alibaba/open-code-review · error

list sessions: %w

Error message

list sessions: %w

What it means

`ocr session list` enumerates persisted session summaries for the resolved repository directory via session.ListSessions. Any error reading/decoding the session store (unreadable ~/.opencodereview/sessions/<repo>/ directory, corrupted JSONL preventing summary extraction) is wrapped as "list sessions: %w".

Source

Thrown at cmd/opencodereview/session_cmd.go:156

	sessionCommentsCmd.RegisterFlagCompletionFunc("category", completeEnum("bug", "security", "performance", "maintainability", "test", "style", "documentation", "other"))

	sessionCompareCmd.Flags().StringVar(&sessionCompareRepoDir, "repo", "", "root directory of the git repository (default: current dir)")
	sessionCompareCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&sessionCompareJSON, "json", false, "emit the comparison as JSON")

	sessionCmd.AddCommand(sessionListCmd)
	sessionCmd.AddCommand(sessionShowCmd)
	sessionCmd.AddCommand(sessionCommentsCmd)
	sessionCmd.AddCommand(sessionCompareCmd)
}

func runSessionList() error {
	resolvedRepo, err := resolveWorkingDirForSession(sessionListRepoDir)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	summaries, err := session.ListSessions(resolvedRepo)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("list sessions: %w", err)
	}
	if sessionListLimit > 0 && len(summaries) > sessionListLimit {
		summaries = summaries[:sessionListLimit]
	}

	if sessionListJSON {
		enc := json.NewEncoder(os.Stdout)
		enc.SetIndent("", "  ")
		return enc.Encode(summaries)
	}

	if len(summaries) == 0 {
		fmt.Printf("No sessions found for %s\n", resolvedRepo)
		return nil
	}
	printSessionTable(os.Stdout, summaries)
	return nil
}

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Solutions

1. Inspect the wrapped cause: fix filesystem permissions on ~/.opencodereview/sessions or set HOME correctly.
2. Delete or repair the specific corrupted <id>.jsonl named in the inner error (move it aside and retry).
3. Recreate the sessions directory empty if contents are unrecoverable (old sessions are then lost).
4. Run from the same repository so the encoded repo path matches; a different cwd changes which store is read.

Example fix

// before (unreadable store)
ls: ~/.opencodereview/sessions: Permission denied
// after
chmod u+rx ~/.opencodereview ~/.opencodereview/sessions && ocr session list

if home, err := os.UserHomeDir(); err != nil || !writable(filepath.Join(home, ".opencodereview", "sessions")) {
    return fmt.Errorf("session store unavailable; fix $HOME or permissions")
}

summaries, err := session.ListSessions(resolvedRepo)
if err != nil {
    // Surface the inner cause (permissions vs corrupted file) to the user
    return fmt.Errorf("list sessions: %v (check ~/.opencodereview/sessions)", err)
}

When it happens

Trigger: Running `ocr session list` when the sessions directory cannot be read (permissions, HOME unresolved) or one or more stored session JSONL files fail to parse while building summaries.

Common situations: $HOME not writable/resolvable (containers, sudo); sessions dir manually deleted mid-read or partially copied; corrupted JSONL files from a killed ocr process.

Related errors

• read background file %q: %w
• background file %q is a directory, not a file
• load resume session: %w (run 'ocr session list' to see avail
• %w (run 'ocr session list' to see available sessions)
• resume session %q has no completed scan items (run 'ocr sess

AI-assisted analysis of alibaba/open-code-review@5cf97d0d15 (2026-09-02). Data as JSON: /api/errors/ea3b2b75f4dd006b. Report an issue: GitHub.