# Linux app sticking on Github access

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/linux-app-sticking-on-github-access/1401587>\
**Category:** Bugs\
**Tags:** codex-app\
**Created:** [September 28, 2026, 12:18pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/linux-app-sticking-on-github-access/1401587 "2026-09-28T12:18:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![derekkeats](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/derekkeats/32/765698_2.png) [@derekkeats](https://community.openai.com/u/derekkeats)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 12:18pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/linux-app-sticking-on-github-access/1401587/1 "2026-09-28T12:18:16Z")

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## Environment

- Surface: Linux app
- Codex version: Last night’s update
- OS and IDE/browser, if relevant: Ubuntu 26.04
- Model and plan or API-key authentication: Pro

## Bug

The update to the Linux app from last night causes Codex to hang. It appears to be making a call to Github and encountering a Cloudflare challenge page and then it stops and just keeps on trying. This was debugged with the help of ChatGPT (in a browser) by running the app in a terminal and capturing the errors.

I purged last night’s version and reinstalled the previous version, and it worked again.

## Reproduction

Type Hello or anything else into any codex chat. Chat GPT is not affected.

## Diagnostics

**Linux ChatGPT app**  
→ normal ChatGPT works  
→ Codex spins forever  
→ `/usr/bin/git` exists and PATH is correct  
→ Electron reports a network failure  
→ ChatGPT endpoint returns Cloudflare challenge HTML  
→ Electron subsequently reports `RequestError`

That is enough that I’d now treat **a Linux-app/Codex networking regression as the leading hypothesis** , rather than a problem with your Chisimba repository or Ubuntu Git configuration.  
When it happened (with timezone) and how often:

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**Author:** ![EricGT](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/ericgt/32/20571_2.png) [@EricGT](https://community.openai.com/u/EricGT)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/linux-app-sticking-on-github-access/1401587/2 "2026-09-28T12:21:18Z")

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Welcome to the forum!

Did you check the exiting bug reports in this, the Codex Bugs category?

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**Author:** ![sps](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/sps/32/7736_2.png) [@sps](https://community.openai.com/u/sps)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/linux-app-sticking-on-github-access/1401587/3 "2026-09-28T13:21:34Z")

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A post was merged into an existing topic: [Codex chats stuck loading in Linux desktop app 26.924.22138](https://community.openai.com/t/codex-chats-stuck-loading-in-linux-desktop-app-26-924-22138/1401249)

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**Author:** ![derekkeats](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/derekkeats/32/765698_2.png) [@derekkeats](https://community.openai.com/u/derekkeats)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/linux-app-sticking-on-github-access/1401587/4 "2026-09-28T16:02:40Z")

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I saw a couple of other posts, but I thought identifying the source of the problem might help resolve it.