[dashboard] Sometimes, the "Stopped / Timed Out" screen shows "Starting / Opening IDE ..." instead

[jankeromnes]

Bug description

Sometimes, the "Stopped / Timed Out" screen shows "Starting / Opening IDE ..." instead.

Steps to reproduce

• Open a workspace to do some work in it
• Close laptop & go for lunch
• Come back to the timed out workspace -- it says "Starting" and "Opening IDE ..."

Expected behavior

It should show "Stopped" or "Timed Out"

Example repository

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[jankeromnes]

Sometimes it works as expected, e.g. if my browser & laptop remain open while it times out:

Maybe it's a matter of the Start page not receiving updates while the browser/laptop is asleep, and then not updating itself properly when woken up after the workspace timed out.

[AlexTugarev]

Maybe it's a matter of the Start page not receiving updates while the browser/laptop is asleep, and then not updating itself properly when woken up after the workspace timed out.

That's a known behavior, @jankeromnes. That also may happen on connection loss. That's where we used to add the notifyDidOpenConnection listener to fetch latest details on the instance. I think that's missing. In old code we used to have a ensureWorkspaceInfo.

BTW, that would also explain why I don't see the "workspace stopped" but the "workspace stopping" from time to time.

[jankeromnes]

Will add back the missing listener for that case.

BTW, that would also explain why I don't see the "workspace stopped" but the "workspace stopping" from time to time.

What do you mean? I do see "Stopped" when I:

• Start a workspace
• Open https://gitpod.io/workspaces in new tab, and click on "Stop" next to the workspace
• Head back to original workspace tab

There I see "Stopping" (as expected) and after a while "Stopped" (as expected).

[AlexTugarev]

@jankeromnes, on #3811 (comment)

Try this

• hit "Stop" and immediately disable network connection on your notebook
• reconnect the network after a while and check the state