fix(codex): inspect a cleanly-closed WAL state store in the history preflight - #4957
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The injection preflight opened ~/.codex/state_5.sqlite with { readonly: true }.
A WAL store whose last writer closed cleanly has no -shm sidecar, and a
read-only SQLite connection may not create one, so the open failed
SQLITE_CANTOPEN on a perfectly healthy store. The catch-all folded that into
history_injection_preflight_unavailable, and ocx sync refused the Codex config
injection on every attempt with no way forward.
The read-only open stays primary because it is the only mode that joins a live
writer's WAL and can therefore see a thread just migrated to paginated history.
The immutable fallback is admitted only when neither -wal nor -shm is on disk,
which is exactly the state where the main database is the whole store and the
snapshot is exact rather than stale. Either sidecar present, or any other open
failure, keeps the original error and the refusal that follows from it.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe preflight now uses a guarded SQLite opener. It retries eligible ChangesCodex history preflight
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant HistoryPreflight
participant StateDatabaseOpener
participant SQLite
participant Filesystem
HistoryPreflight->>StateDatabaseOpener: open resolved state path
StateDatabaseOpener->>SQLite: try read-only open
SQLite-->>StateDatabaseOpener: SQLITE_CANTOPEN
StateDatabaseOpener->>Filesystem: check -wal and -shm
Filesystem-->>StateDatabaseOpener: no sidecars
StateDatabaseOpener->>SQLite: retry with immutable=1
SQLite-->>HistoryPreflight: return database handle
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| return new Database(resolvedPath, { readonly: true }); | ||
| } catch (error) { | ||
| if (!isStateDbCantOpenError(error)) throw error; | ||
| if (existsSync(`${resolvedPath}-wal`) || existsSync(`${resolvedPath}-shm`)) throw error; |
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When Codex starts or reopens the store after these two existsSync calls, it can create the WAL/SHM files while the returned immutable connection is executing the preflight queries. Because an immutable=1 connection neither joins the WAL nor participates in SQLite locking, it can then inspect a stale main database—or race a checkpoint—and miss the history_mode evidence that should prevent the configuration transition. Track that this fallback was used and reject the result if either sidecar or the main-file identity changes through completion of the query, rather than treating this one-time absence check as proof for the connection's lifetime.
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history-provider.ts was 1992 lines, three under the repository's 2000-line file-size ratchet, and the open-policy comment pushed it to 2065. That crosses the threshold into NEW_OVERSIZED, and the file has no baseline entry. Adding one would widen a budget to make a gate green, so the code moves instead: the open policy is now src/codex/history-state-open.ts and history-provider.ts is 1995. No behavior change. The test seam moves with it.
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In `@src/codex/history-state-open.ts`:
- Line 29: Update isStateDbCantOpenError so an available SQLite error code is
authoritative: return true only for SQLITE_CANTOPEN and false for any other
meaningful code, using the message match only when no code is present. Extend
the existing SQLITE_PERM regression test to cover the generic “unable to open
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- Around line 72-84: Update openCodexStateForPreflight so the immutable fallback
is used only within a synchronization boundary that excludes native Codex
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| const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message.toLowerCase() : String(error).toLowerCase(); | ||
| // Matched on the code with a message fallback, exactly like classifyRecoverableHistoryError: | ||
| // the same SQLite condition reaches us as a code on some platforms and as bare text on others. | ||
| return code === "SQLITE_CANTOPEN" || message.includes("unable to open database file"); |
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In Bun's bun:sqlite implementation, database errors related to "unable to open" or "locked" states usually stem from file system access, concurrency conflicts, or improper resource management [1][2][3]. ### Common Error Contexts * SQLITE_BUSY (Database is locked): This occurs when a database file cannot be accessed because another connection (often in a separate process) is performing an operation [4]. In Bun, it also frequently happens if you have outstanding prepared statements that were not finalized before calling db.close(true) [1]. * Solution: Ensure all statements are finalized or use db.close() (non-strict) [1]. For concurrent write conflicts, using BEGIN IMMEDIATE when starting transactions can prevent this by acquiring the lock upfront [4]. * SQLITE_CANTOPEN: This indicates that the database file could not be opened, often due to missing parent directories, incorrect file paths, or system-level path limitations [2][5][6][3]. * Missing Directories: Older versions of Bun required parent directories to exist before opening a database [6]. Recent versions have introduced an optional createPath property (defaulting to true) in DatabaseOptions to automatically create parent directories [5]. * Path Issues: In bundled single-file executables, import.meta.dir may not resolve to the physical file location as expected, leading to path resolution failures [2]. On Windows, long paths (exceeding 260 characters) may fail if the OS-level "LongPathsEnabled" setting is disabled; manually prefixing paths with \\?\ can serve as a workaround [3]. * SQLITE_PERM: This signifies that the requested access mode for a database could not be granted, typically due to insufficient file system permissions [4]. ### Best Practices * Manage Resources: Always finalize prepared statements, especially if you manually prepare them. When performing transactions, use the built-in db.transaction() method, which handles execution and cleanup reliably [1][7]. * Verify Paths: If SQLITE_CANTOPEN persists, verify that the resolved path is absolute and that the process has write permissions for the directory [2][3]. * WAL Mode: For applications requiring higher concurrency, enabling Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) mode can significantly reduce SQLITE_BUSY errors [1]. Use db.exec("PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL;"); to enable it [1].
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- 1: GitHub issue 29494 in oven-sh/bun (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 2: GitHub issue 15766 in oven-sh/bun (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 3: GitHub issue 33336 in oven-sh/bun (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 4: https://sqlite.org/rescode.html
- 5: GitHub pull request 34281 in oven-sh/bun (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 6: GitHub issue 3888 in oven-sh/bun (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 7: https://bun.com/docs/runtime/sqlite
Make explicit SQLite codes authoritative. isStateDbCantOpenError in src/codex/history-state-open.ts:24-29 accepts "unable to open database file" even when the error code is SQLITE_PERM or another non-SQLITE_CANTOPEN code. With no sidecars, openCodexStateForPreflight then attempts the immutable fallback. This contradicts structure/codex-home.md:263, which requires any other open failure to retain the refusal. Return the code result whenever a meaningful code exists, and use the message fallback only when the code is absent. Extend the existing SQLITE_PERM regression test with the generic message.
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In `@src/codex/history-state-open.ts` at line 29, Update isStateDbCantOpenError so
an available SQLite error code is authoritative: return true only for
SQLITE_CANTOPEN and false for any other meaningful code, using the message match
only when no code is present. Extend the existing SQLITE_PERM regression test to
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| export function openCodexStateForPreflight(resolvedPath: string): Database { | ||
| try { | ||
| const forced = openFailureForTests?.(resolvedPath); | ||
| if (forced) throw forced; | ||
| return new Database(resolvedPath, { readonly: true }); | ||
| } catch (error) { | ||
| if (!isStateDbCantOpenError(error)) throw error; | ||
| if (existsSync(`${resolvedPath}-wal`) || existsSync(`${resolvedPath}-shm`)) throw error; | ||
| // pathToFileURL percent-encodes the reserved characters a naive `file:${path}` would | ||
| // misparse as a query or fragment. | ||
| return new Database(`${pathToFileURL(resolvedPath).href}?immutable=1`, IMMUTABLE_READONLY_FLAGS); | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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Do not treat absent sidecars as a stable safety guarantee. In src/codex/history-state-open.ts:79-84, existsSync and the subsequent immutable=1 open are not synchronized. A Codex writer can start between them, create -wal/-shm, and commit the paginated schema or rows there. The immutable bun:sqlite connection then reads only the stale main database, so preflightCodexHistoryInjection can miss history_mode and return null instead of history_paginated_requires_native_writer.
src/codex/history-lock.ts:136-207 does not prevent this race. It locks the OpenCodex coordinator database and is acquired only by the history worker; the native Codex writer does not use it. The repeated checks in src/codex/inject.ts:590-628 narrow the window but do not make it atomic. If migration starts after the final check, config artifacts can be committed before the later history worker detects the paginated store and leaves history unchanged.
Make openCodexStateForPreflight admit the immutable fallback only under a synchronization boundary that also excludes the native Codex writer. If that boundary cannot be established, fail the preflight closed instead of treating absent sidecars as proof that the main database is current. A second sidecar check alone does not close the TOCTOU window. Add a regression that interleaves writer migration between the sidecar check and immutable open.
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In `@src/codex/history-state-open.ts` around lines 72 - 84, Update
openCodexStateForPreflight so the immutable fallback is used only within a
synchronization boundary that excludes native Codex writes; do not treat absent
-wal/-shm sidecars as sufficient proof of a current main database. If that
boundary cannot be established, fail closed by propagating the open error, and
add a regression covering migration occurring between the sidecar check and
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Merging with one Windows shard red, and recording why that red is not this change. Run 35286915280 job 105421227726, This branch cannot reach it. It changes The change itself is the kind I want more of: it fixes a fail-closed guard by narrowing its precondition rather than opening the gate. |
…5007) #4957 narrowed the preflight so a cleanly-closed WAL store is inspected instead of refused, and it guarded the wrong operation. sqlite3_open_v2 never reads page 1, so a store whose header says WAL is not inspected until the first prepare. On macOS that is where the absent -shm is raised, one frame above the guarded attempt: the classification and the fallback had already returned, the error reached the catch-all, and a user with a cleanly-closed WAL store still got history_injection_preflight_unavailable with no way forward (#4943). The first read now happens inside the attempt, so the failure is classified where the policy lives. Every existing guarantee is unchanged: { readonly: true } stays the primary path and still joins a live writer's WAL, the immutable fallback is still admitted only when neither -wal nor -shm is on disk, and any other failure still keeps the original error and the refusal that follows from it. Linux cannot show the defect. Bun bundles its own SQLite there and that build materializes both sidecars on the same first read, so the primary path simply succeeds; macOS uses the system libsqlite3, which refuses. That is why #4957 passed the full Linux suite and nine Windows shards while its one platform- dependent case failed on macOS. Co-authored-by: lidge-jun <lidge-jun@users.noreply.github.com>
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ocx syncrefused the Codex config injection withhistory_injection_preflight_unavailableon every attempt whenever~/.codex/state_5.sqlitewas a WAL store whose last writer had closed cleanly, leavingmodel_catalog_jsonpermanently stale with no way forward.The trigger is the sidecar state, not the store's health.
preflightCodexHistoryInjectionopened the store with{ readonly: true }. A WAL database needs the-shmshared-memory file, a clean close removes it, and a read-only SQLite connection may not create one — so the open failsSQLITE_CANTOPENon a store that reads fine. The catch-all in that function folds any throw into the generic refusal, so a healthy store produced a permanent refusal. The reporter's own evidence isolates it:sqlite3 "file:...?immutable=1"returnswaland 2465 rows, whilesqlite3 "file:...?mode=ro"returns error 14.Before: any
ocx syncagainst a cleanly-closed WAL store refuses and preserves the previous catalog.After: the preflight inspects the store and returns a real verdict.
The precondition is narrowed rather than the gate opened.
{ readonly: true }stays the primary open because it is the only mode that joins a live writer's WAL, so a thread another process just migrated to paginated history is still visible here and still refuses. The immutable fallback —immutable=1over afile:URI, already the house idiom insrc/storage/scanner.ts,src/codex/log-guard/inspect.ts,src/codex/log-guard/protection.tsandsrc/codex/coordinator-doctor.ts— is admitted only when neither-walnor-shmis on disk. That is exactly the state in which no writer is attached and no committed content sits outside the main database, so the main file is the whole store and an immutable read is exact rather than stale. Either sidecar present, or an open failure that is not the missing-shared-memory condition, keeps the original error and the refusal that follows from it.Scope is the injection preflight only.
snapshotCodexHistoryNoopandcountPendingOpencodexHistoryin the same file also open{ readonly: true }, but they setPRAGMA busy_timeoutand degrade to anunknown/failedresult instead of producing this refusal, so they are not the reported block and are deliberately left alone.The open policy lives in a new
src/codex/history-state-open.tsrather than inline.history-provider.tswas 1992 lines, three under the repository's 2000-line file-size ratchet, and the reasoning above pushed it to 2065 — which isNEW_OVERSIZEDfor a file with no baseline entry. Adding a baseline entry would widen a budget to make a gate green, so the code moved instead andhistory-provider.tsis 1995. Second commit; no behavior difference between the two.No new refusal-reason vocabulary was introduced. The issue offers a distinct reason code as its fallback option; the genuinely-unopenable case still reports
history_injection_preflight_unavailable, because a new code would add an operator-visible string to the English guide and six translated locales for a case this fix makes rare. That remains available as a follow-up.Closes #4943
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Local verification was not run, because this lane forbids it. No test, focused test, typecheck, build, install, or
ocxinvocation was executed in this worktree; a past local run in this repository deleted the user's real~/.opencodexdirectory. Hosted CI on this PR is the executable verification for this change. What backs it here is static reasoning against currentdevsource plus the reporter's ownsqlite3evidence.Regression coverage added to
tests/codex-integration/codex-history-provider.test.ts, asserting the still-refused cases alongside the newly-permitted one:history_paginated_requires_native_writerfor a paginated store, so the narrowing does not cost the preflight its evidence.-walpresent, and still refused with a-shmpresent.Honest gap
The tests supply the open failure through a new
setStateDbPreflightOpenFailureForTestsseam rather than provoking it, and this is deliberate. The repository's own comments point both ways about what a bare read-only open of a checkpointed WAL store does:src/storage/scanner.ts:8-14says Bun's{ readonly: true }can succeed and materialize the sidecars, while this issue reports it throwing. Both are consistent with SQLite depending on whether the-shmcan be created, and I could not settle which applies on each CI runner without executing code, which this lane forbids. Supplying the error keeps the test an assertion about the narrowing decision instead of about the host's SQLite build. The first test covers the end-to-end contract under whichever behavior the runner actually has.This also means one claim is unverified: I have not observed the fallback opening a real cleanly-closed WAL store. The reporter's
immutable=1read of that exact store succeeding is the evidence that it will.structure/codex-home.mdowns this contract under the paginated-history writer boundary and is updated with the open order and the sidecar precondition.Checklist
On docs: no
docs-site/page becomes inaccurate. The English guide and its locales say that "a preflight that could not run" still refuses, which stays true — what changes is that a cleanly-closed WAL store no longer counts as a preflight that could not run.On security: no authentication, credential, token, workflow, or release path is touched. The new open is strictly read-only and, unlike the previous one, cannot create sidecar files inside
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