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

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Thanks for the detailed info.

Black screen issue:

Based on the command output, Cursor is using the old Intel HD Graphics 3000 with Mesa drivers. The newer Electron version (37.7.0) might have compatibility issues with this older GPU.

Can you confirm, when you ran ELECTRON_DISABLE_GPU=1 cursor, did the UI become readable? It’s hard to tell from the photo in Post #5.

Also try:

cursor --disable-gpu
cursor --disable-gpu-sandbox
cursor --disable-software-rasterizer

Chat history issue:

Since there are no .corrupted.* files, try checking your backups. You mentioned you have backups from before the problematic update. You can try:

  1. Fully close Cursor
  2. Copy ~/.config/Cursor/User/globalStorage/state.vscdb from the backup
  3. Restart Cursor

If that doesn’t help, you can try the tool from this topic to work with the database.