Failed to start when old sessions are inaccessible
Resolved 💬 1 comment Opened Nov 25, 2025 by sluongng Closed Nov 27, 2025
What version of Codex is running?
0.63.0
What subscription do you have?
plus
Which model were you using?
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What platform is your computer?
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What issue are you seeing?
> codex
internal error; agent loop died unexpectedly
What steps can reproduce the bug?
After several minutes of debugging, it seems like my $HOME/.codex/sessions has some sessions that were run as root with
> sudo -i
> HOME=/home/<old-user> codex
which causes the session files to be under root ownership.
Using sudo chown -R <old-user> $HOME/.codex/ fixed it.
What is the expected behavior?
A better error message indicating the reason for failure would be nice.
Additional information
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