extension error starting converstaion

Resolved 💬 7 comments Opened Sep 9, 2025 by jmin123 Closed Sep 10, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (gpeal, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the VS Code extension are you using?

1.103.2

Which IDE are you using?

VS Code

What platform is your computer?

Windows

What steps can reproduce the bug?

I can not start chat with codex extension.
No matter text context size, it keeps repeating
"error starting convesation" with red alert window pop up.

Here's what I have tried.

  1. Change verbosity of thiniking miniaml to high : not working
  2. Change agent method : not working

3 Restarted window : not working

  1. Reinstalled extension : not working

What is the expected behavior?

It should start thinking but I only see "error starting conversation"

What do you see instead?

"error starting conversation"

Additional information

_No response_

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7 Comments

yashdalvi221 · 10 months ago

Getting same error.

gpeal contributor · 10 months ago

Can you open the output panel -> Codex and paste the logs?

RuiSu-gif · 10 months ago

Same here.
[error] Error creating local task: Error: Timeout (logs)
It might be failing because Git Bash can’t be found.

jmin123 · 10 months ago

Unregistering WSL solved this error.

cristhoffer · 10 months ago

Solución para windows:

  1. Entrar en las caracteristicas de windows.
  2. Tener seleccionado el check de "Subsistema de Windows para Linux"
cristhoffer · 10 months ago

<img width="661" height="743" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8bf5916f-d51e-4464-94f6-fcbc565eb75c" />

michaelbrrcs-eng · 10 months ago

subsystem linux enabled, restart : worked for me ! thanks