Gets stuck on a question for a long time

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Dec 5, 2025 by gosslinadown-cyber Closed Mar 25, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

0.65.0

What subscription do you have?

plus

Which model were you using?

gpt5.1

What platform is your computer?

mac codex cli

What issue are you seeing?

After the latest update, Codex often gets stuck on a question for a long time. It looks like it’s thinking, but I don’t believe it actually is

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019aedc0-58c6-7241-ab8b-8f685efea226

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

_No response_

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3 Comments

k-thornton · 8 months ago

Same here.
Uploaded thread: 019af0f6-2337-7391-a03a-e763a4860626

I had to interrupt it and then re-prompt "proceed" and it worked again right away.

etraut-openai contributor · 8 months ago

Are you still seeing this issue? I'm wondering if it was a short-term service issue.

@gosslinadown-cyber, it looks like you opted not to upload your session.

@k-thornton, I looked at your session, but I didn't see anything unusual that might help explain the behavior you were seeing.

etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

Closing for lack of response.