[Bug] Claude Code hangs indefinitely during thinking phase with no output or response
Status Closed — not planned
Reported on v2.1.75
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 7 comments · opened Mar 14, 2026 · closed May 22, 2026
Bug Description
Sometimes it just says thinking and like the time elapsed is three, four, five plus minutes and nothing happens. I'm connected to the internet, so that's fine. I do control o to expand, but there's nothing. It just seems to stop. And so then I just start a new conversation and a new terminal window. And try and start again and then that works, this happens across different repos, different sessions. It just like seems to work greatly and then all of a sudden everything just hangs and stops for you know sometimes ten plus minutes. Like it's just something going on in the back end where it's just everything's stopped. Anyways still very thankful though, keep up the great work frens :).
Environment Info
- Platform: darwin
- Terminal: Apple_Terminal
- Version: 2.1.75
- Feedback ID: 16e1475c-4df6-4cc2-a297-6313fb0c2f89
Errors
[{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n at RXT (/$bunfs/root/src/entrypoints/cli.js:1186:67400)\n at next (native:1:11)\n at u39 (/$bunfs/root/src/entrypoints/cli.js:6223:6869)\n at next (native:1:11)\n at B39 (/$bunfs/root/src/entrypoints/cli.js:6228:9183)\n at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)","timestamp":"2026-03-14T01:25:25.850Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n at RXT (/$bunfs/root/src/entrypoints/cli.js:1186:67400)\n at next (native:1:11)\n at u39 (/$bunfs/root/src/entrypoints/cli.js:6223:6869)\n at next (native:1:11)\n at B39 (/$bunfs/root/src/entrypoints/cli.js:6228:9183)\n at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)","timestamp":"2026-03-14T01:27:29.273Z"}]
7 Comments
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🤖 Generated with Claude Code
I've been seeing this frequently and it's annoyingly hard to tell if it's actually stuck or not. It does seem to happen more when working on "hard problems". Leaving it for a while sometimes works. Maybe certain types of thinking don't update the token counter?
Still broken in .81 is a major blocker
placing this here as well. v2.1.101
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/25979#issuecomment-4229700599
Closing for now — inactive for too long. Please open a new issue if this is still relevant.
same problem on macos:
Darwin 5.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 25.2.0: Tue Nov 18 21:03:25 PST 2025; root:xnu-12377.61.12~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8122 arm64
2.1.153 (Claude Code)
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