WSL error

Resolved 💬 6 comments Opened Nov 5, 2025 by stipe201 Closed Nov 11, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the VS Code extension are you using?

0.5.36

What subscription do you have?

Plus

Which IDE are you using?

VS Code

What platform is your computer?

Windows

What issue are you seeing?

My issue is that latest version of Codex is not allowing me to run it in the agent mode unless I install WSL but eve when I install WLS I am still having issue that I need to install WLS to run Codex in agent mode

I tried released versions as well, but they are not allowing me to run Codex even in chat mode or any other mode

<img width="915" height="631" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ad5567c-2498-4b17-9f3a-319c4b83c539" />
<img width="815" height="314" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d62773b3-012b-4592-afb4-cb7b43c5acb7" />

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Not sure about steps to reproduce

What is the expected behavior?

Running Codex without issues

Additional information

This issue is not happening with versions older then 2 weeks, this is new issue, when I install older version Codex runs fine

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6 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 9 months ago

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

  • #6192
  • #6193

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loliw · 9 months ago

+1 neither cursor nor vscode can be used

alixiaodi · 9 months ago

No problem using the one from a month ago

stipe201 · 9 months ago
No problem using the one from a month ago

Yes using older versions work, but I don't want to be restricted on using the version that is 1 month old

iamhectorlopez · 9 months ago

same issue here on cursor:

<img width="447" height="415" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9c68c4b6-0422-4bc2-80d8-aa9ac59faa22" />

I updated the config.toml file to only this, and it started working in VScode for me, still doesn't work in cursor:
model = "gpt-5-codex"
model_reasoning_effort = "high"

dylan-hurd-oai contributor · 9 months ago

We've fixed a number of issues related to WSL on 0.4.39. Please upgrade to the latest version to try this out. Based on confirmation of these fixes in other issues like #6304 and #6435 I'm going to close this issue. If you're still seeing this problem, please open a new issue.