XTerms constantly crashing

Open 💬 3 comments Opened Apr 29, 2026 by widdleman-turnip

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.125.0

What subscription do you have?

Enterprise

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.5

What platform is your computer?

Linux 4.18.0-553.el8_10.x86_64 x86_64 x86_64

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

xterm

What issue are you seeing?

I was using 0.103 (I believe) and gpt-5.3. Seeing that it's being depricated on 8th May I've downloaded the latest.

This is the first time I've tried using it and it repeated crashes on the first task I've asked it to do which is write a user guide for the python module that it was helping me create.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019dda07-992e-7d12-b4f7-83dd906ddaa9

What is the expected behavior?

Not to crash and terminate the window.

Additional information

We just recently had a computing cluster outage and I'm now seeing this message when I start codex:

WARNING: failed to clean up stale arg0 temp dirs: Directory not empty (os error 39)

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