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Claude Code v2.1.248

Background daemon refuses to start without a usable uid mapping

You'll notice
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Elsewhere

The background daemon refuses to start when a namespace collapses all users to one id.

What

On Linux and macOS, the daemon start path now checks first for a user-namespace setup where every user collapses to the same id, and refuses to start with cause uid_collapse plus guidance to start with a uid map or pass a socket path explicitly. Windows skips the check entirely.

Details
  • Returns a failure result and records a telemetry event rather than launching and failing later.
Evidence

daemon_ensure_running

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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