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886886On Linux and WSL2, the sandbox holds a write denial on a file that doesn't exist yet by creating a 0-byte read-only placeholder there while a sandboxed command runs. The sandbox removes the placeholder afterward. If a session is killed before that cleanup runs, for example by SIGKILL, the placeholders stay behind. Later sessions bind the placeholders read-only again on every start, so a settings write such as saving a permission choice fails at a path where a placeholder remains.
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888Run `claude doctor` in your terminal to list the leftover placeholder files. The [`Stale sandbox mask files left by a killed session`](/docs/en/errors#stale-sandbox-mask-files-left-by-a-killed-session) warning names some of them and counts the rest. Delete each file with `rm` while no other Claude Code session is running in that project. Before v2.1.257, Claude Code left the same placeholders behind without flagging them.
888Run `claude doctor` in your terminal to list the leftover placeholder files. The [`Sandbox mask files left behind at write-deny paths`](/docs/en/errors#stale-sandbox-mask-files-left-by-a-killed-session) warning names some of them and counts the rest. Delete each file with `rm` while no other Claude Code session is running in that project. Before v2.1.257, Claude Code left the same placeholders behind without flagging them.
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890890### `git` over SSH fails with the sandbox on
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