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Closes #733

Problem. gateway_log_tail matched only the non-empty Ok case, and the catch-all _ arm absorbed every Err — permission denied, an I/O error, a log held by another process — behind the same reassuring sentence as a log that was never written. That text goes straight into the shareable diagnostics bundle, so a user reporting "my client will not connect" pastes a line that sends the reader looking for a client that never connected.

Change. Split the arm, exactly as gather_diagnostics_blocking already does for the registry immediately above:

Ok(text) if !text.trim().is_empty() => last_lines(&text, lines),
Ok(_)  => "(no gateway log yet, connect a client to populate it)\n".to_string(),
Err(error) => format!("(gateway log unreadable: {error})\n"),

The empty-log message is unchanged, so the common case reads the same. The path is deliberately not interpolated: io::Error does not carry it, and the bundle is shared.

Verify.

cd src-tauri && cargo check

Clean — the only warning is the pre-existing unused mut in approval_broker.rs:634, untouched here. One file, +7/-1, no behaviour change on the success or empty paths.

Note the issue cites src-tauri/src/desktop.rs:1672; the function now lives in src-tauri/src/diagnostics_controller.rs:137 and is otherwise identical.

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Fix gateway_log_tail to report unreadable gateway logs instead of absent ones

gateway_log_tail in diagnostics_controller.rs previously treated all read failures the same as a missing log. Now it separates empty successful reads, NotFound errors, and other read errors. Empty files and missing files keep the existing absent-log message, while other read failures surface a message with the underlying error.

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gateway_log_tail matched only the non-empty Ok case, and the catch-all arm
absorbed every Err - permission denied, an I/O error, a log held by another
process - behind the same reassuring sentence as a log that was never written.

That text goes into the shareable diagnostics bundle, so a user reporting
'my client will not connect' pastes a line that sends the reader looking for
a client that never connected.

gather_diagnostics_blocking does the opposite immediately above, for the
registry, and for the stated reason: a load failure is what a bug report
needs to surface. This is the same arm.

Closes btsouth#733
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Gateway log diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Report gateway log read errors
src-tauri/src/diagnostics_controller.rs
gateway_log_tail now reports the underlying read_to_string error. Empty gateway logs retain the existing “no gateway log yet” message.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2f86f

Users without a created gateway log will see an unreadable-log error instead of the established message explaining that the log is populated after connecting a client. Handle missing files separately before merge.

Suggested reviewers: btsouth

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The change reports read errors with their reasons and preserves the empty-log message. However, it does not provide the required unreadable-log test, and the shown Err arm also changes a genuinely mis… Add coverage for the unreadable-log case and preserve the existing message for a genuinely missing log, such as by handling a not-found error separately from other read errors. Run npm run test:rust successfully.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 1 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: reporting an unreadable gateway log instead of treating it as absent.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the gateway log read-error problem, the code change, and verification details.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The pull request changes only gateway log diagnostic error handling in the file and scope described by the linked issue. No unrelated changes are present.
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The change reports read errors with their reasons and preserves the empty-log message. However, it does not provide the required unreadable-log test, and the shown Err arm also changes a genuinely missing log from the existing absent-log message to an unreadable-log message [#733].

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// rather than defaulted away. Reporting a permission error or a locked
// file as an absent log sends the reader looking for a client that
// never connected.
Err(error) => format!("(gateway log unreadable: {error})\n"),

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rg -n -C 4 'gateway_log_path|append.*gateway|gateway.*log|create.*log|OpenOptions' src-tauri/src/registry.rs src-tauri/src/gatewaylog.rs src-tauri/src/diagnostics_controller.rs
printf '%s\n' '--- diagnostics tests and recent diff metadata ---'
rg -n -C 5 'diagnostic|gateway_log_tail|no gateway log yet|gateway log unreadable' src-tauri/src/diagnostics_controller.rs src-tauri/tests
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Preserve the missing-log message for ErrorKind::NotFound.

gateway_log_path() can return a path before gatewaylog::append creates gateway.log. When the file is missing, std::fs::read_to_string returns ErrorKind::NotFound, but this catch-all branch reports an unreadable log. Match NotFound before this branch and add coverage for both cases.

Proposed fix
+        Err(error) if error.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => {
+            "(no gateway log yet, connect a client to populate it)\n".to_string()
+        }
         Err(error) => format!("(gateway log unreadable: {error})\n"),
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Err(error) => format!("(gateway log unreadable: {error})\n"),
Err(error) if error.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => {
"(no gateway log yet, connect a client to populate it)\n".to_string()
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Err(error) => format!("(gateway log unreadable: {error})\n"),
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In `@src-tauri/src/diagnostics_controller.rs` at line 149, Update the error
handling around the gateway log read to match ErrorKind::NotFound before the
catch-all Err(error) branch, preserving the existing missing-log message for
absent files while retaining the unreadable-log message for other errors. Add
coverage for both NotFound and non-NotFound read failures.

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Review caught a regression in the previous commit: gatewaylog::append creates
gateway.log on the first line written, so before any client connects the read
fails with NotFound - and the new Err arm reported that as unreadable. That is
the most common state of a fresh install, and it is not a failure.

NotFound keeps the original sentence; everything else still reports itself.
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Good catch on the NotFound arm, and it was a real regression rather than a nit: gatewaylog::append creates gateway.log on the first line written, so on a fresh install the read fails with NotFound and my catch-all reported the most common state of the app as an unreadable log. Worse than what it replaced.

Fixed in the follow-up commit: NotFound keeps the original sentence, everything else still reports itself.

Ok(text) if !text.trim().is_empty() => last_lines(&text, lines),
Ok(_) => "(no gateway log yet, connect a client to populate it)\n".to_string(),
Err(error) if error.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => {
    "(no gateway log yet, connect a client to populate it)\n".to_string()
}
Err(error) => format!("(gateway log unreadable: {error})\n"),

cargo check is clean; the only warnings are the pre-existing unused mut ones this PR does not touch.

I left the function without unit coverage because it reads a process-global path and the file has no test module today, so adding one would be a larger change than the fix. Happy to add it if you would rather the arms were pinned.

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An unreadable gateway log is reported as "no gateway log yet" in diagnostics

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