Hi,
I’m experiencing a fully reproducible crash with the new ChatGPT macOS desktop app / Codex-based app, and I’m looking for either a workaround or confirmation that this is a known issue.
Environment:
- macOS 15.7.7 (24G720)
- Apple Silicon / ARM64
- ChatGPT 26.818.31338 (build 6892)
- Bundle ID: com.openai.codex
- Codex Framework: 151.0.7922.170
Reproduction steps:
- Completely remove ChatGPT and related local Codex/ChatGPT data.
- Reinstall ChatGPT from scratch.
- Launch the app.
- The first launch works normally.
- Quit ChatGPT.
- Launch it again.
- The app crashes immediately.
This behavior is reproducible.
I already performed extensive cleanup/reset steps, including:
- ~/.codex
- Codex runtimes
- Application Support
- caches
- preferences
- saved application state
- WebKit / HTTP storage
- Computer Use state
- TCC-related resets
- full application reinstall
After a completely clean installation, the result is always the same:
first launch works, every subsequent launch crashes.
Apple crash report details:
- EXC_BAD_ACCESS
- SIGSEGV
- KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS
- possible pointer authentication failure
- Faulting thread: CrBrowserMain
- Top frame: v8::Object::GetCreationContext()
The crash stack is mainly inside Chromium / V8 / Node / Codex Framework.
There is also another concerning behavior:
After the crash, if I click “Restart”, the resulting output includes the following warning:
“WARNING_BANNER: DO NOT SHARE ANY PART OF THE INFORMATION YOU SEE HERE. THIS INFORMATION IS SENSITIVE AND CAN GRANT ACCESS TO YOUR ACCOUNT. SHARING THIS INFORMATION IS LIKE SHARING YOUR PASSWORD.”
I am NOT posting any of the sensitive information shown alongside this warning.
This makes me wonder whether the restart/crash recovery path is interacting with authentication state or exposing credential-related diagnostic information.
I have already contacted OpenAI Support by email and through the Help Center.
Unfortunately, the Help Center uploader does not accept my Apple .ips crash report, even when renamed to .txt or packaged as .zip.
At this point I’m mainly trying to determine:
- Is anyone else seeing the same “first launch works, second launch crashes” behavior on macOS?
- Is this a known issue with ChatGPT 26.818.31338 / Codex Framework 151.0.7922.170?
- Is there any safe workaround that does not require wiping local state after every launch?
- Is there a preferred way to provide the full .ips crash report to the macOS/Codex engineering team?
I can provide:
- full Apple crash report
- exact reproduction timestamps
- additional non-sensitive diagnostic logs
I will not share any authentication/token data covered by the WARNING_BANNER.
Thanks.
