Chats stuck loading

“Bug: Since updating from the official installer, existing Codex chats show a spinner indefinitely.”

Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.

Paste this into your agent. It files your report, with your error and version.

I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/codex/issues/9522/file
Follow it to file my report. Show me the text before you send.

No install. No account. Public and anonymous. The link asks your agent for one report, nothing else. What it sends

Quiet. No reports and thumbs-up in the last two weeks, down from 4 a week at the late-September peak. A workaround is known.

Existing chats spin forever and new tasks never start on Linux. After updating the desktop app, existing threads show only a loading spinner and new tasks stay at "Starting your task"; ChatGPT mode works.

Is this your bug?

File my report

Where: Linux desktop app
Versions: 26.924.20706 to 26.924.22138
Platforms: Linux
How bad: Breaks a normal workflow. Most reports say it used to work. Some reports say it blocks them completely.

Part of: Linux desktop chats stuck loading8 bugs

Tasks stuck on Starting your task113 people
Existing conversations fail to load4 people
Chats never load after update9 people
Tasks hang on Starting your task62 people
Previous chats stuck loading27 people
Codex hangs on every prompt7 people
Existing chats hang loading7 people

Not quite your bug?

Startup spinner never finishes37 people

Original reports5, newest first

Sep 29, 2026Threads neither load nor start after latest app updateOn GitHub#49254
Sep 27, 2026I cannot open the session and chat in 26.924.22138On GitHub#48844
Sep 27, 2026Codex chats stuck loading in Linux desktop app 26.924.22138On the forum#1401249
Sep 26, 2026Linux desktop 26.924.22138: every thread spins forever, new tasks stuck on "Starting your task…" (regression from 26.901)On GitHub#48486
Sep 25, 2026Unable to open previous chats or start new onesOn GitHub#48284