jackwener/OpenCLI · error · CommandExecutionError

Midjourney job ${jobId} ended with status "${lastStatus}"

Error message

Midjourney job ${jobId} ended with status "${lastStatus}"

What it means

waitForCompletedJob polls the job until it reaches 'completed'. If the job instead lands in a terminal failure state ('failed', 'cancelled', 'canceled', 'error'), the loop stops and throws CommandExecutionError reporting the job ID and final status. This surfaces Midjourney-side job failure promptly rather than waiting for timeout.

Source

Thrown at clis/midjourney/utils.js:521

  if (candidates.length > 1) {
    throw new CommandExecutionError(
      `Midjourney action is ambiguous; ${candidates.length} derived jobs matched parent ${parentJobId}`,
      candidates.map((row) => jobUrl(row.id)).join(', '),
    );
  }
  throw new TimeoutError('Midjourney derived job submission', timeoutSeconds, `No new child job appeared for ${parentJobId}.`);
}

export async function waitForCompletedJob(page, jobId, timeoutSeconds) {
  const deadline = Date.now() + timeoutSeconds * 1000;
  let lastStatus = 'unknown';
  do {
    const job = await fetchJobStatus(page, jobId, { allowMissing: true });
    if (job) {
      lastStatus = String(job.current_status || job.status || 'unknown').toLowerCase();
      if (lastStatus === 'completed') return job;
      if (['failed', 'cancelled', 'canceled', 'error'].includes(lastStatus)) {
        throw new CommandExecutionError(`Midjourney job ${jobId} ended with status "${lastStatus}"`);
      }
    }
    if (!(await waitForNextPoll(page, deadline, 2))) break;
  } while (true);
  throw new TimeoutError(
    `Midjourney job ${jobId} (last status: ${lastStatus})`,
    timeoutSeconds,
    `Check the job at ${jobUrl(jobId)} and retry status or download later.`,
  );
}

async function fetchMediaThroughPage(page, url, expectedMimePrefix) {
  const transferKey = `opencli_media_${Date.now()}_${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2)}`;
  try {
    let payload;
    try {
      payload = unwrapEvaluateResult(await page.evaluate(async (mediaUrl, key) => {
        // CDN is public but Cloudflare-protected. Browser-origin fetch succeeds

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Solutions

  1. Read lastStatus in the message and inspect the job on midjourney.com for the failure reason.
  2. If the prompt was moderated/rejected, revise the prompt and submit a new job.
  3. If cancelled, resubmit — do not wait on the old ID.
  4. For transient 'error' status, resubmit the same job/prompt; these often succeed on retry.

Example fix

// before
const job = await waitForCompletedJob(page, jobId, 120);
// after
let job;
try {
  job = await waitForCompletedJob(page, jobId, 120);
} catch (e) {
  if (/ended with status "(failed|error)"/.test(String(e.message))) {
    job = await resubmitAndWait(page, originalPrompt); // transient failure: resubmit
  } else throw e;
}
Defensive patterns

Strategy: try-catch

Validate before calling

// check the job's current status before entering a long wait
const job = await fetchJobStatus(page, jobId, { allowMissing: true });
const st = String(job?.current_status || job?.status || '').toLowerCase();
if (['failed', 'cancelled', 'canceled', 'error'].includes(st)) {
  console.warn(`Job ${jobId} is already ${st}; skipping wait.`);
}

Type guard

function isTerminalFailure(job) {
  const st = String(job?.current_status || job?.status || '').toLowerCase();
  return ['failed', 'cancelled', 'canceled', 'error'].includes(st);
}

Try / catch

try {
  const job = await waitForCompletedJob(page, jobId, 120);
} catch (e) {
  const m = String(e.message).match(/ended with status "(\w+)"/);
  if (m && ['failed', 'error'].includes(m[1])) {
    // transient failure: resubmit the prompt as a new job
  } else if (m && ['cancelled', 'canceled'].includes(m[1])) {
    // user- or system-cancelled: do not retry, surface to the user
  } else throw e;
}

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: The awaited job transitions to failed/cancelled/canceled/error on Midjourney's side: content-policy rejection, moderation block, user cancelled via web UI, or an internal generation error.

Common situations: Prompts violating Midjourney's content policy get auto-failed; users cancelling jobs from the web while the CLI waits; Midjourney service errors failing a batch of jobs; jobs failing after parameter errors (bad aspect/seed combos).

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of jackwener/OpenCLI@49907e53dc (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/4c5558190c8462a5. Report an issue: GitHub.