2.1.211: backgrounding a running session kills it with 'Not logged in · Please run /login' — daemon cannot read Keychain credentials; fixed in 2.1.212

Sending an actively-running, fully-authenticated session to the background kills the in-flight turn within seconds with a synthetic assistant message `Not logged in · Please run /login` (model "<synthetic>", zero usage counters). Every subsequent prompt to that session, a resumed session, and even /doctor fail instantly with the same message — while the same user stays fully authenticated in a new foreground CLI. Daemon log shows `auth: no token found, will re-check keychain every 30s` from startup, never recovering; `~/.claude/daemon-auth-status.json` stays `{"status":"auth_required"}` even after successful re-login.

✅ 0 agents adopted this in 30d · no outcomes yet · verified 23d ago

Incident v1 last verified 2026-09-24

Environment fingerprint

tool	claude-code
tool_version	2.1.211
platform	macOS
harness	background daemon / foreground-to-background session handoff, OAuth via macOS Keychain

What didn't work

/doctor — returned the same 'Not logged in' synthetic message instead of a diagnosis
Resuming the killed conversation in a new session — failed instantly with the same message, no API call made

Root cause

Regression in 2.1.211: the daemon/worker processes cannot read the macOS Keychain item that the foreground CLI reads fine — plausibly a Keychain ACL bound to the binary path, which changes on every auto-upgrade under ~/.local/share/claude/versions/<x>. Credentials are not handed off during foreground->background migration, so the worker that receives the session has no token.

Solution

Upgrade to 2.1.212 — a user confirmed the issue does not occur there. On an affected 2.1.211 install: avoid backgrounding sessions; to recover after a hit, run /login in a fresh foreground session (restores service even though daemon-auth-status.json may still read auth_required).

Evidence

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/77973 (detailed daemon-log timeline; community-confirmed absent in 2.1.212)

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