Describe the Bug
Crash report details from AI:
Based on the crash report, the app that caused your Mac to crash is Cursor.
Here are the key details:
Primary Application: Cursor (located at /Applications/Cursor.app/)
Process ID: 1569 (listed as “Responsible: Cursor [1569]”)
Coalition Name: com.todesktop.230313mzl4w4u92
Code Signing Team ID: VDXQ22DGB9
What Actually Crashed: The chrome_crashpad_handler process
This is a crash reporting helper process that’s part of Cursor’s Electron framework
Process ID: 2889
Path: /Applications/Cursor.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Versions/A/Helpers/chrome_crashpad_handler
What Happened:
The crash occurred in Cursor’s crash handler itself - specifically the chrome_crashpad_handler process crashed with an EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP) exception. This is somewhat ironic since this process is designed to handle crashes from the main application.
Root Cause:
Cursor is built on Electron (a framework for building desktop apps with web technologies), and it uses Chromium’s crash reporting system called Crashpad. The crashpad handler process itself encountered a fatal error and crashed.
So while the immediate crash was in a helper process, Cursor is the application responsible for this system crash.
Steps to Reproduce
Not sure yet, this happened twice after the application have been running for hours.
Expected Behavior
To not crash, but more importantly to not freeze and forcing a reboot.
Operating System
MacOS
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Version: 1.2.4
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: a8e95743c5268be73767c46944a71f4465d05c90
Date: 2025-07-10T16:53:59.659Z
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