Cursor takes a very long time at start downloading VSCode Server

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Hello, Cursor Seems to take very long time to start in my Windows + WSL configuration.

I see a message "Starting VSCode in WSL (Ubuntu). The log shows something like this:

[2025-02-04 12:34:42.245] Probing result: x86_64
[2025-02-04 12:34:42.245] No server install found in WSL, needs linux-x64
[2025-02-04 12:34:42.245] Getting server from client side
[2025-02-04 12:34:42.247] Downloading VS Code Server stable - cce0110ca40ceb61e76ecea08d24210123895320 into C:\Users\sudha\AppData\Local\Temp\vscode-remote-wsl\cce0110ca40ceb61e76ecea08d24210123895320\vscode-server-stable-linux-x64.tar.gz.
[2025-02-04 12:34:44.021] Download checksum: undefined

And it stays here for 10+ minutes.

My VSCode starts right away. Not sure why Cursor is stuck here.

How do I resolve this.

2

Hey, have you installed Cursor inside your WSL distribution, or is Cursor on your Windows machine, connecting to your WSL install?

Unlike VSCode, you cannot install Cursor inside WSL, and use cursor . to run it.

3

I have Windows, and I am using WSL for Linux terminal.
I’ve installed vs code and cursor using exe. Every time i open cursor(pro user) it starts vs code in wsl and starts downloading. is there a fix for it once and for all?

In downloading i see this log

No server install found in WSL, needs linux-x64
[2025-02-21 09:07:33.437] Getting server from client side
[2025-02-21 09:07:33.438] Downloading VS Code Server stable - fe574d0820377383143b2ea26aa6ae28b3425220 into C:\Users\RAJAT~1.JAI\AppData\Local\Temp\vscode-remote-wsl\fe574d0820377383143b2ea26aa6ae28b3425220\vscode-server-stable-linux-x64.tar.gz.
[2025-02-21 09:07:34.630] Download checksum: undefined

Since it is installing in temp after every shutdown it’ll download again i think. And I want to avoid it.

4

I also had the same issue for a while, mainly after a Cursor update. The logs seems to hang on “Download checksum: undefined”

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5

same here! the issue started the last couple days and now is very difficult to open wsl2 with cursor. Most of the times it fails to download server and cannot connect.

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@danperks is there a fix for below - it stuck always for 15-20 minutes on every startup.

 New commit detected: 0.46.10
[2025-03-07 05:46:35.411] Recently used WSL platforms: linux-x64
[2025-03-07 05:46:35.412] Downloading VS Code Server stable - 0.46.10 into C:\Users\RAJAT~1.JAI\AppData\Local\Temp\vscode-remote-wsl\0.46.10\vscode-server-stable-linux-x64.tar.gz.
[2025-03-07 05:46:36.980] Problems getting update information Failed to download VS Code Server from https://cursor.blob.core.windows.net/remote-releases/0.46.10/vscode-reh-linux-x64.tar.gz: HTTP 404 - The specified blob does not exist.
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I do not see this anymore

8

I’m still seeing this when connecting from my machine via ssh to my local linux server :confused:
It takes so long to download (+15 min) and rare cases the download fails.

9

Same issue for me. Dose any solve?