Unable to cancel Codex task—“Failed to cancel task” error

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Hello OpenAI Community,

I’m running into an issue when trying to cancel a Codex task via the OpenAI web interface. Every time I click the stop button, I get back an error instead of stopping the task. Hoping someone can help me troubleshoot or confirm whether this is a backend bug.

The pop up says:

Failed to cancel task

and the task remains stuck in its previous state.

Screenshot:

The image shows a dark-themed task management interface labeled 'Codex', with a red error message 'Failed to cancel task', and a section titled 'What are we coding next?' displaying current and archived coding tasks, with one task marked as in progress. (Captioned by AI)
The image shows a dark-themed task management interface labeled 'Codex', with a red error message 'Failed to cancel task', and a section titled 'What are we coding next?' displaying current and archived coding tasks, with one task marked as in progress. (Captioned by AI)1892×508 33.4 KB

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Im having the same issue now, Any solutions?

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The entire Codex platform is unreliable and has many bugs. I would just let the task run, if it eventually completes, it won’t affect the repo, and the backend will stop any tasks that exceed the time limit anyway. There’s nothing you can do about it.