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Fix: Prevent freezing in non-interactive Gemini CLI when debug mode is enabled #14580

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Fix: Prevent freezing in non-interactive Gemini CLI when debug mode i…
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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions packages/cli/src/utils/sandboxUtils.ts
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Expand Up @@ -134,12 +134,14 @@ export function entrypoint(workdir: string, cliArgs: string[]): string[] {
);

const quotedCliArgs = cliArgs.slice(2).map((arg) => quote([arg]));
const isDebugMode =
process.env['DEBUG'] === 'true' || process.env['DEBUG'] === '1';
const cliCmd =
process.env['NODE_ENV'] === 'development'
? process.env['DEBUG']
? isDebugMode
? 'npm run debug --'
: 'npm rebuild && npm run start --'
: process.env['DEBUG']
: isDebugMode
? `node --inspect-brk=0.0.0.0:${process.env['DEBUG_PORT'] || '9229'} $(which gemini)`
: 'gemini';

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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions scripts/start.js
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Expand Up @@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ try {
// if debugging is enabled and sandboxing is disabled, use --inspect-brk flag
// note with sandboxing this flag is passed to the binary inside the sandbox
// inside sandbox SANDBOX should be set and sandbox_command.js should fail
if (process.env.DEBUG && !sandboxCommand) {
const isInDebugMode = process.env.DEBUG === '1' || process.env.DEBUG === 'true';

if (isInDebugMode && !sandboxCommand) {
if (process.env.SANDBOX) {
const port = process.env.DEBUG_PORT || '9229';
nodeArgs.push(`--inspect-brk=0.0.0.0:${port}`);
Expand All @@ -64,7 +66,7 @@ const env = {
DEV: 'true',
};

if (process.env.DEBUG) {
if (isInDebugMode) {
// If this is not set, the debugger will pause on the outer process rather
// than the relaunched process making it harder to debug.
env.GEMINI_CLI_NO_RELAUNCH = 'true';
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