Every single time dev containers break

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Guys guys guys! For the love of god you push 3 updates a day and almost every few weeks you break the dev containers.
Moving fast is great and here and there bugs are ok, but why can’t you get dev containers right!

2025-11-04 19:02:12.310 [error] [devcontainer run-user-commands][stderr JSON parse error]:
Error: Dev container config (c:\home\myuser\workspace\project.devcontainer\devcontainer.json) not found.

2025-11-04 19:02:12.311 [error] [devcontainer run-user-commands][stderr JSON parse error]:
at H6 (c:\Users\myuser.cursor\extensions\anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.26\dist@devcontainers\cli\dist\spec-node\devContainersSpecCLI.js:2:1596781)
at async BC (c:\Users\myuser.cursor\extensions\anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.26\dist@devcontainers\cli\dist\spec-node\devContainersSpecCLI.js:2:1598508)
at async d7 (c:\Users\myuser.cursor\extensions\anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.26\dist@devcontainers\cli\dist\spec-node\devContainersSpecCLI.js:2:1671901)
at async f7 (c:\Users\myuser.cursor\extensions\anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.26\dist@devcontainers\cli\dist\spec-node\devContainersSpecCLI.js:2:1671565)
at async c (c:\Users\myuser.cursor\extensions\anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.26\dist@devcontainers\cli\dist\spec-node\devContainersSpecCLI.js:2:1594760)

2025-11-04 19:02:12.311 [info] [devcontainer run-user-commands][stdout]:
{“outcome”:“error”,“message”:“Dev container config (c:\home\myuser\workspace\project\.devcontainer\devcontainer.json) not found.”,
“description”:“Dev container config (c:\home\myuser\workspace\project\.devcontainer\devcontainer.json) not found.”}

2025-11-04 19:02:12.322 [error]
Error resolving dev container authority
Failed to run devcontainer command:

  1. {“outcome”:“error”,
    “message”:“Dev container config (c:\home\myuser\workspace\project\.devcontainer\devcontainer.json) not found.”,
    “description”:“Dev container config (c:\home\myuser\workspace\project\.devcontainer\devcontainer.json) not found.”}

I am getting this error now.

Steps to Reproduce

this dev container json file was working now it gives the error attached

{
“name”: “${localWorkspaceFolderBasename} py3-pgvector”,
“dockerComposeFile”: “docker-compose.yml”,
“service”: “app”,
“workspaceFolder”: “/workspaces/${localWorkspaceFolderBasename}”,
“forwardPorts”: [8080, 5432, 1025, 8025, 465, 4443],
“mounts”: ,
“customizations”: {
“vscode”: {
“extensions”:
}
}
}

Expected Behavior

cursor opening my my project using dev containers

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.60 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: c6d93c13f57509f77eb65783b28e75a857b74c00
Date: 2025-11-05T00:50:54.645Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

1 Like

Having similar issues since I upgraded from Cursor v1.7.54 to v2.0.77

2025-11-21 13:08:36.304 [error] [devcontainer run-user-commands][stderr JSON parse error]: trap “exit 0” 15
2025-11-21 13:08:36.304 [error] [devcontainer run-user-commands][stderr JSON parse error]:
2025-11-21 13:08:36.304 [error] [devcontainer run-user-commands][stderr JSON parse error]: exec “$@”
2025-11-21 13:08:36.304 [error] [devcontainer run-user-commands][stderr JSON parse error]: while sleep 1 & wait $!; do :; done -
2025-11-21 13:08:36.304 [error] [devcontainer run-user-commands][stderr JSON parse error]:     at D6 (/home/fvina/.cursor/extensions/anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.20/dist/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:2:1583960)
2025-11-21 13:08:36.304 [error] [devcontainer run-user-commands][stderr JSON parse error]:     at Ix (/home/fvina/.cursor/extensions/anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.20/dist/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:2:1583704)
2025-11-21 13:08:36.304 [error] [devcontainer run-user-commands][stderr JSON parse error]:     at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)
2025-11-21 13:08:36.304 [error] [devcontainer run-user-commands][stderr JSON parse error]:     at async H6 (/home/fvina/.cursor/extensions/anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.20/dist/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:2:1600127)
2025-11-21 13:08:36.304 [error] [devcontainer run-user-commands][stderr JSON parse error]:     at async BC (/home/fvina/.cursor/extensions/anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.20/dist/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:2:1601238)
2025-11-21 13:08:36.304 [error] [devcontainer run-user-commands][stderr JSON parse error]:     at async d7 (/home/fvina/.cursor/extensions/anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.20/dist/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:2:1674755)
2025-11-21 13:08:36.304 [error] [devcontainer run-user-commands][stderr JSON parse error]:     at async f7 (/home/fvina/.cursor/extensions/anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.20/dist/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:2:1674413)
2025-11-21 13:08:36.304 [error] [devcontainer run-user-commands][stderr JSON parse error]:     at async /home/fvina/.cursor/extensions/anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.20/dist/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:2:1597484

Using devcontainer extension v1.26, tried reverting back to v1.23, v1.20 but no luck.

Reverted to cursor v1.7.54 and the issues are gone.

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