd 2 into the dashboard while it owns the screen. A reader thread turns each line into an `OutputEvent`, so stray output becomes a dashboard row instead of screen damage. The original descriptors are restored on exit and on the panic path. - Wire `R` to a one-shot physical clear plus diff invalidation. The status bar has advertised `R Refresh` since the dashboard shipped with nothing behind it; it is the repair for damage capture cannot intercept, such as another process writing straight to the tty. Also converts the three `skippy-server` KV-tier `eprintln!` calls and the embedded-runtime-tracing `eprintln!` to `tracing`, and adds the `skippy_server=warn` directive without which `EnvFilter::from_default_env` (which defaults to ERROR) drops those warnings before the writer sees them — converting them alone would have silenced the diagnostics rather than routed them. `mesh-llm-tui` keeps `#![forbid(unsafe_code)]`: the descriptor plumbing uses `std::io::pipe` and rustix's safe `dup2`/`fcntl` wrappers. Refs #1340 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ing them The MODEL/PROCESSES column was laid out with `Constraint::Fill(1)` while its cell text was truncated to a separately computed width that had a minimum of 8. The two never had to agree, and at narrow panel widths they did not: the text was fitted to 8 characters and then rendered into whatever `Fill(1)` had left over, which at a 100-column terminal was a single character. The table showed a `M` header over an `l` cell. Raising the dashboard's minimum width does not fix this — the column is still one character at 100 columns and still truncated at 120 — it only hides the narrow cases while costing every 80-column user the dashboard entirely. Columns are now solved explicitly and rendered with exact `Length` constraints, so the layout is what the text was fitted to. When the panel cannot afford every column it surrenders them from the right (STATE, then PORT) rather than crushing the column that identifies the row. Truncating a header to `STA` is not an improvement over dropping it. Measured across 80/100/120/160/200 columns: every width now renders whole, legible columns, and the model name stays recognizable at all of them. Refs #1340 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Live PTY testing found two gaps in the capture reader that the unit tests could not: a stray write with no trailing newline was intercepted correctly (the frame stayed clean) but then sat in the reader's buffer forever, and raw escape bytes were forwarded into the dashboard verbatim. Both matter. `print!` without a newline and `\r` progress counters are ordinary output, and holding them until the next newline means the operator never sees them. Rendering an unfiltered escape sequence into a dashboard cell would move the cursor and corrupt the very frame capture exists to protect. The reader now polls with a 150 ms idle timeout and flushes whatever partial line is pending, treats `\r` as a line end so progress counters surface, and strips control characters before the text reaches a cell. Refs #1340 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Quality / CI contracts and consistency failed on this branch: the console-print ratchet still approved four eprintln! occurrences that this PR converted to tracing — crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/runtime/tracing_writer.rs:321 and crates/skippy-server/src/kv_integration/config.rs:110/120/152 — so the checker reported them as "approved occurrence is missing or was replaced". Regenerated with `cargo run -p xtask -- repo-consistency no-console-print --regen`. The diff is deletions only: 1044 legacy hits across 115 files becomes 1040 across 113. No entry was added and no line number moved, so the ratchet strictly tightened. Refs #1340 Co-authored-by: Nick DiZazzo <nick.dizazzo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nick DiZazzo <nick.dizazzo@gmail.com>
`spawn_reader` discarded the `thread::Builder::spawn` result, so a failed spawn still left fd 1 and fd 2 pointing at a pipe with nothing draining it. The failure mode is the worst kind: everything works until the 64 KiB pipe buffer fills, and then every write to stdout or stderr — in this process and in every child that inherited those descriptors — blocks forever, while the dashboard keeps painting as if nothing is wrong. The spawn result is now propagated and `install` puts the saved descriptors back before returning the error. Capture is optional at the call site (`enter_terminal` treats a failure as "no capture"), so the dashboard still comes up — just without interception. Also stop dropping tabs from captured lines. `char::is_control` counts `\t`, and llama.cpp's loader lines are tab-separated, so stripping it ran two columns together; it degrades to a space instead. Raised by CodeRabbit on #1382. Refs #1340 Co-authored-by: Nick DiZazzo <nick.dizazzo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nick DiZazzo <nick.dizazzo@gmail.com>
Two ways the repair could fail to repair.
The handler matched only `Char('r')`, but the status bar reads
`R Refresh` and Shift+R arrives as `Char('R')` — pressing the advertised
key did nothing. It now accepts either, with the existing guard that
keeps both as filter text while the events filter is being edited.
`render_if_dirty` also cleared `pending_full_repaint` with `mem::take`
before the fallible repair ran. If the erase failed, the request was gone
and the next dirty render was an ordinary diff against a screen ratatui
still believed was intact — so the damage survived a key press the
operator had already made. The flag is now cleared only after
`repair_tui_terminal` succeeds, and the propagated error leaves `dirty`
set so the next render retries.
Raised by CodeRabbit on #1382.
Refs #1340
Co-authored-by: Nick DiZazzo <nick.dizazzo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick DiZazzo <nick.dizazzo@gmail.com>
Restore terminal escape and descriptor state when setup or capture restoration fails, keep retries possible, buffer terminal frames, and remove the Skippy tracing remnants superseded by main's OutputEvent routing.
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In `@crates/mesh-llm-tui/src/output/console_capture.rs`:
- Around line 168-175: Coordinate ConsoleCapture readers across restore and
re-entry so a stale reader cannot write through its duplicated original stderr
descriptor over a later dashboard; route stale-pipe output to the active
dashboard or retire it without blocking inherited child writers. Update the
restore/reader flow around emit_event and add a regression test covering a child
that retains the first pipe write end across exit and re-entry.
In `@crates/mesh-llm-tui/src/output/rendering/processes.rs`:
- Around line 402-409: Update the narrow-width fallback in the column-width
calculation to return [available, 0, 0, 0] whenever available is less than
pid_width.saturating_add(2), ensuring the result stays within the available
table width. Preserve the existing wider-width behavior, and add coverage for
available equal to pid_width + 1 and pid_width + 2 in the relevant tests.
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In `@crates/mesh-llm-tui/src/output/console_capture.rs`:
- Around line 78-82: Update the capture registration flow around spawn_reader
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Supersedes the redraw approach in #1340. Same diagnosis, different remedy, plus the root cause #1340 could not reach.
What was actually wrong
The dashboard rendered to
io::stderr()— the same descriptor used byeprintln!, tracing's default writer, inherited plugin child stderr, and every noisy C library in the process. Sharing that descriptor is why a stray write lands on top of the dashboard, and why it never heals: ratatui diffs against its own idea of the screen, so the damaged cells already match the buffer it believes is displayed.Converting individual call sites cannot close this.
plugin/runtime.rs:186hands spawned pluginsStdio::inherit(), the staged llama.cpp runtime is C, and third-party crates print whatever they like. The console-print ratchet from #1376 is grandfathering 1,044 raw writes across 115 files.The fix, in three layers
/dev/tty,CONOUT$) instead of fd 2, giving the dashboard a channel nothing else holds a descriptor for. This is whyless,fzf, andvimopen the tty directly.OutputEvent, so stray output becomes a dashboard row instead of screen damage. Original descriptors are restored on exit and on the panic path.Rto a one-shot physical clear plus diff invalidation — the repair for damage capture cannot intercept, such as another process writing straight to the tty. The status bar has advertisedR Refreshsince the dashboard shipped with nothing behind it.mesh-llm-tuikeeps#![forbid(unsafe_code)]; the descriptor plumbing usesstd::io::pipeand rustix's safe wrappers.Measured on a real 100x40 PTY
Both binaries built in the same clone, same host, same model, back to back. Every
write()recorded with timestamps and replayed through a terminal emulator to read the resulting character grid.be7ecafRpress)For contrast, #1340 measured 41 erases and 344 ms of blank screen in 15.5 s — a fully black frame roughly once a second, forever, on every node. This branch erases only when asked.
The ~1.5x byte increase is intercepted output now being rendered as dashboard rows. In absolute terms it is under 1 KB/s.
Stray write to fd 2 (the
eprintln!class), at the same instant in both runs:│ IXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX7ab405d7b04 (keep private):— the invite is overwritten│ Invite for mesh 98df00faf44807c8dab9c7ab405d7b04 (keep private):— intact, and the line appears in the events panel asINFO stdout: [10;5HXXXX…with the escape byte strippedDirect write to the tty (which capture cannot intercept, by construction):
MZZZZZZZZ…R: main is stillMZZZZZZZZ…; this branch is back toMesh Events follow=ON filter=(none)Also here
skippy_server=warnEnvFilter directive. fix: TUI rendering for log items #1340 converts those threeeprintln!totracing::warn!, butEnvFilter::from_default_env()defaults to ERROR and nothing adds askippy_serverdirective, so all three would be filtered to nothing — the corruption would go away because the diagnostic went away. Converted here with the directive. Same for theeprintln!ininit_embedded_runtime_tracing.MODELcolumn usedConstraint::Fill(1)while its text was truncated to a separately computed width with a floor of 8. The two never had to agree, and at 100 columns they did not: the column rendered one character wide, showingMoverl. Columns are now solved explicitly with exactLengthconstraints and surrendered from the right (STATE, then PORT) rather than crushing the column that identifies the row. Verified at 80/100/120/160/200.What I did not take from #1340
tui_join_token_wraps_and_redraws_in_a_constrained_frame, whose entire point is a constrained frame. Widening a test until it passes removes the coverage.clear()+ doubleswap_buffers()on every draw. The mechanism is right and is kept verbatim — bound toR.218 tests pass in
mesh-llm-tui;cargo check --workspace --all-targetsand clippy are clean.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
R/rkeyboard refresh and full repaint support.Bug Fixes
Tests