Long-running (idle?) codex sessions have bwrap failures
What version of Codex CLI is running?
codex-cli 0.114.0
What subscription do you have?
Enterprise
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.4
What platform is your computer?
Linux 4.18.0-553.100.1.el8_10.x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
SecureCRT 9.3.2 (x64 build 2978)
What issue are you seeing?
I left the session and returned after more than 12 hours (I'm not sure how long it was), and bwrap started to give errors. The thread I uploaded is for a different set of errors because the error messages were no longer displayed after resuming, but the first time I experienced this, I recorded the errors elsewhere:
• Ran pwd
└ bwrap: Can't bind mount /oldroot/ on /newroot/: Unable to apply mount flags: remount "/newroot/home/ ostapchu": Invalid argument
• Ran git status --short
└ bwrap: Can't bind mount /oldroot/ on /newroot/: Unable to apply mount flags: remount "/newroot/home/ ostapchu": Invalid argument
I solve this by exiting and resuming, which makes it more of an annoyance. But I expect that if I had a task that ran for 24 hours, it would trigger this and the task would start to encounter spurious errors and confuse the LLM.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
- Start a codex session using bwrap sandboxing
- Run a simple prompt that runs a tool that accesses the filesystem (it should succeed)
- Leave for 24 hours
- Run another prompt that runs a tool that accesses the filesystem - it should fail
Uploaded thread: 019ce3b7-623a-7180-a4fd-de9a4f82f097
What is the expected behavior?
The second access to the filesystem should be OK.
Additional information
The working directory for this conversation (and everything I do) is outside my home directory and on a local drive. However, the home directory is NFS-mounted. Oddly, the error messages talk about attempting to mount another user's home directory. This problem has happened twice now, and it was a different user's directory each time. The server I work on is shared by several hundred developers.
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