Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug when open cursor 3 in Linux Cachyos kde, it crash with the message The window terminated unexpectedly (reason: 'crashed, code: ‘139’) options: Don’t restore editors Close, Reopen It’s unusable for me now Steps to Reproduc…

I am also on CachyOS KDE, and updated Cursor this morning, and got the exact same issue. It’s also unusable for me. I even tried downloading the 3.0 app image and the 2.6 app image instead of using the binary from the AUR, and both of the app images wouldn’t even launch at all. The one from the AUR …

I am getting the same thing on Arch linux, for some very odd and suspicious reason though when I launch Cursor with the verbose flag(cursor –-verbose) , Cursor actually launches totally fine! It’s almost as if it behaves properly when it knows its being watched… :eyes:

Issue across Arch Linux it seems

Hey, this is a known issue with Cursor 3.0.4 on Linux. Multiple users on different distros like Arch, CachyOS, and Fedora hit the same SIGSEGV code 139. As a temporary workaround, run it with the --verbose flag: cursor --verbose Like @eli.wavv mentioned in this thread, Cursor starts fine with tha…

Cursor 3.0.4 Linux The window terminated unexpectedly

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Cursor 3.0.4 Linux The window terminated unexpectedly

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