Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug I recently rebooted all of my EC2 instances with encrypted equivalent hard drives, and after that, cursor remote SSH stopped working. I could log into the instances via terminal and everything worked as expected, and VSCode Remote SSH was also working as expected. Just cursor Remote SSH wasn’t working. I then, Reinstalled the app Ran the following on the instances rm -rf ~/.cursor rm -rf ~/.cursor-server/ Ran the following on my Mac rm -rf ~/.cursor/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor/User/globalStorage/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor/User/globalStorage/anysphere.remote-ssh Cursor reinstalled remote SSH, and then it started working . I have no idea why was all of this restarting/resetting required. Steps to Reproduce Setup Remote SSH on an EC2 instance with an unencrypted volume. Create an unencrypted copy of that volume, and try remote SSH on same instance with new encrypted volume Operating System MacOS Version Information Keep in mind that this is the version of the reinstalled app IDE: Version: 3.8.24 VS Code Extension API: 1.105.1 Commit: cf80f4b937f3b9c48070d7085129a838ce7876a0 Date: 2026-06-24T06:55:08.142Z (1 day ago) Layout: editor Build Type: Stable Does this stop you from using Cursor Yes - Cursor is unusable

Hey @sansiddh! Sorry to hear about that. If it recurs, grab the `Output > “Remote - SSH”** log before clearing state so we can have a look at what’s going on. It would also help to know exactly what version of macOS you’re using, to see if it lines up with other reports. [image] Title: Remote SSH broken after macOS 26.5.1 update (Cursor 3.8.24) Bug Reports Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Environment: Cursor 3.8.24 Remote-SSH extension 0.113.1 macOS 26.5.1 (25F80) Apple Silicon (arm64) Remote host: CentOS 8 (4.18 kernel) Symptoms: Remote SSH worked prior to upgrading macOS and Cursor. After upgrading, Remote SSH fails during connection setup. SSH authentication succeeds normally: Authenticated to 10.20.122.48 ([10.20.122.48]:22) using “publickey”. Cursor successfully uploads/starts the remote server. …

[image] Sansiddh Jain: Setup Remote SSH on an EC2 instance with an unencrypted volume. Create an unencrypted copy of that volume, and try remote SSH on same instance with new encrypted volume Thanks I’ll keep in mind to preserve the logs next time something like this happens. The OS version is 26.5 (25F71) Apple Silicon (arm64)

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Colin (Colin) June 26, 2026, 10:51am 5

Hey @sansiddh!

Sorry to hear about that. If it recurs, grab the `Output > “Remote - SSH”** log before clearing state so we can have a look at what’s going on.

It would also help to know exactly what version of macOS you’re using, to see if it lines up with other reports.

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