Since 2.10.0 the whole app sits behind one all-or-nothing initialization
gate, and that gate discarded the only evidence of its own failure. It
caught the error, logged nothing but `error.runtimeType`, rendered an
icon plus the word "Error" plus Retry, and never reported the error
because catching it kept the crash reporter from ever seeing it. There
is no log file on any platform, the buffer is in memory only, a
double-clicked Windows release build has no console, and the log viewer
lives in Settings, behind the gate that just failed. #1732 is the result:
a Windows 11 user whose app will not boot and who cannot produce a single
byte of diagnostic detail.
The gate now names its phases. Each step is wrapped so a throw carries
the phase it came from, replacing a `Future.wait` that discarded every
error but the first and could not attribute it to any of four concurrent
steps. The failure screen renders the phase, the exception type, the
message and an expandable stack, plus copy and upload actions that reuse
the existing log-relay flow. The record is persisted next to the database
so the next successful launch can surface it in Settings > Logs, and it
is reported to the crash reporter explicitly.
Only preferences and the database still gate the launch. Window chrome,
locale, crash-reporting init, TV/performance detection, the image-cache
budget and download storage are best-effort and time-bounded, so a
stalled platform thread degrades instead of holding the splash forever.
Sentry no longer receives the startup work as its `appRunner`: that made
a startup failure indistinguishable from a Sentry failure, and the guard
would then have re-run migrations and the database open a second time.
The two remaining fatal steps become recoverable. Preference reads
tolerate a value whose stored type no longer matches, dropping the key
and defaulting instead of failing the boot. A store that cannot be parsed
is detected before either desktop plugin backend can memoise it, which is
what makes an in-process repair possible at all. Repair is never
automatic: it states what it will cost, salvages the credential-vault key
and every tracker and Seerr session it can validate out of the damaged
bytes, reseeds them, and moves the original aside rather than deleting
it. Servers and profiles survive a salvaged key because their tokens are
ciphertext in the database; tracker and Seerr sessions are plaintext
preference entries, so the copy says they may still need reconnecting.
Nothing derived from the store reaches a diagnostic. `FormatException`
prints an excerpt of whatever it failed to parse, and during startup that
document holds the vault key, refresh tokens and session cookies while
the redaction manager still has nothing registered, so the wrapper keeps
only the cause's type and offset and the record is an allowlist of
already-redacted fields. The quarantined copy is labelled as containing
credentials, is never offered for upload, and can be deleted from the
dialog.
Also self-heals orphaned WAL/SHM sidecars on desktop rather than only
tvOS, makes every `createTable` migration step idempotent, keeps MSVC
link by-products out of the Windows bundle, and asserts bundle contents
in CI.
Refs #1732
The Store's unpackaged EXE path would require Authenticode-signing the
installer and every PE file inside it. MSIX submissions are re-signed by the
Store instead, so this route needs no code-signing certificate. build-msix.ps1
mirrors build-installer.ps1 and consumes the same per-architecture build
artifacts, leaving the installer, portable archives and WinSparkle appcast
untouched.
One template generates the manifest for both architectures, carrying the
identity reserved in Partner Center. check_windows_msix.py recomputes the
package family name from the publisher DN, so a mistyped identity fails CI
rather than a submission, and it parses the script rather than running it
because root CI is Linux. Qualified logo assets are indexed into
resources.pri; without the altform-unplated variants the shell draws the
taskbar icon on an accent-coloured plate.
PlatformDetector.isPackagedInstall gates the in-app updater and the Liberapay
tile, which the read-only package directory and Store commerce policy
respectively rule out. Gating at runtime keeps one Windows build feeding both
the installer and the Store package.
Introduces shared seams for paginated views, D-pad reorder, media control
routing, async singletons and the device method channel, then points the
open-coded copies at them.
Also removes unused models and duplicated provider/server plumbing, folds
the twice-implemented artifact store in the server, and factors the
repeated Flutter toolchain prologue in CI into a composite action.
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