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fix(installer): recover Windows installs with a private pnpm home - #2351
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Add an explicit Windows private-home recovery path for populated or unsafe PNPM_HOME locations without weakening ACL checks or touching the existing package tree. Fall back to a separate checked profile folder when .pnpm is occupied, isolate unclaimed-home probes from startup cache writes, and exclude the rejected pnpm tree from the installer's PATH so its existing commands do not appear unmanaged. Document the recovery and consented pnpm setup --force behavior, and cover the decision, probes, runner, browser plan, and repeated native-Windows preflight. Also retain the existing Gentle AI tagged-main verification changes in this working tree; upstream PR Gentleman-Programming#2340 covers overlapping main-channel work. Validation: 401 scoped regression tests passed (9 skipped); the focused native Windows cache/PATH regression passed; real-host release and main preflight each passed twice with no blockers. No RDD or application build was run. See Gentleman-Programming#2350.
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The PR includes unrelated Gentle AI main-channel changes in scripts/main-channel.mjs and tests/main-channel.test.ts. These changes verify tagged Go module versions and are not connected to issue [… |
Remove or split the scripts/main-channel.mjs and tests/main-channel.test.ts tagged-main verification changes into a separate PR. Keep the changes required for issue [#2350] in this PR. |
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding a Windows recovery path that uses a private pnpm home. Linked Issues check Issue [ #2350] has active coding requirements. The PR adds the opt-in--private-pnpm-homepath, checks the primary and fallback private homes, preserves rejected homes, avoids package migration, and …Full details: Linked Issues check
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#2350] has active coding requirements. The PR adds the opt-in--private-pnpm-homepath, checks the primary and fallback private homes, preserves rejected homes, avoids package migration, and keeps storage trust checks. Probe code redirects pre-consent writable locations, disables the Node compile cache, skips listing until the marker exists, and fails closed when scratch storage is unavailable. Windows environment code removes only entries under the rejected home and preserves unrelated PATH entries. The PR adds installer, probe, runner, server, and native-Windows regression coverage, plus documentation.
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- Line 1469: Update the opt-in `--private-pnpm-home` table row to name both
checked fallback locations: `%USERPROFILE%\.pnpm` and
`%USERPROFILE%\.gentle-shell-pnpm` when `.pnpm` is occupied and unmarked.
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| | Not set: `%LOCALAPPDATA%\pnpm` | Passes | Used as before; the plan is unchanged. | | ||
| | Not set: `%LOCALAPPDATA%\pnpm` | Fails, and nothing is installed there | `%USERPROFILE%\.pnpm` is used, if it passes the walk too. | | ||
| | Not set: `%LOCALAPPDATA%\pnpm` | Fails, and something is installed there | Blocked: `untrusted-pnpm-home`. | | ||
| | Explicit `--private-pnpm-home` option; configured/default folder holds files or is set by the user | Fails | Leave that folder unchanged and use the checked `%USERPROFILE%\.pnpm` instead. | |
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The table row omits the .gentle-shell-pnpm fallback.
The opt-in row says that the installer uses %USERPROFILE%\.pnpm. The prose below it and the code can also select %USERPROFILE%\.gentle-shell-pnpm when .pnpm is occupied and has no marker. Name both candidates in this row so the table matches the code.
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| | Explicit `--private-pnpm-home` option; configured/default folder holds files or is set by the user | Fails | Leave that folder unchanged and use the checked `%USERPROFILE%\.pnpm` instead. | | |
| | Explicit `--private-pnpm-home` option; configured/default folder holds files or is set by the user | Fails | Leave that folder unchanged and use the checked `%USERPROFILE%\.pnpm`, or `%USERPROFILE%\.gentle-shell-pnpm` when `.pnpm` is occupied and unmarked. | |
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Review comment at @docs/install-wizard.md at line 1469:
Update the opt-in `--private-pnpm-home` table row to name both checked fallback
locations: `%USERPROFILE%\.pnpm` and `%USERPROFILE%\.gentle-shell-pnpm` when
`.pnpm` is occupied and unmarked.
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Review: Windows private-pnpm-home recovery
Reviewed 8e79f103e against f58010c46 and ran it on a real Windows 11 host. The recovery path does what the description claims: the rejected home is never touched, probe children are redirected before the marker exists, and the PATH isolation reaches both probes and the install runner. Two gaps in that isolation/recovery are below; neither invalidates the approach.
What I verified
- Scoped run as described in the PR: 400 pass / 1 fail / 9 skip (410 total). The only failure is
tests/installer-probes.test.ts:967EPERM ... symlink— ambient on this machine without Developer Mode, unrelated to this diff. So the reported 401/0/9 reproduces here modulo that one environment-dependent test. node scripts/check-types.mjs→0 recorded diagnostic(s), no regressions.git diff --checkclean.- The three tests that actually carry the new behavior pass here:
native Windows: CMD passes private-home opt-in only for the supported switch,native Windows: repeated preflight leaves an unclaimed fallback untouched even when probe children create caches(19.5 s, real child processes writing intoPNPM_HOME/TEMP), andnative Windows: a weak default PNPM_HOME that already holds files blocks and names the folder, principal and rights(13.3 s). That last one is the strongest evidence for #2350's first and third findings: old sentinels intact, private home not created before consent, unrelated manual install still reported. pnpm setup --forceis real and necessary. With the pinned pnpm 11.1.1,pnpm setup --helpdocuments-f, --force Override the PNPM_HOME env variable in case it already exists, and pnpm'sengine/pm/commands/src/setup/setup.tscallsaddDirToEnvPath(..., { overwrite: opts.force, position: 'start' }), soERR_PNPM_BAD_ENV_FOUNDis exactly what a previously savedPNPM_HOMEproduces.position: 'start'also means the new<PNPM_HOME>\binis prepended to the persistent user PATH, so a stale old home left on PATH after install cannot shadow the new command. No concern there.- Wiring is real, not just unit-level:
bin/gentle-shell-install.mjs:152decides the env,:161hands it tocreateProbes,:194builds the standard runner env from the samewizardEnv, andcollectPlanre-decides before install.
1. --private-pnpm-home dead-ends when the rejected home is itself %USERPROFILE%\.pnpm (medium)
scripts/installer-windows.mjs:347 builds directories = [".pnpm", ".gentle-shell-pnpm"] under the opt-in, but :350 returns blocked as soon as a candidate equals the rejected path instead of continuing to the next candidate the way :352-356 does for an occupied folder.
Trace with PNPM_HOME=C:\Users\m\.pnpm, GENTLE_INSTALL_PRIVATE_PNPM_HOME=1, and a failing walk on .pnpm (fallback absent and walk-safe):
{"available":true,"path":"C:\\Users\\m\\.pnpm","source":"user",
"untrusted":{"check":"target-acl-mask","at":"C:\\Users\\m\\.pnpm",...}}
source stays "user", no private, no replaceEnvironment, and .gentle-shell-pnpm is never walked. The user gets pnpmHomeGuidance's final branch (scripts/installer-server.mjs:313), whose remedy is privateRemedy (:290): "close this installer and run .\scripts\bootstrap.cmd --private-pnpm-home from the checkout to install separately in %USERPROFILE%.pnpm (or %USERPROFILE%.gentle-shell-pnpm when the first folder is occupied)". That is the command they just ran, and the fallback half of the sentence is unreachable for this input. docs/install-wizard.md:1469 likewise promises the option covers a folder "set by the user".
Why it matters: this is the state reached by the previous remedy ("set PNPM_HOME to a private folder such as %USERPROFILE%.pnpm"), so a user who followed that advice and later lost the ACL check has no route except manual ACL editing. tests/installer-windows-bootstrap.test.ts:1176 pins the current result (source === "user"), so it is exercised — as a non-recovery, not as the documented one.
Suggested direction: continue when another candidate remains and return blocked only for the last one. The candidate is still walked and still never adopted, so the safety argument is unchanged.
2. PATH isolation is spelling-sensitive: 8.3 and \\?\ entries survive (minor)
scripts/installer-windows.mjs:384-389 compares literal strings through win32.relative. The documented spellings are handled correctly (case, quotes, trailing separators, ..), but equivalent spellings of the same folder are not. Reproduced by calling windowsWizardEnvironment with one PATH entry at a time:
| PATH entry under the rejected home | filtered |
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C:\Users\m\AppData\Local\pnpm\bin |
yes |
C:\USERS\M\APPDATA\LOCAL\PNPM |
yes |
"C:\...\pnpm\bin\" |
yes |
C:\...\pnpm\bin\..\bin |
yes |
C:\Users\m\RUNNER~1\pnpm\bin |
no |
\\?\C:\Users\m\AppData\Local\pnpm\bin |
no |
win32.relative("C:\\Users\\m\\.pnpm", "C:\\Users\\m\\RUNNER~1\\.pnpm\\bin") returns ..\RUNNER~1\.pnpm\bin, and for the extended-length form it returns the whole prefixed string (win32.isAbsolute accepts it, so it reaches the comparison but can never match).
Impact: when the old home is spelled that way on PATH, its pnpm-owned gentle-shell is visible again and misclassified as unmanaged — the identical unknown-tool symptom of #2350, section 3. Short paths are not hypothetical in this project: tests/installer-windows-bootstrap.test.ts:1843 already notes that fixture temp dirs surface as RUNNER~1-style paths on CI.
Suggested direction: canonicalize before comparing — realpathSync.native on both sides (both exist by then), or win32.toNamespacedPath/win32.normalize over a stripped \\?\ prefix — keeping the string check as the fast path.
3. Scope: the unrelated main-channel.mjs change is the only merge conflict (process)
git merge-tree --write-tree 8e79f103e upstream/main reports exactly one conflict, scripts/main-channel.mjs — the tagged-main verification that overlaps #2340, which the description already discloses. Dropping or splitting that hunk would make this PR merge cleanly and keep the installer recovery reviewable on its own. Not a code objection, just the cheapest path to landing it.
Notes (no action requested)
createProbes'sstorage/storageManyadapters (scripts/installer-probes.mjs:204-205) spawn PowerShell throughverifyWindowsStorage*/windowsProcessCheck, outside the newrunwrapper. They are read-only ACL walks, so the "nothing is created" claim holds; it is only the one subprocess family that the comment at:215-217("EVERY subprocess") does not literally cover.roots[0]is trusted to exist (:219). AGENTLE_BOOTSTRAP_TOOLSpointing at a missing directory takes the "scratch available" branch and hands children an unusableTEMPinstead of the fail-closed error. Non-production shape; mentioning only because the comment claims fail-closed.
Verdict
The core recovery, isolation and disclosure behavior checks out on a real Windows host, and the new native coverage genuinely exercises real child processes rather than mocks. Finding 1 is a narrow but reachable dead end inside the recovery flow the PR itself advertises, so I would fix it here; finding 2 is residue on an otherwise careful filter and can be a follow-up.
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Summary
Closes #2350.
scripts\\bootstrap.cmd --private-pnpm-homerecovery for Windows installations whose configured or default pnpm home fails the existing ACL/reparse/ownership checks. Keep the old home intact, select a separately checked profile home, disclose the consentedpnpm setup --force, and never migrate old packages.bin, temp directories, or startup caches in an unclaimed private home. Route probe subprocess storage to the already-private bootstrap tools directory, skip package listing until the home has this installer's marker, and fail closed if scratch storage is unavailable.The final Windows 11 installer screenshot supplied by the reporter shows all four wizard steps completed, 15 completed steps, and Gentle Shell installed with Pi 1.3.0.
Validation
releaseandmainpreflight both ran twice with no blockers.git diff --checkpassed.Coordination
This commit includes all 14 modified working-tree files, including the pre-existing Gentle AI tagged-main verification changes. Those changes overlap the independently open upstream PR #2340. Please coordinate/avoid applying that overlapping main-channel fix twice; it can be split out if preferred. This PR's new installer work is the Windows recovery, probe isolation, and rejected-home PATH isolation described above.
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--private-pnpm-home. The installer checks a separate home and can try a fallback folder if the first is occupied.PNPM_HOMEsetting.