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Background daemon start failures are classified, and a sleeping machine gets one retry

Background daemon start failures now name a cause, and a sleeping machine gets one retry.

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What

When the background daemon fails to start, the failure now carries a cause: wrapper, ask, spawn, timeout, exited, or the operating system's spawn error code. A child that died is reported separately from one that simply never answered. If the wall clock jumped during a cold start, typically because the machine slept, and the daemon is still unreachable, the whole start is retried once.

Details
  • Telemetry gains child_exited, exit_code, exit_signal, budget_extended and clock_jump_retry.
Evidence

retrying the whole start once

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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