[Bug]: "Runtime failed to return execute_action" on command timeout

[neubig]

Is there an existing issue for the same bug?

• I have checked the existing issues.

Describe the bug and reproduction steps

This is a very frequent error that I have found on the OpenHands online app, but I suspect it will affect any case where we're using the remote runtime in general. Basically what happens is that OpenHands runs a command that will take a while, and we get the following error in the UI: Runtime failed to return execute_action before the requested timeout of 120s and the agent stops until I send further input:

Note that this is not the expected behavior when a command times out, instead the command should be interrupted with a timeout, and the agent should be able to recover from this:

OpenHands/openhands/runtime/utils/bash.py

Line 176 in d7a3ec6

def _interrupt_bash(

This is a pretty big blocker that prevents the agent from working autonomously.

OpenHands Installation

app.all-hands.dev

OpenHands Version

No response

Operating System

None

Logs, Errors, Screenshots, and Additional Context

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[enyst]

@neubig Sorry, are we sure this isn't a duplicate of

• [Bug]: timing out causes the agent to stop #5601 ?

[neubig]

Hah, it is, sorry. For some reason I didn't remember that I actually opened this before. Closing.