openclaw - 💡(How to fix) Fix [Bug]: Multiple Agents Stalled - Session Recovery Not Triggered on LLM Timeout [1 comments, 2 participants]

**Key points:**
1. Gateway detected stuck session (`recovery=checking`)
2. Recovery was **SKIPPED** because `reason=active_reply_work` - kept the lane
3. Session later marked `stalled_agent_run` with `recovery=none`

### 3. Why Recovery=None?

The logs show the progression:
- `recovery=checking` - Gateway identifies potential issue
- `recovery=skipped` - Can't recover because `active_reply_work` in progress
- `recovery=none` - No recovery path implemented for this failure mode

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## Diagnosis

**What caused the HTTP 408?**
- HTTP 408 = "Request Timeout" - MiniMax took too long to respond
- This means the API **WAS reached** but MiniMax didn't respond within their timeout window
- The 408 is MiniMax telling OpenClaw "we're too slow, abort"

I downgraded and tried with version 2026.4.23, Behavoir was different, I after a few hours of work I has 2 "similar" API errors but the Openclaw retried them automatically and was never stuck of frozen.  Did not have the messave recovery=none status

### Steps to reproduce

Both primary and secondary LLM providers need to fail.

### Expected behavior

1. Retry the primary, then fail over a few more times, and notify the user there is an issue. 
2. User needs to understand what is happening and not just wait for a response that never comes. 

I had not experienced the exact same thing with version 2026.04.23, it seems older versions handle primary and failure failure differently. 

### Actual behavior

1. Retry the primary, then fail over a few more times, and notify the user there is an issue. 
2. User needs to understand what is happening and not just wait for a response that never comes. 

### OpenClaw version

2026.5.4

### Operating system

Ubuntu

### Install method

Script

### Model

Minimax m2.7

### Provider / routing chain

Minimax m2.7

### Additional provider/model setup details

_No response_

### Logs, screenshots, and evidence

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