Taking too long for a single reasoning step ( > 30minutes )
Resolved 💬 8 comments Opened Nov 21, 2025 by abdulmunimjundurahman Closed Mar 29, 2026
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What version of Codex is running?
codex-cli 0.60.1
What subscription do you have?
Plus
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.1-codex-max
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.1.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
It has been 20 minutes, and not even a step has been moved. (It's not even some tool call step)
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019aa53e-20d3-7900-8f7a-638c8d06fbb7
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
_No response_
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I have the same error in latest version codex-cli 0.61.0
same. using 0.61.0. MAC m1.
same. 0.61.0.
Same here, I think it's related: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/6638
Downgrade to 0.57 could help
Problem resolved for me, Codex start working
Not really, @abronan framed it correctly; it’s like playing Russian roulette.
This bug report hasn't received any upvotes or additional posts in three months. Closing.