thinisde
April 24, 2026, 8:48pm
1
Cursor IDE
Cursor Terminal can’t execute commands
I guess this is only on my machine
The terminal command doesn’t execute, it just has some Linking Flags failure.
$ cd /Volumes/Developer/veritas/backend && go test ./internal/clustering/... ./internal/translation/... -count=1 -short 2>&1 | tail -40
--: line 19: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (): Bad file descriptor
MacOS
Version: 3.1.17 (Universal)
No - Cursor works, but with this issue
kevinn
April 24, 2026, 10:15pm
7
Thanks for reporting this.
1. Check whether the command works outside Cursor. Open macOS Terminal or iTerm and run the same command there. If it works outside Cursor but hangs inside Cursor, that points toward a Cursor terminal issue.
2. Disable terminal shell integration directly in settings JSON. In Cursor:
- Open Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P)
- Run `Preferences: Open User Settings`
Then restart Cursor, open a fresh terminal, and try the command again.
3. Check locale values inside Cursor’s terminal. In a new Cursor terminal, please run:
locale
env | grep -E '^(LANG|LC_)'
The warning mentions `LC_CTYPE`, so this will help confirm whether Cursor is launching the terminal with a broken or empty locale environment.
4. Try a temporary locale workaround. In the Cursor terminal, run:
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Then try your Go command again.
5. Try a clean zsh session inside Cursor
zsh -f
echo hello
Then try a simpler command first, and if that works, try the Go command again.
Lmk how this goes!
thinisde
April 24, 2026, 10:44pm
8
echo hello works on Cursor Terminal. But when I start running it in agent mode, it just return this error and the command never ends.
thinisde
April 24, 2026, 10:50pm
9
I now have 6 terminals running in background:
