Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug When running “Reopen in container,” the connection hangs indefinitely on the loading screen and never completes. Steps to Reproduce Open Cursor on the host machine Press Ctrl+P and run “Connect Current Window to Host” to SSH…

I have the same problem. Interestingly with version 3.0.16. Downgrading to version 3.0.13 solved it temporarily. 3.0.13 successfully connects about 1 in 4 times. 3.0.16 is completely unusable. The GUI hangs on connecting to the container at a point where the “Output”-Panel is not even available…

Hey, I see you already ran into this in a previous thread. It’s the same known bug with .gitconfig path resolution in the Dev Containers extension over SSH. I won’t repeat the workaround since I know you’ve tried everything already. @LazyOwl , thanks for the info about the regression in 3.0.16. That…

Dev Container hangs on "Reopen in container" via SSH

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Dev Container hangs on "Reopen in container" via SSH

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