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Re-connecting retry's
What version of Codex is running?
0.4.26
What subscription do you have?
Plus
Which model were you using?
gpt-5-codex
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 24.6.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
When Codex starts any task, it performs a few steps (usually 1–3), and then it gets stuck in repeated reconnection attempts. I’ve tried relogging, reinstalling the VS Code plugin, and using a different network connection. Everything else works fine, except Codex keeps failing to reconnect. After reconnecting, Codex can perform a few steps, but then it gets stuck again.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Just let any task to codex.
What is the expected behavior?
No response
Additional information
request id: 9944e1440bf99f1b-FRA
Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.
- #5575
- #5505
- #5046
- #5130
- #4381
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I had the same issue today but in the CLI, keep getting "reconnecting" and fail with 401 error. Logout and login again fixed it
I had the same issue today but in the CLI, keep getting "reconnecting" and fail with 401 error. Logout and login again fixed it
Relogging helps me for a short time. Also, when I give Codex lightweight tasks, it works fine (not in 100%). However, after some time, Codex starts reconnecting repeatedly and works slower than it did 1–2 weeks ago.
I ran into the same problem. I have upgraded to v0.50.0, but the problem persists. even I performed logout/relogin, ■ exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized, request id: 994aada58ac0b546-LHR
I ran into the same problem. I have upgraded to v0.50.0, but the problem persists. even I performed logout/relogin, ■ exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized, request id: 994aada58ac0b546-LHR
same for me : exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized, request id: 9951233c8c203108-MRS
Had the same issue, logged off and logged in again and it works. However, even the browser login failed a couple of times. I believe there is some transient connectivity issue OpenAi.
I have upgraded to v0.50.0. Had the same issue. When the connection is possible, reply to the same question multiple times, up to 5 times.
same - for me this occurs irrespective of profile/ model provider - I tried logout/login and selected profiles from GPT-Plus, API, and Open-Router (both GPT-5-Codex and non-OpenAI models). Issue persisted irrespective, so seemingly not a capacity issue.
There appears to be no trigger mechanism - sometimes I get 5x retries immediately on login, sometimes whilst its running tasks
Same issue on ubuntu 24.04. Logout and login again cannot fix this reconnecting issue for me. And I found that this seldom occurs if using gpt-5 model, always occurs if using gpt-codex model
I think there are a couple of different issues being discussed in this thread.
- "401 Unauthorized" errors that go away after logout/login
- "Re-connecting" errors that are sporadic but persist after logout/login
We think that we understand the 401's. This problem is related to token refresh, and we think we've fixed that issue in the latest release. Please let us know if you are still seeing it.
The "Re-connecting" error is typically indicative of a flaky network connection, but we'd like to confirm that it's not a bug or infra issue on our end. If you're seeing this and do not think it's a network connectivity issue, please use the /feedback command in the CLI to report it. That will help us investigate.
Ok, ty, I’ll keep monitoring. For the last 3 days, there have been 0 reconnects issues. Network settings also haven’t changed, so I can’t confirm whether the issue was related to the network.
It's not a flaky network issue. It's related somehow to the task history. I have one task conversation that is stuck with this thing, but my other tasks works perfectly fine. I think it started happening in this task after I've attached a very large file
I think it started happening in this task after I've attached a very large file
That's a really useful clue!
I'm going to reopen the issue because I think we don't yet understand the root cause.
@etraut-openai I can definitely say that this phenomenon shows up when the OpenAI models deployed in Azure are using wire_api="responses". All models using wire_api="chat" are not affected.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/openai/how-to/codex?tabs=npm
stream disconnected before completion: Transport error: Error while reading the server response: error decoding response body, request id: 99901e4559c0eb86-NRT
Thanks for the bug report. We think we understand the cause of both the 401's and the "Re-connecting" messages, and a fix will be included in an upcoming release — most likely 0.4.37 or prerelease version 0.5.37.
Installation Identifier openai.chatgpt Version 0.5.36 Last Updated 5 min
@illusive5943, the fix isn't in 0.5.36 yet. Should be in the next release. ETA: tomorrow.
is there any know workaround ?
Try logging out and logging back in. Thanks for the reply It does not work ... tried this multiple times ... will 0.5.37 be out any time soon (with a fix)
@gmanarmaia, if logging out doesn't clear the error for you, then 0.5.37 will not solve the problem you're seeing. I'll reopen this issue since it appears that there are multiple issues at play here.
@gmanarmaia, if logging out doesn't clear the error for you, then 0.5.37 will not solve the problem you're seeing. I'll reopen this issue since it appears that there are multiple issues at play here.
thanks @etraut-openai for the response (atleast i will not be eagerly waiting for 0.5.37 now ... and hoping it will resolve my issue) ... are there any workarounds that i should try ? ... i clearing cache... logout/login... uninstall/reinstall ... anything else ?
any help is greatly appreciated !!
@gmanarmaia, which platform are you on? The original poster in this thread is using MacOS. Are you as well? If you suspect that this is a recent regression in the extension, you could try downgrading to earlier versions. If you find that an earlier version works, that would be a really useful clue.
@gmanarmaia, which platform are you on? The original poster in this thread is using MacOS. Are you as well? If you suspect that this is a recent regression in the extension, you could try downgrading to earlier versions. If you find that an earlier version works, that would be a really useful clue.
I am on MacOS too ... do you have some suggested versions that i should try ... i can give it a shot ... i switched so many versions... so i dont know really know what i should try ... any hits will be great !
@etraut-openai - i have tried going as back as 0.4.30 and many of the old and older versions no luck ... may be it is a serverside mcpserver issue ? do we have any eta on the fix version ?