codex cli fails after 1-2 seconds
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Nov 5, 2025 by benschac Closed Nov 5, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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What version of Codex is running?
.55 and tried on .53
What subscription do you have?
max
Which model were you using?
codex-high
What platform is your computer?
macos arm
What issue are you seeing?
codex will just fail silently and stop working.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019a558c-ec24-7750-a442-281ed8eb5c79
What is the expected behavior?
codex should....work. it'll literally just stop after about a second.
Additional information
_No response_
3 Comments
@benschac - Same happening for me. I've tried till v0.50.0 to v0.55.0
Ongoing Codex via ChatGPT issue. https://status.openai.com/incidents/01K9ARX310CM6V219R0GF7RNC9
We had a temporary service outage that affected codex. Should be working again now. Let us know if you're still seeing problems.