When opening a new terminal, VScode will briefly display the integrated terminal and then close it with an error message:
The terminal process command 'C:\windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe' failed to launch (exit code: {2})
This error first happened when I tried to open the terminal while in a folder located in a different drive from cmd and powershell, but seems to happen in C: as well. The terminals function outside of VScode. This error occurs even when running the application as an administrator.
Things I have tried:
Adding "terminal.integrated.windowsEnableConpty": false to my settings.json
Changed it to run the cmd prompt instead
Deleted 'C:\Users\Name\AppData\Code'
Reinstalled
Restarted my computer
Running SFC /scannow
Here is my settings.json:
{
"window.zoomLevel": -1,
"workbench.startupEditor": "none",
"files.autoSave": "afterDelay",
"editor.fontFamily": "'Roboto Mono', monospace",
"editor.cursorBlinking": "expand",
"zenMode.hideLineNumbers": false,
"zenMode.hideTabs": false,
"zenMode.hideStatusBar": false
}
Exit code 2 is "The system cannot find the file specified." Windows does keep a copy of important files and there is a tool to replace the missing and corrupt files.
1) Open the command prompt as Administrator
2) Type SFC /scannow
3) After the scan completes reboot your machine.
Turns out, whitelisting the folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code in my anti-malware program fixed the problem for me. Thanks for the help though!
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It used to work fine, but recently whenever I run my code (Python), I get the message "Shell Integration failed to activate" when I hover my mouse over the active terminal. The active Python terminal doesn't recognize any command line commands like "pip" anymore (see screenshot)
What can I do? I played around with a couple of settings as described here, but nothing seems to work. My current setting.json file looks like this:
{
"python.defaultInterpreterPath": "C:\\Users\\cleme\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python310\\python.exe",
"terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
"PowerShell": {
"path": "C:\\Windows\\system32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe",
"source": "PowerShell",
"icon": "terminal-powershell",
}
},
"terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "PowerShell"
}
I ended up deleting the whole Code folder within the C:\Users\AppData\Roaming.
Note: You have to check the box - view Hidden Files to see these folders within File Explorer.
This solved it.
There must have been some weird corrupted cache issue at the heart of this.
I found this in C:\Users<profile>\AppData\Roaming\Code\logs<datetimestamp>\ptyhost.log
[2022-10-17 07:25:50.695] [ptyhost] [warning] Couldn't get layout info, a terminal was probably disconnected Could not find pty on pty host
[2022-10-17 07:25:54.040] [ptyhost] [warning] Shell integration cannot be enabled for executable "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" and args []
[2022-10-17 07:26:57.939] [ptyhost] [warning] Shell integration cannot be enabled for executable "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" and args []
I think it is related to this.
BTW: I had tried adding a couple of PowerShell VSCode IDE Extensions when things went awry.
IIRC they were:
PowerShell
PowerShell Preview
I had upgraded PowerShell to the latest version 7 too.
$PSVersionTable yielded the following from the respective executables.
Executable Path
Version
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
5.1.17763.1852
C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe
7.2.6
Maybe that combo hosed things
Follow up note: Whilst it seemed to have fixed the issue once... soon after the problem manifested itself again. This time I couldn't reset VS Code to a working environment.
Then I realised had opened the Project folder in the explorer on the left of the IDE.
I had a subfolder that had a PS1 file within that.
It didn't have its own .vscode\settings.json
When I copied it down from the parent folder, suddenly everything worked again.
.vscode\settings.json just contained this:
{
}
Again this ended up being a one time solution.
I ended up back at:
Shell activation failed to activate for cmd.exe
I posted this as a new ticket here
In the end I found this to be more of a display issue than anything else!
You can actually type cls then hit ENTER, to restore things to the status quo.
The Terminal section is black with no prompt to begin with. But you can type in it!!!
Perhaps the Prompt is black text on a black background initally, since when you start typing cls, it's quite a way to the right of the left margin.
Closing VSCode, verifying that powershell works, then reopening it worked for me.
OS is linux.
Opening the terminal produces this error:
The terminal process failed to launch: Path to shell executable "bash" is not a file of a symlink.
The path to bash is correct in settings.json and the $PATH variable.
This is Visual Studio Code version 1.57.1. rolling back to an earlier version fixes the issue, so I made a bug report.
As jebeaudet said in his comment, edit the file
~/.config/Code/User/settings.json
and add this line
"terminal.integrated.profiles.linux": {"bash": {"path": "/bin/bash"}},
(in my case has occurs when upgrading from v1.55 to v1.60)
In my case, terminal.integrated.shell.linux wasn't set in settings.json which was causing the issue
I noticed the same problem since I upgraded to 1.57.1.
The problem shows up when I launch VSCODE from Gnome desktop or from the terminal without following the command code with a dot.
However if I enter "code ." then there is no problem.
I could not find "terminal.integrated.shell.linux" in the settings to set the path to the shell bash command.
I have read several other forums and posts about setting the default directory when opening a new integrated terminal session to no avail.
When I first start using VSC it seems to open the workspace directory for the first couple days. But it must have synched my settings from a previous install and brought back something that I could never figure out on my previous windows install. For some reason when it opens a terminal it opens to the AppData folder location for Microsoft VS Code as shown below:
<user>#<hostname>:/mnt/c/Users/<user>/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code$
If for instance I go into File > Preferences > Settings and try adding $HOME or ${HOME} I get:
The terminal process failed to launch: STarting directory (cwd)
"/home/<user>/${HOME}" does not exist.
or
The terminal process failed to launch: Starting directory (cwd)
"/home/<user>/$HOME" does not exist.
After doing this if I delete the information in Cwd then I receive the error that:
Setting has an invalid type, expect "string". Fix in JSON.
I can fix this by changing the setting to:
"terminal.integrated.cwd": "."
My user profile is basically default:
{
"workbench.editorAssociations": [
{
"viewType": "jupyter.notebook.ipynb",
"filenamePattern": "*.ipynb"
}
],
"git.autofetch": true,
"workbench.colorTheme": "One Dark Pro",
"python.languageServer": "Pylance",
"terminal.integrated.scrollback": 10000,
"terminal.integrated.tabs.enabled": true,
"terminal.integrated.tabs.location": "left",
"terminal.integrated.bellDuration": 10000,
"terminal.integrated.cwd": "."
}
There are only a few settings I changed like tab location and scrollback value.
Any thoughts?
Re-install and newer versions of WSL seemed to be the only fix for this.
I have this issue in microsoft visual studio code, whenever I open the terminal the first message I get is The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. The terminal works fine.. just it bugs me to see see this error message whenever I open the terminal.. how do I fix it?
I Installed Cmder as my default visual studio code terminal, maybe there is something related to this error?
thanks in advance
I am not sure how you have installed cmder as the integrated terminal in vscode but in settings.json you could try pointing the terminal.integrated.shell.windows to cmd.exe and the terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows to what makes cmd.exe be (act like) cmder which is cmder's init.bat file. So in your vscode settings.json add or modify the below lines to point to your cmd.exe and cmder init.bat respectivley.
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe",
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [ "/k", "C:\\cmder\\vendor\\init.bat"],
I got the same problum but it got fixed by following this steps
go to setting and search json
click on launch -(Edit in setting.json)
now replace the line "terminal.integrated.shell.windows":(path as showing) line to
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe",
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [ "/k", "C:\cmder\vendor\init.bat"],
save the program. Done!
I'm trying to launch the new Windows Terminal through VSCode like I have with other terminal emulators.
Previously I've used the following setting in the VSCode JSON file settings.json to launch Cmder through VSCode with ctrl+C
"terminal.external.windowsExec": "C:\\Program Files\\cmder\\Cmder.exe",
However, trying the same with the directory of the Windows Terminal directory has been unsuccessful.
"terminal.external.windowsExec": "C:\\Program Files\\WindowsApps\\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.0.1401.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\\WindowsTerminal.exe",
I thought that the executable was wt.exe, so if I'm correct, in your settings.json, you should be using:
"terminal.external.windowsExec": "C:\\Users\\skillcap\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\wt.exe",
(remember to change the user name as required).
As a side note, the executable should also have been added to your %PATH%, so you should be able to generally start it using just wt, (with an unmodified %PATHEXT% variable).