Card #342 · Cursor (AI IDE)
Remote SSH connection failures and timeouts
Users are experiencing consistent failures when attempting to connect via Remote SSH, often resulting in timeouts or 'EINVAL' errors. The issue persists even when manual SSH works, and in some cases, it is linked to macOS socket path length limits or requires full reinstallation of the remote server.
Pain score
0.24/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach1.00distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.96upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.50willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 3 verified quotes
Cursor Remote SSH consistently fails with the following error: SSH connection timed out after 120s without receiving any data from the remote host
The first error observed locally is: listen EINVAL: invalid argument /var/folders/…/vscode-ssh-askpass-xxxx.sock followed by: Server delay-shutdown request failed: connect EINVAL /var/folders/…/vscode-ssh-askpass-xxxx.sock
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.
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