No Menu, Commands Or SSH Icon After Installing with VSIX File in Closed Network

[advra]

Installing Remote Development Extension Pack does not show any SSH, WSL or Container menu icons on the left hand side of VSCode. Extensions show the Remote Development Extension as installed. No remote menu or icon can be found. F1 in command menu shows Install Remote Development Pack but not specific menus such as ">Remote-SSH Add New Remote Host" as it typically would.

• VSCode Version: 1.65.2
• Local OS Version: RHEL 7.9
• Remote OS Version: RHEL 7.9
• Remote Extension/Connection Type: SSH/Containers/WSL: Remote Development Pack v0.21.0
• Logs: Cannot confirm but installing extension showed no errors in the IDE a typical fail would show

Steps to Reproduce:

1. In machine without internet
2. Download VSCode 1.65.2 and install
3. Download VSIX extension file for Remote Development Pack
4. Transfer files to Machine
5. Install VSCode
6. Within VSCode install the Remote Development Pack via "Install from VSIX" file option
7. Confirm extension menu shows Remote Development pack appears under the "Installed" categories

Does this issue occur when you try this locally?: Running locally on machine (no option to connect to host)
Does this issue occur when you try this locally and all extensions are disabled?: Yes all other extensions are disabled

[chrmarti]

You also need to download and install the Remote-WSL, Remote-SSH and Remote-Containers extensions as separate VSIX files. (The extension pack only references these but does not include them in its VSIX file. You can omit the extension pack's VSIX, it does not add anything beyond pulling in the other extensions.)

[advra]

That was it thank you. Does this vary between extension packs? I assumed it was not a reference because installing other extension packages like Java Extension Park worked fine with the Extension Pack VSIX files rather than installing individually like you suggested for remote extension pack.

[advra]

I am now able to ssh into my server but the server is offline and has no internet access either. I see the following before it failed:

Downloading VS Code server locally...
Terminating local server

I assume because it has no internet it cannot install the server on the host I am trying to connect to. How would I resolve this? Hmm could be related to #1242 unfortunately I set "remote.SSH.allowLocalServerDownload": always in the json settings I get the following error which immediatley closes the console.

Heres what I was able to obtain:

aa@hostname's password:
37ufh25893y: running
Acquiring lock on _____________________________________
Installation already in progress ...
If you continue to see this message you can try toggling the remote.SSH.useFlock setting
37ufh25893y: start
exitcode==24==
listeningOn=====
onReeleaseId==rhel==
arch==x86_64==
tmpdir==/run/usr/500/==
platform==linux==
unpackResult====
didLocalDownload==0==
downloadTime====
installTime====
extInstallTime====
serverStarttime====
37ufh25893y: end

I also tried toggling remote.SSH.useFlock as suggested in the message with no change in behavior.

[advra]

I also tried to sshed into the host and removed the ~/.vscode-server folder. When sshing again it attempted to download vs code server locally but errored with Resolved Error: XHR Failed

[advra]

It looks like the offline installer only works if Local machine has internet while the remote doesnt from this discussion.

I'll download it and transfer it to my local machine. But Id like to know for security reasons in my organization if the server is derived from this github repo or does it reside in a different repo?

Edit: Looking at the gist script mentioned here it appears vscode server points to the same commitid as this vscode repo

[advra]

Added a feature request #6828 which expands on this issue.