Codex and VSCode gray background and freeze

After the latest update, I noticed that Codex in VS Code more and more frequently shows only a gray background while the UI becomes completely unresponsive. In the background, Codex is still working on files.

Has anyone else experienced similar issues? I already tried switching to the beta version, but the same bug is present there.

It seems to happen completly randomly

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Bump. Happens literally everytime I use it with extra high reasoning effort.

I usually stick to high reasoning effort and it still happens after every couple of prompts.

If I just give it some time and restart it after a while, then the Codex’s work is usually done and I can see the results after restart, but there’s no way of telling when it’s done, since the Extension is grayed out.