Cursor Agent: node: fcntl64: symbol not foundA

Bug Reports
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Describe the Bug

After installing cursor in alpine linux distro on an ARM64 machine, I receive the following error: Error relocating /root/.local/share/cursor-agent/versions/2025.08.08-562252e/node: fcntl64: symbol not found

Steps to Reproduce

On Alpine linux on an arm64 machine (using a container with docker on mac if need be). We use a devcontainer to achieve this

Run the install command line. Then attempt to run cursor-agent.

$ cursor-agent
Error relocating /root/.local/share/cursor-agent/versions/2025.08.08-562252e/node: fcntl64: symbol not found

Expected Behavior

Ability to log in and use as expected

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.4.2
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 07aa3b4519da4feab4761c58da3eeedd253a1670
Date: 2025-08-06T19:23:39.081Z (1 day ago)
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Thanks for reporting this. I think @andrewh might be able to help you out here.

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+1 – running into this issue as well

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Thanks @sanjeed5! Any help with this would be greatly appreciated @andrewh! :folded_hands:

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Which OS, distro, kernel?

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Alpine 3.22.

It should be easy to replicate in Alpine because they don’t use glibc. The nodejs is compiled with musl.

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