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Codex crashed with error 4294967295

Open 💬 12 comments Opened Mar 20, 2026 by jay-babu
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

Unable to open

What subscription do you have?

Chatgpt Pro

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64

What issue are you seeing?

<img width="713" height="718" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f755e0be-da5b-4af8-891a-42a51916d85a" />

What steps can reproduce the bug?

I switched to WSL and this started happening. This was my first time configuring it.

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

_No response_

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12 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 4 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #14461
  • #14700
  • #13699
  • #13693

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jay-babu · 4 months ago

Unsure how to reset the application. I can each step one by one then until it occurs.

jay-babu · 4 months ago

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think this is the config that caused it to crash

jay-babu · 4 months ago

It is definitely after switching to WSL

<img width="560" height="360" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0e95cb02-7792-4bcf-82d1-f37f31039995" />

jay-babu · 4 months ago

I am using kali for the distro

liudesheng9 · 3 months ago

same issue.

gyaniversitypublications-coder · 3 months ago

same issue

Luis-Kendelick · 3 months ago

same here

N3RDMJ · 3 months ago

same here

yidasanqian · 3 months ago

same here

haozibe · 3 months ago

same here

pedrosarkis · 3 months ago

same here, it happeneded today