Dock Icon Bouncing During Claude CLI Command Execution (Node)
Status Fixed / completed
Maintainer reply ✓ Yes — bcherny
Activity 6 comments · opened Jun 10, 2025 · closed Jun 12, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (bcherny, collaborator)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
Bug Description
node icon keeps bounching in the dock when running any commands with claude
Environment Info
- Platform: macos
- Terminal: Apple_Terminal
- Version: 1.0.18
- Feedback ID: 856b0ce7-fa25-4b36-aac6-8145fda60b91
Errors
[{"error":"Error: Command failed: security find-generic-password -a $USER -w -s \"Claude Code\"\nsecurity: SecKeychainSearchCopyNext: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.\n\n at genericNodeError (node:internal/errors:983:15)\n at wrappedFn (node:internal/errors:537:14)\n at checkExecSyncError (node:child_process:882:11)\n at execSync (node:child_process:954:15)\n at JZ (file:///Users/[username]/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:659:3921)\n at file:///Users/[username]/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:582:11795\n at Q (file:///Users/[username]/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:526:17190)\n at aJ (file:///Users/[username]/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:582:10941)\n at AS (file:///Users/[username]/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:582:10022)\n at L6 (file:///Users/[username]/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:582:14134)","timestamp":"2025-06-10T21:16:27.186Z"},{"error":"RangeError [ERR_CHILD_PROCESS_STDIO_MAXBUFFER]: stdout maxBuffer length exceeded\n at Socket.onChildStdout (node:child_process:481:14)\n at Socket.emit (node:events:518:28)\n at Socket.emit (node:domain:489:12)\n at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:561:12)\n at readableAddChunkPushByteMode (node:internal/streams/readable:512:3)\n at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:392:5)\n at Pipe.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:189:23)","timestamp":"2025-06-10T21:16:29.182Z"}]
6 Comments
Hi, which Node icon do you mean? Can you screenshot what you're seeing?
@bcherny <img width="317" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c8ff6fd5-0632-4090-b290-d0109694c780" />
Thanks for the screenshot. We haven't heard any other reports. Could you share the output of following:
echo $SHELL
echo $TERM_PROGRAM
type exec
alias | grep exec
Does this happen in other shells (iterm2)?
If there anything in your .zshrc what could be causing this?
I am on the latest beta, I thought maybe it's an macOS bug, but I have this only on Claude
nvm I have it on my own cli app too which is in Go. it's an macos bug. Filled an Apple Bug report linked their issue to here
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