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Survive a missing nohup, and diagnose a proxy that won't start #13

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24 changes: 21 additions & 3 deletions qbraid-code
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Expand Up @@ -50,8 +50,16 @@ start_proxy() {
echo "qbraid-code: proxy config missing — re-run the installer." >&2
return 1
}
nohup "$PROXY_BIN" -config "$HOME_DIR/proxy-config.yaml" \
>> "$HOME_DIR/proxy.log" 2>&1 &
# `nohup` is POSIX and present everywhere in practice, but if it is missing
# the redirect below still detaches well enough for our purposes — better a
# working proxy than a hard failure over a missing convenience wrapper.
if command -v nohup >/dev/null 2>&1; then
nohup "$PROXY_BIN" -config "$HOME_DIR/proxy-config.yaml" \
>> "$HOME_DIR/proxy.log" 2>&1 &
else
"$PROXY_BIN" -config "$HOME_DIR/proxy-config.yaml" \
>> "$HOME_DIR/proxy.log" 2>&1 &
fi
i=0
while [ "$i" -lt 40 ]; do
if proxy_listening; then
Expand All @@ -61,7 +69,17 @@ start_proxy() {
sleep 0.3
i=$((i + 1))
done
echo "qbraid-code: proxy failed to start — see $HOME_DIR/proxy.log" >&2
# An empty log is the confusing case: it means the binary never ran (missing
# dependency, wrong architecture, quarantined) rather than failing on config.
echo "qbraid-code: the GPT proxy did not start." >&2
if [ -s "$HOME_DIR/proxy.log" ]; then
echo "Last lines of $HOME_DIR/proxy.log:" >&2
tail -5 "$HOME_DIR/proxy.log" >&2
else
echo "It produced no output at all — try running it directly to see why:" >&2
echo " $PROXY_BIN -config $HOME_DIR/proxy-config.yaml" >&2
fi
echo "Claude models are unaffected; run qbraid-code without --model gpt-... " >&2
return 1
}

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