claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix Cowork: `RPC error: ensure user ... already exists unexpectedly` blocks new task creation [1 comments, 2 participants]

Algo salió mal RPC error: ensure user: user laughing-awesome-planck already exists unexpectedly: uid=1054 gid=1054 Puedes reiniciar la conversación desde un mensaje anterior.

TL;DR

The most likely fix is to implement a proper sandbox user cleanup mechanism to prevent uid collisions when creating new tasks in Cowork.

Guidance

• Investigate the task termination process to ensure that sandbox users are properly cleaned up and their uids are released.
• Verify that the claude doctor command is correctly configured to handle sandbox user cleanup.
• Consider implementing a check to ensure that the uid is available before assigning it to a new sandbox user.
• Review the error handling mechanism to provide a more informative error message when a uid collision occurs.

Example

No code snippet is provided as the issue does not contain sufficient information about the implementation details.

Notes

The issue suggests that the problem is related to the cleanup of sandbox users, but the exact implementation details are not provided. Therefore, the guidance is focused on investigating and improving the task termination and sandbox user cleanup processes.

Recommendation

Apply a workaround to manually clean up sandbox users and their associated uids until a proper cleanup mechanism is implemented. This can be done by reviewing the system's user management and removing any stale sandbox users that are causing the uid collisions.