The 2.3.1 fix (re-fetch the pql sidebars on ProjectOpened) only helped
the picker-first path, where the project opens after the window is up.
With sticky-startup the project opens during boot, before the panes
mount and subscribe, so they never received the event — the sidebars
stayed broken.
Root cause is a race in the IPC-server lifecycle. The boot factory fires
swapIpcServer(launchCwd) with unawaited(); the project-open flow then
fires swapIpcServer(repo). Each swap stops the live server, binds a new
one, and reconnects the daemon client. Unserialized, the two interleave
and the late-finishing boot swap can clobber the repo bind, reconnecting
the client to the launch-CWD (HOME) socket. The daemon's PqlClient (and
git/files) then run against the wrong workspace, so the first
pql.tickets.list hits a stale/global pql.db and errors
("ticket_deps.blocker_record_id missing — pql.db is from an earlier
schema"). A manual refresh worked because by then things had settled.
Chain every swap on a serialization Future so they apply in call order;
the repo swap is issued last and therefore wins. Kept the pane re-fetch
from 2.3.1 — it still covers genuine mid-session project switches.
Verified app boot is unaffected (test/app_test.dart green).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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