EPIPE Crash When Running Claude Code in Python Project Directory

I get similar errors. Generally, when using bash, it crashes or times out. haven't gotten any bash commands to work yet.

book-5:mental darin$ claude --verbose
╭────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ✻ Welcome to Claude Code research preview! │
│                                            │
│   /help for help                           │
│                                            │
│   cwd: /Users/darin/Projects/mental        │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────╯

! echo 'hey'
  ⎿  Command execution timed out
     Exit code 143

> /doctor
  ⎿  Set verbose to true

> /config

! echo 'hello'

· Conjuring… (0s · esc to interrupt)

  ! for bash mode · / for commands · esc to undo                                                                                                                              \⏎ for newline


Error: write EPIPE
    at afterWriteDispatched (node:internal/stream_base_commons:159:15)
    at writeGeneric (node:internal/stream_base_commons:150:3)
    at Socket._writeGeneric (node:net:971:11)
    at Socket._write (node:net:983:8)
    at writeOrBuffer (node:internal/streams/writable:570:12)
    at _write (node:internal/streams/writable:499:10)
    at Writable.write (node:internal/streams/writable:508:10)
    at m8.sendToShell (file:///Users/darin/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.mjs:339:243)
    at file:///Users/darin/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.mjs:337:1614
    at new Promise (<anonymous>) {
  errno: -32,
  code: 'EPIPE',
  syscall: 'write'
}

Total cost: $0.0002
Total duration (API): 1.1s
Total duration (wall): 52.3s

I would like to know how to reset Claude Code because it did work initially (with errors)

Removing $HOME/.claude did not solve it

same issue here.

Error: write EPIPE
    at afterWriteDispatched (node:internal/stream_base_commons:159:15)
    at writeGeneric (node:internal/stream_base_commons:150:3)
    at Socket._writeGeneric (node:net:971:11)
    at Socket._write (node:net:983:8)
    at writeOrBuffer (node:internal/streams/writable:570:12)
    at _write (node:internal/streams/writable:499:10)
    at Writable.write (node:internal/streams/writable:508:10)
    at m8.sendToShell (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.mjs:339:243)
    at file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.mjs:337:1614
    at new Promise (<anonymous>) {
  errno: -32,
  code: 'EPIPE',
  syscall: 'write'
}

~/c/xpost ❯❯❯ node -v                                                                                       ✘ 1 main
v23.7.0
~/c/xpost ❯❯❯ npm -v                                                                                            main
11.1.0
~/c/xpost ❯❯❯

works with sudo though

~/c/xpost ❯❯❯ sudo claude                                                                                   ✘ 1 main
Password:
╭────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ✻ Welcome to Claude Code research preview! │
│                                            │
│   /help for help                           │
│                                            │
│   cwd: /Users/moses/code/xpost             │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ > Try "create a util logging.py that..."                                                                         │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
  ! for bash mode · / for commands · esc to undo                                                    \⏎ for newline

I think we have a fix for this coming in the next release, unless this is a separate issue. Does it help if you go

SHELL=/bin/bash claude

thanks that worked.

SHELL=/bin/bash claude                                                                            main
╭────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ✻ Welcome to Claude Code research preview! │
│                                            │
│   /help for help                           │
│                                            │
│   cwd: /Users/moses/code/xpost             │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ > Try "how do I log an error?"                                                                                   │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
  ! for bash mode · / for commands · esc to undo                                                    \⏎ for newline

awesome! I'll push a new release right now

@wolffiex had the same issue, sudo fixed it, but setting SHELL didn't!

Ok thanks for the report. The shell is finicky beast. We are adding some
logic to fix the case that is addressed by the workaround I posted. For the
folks who need to run sudo, I'm adding some logging that hopefully help us
track this down.

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I use fish as a shell, but starting with

SHELL=/bin/bash claude

solved the problem for me

@wolffiex Thanks for the quick fix!

I can confirm it works since the update (without workarounds)

Ok thanks for the report. The shell is finicky beast. We are adding some logic to fix the case that is addressed by the workaround I posted. For the folks who need to run sudo, I'm adding some logging that hopefully help us track this down. […](#)

@wolffiex
Thank you! Is there any way I can get those logs to you?

This has been bugging me for days!!

SHELL=/bin/bash claude works perfectly. Thank you.

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