I’m on Arch Linux and I’m hitting the same wall as a few other recent threads. My source control is totally blank (says no providers or scanning folder for git repositories), the terminal won’t open, and none of my extensions are initializing. Basically, the whole extension host seems dead.
I alrady did few workaround i saw in other threads:
deleted ~/.config/Cursor folder
launching with --disable-extensions and --no-sandbox
nothing worked, Any temporary fixes so i can work now?
Hey, this is a known issue. The extension host doesn’t finish initializing in time, and without it Source Control, the terminal, and extensions won’t start. We’re seeing it on Linux too. There are a few similar threads, including this one: No Agents working and No source control providers registered
A couple workarounds that helped other users:
When it happens, don’t restart Cursor. Close all open files and chats, then go to File > New Window and open the same project again. It usually comes up in about 10 seconds. This is the accepted answer in the thread above.
If that doesn’t help, fully kill all Cursor processes before launching again. Just closing the window can leave an orphaned extension host:
pkill -f cursor
Then launch Cursor again.
To link your case to our logs, next time it happens please do this:
Ctrl+Shift+P → Developer: Export Logs
From the export, attach the Window, Main, and Extension Host sections here.
If Developer: Export Logs doesn’t show up in the palette, which can happen when the window doesn’t fully come up, the logs are in ~/.config/Cursor/logs/<timestamp>/. You can send them as an archive.
We’re tracking the issue, but I can’t share an exact ETA for a fix yet. Logs from Arch in particular would help a lot since there aren’t many Arch reports in the tracker.
