I am trying to update my VS Code but am getting an error message: Updates may fail due to anti virus software and/or runaway processes.
A log file stemming from my Users was attached, but I am not sure what to check for. I am still new to computers and programming.
I copied the Code.exe file from where my program was installed and pasted it to the temp map: C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code
I reran the update and it works.
Run the update setup file, with a name like "CodeSetup-stable-...exe", in the following location:
C:\Users\<:User>\AppData\Local\Temp\vscode-update-system-x64
Replace <:User> with your username. And make sure VS Code is closed.
The same problem happened to me as well. It was because I installed VS Code in another directory other than the default location. The problem happened because after downloading the update in the Temp directory, VS Code tried to locate the previous installation in the default location to update it. As it failed, the update setup file remained with the temporary files. The problem was solved by manually installing the update.
This is how I resolved the problem:
Close VSCode.
Run VSCode AS ADMINISTRATOR by right clicking in the VS Code icon. This process opens VScode.
Now run the same VSCODE update as usual from inside VSCode.
VSCode closes after the update process and the latest VSCODE version is installed.
This happens because you installed VSCode in a specific directory, delete and download again but leave the default directory. This is because the update file looks for the default directory
This problem appeared to me because I moved the files of the setup of the vscode from Partition to another, and the solution was very simple. I opened the file that was in the path that appeared in the alert, and the problem was solved.
Just make sure any instance vscode was closed!
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I have a very annoying problem in my VScode setup.
I'm using WSL as a terminal to work on my projects and occasionally, mistype the name of one of the folder or file that I'm working with.
For example:
I accidentally created the Mainheader.js file in layout folder (without the capitalized L) therefore, I decided to rename the folder with a capital L.
Now on my React app, any changes made to MainHeader.js file will not be reflected. I did update the related import.
So I decided to delete the entire folder and recreate it with MainHeader.js but this is what I end up with.
The file is there in my folder but when I click on it, I get
"Unable to open Mainheader.js - File not found"
So I try to create it then I get this error:
Unable to create file 'wsl\path]to\MainHeader.js' that already exists when overwrite flag is not set
Has anyone run into this type of behavior in WSL before? It's quite annoying because the only workaround I've found so far is to create a completely different folder with a different name...
Any help would be appreciated. I can't really work like this.
I've been having the same problem for the past 2 days. I presume its a permissions issue, but unfortunately I don't know how to permanently fix it.
I did find this work-around though:
Open a new VS Code window. (I'd recommend closing any VS Code window that had
your project directory open.)
Create a duplicate or copy the contents of the problem file so you don't lose
your code.
Delete the problem file.
Now create the file again using VS Code. Go to File > New Text File. Next paste
in your code.
Now save your new file. Go to File > Save As and save your new file with at the same path + filename + extension that was giving you problems previously. VS Code should allow you to save the new file without any issue.
Now you can open this new VS Code window to your project directory and you should be able to continuing accessing the file that was a problem before.
Basically we just deleted the problem file and then created it again from scratch in a new VS Code window.
Hope this work-around works for you!
EDIT 09/20/2022
Following Baza86's answer here solved the issue for me. Seems like it was a permissions issue of sorts, but if you use the Remote-WSL extension VS code can directly access the linux filesystem.
How to run VScode in sudo mode in WSL2?
You may need add the case option to you options in the wsl config. The default is set to off, however you can set this to off, dir or force.
Open your wsl.conf using sudo with any text editor while running window subsystem Linux. The config file resides in /etc/wsl.conf. This file is used to configure settings per-distribution for Linux distros running on WSL 1 or WSL 2.
My default config looked like this yours may be different:
[automount]
options = "metadata"
add
[automount]
options = "metadata,case=dir"
Here is the official Microsoft docs for Advanced settings configuration in WSL - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config
I have vsc version 1.63.2. I'm getting the following notification:
"File changes watcher stopped unexpectedly. A reload of the window may enable the watcher again unless the workspace cannot be watched for file changes."
When I click the reload button, the issue is temporarily fixed and Source Control shows changes to my files. Git in CLI is working fine; git log --raw shows changes to my files correctly. I've tested brand new and old repositories and workspaces. The problem occurs in all of them. Any help troubleshooting this is greatly appreciated!
I just ran into this issue today and found my solution by viewing the "Window" logs using the "Developer: Open Log File..." command from the Command Palette.
In my case, the problem was that I had added a folder to my workspace that I had since deleted on the file system. The log in question looked something like:
... [error] [File Watcher (parcel)] Unexpected error: Invalid handle (EUNKNOWN) (path: \path\that\no\longer\exists)
... [error] [File Watcher (parcel)] restarting watcher after error: Invalid handle
Hopefully viewing this log helps you find out what's breaking in your specific case.
I also encountered this problem. I was using VSCode and opening a folder in it on WSL Ubuntu 20.04. The solution for me was to install the VS Code Remote - WSL extension.
I hope this will be useful for someone.
TLDR : on Windows 10, if you have Cygwin64 installed and you got a Git For Windows update, check Git for Windows path comes before Git from Cygwin path in environment variables.
Long version : Just got into the same error today. The Git Lens extension was not working anymore.
I'm on Win 10, so there is no way (at least I didn't find one) to increase the limit of watchers like on linux. My VS Code is v1.66.2, Git Lens extension is v12.0.6.
In my case, the logs said :
... [error] [File Watcher (parcel)] Unexpected error: Invalid handle (EUNKNOWN) (path: cygwin\g\path\that\exists)
Notice that ENOSPC !== EUNKNOWN
So I searched everywhere with little to no success, except here where Gordon Christopher Weeks's answer actually hinted me towards that logs.
Then I remembered several things :
I have a terminal installed that's called cygwin64 and that allows me to use some linux utilities otherwise not available on Win (like rsync);
two days ago, I authorized an update for Git for Windows (2.35.2);
when I installed cygwin, the tutorial I followed told me about following a certain sequence in the Windows path environment variable
So I checked the path variable, noticed the Git update deleted the initial path to git and put it in the last place. I only had to move it up, before the cygwin64 path to git.exe (a git utility is included with cygwin) and everything's back to normal.
Hope this helps and so you won't waste the time I did !
[Possible quick solution] First thing to check is to see if you are tracking a WSL folder in a Visual Studio Code Explorer workspace AND you switched VS Code back to windows (was in a WSL distro).
If so, then right-clicking on it and selecting "remove from workspace" will also remove it from the file change watcher.
Refresh the file change watcher (bell icon, lower right corner of window) to see if it cleans up the problem.
This was the issue I had with the system.
I went to open a repo using Vs Code on a remote ssh host. I can ssh in successfully but when I try to open a repo I get Failed to connect to the remote extension host server (Error: Handler already set!). I've tried un installing and re installing Vs Code. Does anyone have a fix other than switching ides.
avenmore comment helped me:
I started getting this message with v1.57.0 when trying to run a Vue
project. Long story short: I usually have my DEBUG CONSOLE window
docked inside to the right of my TERMINAL (powershell), and upon
opening VSCode it wouldn't be visible and I'd get this message after
building successfully and trying to launch. The work-around is to
close VSCode, navigate to folder
USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\workspaceStorage and delete the
contents (notably state.vscdb) and then restart VSCode. The DEBUG
CONSOLE then shows itself again and all is fine unless I dock it again
and close VSCode and there is a good chance of it happening again next
time VSCode is opened. I have stopped docking the window inside the
terminal and it hasn't happened since.
For me what solved this was to go into the 'remote explorer' and clear out the SSH Targets that I already had in there before the upgrade, and then just paste them in again. Now I can connect. For example, a re-pasted SSH command looked like:
ssh -i "/Users/myuseraccount/abc.pem" someuser#ec2-ip-instance1.compute.amazonaws.com
A few days later this stopped working again. I think maybe because my SSH targets config saved what I pasted in as my SSH connection command. It appears "sometimes" if there are any entries in the SSH target config file, that this error occurs.
I find to ensure this error never occurs do
rm ~/.ssh/config
every time before you open Vs Code. Assuming ~/.ssh/config is where your Vs Code is reading its SSH entries from. There is one other place possible under /etc/$somewhere (I dont know where).
Then when you go to your empty SSH Target and hit the (+) button to connect, paste in the entire ssh connection request at the top of this file. I think you have to clear out the SSH targets every time otherwise I get this error coming up again days later.
Try in settings.json add item "security.workspace.trust.enabled": false
Windows, VSCode 1.57.1
I've just remove and added the host again in ssh configuration:
If you are using MacOS, I found a way.
Close Visual Studio Code, delete files in these two folder, then restart Visual Studio Code.
rm -rf $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Code
rm -rf $HOME/.vscode
I tried all solution on this post, and can't get success. Then cloned another repo on my WSL folder then open, it was fine. So I changed my repo name, then problem gone. Maybe it may dumb solution. But it works me.
You gonna have to change the "debug.terminal.clearBeforeReusing" to true on setting.json. It works for me
I noticed there was a workspace folder in the folder above, deleted that and it resolved the issue
On the remote system, after various things had happened, I did mv .vscode .vscode-old to basically reset the remote .vscode (over ssh). I had also renamed the remote folder for the project -- not sure if that matters. Then I was was able to connect to it again.
I can't be scientific about those "various things that happened", but I'll to list some:
I had created a second project alongside the first and had connected to it - this was for unrelated reasons and preceded the "handler" error
it was then that I had issues connecting to the first one, even though it had worked for months and months without me ever having this Handler already set error -- related to creating the 2nd one? Not sure. The 2nd one worked fine throughout.
I tried File: Open Folder... from the second remote project and opened the first; it opened but got 2 python exception errors in a python extension - unfortunately I can't remember what they were. This could be noise / unrelated. I happen to have both MS python and pylance extensions installed remotely, I think it was the pylance once that was not happy.
during this, I had also renamed the 1st folder which didn't work; I'm not sure if the rename triggered the different behaviour ie python ext errors instead of the "handler" error
I then replaced .vscode in the first remote project (with the new folder name)
... and that was when it worked, with no "handler" error and no complaints from the python extension(s)
I deleted a folder in Visual Studio Code to recreate it. But each time it recovers all files whereas I just want to create a new empty folder with same name.
This is a common issue that I am also facing for more then a year now and I am unable to find an open issue about this on Github. Every issue related to this that is opened gets closed because the developers are unable to find the source of the problem.
One way I could sometimes replicate the issue is to:
Open the project folder in Windows Explorer
Search for something inside VSCode that is contained in the folder
you are going to delete.
Try to delete the folder in VSCode.
Folder is not deleted.
Clearing the search after does not solve the issue. Most of the times I have to close and reopen VSCode.
Another ridiculous part is that the VSCode sends the file to the OS Trash and you are unable to undo the deletion when it works (CRTL + Z). VSCode is being pushed to the community by many developers but is really an infant editing tool that is terrible, the only amazing part of it is the huge ammount of plugins.
This is a long lasting bug that occurs ALL THE TIME with me. I know this is not a valid answer, but it's what I know about this problem this far.
i had the same problem. But works turn off malwarebytes. Maybe another antivirus is blocking to delete folders to, try this.
Try running Visual Studio in Administrator mode. It worked for me.
It took 6 hours to find out that.... it can be deleted by VsCode file explorer, if i try to delete it manually it juggles with admin permission and user permission back and fourth.
Just delete the folder from VSCODE file explorer from the left menu.
I just restart my mac and everything went well after that 🤞
i had the same problem. I go to Terminal and turn off all powershell,a voala I finally can delete folder from VS explorer.
I have been looking around and I haven't found any answers to my issue.
I keep getting this error "Extension host terminated unexpectedly." and I have tried removing all of my extensions, reinstalling the program, trying different versions of vscode including the insider versions.
The way I get this isssue isn't from trying to use the debugger or trying to use some sort of extension, as I said before I removed all of them and the error keeps on coming back, it's simply from opening the application. I'm not entirely sure how to continue? I have had to use another editor because the error just doesn't go away. I will just have to wait for another update of Visual Studio Code I assume? I've had the issue since tuesday this week, guessing since the latest update.
Above is the error message I get. It is closed by esc but reappears very shortly after, every time.
When I open developer tools, this is what I find in the console.
Running vscode from command prompt with Code.exe --disable-extensions doesn't help.
Visual Studio Code version: 1.16.1
I appreciate any help.
Linking my github issue on Microsoft/vscode as reference
I had the same error after updating vsc to v. 1.31.0.
Disabling Live Server Extension worked for me.
Here's the error i'm getting having the extension enabled.
I started getting this error when vscode automatically updated to March 2020 (version 1.44). I have tried various suggestions given in the forum and over the internet but none of them worked.
What worked for me: I downloaded January 2020 (version 1.42) build from https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_42 and ran over the previous installation without uninstalling and surprisingly, the error disappeared and all extensions are loading and working properly.
I tried following things and non of them worked:
I disabled all the installed extension from GUI.
uninstalled all the extension and installed again.
removed the left-over extensions from Windows %USERPROFILE%.vscode\extensions.
tried launching from the command prompt with --disable-extensions option.
Linking my github issue on Microsoft/vscode as reference.
It ended up being one of the base extensions that runs on startup that was the root of the problem.
In my case the git in extensions folder was causing it.
"git.enabled": false was not doing the trick so I had to remove the git folder altogether for the error to disappear.
In my case, I used typescript-hero extension. Disabling this extension fixed my problem.
It's temporal fix but maybe will help somebody.
I disabled all the extensions with name Live for example Live Server, Live Share etc and restarted my vscode again and it worked for me.
For me this was happening due to HTML CSS Support extension. so i removed it and restarted vs code and voila! it worked!
I had to uninstall few extensions related to Java (debugger for java, Test runner for java, extension pack for java etc) to make the error go away.
Click on the developer tool option that popups and see if it has the extension which is causing this error.
I got same issue and it was because of Color Highlight Extension. I just uninstalled Color Highlight Extension and its working fine and NO ERROR.
Me too. My failure has no "Code":
Extension host terminated unexpectedly. Code: null Signal: SIGABRT
MessageService.ts
I recently ran into the same error message after accepting a permission to run a program on the extension livepreview. It corrupted all other extensions where it could not find the commands. I deleted all extension files and reinstalled the other extensions without a problem. I tried liveserver again but It never prompted me again for permissions and still, the error message keeps occurring. I'm assuming liveserver was trying to ask the computer permission to run a local server after which is still accepted but something else is interfering with the computer being able to translate from the program to actually building and accessing the local server.
In my case, the live server extension was causing this issue in 1.31.0v of VS Code. After uninstalling the extension it started working correctly.
In my case it was from the extension "Todo Tree". It was breaking on a particularly large file in my project (13.7mb), with the error saying the file was over the max-size for a node-buffer (used by the C regex matcher).
Resolved the issue by disabling the extension.
I also opened an issue for it here: https://github.com/Gruntfuggly/todo-tree/issues/135
I had same problem with following error in my VSCode console.
`1: node::DecodeWrite
2: node::InternalCallbackScope::Close
3: v8::internal::VirtualMemory::TakeControl
4: v8::internal::PerThreadAssertScope<4,1>::PerThreadAssertScope<4,1>
5: v8::internal::operator<<
6: v8::internal::operator<<
7: 00000073ECF04481`
I solved it by uninstalling Angular Console extension. Not sure if it was that particular extension or some other memory issue but problem went away as soon as I uninstalled that.
Remove all Extensions which are located in a per user extensions folder. Depending on your platform, the location is in the following folder:
Windows %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions
macOS
~/.vscode/extensions
Linux ~/.vscode/extensions
Restart vscode and start installing extensions.
I am not sure why this caused , but the Antivirus was throwing popups that something like extensionprocess.js file was repaired.
Disabled the Antivirus and re-installed Vscode and it was back to normal.
Hope this helps.
Here is what helped me:
Ctrl+Shift+P --> type: "Disable"
and click Disable all installed extensions
(alternatively click Disable all installed extensions for this Workspace)
Then go to extensions panel on the left and re-enable slowly those that you really need.
See which extension (or their combination) triggers that error.
It will be highly appreciated which extenstion/combination you'll find guilty as there may be several of them, and different in time...
for me, it was code runner extension I just disabled it.