charmbracelet/crush · error

failed to cancel question batch: %w

Error message

failed to cancel question batch: %w

What it means

CancelQuestionBatch POSTs to /workspaces/{id}/questions/cancel to cancel a pending question batch. This error wraps transport-level failures from c.post (connection refused, DNS, TLS, context cancellation), meaning the cancel request never reached the server and any pending question remains open.

Source

Thrown at internal/client/proto.go:721

	}
	defer rsp.Body.Close()
	if rsp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
		return false, fmt.Errorf("failed to answer question batch: status code %d", rsp.StatusCode)
	}
	var resp proto.QuestionAnswerResponse
	if err := json.NewDecoder(rsp.Body).Decode(&resp); err != nil {
		return false, fmt.Errorf("failed to decode answer question batch response: %w", err)
	}
	return resp.Resolved, nil
}

// CancelQuestionBatch cancels the pending question batch on a
// workspace. Returns true if a question was cancelled, false if
// none was pending.
func (c *Client) CancelQuestionBatch(ctx context.Context, id string) (bool, error) {
	rsp, err := c.post(ctx, fmt.Sprintf("/workspaces/%s/questions/cancel", id), nil, nil, http.Header{})
	if err != nil {
		return false, fmt.Errorf("failed to cancel question batch: %w", err)
	}
	defer rsp.Body.Close()
	if rsp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
		return false, fmt.Errorf("failed to cancel question batch: status code %d", rsp.StatusCode)
	}
	var resp proto.QuestionAnswerResponse
	if err := json.NewDecoder(rsp.Body).Decode(&resp); err != nil {
		return false, fmt.Errorf("failed to decode cancel question batch response: %w", err)
	}
	return resp.Resolved, nil
}

// SetPermissionsSkipRequests sets the skip-requests flag for a workspace.
func (c *Client) SetPermissionsSkipRequests(ctx context.Context, id string, skip bool) error {
	rsp, err := c.post(ctx, fmt.Sprintf("/workspaces/%s/permissions/skip", id), nil, jsonBody(proto.PermissionSkipRequest{Skip: skip}), http.Header{"Content-Type": []string{"application/json"}})
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to set permissions skip requests: %w", err)
	}

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Solutions

1. Check server reachability and retry CancelQuestionBatch; a false return simply means nothing was pending.
2. Verify client base URL/port configuration.
3. Use a fresh context with an adequate timeout if cancellations time out.
4. If the question was answered elsewhere, treat the cancel as moot and continue.

Example fix

// before
ok, err := client.CancelQuestionBatch(ctx, wsID)
if err != nil { panic(err) }
// after
ok, err := client.CancelQuestionBatch(ctx, wsID)
if err != nil {
	log.Warn("cancel request failed; question may still be pending", "err", err)
	return err
}
if !ok { log.Info("no pending question to cancel") }

if wsID == "" {
	return errors.New("workspace id is required to cancel a question batch")
}
if err := serverReachable(ctx, baseURL); err != nil {
	return fmt.Errorf("cannot cancel: %w", err)
}

ok, err := client.CancelQuestionBatch(ctx, wsID)
if err != nil {
	// non-fatal: question may have already been answered/cancelled elsewhere
	log.Warn("question cancel failed", "err", err)
	return nil
}
if !ok { log.Info("no pending question batch") }

When it happens

Trigger: Calling CancelQuestionBatch while the server is unreachable, the network drops, or the context is cancelled/timed out before the POST completes.

Common situations: Cancelling during a server restart; user aborting a prompt while offline; VPN/network transitions; wrong server address in client config.

Understand the failure class

Background: 'Something went wrong' / 'Request failed (500)' / 'HTTP error! status: 404' — what failed HTTP requests actually mean and how to find the real cause — this error's family across 28 libraries.

Related errors

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• failed to make request: %w
• failed to refresh OAuth token: %w
• failed to check project init: %w
• failed to mark project initialized: %w

AI-assisted analysis of charmbracelet/crush@7944b8e522 (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/abbb7158d36c2ff6. Report an issue: GitHub.