The terminal process failed to launch: A native exception occurred during launch (posix_spawnp failed.).
…pops up and there’s nothing I can do now. I’ve restarted Cursor. I’ve followed the “open help” button that takes me to VSC and recommends a settings review. But, I’m totally lost.
The error first ocurred when I tried to check a commit with a “git checkout” command and now persists no matter what is done.
Steps to Reproduce
Everything I do in terminal now reproduces the error.
Operating System
MacOS
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Attempts to bring up a new terminal window generate this error. Same with any git command. Cursor directed me to operate out of the regular Terminal app after not being able to solve.
What should I be using? The settings are shown in the screenshots. Note, I’m on an older Mac running BigSur just in case there is something applicable there.
I have the same issue for VSCode and Cursor, with the integrated default profile set to zsh. The only thing I’ve found which reliably fixes it (albeit temporarily) is a complete reboot of my system, which is quite an inconvenience given how frequently the error occurs.
Anecdotally, the more Cursor/VSCode windows and/or terminal tabs I have open on my system, the quicker I run into this error which necessitates a system reboot.
For context, I am using the latest versions of each of these programs on macOS Sequoia version 15.3.2 with a MacBook M2 Pro with 16GB RAM
