Repeated crashes & restarts severely impact daily usage
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Description
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
26.818.21641
What subscription do you have?
chatgpt pro 10
What platform is your computer?
macOS
What issue are you seeing?
The Codex desktop application keeps crashing and restarting multiple times today. Frequent unexpected crashes happen during usage, which severely disrupt workflows and user experience. I have encountered many crash‑restart cycles and cannot work stably with the client.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
The app crashes suddenly with no identifiable root cause.
What is the expected behavior?
fix it
Additional information
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the reported Codex App version 26.818.21641 on macOS and try to obtain a reproducible crash or usable diagnostic information. The issue provides no code entry point, reproduction steps, crash report, or named test. Done means identifying the cause, preventing the repeated crash-restart cycle, and verifying stable desktop usage.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, rust
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100