Codex Desktop on Windows crashes when reopening a local thread.

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened May 16, 2026 by havers0n Closed May 16, 2026
💡 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)?

26.515.10909

What subscription do you have?

PRO

What platform is your computer?

Windows

What issue are you seeing?

Codex Desktop on Windows crashes when reopening a local thread.

Symptoms:

  • Thread title: "Разделить блокировку и меню стеллажа"
  • App shows error boundary: "Упс, произошла ошибка"
  • Retry opens the same error screen
  • Other recent GitHub issues suggest this may be related to broken session replay, orphan task events, or Windows paths in transcript/git directives.

Expected:
Thread should reopen or show a recoverable transcript error.

Actual:
Conversation view crashes and becomes unusable.

Environment:

  • Windows
  • Codex Desktop
  • After latest update

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Open Codex Desktop on Windows and try to reopen an existing local session/thread.

Affected thread title:
"Разделить блокировку и меню стеллажа"

Instead of loading the conversation transcript, the app shows an error boundary:
"Упс, произошла ошибка" / "Oops, an error occurred".

Clicking "Try again" shows the same error again, so the thread cannot be reopened.

Expected:
The local session should reopen and display the transcript normally.

Actual:
The conversation renderer crashes/fails and the thread becomes unusable.

I do not have a minimal code snippet because the crash happens inside Codex Desktop while rendering/restoring the saved session, before any project code runs.

Session ID: not available from UI.
Token usage: unknown.
Context window usage: unknown.
OS: Windows.
Codex Desktop version: unknown / latest update.

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

4e0ec27d-5827-428e-a25b-fe7d0ab19813
correlation ID

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4 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 3 months ago

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

  • #23035
  • #23032
  • #23028
  • #22984
  • #22963

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dmodoomsirius · 3 months ago

Feedback ID: 019e3036-d7dd-7791-be29-5acc0e745c50

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Codex Vesion:26.513.31313

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64

etraut-openai contributor · 3 months ago

We've issued a hotfix to address this. Please update to the latest version.

havers0n · 3 months ago

Confirmed fixed on my side after updating to the latest version.

The affected Codex Desktop thread now opens correctly on Windows, and the
“Oops, an error occurred” screen is gone.

Thank you for the quick hotfix — really appreciate the fast response.

Much love to the OpenAI team.

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