Cursor is not loading chats and screen might as well be pure black: Reprise

ls -la ~/.config/Cursor/User/globalStorage/

total 536
drwxrwxr-x 2 amon amon 4096 Jan 9 14:43 .
drwxrwxr-x 6 amon amon 4096 Dec 3 15:23 ..
-rw-r–r-- 1 amon amon 528384 Jan 9 14:43 state.vscdb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 amon amon 20 Jan 9 10:47 state.vscdb.options.json
-rw-rw-r-- 1 amon amon 2395 Jan 9 11:35 storage.json

Look for files with .corrupted. in the name. They contain your backup data. If you find any:

  • Fully close Cursor
  • In ~/.config/Cursor/User/globalStorage/:
    * Move state.vscdb and state.vscdb.backup to a backup folder
    * Rename the .corrupted.* file to state.vscdb
  • Restart Cursor

So, it is not showing outwardly as corrupted. Perhaps it is there but I cannot see the menu entries to get to it? The top bar has changed while I was off doing interesting things, and I am not at all sure where things are.

Reference: Tutorial: how to fix “Loading Chat” and recover history (Cursor v2.3.x)https://forum.cursor.com/t/tutorial-how-to-fix-loading-chat-and-recover-history-cursor-v2-3-x/148023

About the black screen, let’s get the correct info about your GPU:

amon@otv3:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108GLM [Quadro 1000M] (rev a1)

glxinfo | grep “OpenGL renderer”
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2)

Also try launching with:
ELECTRON_DISABLE_GPU=1 cursor

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Please share the command outputs and the contents of the globalStorage/ directory.

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