` anysphere.remote-wsl` broken

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Cursor 0.50.7 + anysphere.remote-wsl 1.0.0

Can’t connect to a WSL distro. Worked fine on Friday until I had the brilliant idea of upgrading to Cursor 0.50.7.

The sympton is that Cursor gets stuck on “Setting up WSL Distro: Ununtu” and never actually connects. I have a terminal on that distro and it’s working fine, so I don’t know what Cursor wants.

Version: 0.50.7 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 02270c8441bdc4b2fdbc30e6f470a589ec78d600
Date: 2025-05-24T18:32:30.918Z
Electron: 34.3.4
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.18.3
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631
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Hi @leo_untether, could you share the logs from the “Remote - WSL” output window?

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Facing the same problem here. I dont know what to do.

Terminal output:
[Info - 12:53:46.893] Resolving wsl remote authority ‘wsl+ubuntu’ (attempt #1)
[Trace - 12:53:46.895] Installing cursor-server with options: {“id”:“590ae5851909922ceadd1736”,“commit”:“53b99ce608cba35127ae3a050c1738a959750860”,“line”:“production”,“extensionIds”:,“serverApplicationName”:“cursor-server”,“serverDataFolderName”:“.cursor-server”,“forceReinstall”:true,“killRunningServers”:false}
[Trace - 12:53:49.839] WSL stdout: Killing all running Cursor servers

[Trace - 12:53:49.840] WSL stderr: your 131072x1 screen size is bogus. expect trouble

[Trace - 12:53:49.843] WSL stdout: No running servers found
Killing running servers:

[Trace - 12:53:49.851] WSL stdout: Removing all existing Cursor installations

[Trace - 12:53:49.855] WSL stdout: removed directory ‘/home/vinicius/.cursor-server/bin/53b99ce608cba35127ae3a050c1738a959750860’
removed directory ‘/home/vinicius/.cursor-server/bin’

[Trace - 12:53:49.879] WSL stdout: Downloading server from https://cursor.blob.core.windows.net/remote-releases/53b99ce608cba35127ae3a050c1738a959750860/vscode-reh-linux-x64.tar.gz

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Hi @vinicius-adolfo-akad, if it is hanging there, could you check whether you are able to download the server directly? Are you using a proxy?

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The direct download took almost 3 minutes. On Cursor it took more than 15 minutes. Looks like a network related issue.

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Run cursor . in the WSL home directory.

Installation of Cursor-server for WSL will begin, and after a short wait you will be able to connect to WSL from the Windows application Cursor.

I tried reinstalling Cursor, deleting Appdata, deleting .cursor, etc., but the above solved the problem.

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i meet the same problem, hang in setting up wsl disto: ubuntu very long time. :enraged_face: but could download server directly very quickly.

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Hi @zyfee, could you double check your wsl config? We require localhost forwarding to be true: VSCode Server on WSL Fails with Download checksum: undefined Error - #10 by AuroraMaster

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