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fix(run): never report a job-state write failure as a lost server connection - #1023
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`comfy run`'s async submit branch (the default, no `--wait`) persisted its
initial `queued` job-state record through `_init_queued_state`, which called
`jobs_state.write` raw. Both of that helper's callers run *after* the server
has accepted the prompt, and the local one runs inside the try whose handler is
except (WebSocketException, ConnectionError, OSError) as e:
so any `OSError` from the write — a config root that resolved somewhere
unreachable, a read-only or sandboxed home, a full disk — came back to the
caller as:
"code": "ws_disconnected",
"message": "Lost connection to ComfyUI server: [Errno 2] No such file or directory",
"hint": "check the server is still running; re-run the command"
The job was queued every time, so a caller obeying that hint submits the same
workflow again. An automated caller obeys it reliably: on Windows under Comfy
Desktop, where the CLI's config root resolves from `USERPROFILE` and the broker
does not forward it, every run hit this and 2-4 identical GPU jobs ran per
request (16 jobs for 6 requests in an overnight QA pass).
The file already had the right primitive and the right reason for it:
`_write_state` wraps `jobs_state.write` in `try/except (OSError, ValueError)`
because "a state-file failure must never fail an otherwise-successful run", and
every other call site null-checks its `Path | None`. `_init_queued_state` was
the one site that bypassed it. Route it through `_write_state`, so an accepted
submit still reports `queued`, with `state_file: null` to say no record was
kept. That also covers the cloud non-wait path, the helper's other caller,
where there is no handler at all and the raw call turned an accepted billable
job into an uncaught traceback.
`_tail_state_file` reaches the same handler the same way: it runs from
`_announce_async_queued`, inside that try, and `jobs_state.read` raises from
the same `state_dir()` mkdir. Its docstring already promised "always safe to
call", so make that true rather than leave a second route to the same bogus
report for the pretty-mode caller a human at a Desktop terminal is.
The broad handler is left broad. Other `OSError` sources legitimately belong in
it, so this removes the one source that did not rather than narrowing the tuple.
Swallowed writes now log their cause at DEBUG (`LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG`): the caller
sees a null `state_file` and no error, so that line is the only trail left.
Tests, each proven red against the raw call and green through the wrapper:
`TestStateWriteFailureIsNotADisconnect` pins the agent-visible envelope on both
async targets, with the `OSError` injected at `state_dir`, at
`atomic_write_text` and at `jobs_state.write`, asserting exit 0, `queued`,
`state_file: null`, and the absence of both `ws_disconnected` and the "re-run
the command" hint. `TestTailStateFileToleratesAnUnreadableStateDir` covers the
tail's two read sites.
A shared exception instance on a class attribute pins its `__traceback__`, and so every frame it passed through, for the rest of the session. This suite has already been OOM-killed once by retained frames.
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`public-repo-hygiene` rejected the branch for an internal ticket ID in three
test docstrings. Describe the failure in terms the repo can state publicly --
an unwritable config root reached through `expanduser("~")` -- which is also
the condition the tests actually inject, and rename the fixture prompt ids to
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- Around line 526-530: Qualify the best-effort state-file guarantee in this
paragraph to apply only to asynchronous submissions; do not imply it covers
cloud `--wait`, whose raw state writes may still fail after prompt acceptance.
Keep the existing queued-result behavior and examples scoped to the supported
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- Line 118: Update the `statefail-tail` test to assert that `jobs_state.read`
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Five findings from the automated review, all consequences of making `state_file: null` reachable on the async submit path. Each is now covered by a test proven red against the previous commit. **`ValueError` is the other thing `state_path()` raises** (6 of 6 reviewers). It rejects a server-supplied prompt_id that fails `_SAFE_PROMPT_ID`, and `_write_state` swallows it. So an unsafe id that used to stop at the submit-time write now continues to `_tail_state_file`, whose `read_state` caught only `OSError` — a traceback on an accepted job, covered by neither caller's handler. `read_state` now catches `(OSError, ValueError)`, matching `_write_state`. **The same ids then reach Rich markup.** `prompt_id` is server-chosen and lands in `Text.from_markup` in the tail's `render`, and in the pretty queued panel. Raw markup there raises `MarkupError` after the job was accepted, or injects into the terminal. Both sites now go through `sanitize_markup`, which the surrounding code already uses for server-chosen strings; the tail truncates before escaping, since slicing can split a markup sequence. **A watcher with no record to update is a pure-waste orphan**, and reporting `watcher_spawned: true` for it is a claim a consumer acts on. `_watch-job` opens with `jobs_state.read`, so it exits immediately or dies on the same error. Both async branches now skip the spawn when `state_file is None` and report `watcher_spawned: false` — the value that already means "poll `comfy jobs status` yourself". It matters more on cloud, where the watcher inherits `COMFY_CLOUD_AUTH_TOKEN`/`COMFY_CLOUD_API_KEY` and outlives the parent. **The docs overclaimed.** "Best-effort on every path" was wrong: cloud `--wait` still writes directly, including inside its own error handlers. Scoped the guarantee to the paths actually covered and named cloud `--wait` as the gap, rather than quietly widening this change to a path it was not scoped to. **The pretty panel printed a bare `state None`** with no explanation on a run that otherwise succeeded. It now says the record was not written and to track by prompt_id. Declined, with reasons: moving the whole post-acceptance async tail outside `execute`'s try — as the `--wait` path does with `completed_payload` — would be the structural fix for "any future unguarded local I/O in there re-opens the hazard". It is right, and it is a different change: the emit ordering inside that block is pinned by several existing tests (state-write-before-queued-emit, the BrokenPipe-at-the-queued-emit contract), so it deserves its own PR rather than riding along here. Likewise cloud `--wait`'s raw writes, now documented. Also tightened the new poll-loop test, which could pass without exercising the guard it names: a 0.05s budget can let the deadline pass before the loop body runs, leaving the post-`Live` read to consume the injected failure. It now uses a generous budget and asserts exactly one read, which proves both that the loop body ran and that it returned from inside the loop.
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🟡 Minor · Skip the live tail when no state file was written. · __init__.py:980
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winSkip the live tail when no state file was written.
If the atomic write fails but the state directory remains readable,
jobs_state.readreturnsNone._tail_state_filethen polls for its full eight-second default despite having no record to watch. Skip the tail whenstate_file is Noneso an async submission can return promptly.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟡 Minor · Remove the durable-record guarantee from queued. · json-output.md:288-293
docs/json-output.md:288-293
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRemove the durable-record guarantee from
queued.After a state write fails, the changed async paths still emit
queued, but no durable record exists. This paragraph tells consumers that everyqueuedevent guarantees a record available throughcomfy jobs statusorjobs ls. Qualify that guarantee and direct consumers to inspect the final envelope’sstate_filefield.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 955: Escape the prompt ID embedded in watch_command before rendering it
as Rich markup, so IDs returned by local and cloud servers cannot alter pretty
output; preserve the displayed command’s intended content.
Review comments at @docs/json-output.md:
- Line 530: Update the JSON output documentation near the queued-result
statement to limit `status: "queued"` with `state_file: null` to async submits.
Describe local `--wait` separately, stating that an otherwise successful run
with failed state writes finishes with `status: "completed"` and `state_file:
null`.
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- Line 980: Update the async submission flow around _tail_state_file to skip
tailing when state_file is None, so submissions without a written state record
return promptly; preserve the existing tail behavior when a state file is
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- Around line 288-293: Update the `queued` event documentation to clarify that
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write fails; direct consumers to check the final envelope’s `state_file` field
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Closes the two findings from CodeRabbit's second pass on #1023: an unsafe prompt_id still reached Rich markup rendering via watch_command (the remaining sink after the first review's fix), and the best-effort doc conflated local --wait's completed envelope with the async queued one.
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What's wrong
comfy runcan report a failure to write its own job-state file as a lost connection to theComfyUI server, and tell the caller to re-run — for a job the server already accepted.
The async submit branch (the default, no
--wait) persists its initialqueuedrecord through_init_queued_state, which calledjobs_state.writeraw. Both of that helper's callers run afterthe server has accepted the prompt, and the local one runs inside the
trywhose handler is:So any
OSErrorfrom the write — a config root that resolved somewhere unreachable, a read-only orsandboxed home, a full disk — came back to the caller as, verbatim:
{ "code": "ws_disconnected", "message": "Lost connection to ComfyUI server: [Errno 2] No such file or directory", "hint": "check the server is still running; re-run the command" }with exit 1. The job was queued every time, so a caller that obeys that hint submits the same
workflow a second time. An automated caller obeys it reliably: on Windows under Comfy Desktop, where
the CLI's config root resolves from
USERPROFILEand the launching broker does not forward it, everyrun hit this and 2–4 identical GPU jobs ran per request — 16 jobs for 6 requests in an overnight
QA pass. Linux was unaffected because
expanduser("~")keys offHOME, which is forwarded.The fix
The file already had the right primitive, and the right reason for it.
_write_statewrapsjobs_state.writeintry/except (OSError, ValueError)precisely because "a state-file failure mustnever fail an otherwise-successful run", and every other call site in the file already null-checks its
Path | Nonereturn._init_queued_statewas the one site that bypassed it.Routing it through
_write_statemeans an accepted submit still reportsqueued, withstate_file: nullto say no record was kept. That also covers the helper's other caller, the cloudnon-wait path, where there is no handler at all and the same raw call turned an accepted billable
job into an uncaught traceback.
The broad handler is left broad. Other
OSErrorsources legitimately belong in it (a realtransport failure surfacing as one), so this removes the single source that did not belong, at its
origin, rather than narrowing the tuple and weakening a handler other paths still need.
A second route to the same report
_tail_state_filereaches that handler the same way: it runs from_announce_async_queued, i.e.inside the same
try, and itsjobs_state.readraises from the samestate_dir()mkdir. Verifiedreachable — with
state_dirraisingFileNotFoundError,_tail_state_file(..., seconds=0.05)propagated it straight into the handler and produced the identical bogus
ws_disconnected+"re-run the command".
It's pretty-mode-only, so it is not the path an automated caller takes (those run in JSON/NDJSON mode,
where the tail returns early) — but it is the path a human at a Windows Desktop terminal takes, and a
human obeying "re-run the command" also queues a duplicate GPU job. The function's docstring already
promised "Always safe to call", so this makes that true: both of its read sites now distinguish
"unreadable at all" from the ordinary "nothing written yet" the poll loop is built to wait through.
If you'd rather this PR were only
_init_queued_state, thewatcher.pychange and its test class area clean separable revert.
Diagnosability
A swallowed write now logs its cause at DEBUG. The caller sees a null
state_fileand no error, sothat line is the only trail left;
LOG_LEVEL=DEBUGsurfaces it.Tests
Each proven red against the raw call and green through the wrapper.
TestStateWriteFailureIsNotADisconnect(tests/comfy_cli/command/test_run_json.py) pins thecaller-visible envelope — which is what an automated consumer actually reads to decide to
re-run.
test_local_asyncandtest_cloud_async, each parametrized over three injection points(
state_dir,atomic_write_text,jobs_state.write) so the behaviour is pinned on the handlerrather than on one mock shape. Asserts no
ws_disconnectedanywhere in the stream, no "re-run thecommand" hint, and exit 0 with the full documented
prompt_preview → queued → envelopestream andstate_file: null.TestTailStateFileToleratesAnUnreadableStateDir(tests/comfy_cli/command/test_run_watcher.py)covers the tail's two read sites — inside the poll loop, and the one after the
Liveblock thatsits outside its
except— overFileNotFoundErrorandPermissionError.aae234e)ruff check ./ruff format --check .pytestThose 14 failures are pre-existing and unrelated — verified by running exactly those node ids on a
pristine
aae234eworktree, where the same 14 fail identically. They are environment-dependent(
umaskdefaults, local CA trust-store root counts, localcomfy/agent state) and live inagent/test_command.py,command/test_code_search.py,test_node_deps.py,test_file_utils.pyandtest_http.py— none of which this PR touches.Also here
docs/json-output.md— a "Known limit: a state-file failure is never a run failure" section, and apointer to it from the
state_filerow. The documented type was alreadystr | null, so this addsno contract; it tells a machine consumer the thing this bug shows they need told — that
state_file: nullis not a transport error and must not be retried.CHANGELOG.md— one### Fixedentry under[Unreleased], in the file's existing prose style.Review round 1
The automated review raised eight findings; all eight are answered on their threads. Five were real
and are fixed in
6069c98, each with a test proven red against the previous commit — and all fivewere consequences of this PR making
state_file: nullreachable, not pre-existing gaps:ValueErroris the other thingstate_path()raises (6/6 reviewers) — it rejects aserver-supplied prompt_id failing
_SAFE_PROMPT_ID, and_write_stateswallows it, so an unsafeid that used to stop at the write now continued to
_tail_state_fileand crashed there.read_statenow catches(OSError, ValueError), matching_write_state.prompt_idis server-chosen and lands inText.from_markup. Both sites now go throughsanitize_markup; the tail truncates before escaping,since slicing can split a markup sequence.
watcher_spawned: truefor it isa claim consumers act on. Both async branches now skip the spawn when
state_file is Noneandreport
false. Matters more on cloud, where the watcher inherits credentials and outlives us.cloud
--waitnamed as the gap.state None— now says the record was not written and totrack by prompt_id.
Declined with reasons, not dismissed: moving the whole post-acceptance async tail outside
execute'stry (as
--waitdoes withcompleted_payload) is the right structural fix for "any future unguardedlocal I/O in there re-opens the hazard", but the emit ordering in that block is pinned by
TestQueuedFollowsStatePersistenceandTestBrokenPipeAtTheQueuedEmit, so it is a behaviour changeowed its own red/green rather than a rider here. Same for cloud
--wait's raw writes, now documented.One test was also genuinely able to pass without exercising its own guard (a 0.05s budget can let the
deadline pass before the loop body runs). It now uses a generous budget and asserts exactly one read,
pinning both that the loop body ran and that it returned from inside the loop.
Not in scope
This is the Python half of a two-repo fix. The environment half — forwarding
USERPROFILEthrough theWindows broker overlay, in Go — is tracked separately and owned elsewhere. Deliberately not done
here: no change to
USERPROFILEhandling, no Go, and no makingexpanduserWindows-aware. Withoutthat half a Windows Desktop run still loses its job-state record; it just no longer misreports why,
and no longer multiplies GPU jobs.
One adjacent item found and not fixed, reported instead: the cloud
--waitpath has rawjobs_state.writecalls (comfy_cli/command/run/__init__.py~1279–1399), and the first sits beforethat branch's
try, so anOSErrorthere is an uncaught traceback on an accepted billable cloud job.That's a crash rather than this misreport — no
ws_disconnected, no re-run hint, no duplicate submit —so it belongs in its own change.