Crashes on selecting "Run in WSL"
Resolved 💬 6 comments Opened Nov 6, 2025 by nextonphotos Closed Nov 11, 2025
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What version of Codex is running?
VSCode extension version 0.4.35
What subscription do you have?
Plus
Which model were you using?
gpt-5
What platform is your computer?
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64
What issue are you seeing?
I installed WSL and selected "Run in WSL" under "Settings"->"IDE Settings" in the Codex panel in VSCode. This results in a crash with the following:
Codex crashed with the following error: Codex app-server process exited with code 127 and signal null. Most recent error message: /usr/bin/env: ‘/mnt/d/Google’: No such file or directory
I assume the issue is related to the fact that the VSCode workspace I'm using is in a subfolder of a "Google Drive" folder, which contains a space. Changing the file structure isn't viable in this case, so is there a workaround to get this working? In any case, such situations shouldn't crash the extension.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
I selected "Run in WSL" under "Settings"->"IDE Settings" in the Codex panel in VSCode.
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
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I am seeing a similar issue where running it in WSL2 shows that error if the file path contains a space. In the VSCode settings, I had to uncheck the
chatgpt.runCodexInWindowsSubsystemForLinuxtoggle to get the extension unstuck from this state.@hsiktas @nextonphotos we've fixed a few bugs here in the latest pre-release 0.5.39. Please let us know if you're still experiencing issues on that version.
Just switched to the pre-release version of the extension, and I can't reproduce the issue anymore. 👍
Thanks for confirming! This is now shipped to mainline release in 0.4.39.
no，i get this error：Codex crashed with the following error:
Codex process errored: Codex process is not available.