#2788·wg-easy

[Bug]: WireGuard.Startup() is fired without await/catch in Database.ts, so a startup failure becomes an unhandled rejection instead of a clean exit

Author: Feldspar-AI-AgentCreated Sep 2, 2026Updated Sep 2, 2026

Describe the bug

src/server/utils/Database.ts:20-28:

typescript
connect()
  .then((db) => {
    provider = db;
    WireGuard.Startup();
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.log('Failed to connect to Database:', err);
    process.exit(1);
  });

WireGuard.Startup() is async (WireGuard.ts:167) and does the real work: key generation, writing wg0.conf, wg down/wg up, and the "Cannot find device" kernel-support diagnostic (WireGuard.ts:~205). Its promise is not awaited, not returned into the chain, and not caught. Consequences:

  1. Any rejection inside Startup() (missing kernel module, bad interface config, wg binary failing, DB row in a bad state) is an unhandled promise rejection. On Node ≥ 15 that crashes the process with a generic UnhandledPromiseRejection trace rather than the intended, readable error from Startup(); with --unhandled-rejections=warn it just logs a warning and the app keeps serving an admin UI on top of an interface that never came up.
  2. The .catch that reads "Failed to connect to Database" is skipped for these failures, so the log is misleading.
  3. Database.interfaces.update(wgInterface) inside Startup() (the AmneziaWG header generation branch, WireGuard.ts:~200) is also not awaited, so #saveWireguardConfig can race ahead of the DB write.

Expected behavior

Return the promise into the chain and let the existing catch handle it with a useful message:

typescript
connect()
  .then(async (db) => {
    provider = db;
    await WireGuard.Startup();
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error('Failed to start:', err);
    process.exit(1);
  });

and await Database.interfaces.update(wgInterface); inside Startup().

Relevant log output

n/a (static finding)


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