Codebase Indexing No Longer Working Inside Dev Containers

thatdom · November 12, 2024, 11:50am

this worked for me, thx!

i.guinea · November 18, 2024, 2:18pm

Hi, finally i manage how to solve this.

Find @anysphere module path for your installation cursor-retrieval plugin

$ pwd
/vscode/cursor-server/bin/linux-arm64/001668006cc714afd397f4ef0d52862f5a095530/extensions/cursor-retrieval/node_modules/@anysphere

Move to that directory
Identify module version

$ npm list
[email protected] /vscode/cursor-server/bin/linux-arm64/001668006cc714afd397f4ef0d52862f5a095530/extensions/cursor-retrieval
├── @anysphere/file-service-linux-x64-gnu@0.0.0-30549ed4-6f41e022f7af079ff34c9d09cb1d5d616735c7e31ec0d732af0daec4758069f7 extraneous
└── @anysphere/file-service@0.0.0-30549ed4-6f41e022f7af079ff34c9d09cb1d5d616735c7e31ec0d732af0daec4758069f7 extraneous

In this case will be 0.0.0-30549ed4-6f41e022f7af079ff34c9d09cb1d5d616735c7e31ec0d732af0daec4758069f7

$ export DETECTED_VERSION=0.0.0-30549ed4-6f41e022f7af079ff34c9d09cb1d5d616735c7e31ec0d732af0daec4758069f7

Update packages using this version

$ npm install @anysphere/file-service-linux-arm64-gnu@$DETECTED_VERSION --silent
$ npm install @anysphere/file-service@$DETECTED_VERSION --silent

Restart the container and it should work!

otakuG · November 26, 2024, 4:05am

Thanks for sharing this solution. It worked for me!

mahmoudimus · December 11, 2024, 9:47pm

Thanks for this. I modified the script above and wrote a simple script that I put in my devcontainer.json to run as postCreateCommand:

"postCreateCommand": "bash -i -c './bin/arm64-setup'"

script below:

#!/bin/bash
# https://forum.cursor.com/t/codebase-indexing-no-longer-working-inside-dev-containers/17858/14

# =============================================================================
# Script Name: install_cursor_packages.sh
# Description: Installs specific npm packages based on a detected or provided version.
# Author: Your Name
# Version: 1.2.0
# Date: 2024-04-27
# =============================================================================

# Enable strict mode for better error handling
set -euo pipefail

# Initialize global variables
SILENT=""
USER_VERSION=""
DETECTED_VERSION=""
INSTALL_VERSION=""
VERSION_DIR=""
CURSOR_RETRIEVAL_DIR=""
CURSOR_SERVER_DIR=""

# =============================================================================
# Function: Display usage information
# =============================================================================
usage() {
  cat <<EOF
Usage: $(basename "$0") [OPTIONS]

Options:
  --silent           Run script in silent mode.
  --version <ver>    Specify the version to use for npm install (allows downgrading).
  -h, --help         Display this help message and exit.

Examples:
  # Run in verbose mode with automatic version detection
  $(basename "$0")

  # Run in silent mode with automatic version detection
  $(basename "$0") --silent

  # Run in verbose mode with a specific version for npm install
  $(basename "$0") --version 1.2.3

  # Run in silent mode with a specific version for npm install
  $(basename "$0") --silent --version 1.2.3

  # Display help
  $(basename "$0") --help
EOF
  exit 0
}

# =============================================================================
# Function: Parse command-line arguments
# =============================================================================
parse_args() {
  while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
    case "$1" in
      --silent)
        SILENT="--silent"
        shift
        ;;
      --version)
        if [[ -n "${2:-}" && ! "$2" =~ ^-- ]]; then
          USER_VERSION="$2"
          shift 2
        else
          echo "Error: --version requires a non-empty argument." >&2
          usage
        fi
        ;;
      -h|--help)
        usage
        ;;
      -*|--*)
        echo "Error: Unknown option: $1" >&2
        usage
        ;;
      *)
        echo "Error: Unexpected argument: $1" >&2
        usage
        ;;
    esac
  done
}

# =============================================================================
# Function: Enable debugging if not in silent mode
# =============================================================================
enable_debugging() {
  if [[ -z "$SILENT" ]]; then
    set -x
  fi
}

# =============================================================================
# Function: Check for required dependencies
# =============================================================================
check_dependencies() {
  local dependencies=(npm grep awk ls)
  for cmd in "${dependencies[@]}"; do
    if ! command -v "$cmd" &> /dev/null; then
      echo "Error: Required command '$cmd' is not installed or not in PATH." >&2
      exit 1
    fi
  done
}

# =============================================================================
# Function: Detect the version from existing directories
# =============================================================================
detect_version() {
  local bin_dir="${HOME}/.cursor-server/bin/"
  
  # List directories matching a 40-character hexadecimal pattern
  VERSION_DIR=$(ls "$bin_dir" 2>/dev/null | grep -E '^[0-9a-f]{40}$' | head -n 1)

  if [[ -z "$VERSION_DIR" ]]; then
    echo "Error: No version directory found in ${bin_dir}" >&2
    exit 1
  fi

  DETECTED_VERSION="$VERSION_DIR"
  echo "Detected directory version: $DETECTED_VERSION"

  # Set directory paths based on DETECTED_VERSION
  CURSOR_RETRIEVAL_DIR="${HOME}/.cursor-server/bin/$VERSION_DIR/extensions/cursor-retrieval/"
  CURSOR_SERVER_DIR="/vscode/cursor-server/bin/linux-arm64/$VERSION_DIR/extensions/cursor-retrieval/"

  echo "Cursor Retrieval Directory: $CURSOR_RETRIEVAL_DIR"
  echo "Cursor Server Directory: $CURSOR_SERVER_DIR"
}


# =============================================================================
# Function: Extract version from npm list
# =============================================================================
extract_version_from_npm() {
  local anysphere_dir="$CURSOR_SERVER_DIR/node_modules/@anysphere"

  if [[ ! -d "$anysphere_dir" ]]; then
    echo "Error: Directory $anysphere_dir does not exist." >&2
    exit 1
  fi

  # Change to the anysphere directory
  cd "$anysphere_dir" || { echo "Failed to navigate to $anysphere_dir" >&2; exit 1; }

  # Run npm list and capture its output
  local npm_output
  npm_output=$(npm list)

  # Extract the version after @anysphere/file-service-linux-x64-gnu@
  local extracted_version
  extracted_version=$(echo "$npm_output" | grep -o '@anysphere/file-service-linux-.*-gnu@[^ ]*' | awk -F'@' '{print $3}')

  if [[ -z "$extracted_version" ]]; then
    echo "Error: Could not detect version from npm list." >&2
    exit 1
  fi

  INSTALL_VERSION="$extracted_version"
  echo "Detected install version from npm list: $INSTALL_VERSION"
}

# =============================================================================
# Function: Determine the version to use for npm install
# =============================================================================
set_install_version() {
  if [[ -n "$USER_VERSION" ]]; then
    INSTALL_VERSION="$USER_VERSION"
    echo "Using user-provided version for npm install: $INSTALL_VERSION"
  else
    extract_version_from_npm
    echo "Using detected version for npm install: $INSTALL_VERSION"
  fi
}

# =============================================================================
# Function: Install required npm packages
# =============================================================================
install_packages() {
  local directories=("$CURSOR_SERVER_DIR" "$CURSOR_RETRIEVAL_DIR")

  for dir in "${directories[@]}"; do
    if [[ -d "$dir" ]]; then
      echo "Installing packages in $dir"
      npm install --prefix "$dir" "@anysphere/file-service-linux-arm64-gnu@$INSTALL_VERSION" "$SILENT"
      npm install --prefix "$dir" "@anysphere/file-service@$INSTALL_VERSION" "$SILENT"
    else
      echo "Warning: Directory $dir does not exist. Skipping." >&2
    fi
  done
}

# =============================================================================
# Function: Validate the install version format (optional)
# =============================================================================
validate_version() {
  if [[ ! "$INSTALL_VERSION" =~ ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ ]]; then
    echo "Warning: Version '$INSTALL_VERSION' may not be in semantic versioning format (x.y.z)." >&2
    # Optionally exit or proceed
    # exit 1
  fi
}

# =============================================================================
# Main function to orchestrate the script execution
# =============================================================================
main() {
  parse_args "$@"
  check_dependencies
  enable_debugging
  detect_version
  set_install_version
  validate_version
  install_packages
}

# Execute the main function with all script arguments
main "$@"

debian3 · December 17, 2024, 7:34pm

Any progress on official support for this? The above script is working, thanks for that.

debian3 · December 20, 2024, 1:34pm

That’s script no longer works with 0.44.5. Just stuck on loading… (with or without the script)

ultrawideturbolife · December 29, 2024, 5:07am

Same problem here, no indexing, been trying to fix this for hours without success. Tried all the suggested solutions

thatdom · December 30, 2024, 11:41am

Looks like fix is not working anymore with the latest Cursor version. It’s so annoying because quality of response drops significantly without indexing.

debian3 · December 30, 2024, 1:13pm

Indexing is working fine in 0.44.9 in dev container without the script

ultrawideturbolife · December 31, 2024, 1:17am

not for me

thatdom · January 4, 2025, 11:55am

Hm, still not working for me. So frustrating

danperks · January 8, 2025, 6:38pm

Hey, we believe we might have a fix for this coming out soon, but we’re still testing it to make sure we’ve solved it for good!

Sorry for the delay!

mkbctrl · January 13, 2025, 11:11am

Can you be a little bit more specific? I can’t pause the Indexing, cause it’s still in “Loading…” state, so I am pretty stuck atm.

You are literally forcing me to use GH Copilot

dsifry · January 15, 2025, 3:43am

This is not working, even with the scripts, the process keeps dying:

2025-01-15 03:30:10.809 [info] Extension host with pid 5716 started

2025-01-15 03:30:10.810 [error] Error: EEXIST: file already exists, open ‘/home/node/.cursor-server/data/User/workspaceStorage/4aa003aa81ce8b9031288a4e3f444182/vscode.lock’

2025-01-15 03:30:10.886 [info] Lock ‘/home/node/.cursor-server/data/User/workspaceStorage/4aa003aa81ce8b9031288a4e3f444182/vscode.lock’: Could not acquire lock, checking if the file is stale.

2025-01-15 03:30:10.910 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.git-base, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onCommand:git.api.getRepositories’, root cause: vscode.git

2025-01-15 03:30:10.913 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.emmet, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onLanguage’

2025-01-15 03:30:10.914 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.tunnel-forwarding, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onTunnel’

2025-01-15 03:30:10.915 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.configuration-editing, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onLanguage:json’

2025-01-15 03:30:10.916 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.extension-editing, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onLanguage:json’

2025-01-15 03:30:10.917 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.json-language-features, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onLanguage:json’

2025-01-15 03:30:10.918 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.npm, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onLanguage:json’

2025-01-15 03:30:10.919 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.typescript-language-features, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onLanguage:jsonc’

2025-01-15 03:30:10.921 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension ms-vscode.vscode-typescript-tslint-plugin, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onLanguage:javascript’

2025-01-15 03:30:10.923 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension Prisma.prisma, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onLanguage:javascript’

2025-01-15 03:30:11.867 [info] Lock ‘/home/node/.cursor-server/data/User/workspaceStorage/4aa003aa81ce8b9031288a4e3f444182/vscode.lock’: The pid 5609 appears to be gone.

2025-01-15 03:30:11.868 [info] Lock ‘/home/node/.cursor-server/data/User/workspaceStorage/4aa003aa81ce8b9031288a4e3f444182/vscode.lock’: Deleting a stale lock.

2025-01-15 03:30:11.931 [info] Lock ‘/home/node/.cursor-server/data/User/workspaceStorage/4aa003aa81ce8b9031288a4e3f444182/vscode.lock’: Lock acquired.

2025-01-15 03:30:11.934 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension yzhang.markdown-all-in-one, startup: true, activationEvent: ‘workspaceContains:README.md’

2025-01-15 03:30:12.351 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.markdown-math, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘api’, root cause: yzhang.markdown-all-in-one

2025-01-15 03:30:13.057 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.git, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onCommand:git.api.getRepositories’

2025-01-15 03:30:13.059 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.github, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘*’

2025-01-15 03:30:13.959 [info] Eager extensions activated

2025-01-15 03:30:13.961 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension anysphere.cursor-retrieval, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onStartupFinished’

2025-01-15 03:30:13.962 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension anysphere.cursor-shadow-workspace, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onStartupFinished’

2025-01-15 03:30:13.962 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension anysphere.cursor-tokenize, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onStartupFinished’

2025-01-15 03:30:13.962 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.debug-auto-launch, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onStartupFinished’

2025-01-15 03:30:13.963 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.merge-conflict, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onStartupFinished’

2025-01-15 03:30:13.964 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension dbaeumer.vscode-eslint, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onStartupFinished’

2025-01-15 03:30:13.964 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension esbenp.prettier-vscode, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onStartupFinished’

2025-01-15 03:30:17.347 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension GitHub.vscode-pull-request-github, startup: false, activationEvent: ‘onStartupFinished’

Version: 0.44.11
VSCode Version: 1.93.1
Commit: fe574d0820377383143b2ea26aa6ae28b3425220
Date: 2025-01-03T07:59:06.361Z
Electron: 30.5.1
Chromium: 124.0.6367.243
Node.js: 20.16.0
V8: 12.4.254.20-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.2.0

Running inside a Microsoft Artifact Registry devcontainer. I’m pretty sure it’s because cursor is loading the Mac (arm64) version of its indexing tools because the host computer is darwin-arm64, while the devcontainer is linux-arm64…

mahmoudimus · January 15, 2025, 6:37pm

I am going to try downgrading to 0.0.0-30549ed4-6f41e022f7af079ff34c9d09cb1d5d616735c7e31ec0d732af0daec4758069f7 – the script supports a --version parameter. so run it ./bin/arm64-setup --version 0.0.0-30549ed4-6f41e022f7af079ff34c9d09cb1d5d616735c7e31ec0d732af0daec4758069f7

mahmoudimus · January 15, 2025, 6:41pm

worked for me when using version 0.0.0-30549ed4-6f41e022f7af079ff34c9d09cb1d5d616735c7e31ec0d732af0daec4758069f7

ssmits · January 16, 2025, 3:20am

Anyone else got this error after trying to attach to a Docker container?

command ‘remote-containers.attachToRunningContainer’ not found

is v0.327.0 fixed or did my company install this specific version?

ssmits · January 26, 2025, 6:16pm

It’s working natively now with Cursor 0.45+, as Dev Containers has been updated by bumping their VSCode fork version.

thatdom · January 28, 2025, 1:24pm

finally works for me with Cursor 0.45+

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