jackwener/OpenCLI · error · TimeoutError

Midjourney job submission

Error message

Midjourney job submission

What it means

This is the TimeoutError raised when the submit-and-wait loop exhausts its deadline without finding the expected number of uniquely matched new jobs (and no ambiguity was detected). The operation name 'Midjourney job submission' identifies the phase; the detail explains how many jobs were expected.

Source

Thrown at clis/midjourney/utils.js:467

        && promptCore(candidate) === expectedCore
        && promptKeySignature(candidate) === expectedSignature
      );
    });
    if (matching.length === expectedCount) {
      return [...matching]
        .sort((left, right) => Date.parse(left.enqueue_time) - Date.parse(right.enqueue_time))
        .map((row) => String(row.id).toLowerCase());
    }
    if (matching.length > expectedCount) ambiguousIds = matching.map((row) => String(row.id).toLowerCase());
    if (!(await waitForNextPoll(page, deadline, 1.5))) break;
  } while (true);
  if (ambiguousIds.length > expectedCount) {
    throw new CommandExecutionError(
      `Midjourney submission is ambiguous; ${ambiguousIds.length} new jobs matched the prompt`,
      ambiguousIds.map((id) => jobUrl(id)).join(', '),
    );
  }
  throw new TimeoutError(
    'Midjourney job submission',
    timeoutSeconds,
    `Expected ${expectedCount} uniquely matched job(s) after submission.`,
  );
}

export async function waitForDerivedJob(page, userId, parentJobId, baselineIds, timeoutSeconds, submittedAtMs) {
  const deadline = Date.now() + timeoutSeconds * 1000;
  let candidates = [];
  let consecutivePollFailures = 0;
  do {
    let recent;
    try {
      recent = await fetchHistory(page, userId, 50);
      consecutivePollFailures = 0;
    } catch (error) {
      if (error instanceof AuthRequiredError) throw error;
      consecutivePollFailures += 1;

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Solutions

1. Increase timeoutSeconds and retry the submission.
2. Verify on midjourney.com whether the job actually was created; if yes, poll it by ID with waitForCompletedJob instead of re-submitting.
3. Check Midjourney queue/subscription state — exhausted fast hours can delay job registration past the timeout.
4. Avoid resubmitting blindly, or you may create duplicate jobs (see the ambiguity error).

Example fix

// before
await submitAndAwait(page, prompt, { timeoutSeconds: 30 });
// after
await submitAndAwait(page, prompt, { timeoutSeconds: 120 }); // allow for slow queue registration

// pre-flight: confirm the subscription/queue can accept jobs before submitting
const jobs = await fetchJobStatuses(page, recentJobIds).catch(() => []);
const queued = jobs.filter((j) => String(j.current_status || j.status || '').toLowerCase() === 'waiting');
if (queued.length > 5) console.warn('Queue is congested; use a longer timeoutSeconds.');

async function submitWithTimeoutRetry(page, prompt, timeoutSeconds) {
  try {
    return await submitAndAwait(page, prompt, { timeoutSeconds });
  } catch (e) {
    if (String(e.message).includes('Midjourney job submission')) {
      // check web UI for the job before resubmitting to avoid duplicates
      return submitAndAwait(page, prompt, { timeoutSeconds: timeoutSeconds * 2 });
    }
    throw e;
  }
}

When it happens

Trigger: The polling loop's deadline (timeoutSeconds) expires because the submitted job never appeared in job-status results: submission silently failed, the prompt produced no job, the job took longer than the timeout to register, or waitForNextPoll kept breaking early.

Common situations: Too-low timeoutSeconds for slow generations or congested queues; Midjourney not registering the job due to an unobserved UI failure; subscription exhausted (no fast hours) causing queued jobs that exceed the window.

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