Connection to Cursor server failed

Bug Reports
1

Describe the Bug

When I connect to Linux from Windows using ‘remote-ssh’, I get this error
How do I fix it?
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Connection to Cursor server failed: Couldn’t install Cursor Server, install script returned non-zero exit status: Tar failed to extract server contents from cursor-server-44252ffc-55e2-4976-b46b-737d7af357ed.tar.gz
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Steps to Reproduce

I connected to Linux from Windows using ‘remote-ssh’. Remote-ssh works fine with other IPs except this IP.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.2.1 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 031e7e0ff1e2eda9c1a0f5df67d44053b059c5d0
Date: 2025-07-03T06:16:02.610Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

3

@mylim, does this happen repeatedly? If you haven’t already, could you try the “Reinstall Server” option when the connection fails? This error indicates that the server download failed.

4

Thanks for your reply.

I already tried ‘reinstall server’, but this happen repeatedly.

In the Output tab, I got this log
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2025-07-23 07:29:37.232 [error] Error resolving SSH authority Couldn’t install Cursor Server, install script returned non-zero exit status: Tar failed to extract server contents from cursor-server-be695ee5-ef1e-4aff-91b0-73ff5355117b.tar.gz
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6

Hi @mylim , would you be able to share the full logs? We have seen a few other cases for this where the logs indicated the disk was full, which prevented the .tar from fully extracting.