Handshake failed

Bug Report
1

Codebase Indexing always fails.
Even though I’ve looked at other articles, it seems like everyone else has been able to resolve it, but it’s not resolved in my environment.

I would appreciate any advice on what might be the cause.

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2024-03-03 10:53:24.222 [error] Handshake failed:

2024-03-03 10:53:24.223 [error] Error: timeout in handshake with retry

at e.RepoClientMultiplexer.handshakeWithRetry (/Applications/Cursor.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/cursor-retrieval/dist/main.js:2:848660)

at async m.getServerStatus (/Applications/Cursor.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/cursor-retrieval/dist/main.js:2:863619)

at async m.startIndexingRepository (/Applications/Cursor.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/cursor-retrieval/dist/main.js:2:865864)

2024-03-03 10:53:24.223 [error] Handshake failed.

2

It could be possible that Cursor had some server outage at that time. Does the codebase indexing still fail for you?

3

Even when I try now, it still results in “Handshake failed.”
Here’s the log:

2024-03-07 09:26:26.868 [error] Error: Command failed: git config --get remote.origin.url

	at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:430:12)
	at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:514:28)
	at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1091:16)
	at Socket.<anonymous> (node:internal/child_process:449:11)
	at Socket.emit (node:events:514:28)
	at Pipe.<anonymous> (node:net:323:12)
2024-03-07 09:26:27.039 [info] Creating merkle client.
2024-03-07 09:26:27.039 [info] Done creating merkle client.
2024-03-07 09:26:27.039 [info] Doing a startup handshake.
2024-03-07 09:26:27.062 [info] Finished initializing merkle tree in 23.34366601705551 ms.
2024-03-07 09:26:27.063 [info] Doing the initial handshake with hash: a30b2bb06e560b475d1d4aae2d64d5ced4159745d4da23d19020b0db6b6a76fd
2024-03-07 09:28:33.261 [error] Handshake failed:
2024-03-07 09:28:33.272 [error] Error: timeout in handshake with retry
	at e.RepoClientMultiplexer.handshakeWithRetry (/Applications/Cursor.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/cursor-retrieval/dist/main.js:2:848660)
	at async m.getServerStatus (/Applications/Cursor.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/cursor-retrieval/dist/main.js:2:863619)
	at async m.startIndexingRepository (/Applications/Cursor.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/cursor-retrieval/dist/main.js:2:865864)
2024-03-07 09:28:33.272 [error] Handshake failed.
2024-03-07 09:28:33.273 [info] Indexing job successfully done or aborted.

The version I am using is as follows. If it helps:

version: 0.29.1
commit: 1.86.2
date: a962ca5721e80876320cb6a3a500cbc1cf679150
Electron: 2024-03-02T20:35:34.996Z
ElectronBuildId: 27.2.3
Chromium: undefined
Node.js: 118.0.5993.159
V8: 18.17.1
OS: 11.8.172.18-electron.0
4

Same issue. It keeps on failing no matter what I do. At this point, Cursor is completely unusable.

Edit: I managed to resolve this by opening any random file, keeping it opened in my explorer and then running the indexing again. While the indexing failed with the same handshake error, I now see, and am able to tag files that are in my codebase - as well as run codebase-centric prompts. Interesting.