new codex app for apple silicon hangs opening
Open 💬 2 comments Opened Jun 14, 2026 by Lionberg
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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Symptoms:
- fresh version (at the moment, 14 Jun, 9:42 UTC). After clicking 'Update', new version tries to open and hangs - only app icon visible, no windows.
- Restart does not help.
- After 1st restart, user sees 'Rebuilding conversation history' that hanged for ~ 20 min.
Root cause:
the GUI app was using ~/.codex/sqlite/state_5.sqlite, which was only partially backfilled: 309 of 497 rollout files, with backfill_state=running. Since local Codex history is about 64GB, the app looked hung while trying to parse the remaining history.
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Hi @Lionberg, I'm testing a local-first, read-only diagnostic tool (Codex Rescue Alpha5) against local session persistence and rollout anomalies. It evaluates schema compatibility, tool correlation, and state consistency without modifying the original rollout or SQLite databases.
If the affected session is still present locally, you can run:
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