"Conversation interrupted" when resuming codex

Open 💬 4 comments Opened Aug 14, 2026 by cmr-paul-rigas
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.147.0

What subscription do you have?

Company-managed ChatGPT Business subscription

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.6-sol medium

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

Windows Terminal

Codex doctor report

codex-cli 0.147.0
PS C:\dev\extern\teamcity-mcp> codex doctor --json
{
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}

What issue are you seeing?

Uploaded thread: 019fffc7-b624-73f3-b25e-72939260e26f

When resuming codex, instead of a clean start I see error message

"Conversation interrupted - tell the model what to do differently. Something went wrong? Hit /feedback to report the issue."

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019fffc7-b624-73f3-b25e-72939260e26f

What is the expected behavior?

A clean start-up of codex without an error reported.

Additional information

  • Thread ID: 019fffc7-b624-73f3-b25e-72939260e26f
  • Error: expected ordinal 298, got 297
  • Approximate time: 14 August 2026, 11:35–11:41

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4 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 14 days ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #37577

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shleder · 13 days ago

This is a very useful current 0.147.0 case because the visible failure is on resume (Conversation interrupted) and you also have the concrete reconstruction error expected ordinal 298, got 297.

I’m testing Codex Rescue against real resume failures. It reads the local rollout directly, so this can help separate durable rollout damage from a resume/paginated-history reconstruction bug like #37577.

If the affected session is still present locally, could you try:

pipx install codex-rescue==0.1.0a3
codex-rescue sessions
codex-rescue doctor --latest

If doctor reports the rollout as structurally healthy while Codex still fails with the ordinal mismatch, that negative result is useful too — I do not want to force a recovery classification where the persisted transcript is actually intact.

Please share only sanitized status/findings. No raw rollout, database files, prompts, repository contents, paths, thread/session IDs, auth data, or secrets.

https://github.com/shleder/codex-rescue

jdcodes1 · 9 days ago

expected ordinal 298, got 297 comes from the SQLite history projection replaying the rollout JSONL: ordinals are persisted in the rollout lines, and any line whose ordinal is behind the stored cursor is a hard ThreadStoreError::Internal (https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/1f41cc5d92/codex-rs/thread-store/src/local/thread_history_materialization.rs#L186-L192).

The code explicitly supports same-ordinal retries — but only when the first occurrence was a rejected line (#L115-L116). If ordinal 297 was written, successfully projected (cursor → 298), and then re-appended — e.g. the writer crashed or was killed after the append but before recording its own success, then retried on resume — the duplicate is a perfectly benign at-least-once artifact, yet the projector refuses it forever. Nothing skips an already-projected duplicate and nothing rebuilds the projection from scratch on mismatch, so one glitch permanently turns every resume of that thread into "Conversation interrupted" (same detect-but-never-repair family as #38792/#38341).

Fix outline: (1) treat ordinal < cursor as an idempotent-replay skip (optionally verifying byte range/content); (2) on any invariant failure, drop the projection state row and rebuild from ordinal 0 instead of erroring; (3) put rollout append and cursor advance in one durability domain so retries can't desync them.

shleder · 4 days ago

For the Windows interrupted-resume case, the Windows path is especially useful for testing bounded discovery and no-overwrite snapshots.

Thanks for the detailed report. This is a good candidate for a bounded recovery check. Vetto 0.2.0-alpha.2 is available from npm and adds a read-only, copy-only Codex rescue adapter. It does not resume Codex, edit rollout files, or write vendor SQLite. On a disposable copy, try: npm install --global @shleddy/vetto@next; vetto rescue --adapter codex --root <CODEX_HOME> --json scan; then use the exact returned key with diagnose and snapshot ... --output ./vetto-recovery/session.jsonl. Please report OS, Codex/Vetto versions, sanitized JSON, and source SHA-256 before/after; never upload raw transcripts, auth/config, prompts, or tokens. An explicit unavailable/unsupported result is useful too.