12 people reported
All time, since Sep 17, including 10 thumbs-up on GitHub.
Root read access sandbox error
“This affects 100% of sessions — the app is completely unusable for local work.”
Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.
Paste this into your agent. It files your report, with your error and version.
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Sessions fail to start with root read access sandbox error. After a Windows Desktop update, new and resumed chats fail loading AGENTS.md when the permission profile denies :root reads.
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File my report- Where
- Windows sandbox
- Error text
windows sandbox failed: elevated Windows sandbox requires effective `:root` read access- Versions
- 0.139.0 to 26.908.9136.0
- Platforms
- Windows
- How bad
- Stops work: a core feature can't be used.
Part of: Windows sandbox setup blocks commands18 bugs
- Sandbox setup refresh fails308 people
- Sandbox fails at deny-read ACLs10 people
- Setup refresh error blocks commands23 people
- Sandbox setup lock failure12 people
- Split writable root sandbox failure3 people
- Sandbox fails on WSL UNC paths4 people
- Windows sandbox setup fails validating long cua_node runtime paths11 people
- Windows setup stops without UAC3 people
- Sandbox ACL update failure2 people
- Sandbox ACL refresh fails2 people
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- Managed networking sandbox error2 people
- Sandbox refresh fails on old runtime2 people
- Sandbox fails on Google Drive2 people
- Sandbox provisioning failed2 people
- Windows sandbox provisioning fails3 people
- Windows sandbox setup access denied2 people
- Shell and Node tools fail with MXC 0x80070020 on Windows2 people
Not quite your bug?
Original reports2, newest first
- [Windows Desktop regression] Existing root-deny permission-profile chat cannot resume after 26.911.7940.0 updateOn GitHub#46312
- Windows Desktop: elevated sandbox fails with "requires effective :root read access" on every thread (new and existing); unelevated, admin relaunch, app repair, and app reset all fail to fix itOn GitHub#46114