Extensions won't load in Linux

[Nightenom]

Type: Bug

Steps to Reproduce:

1. update from 1.73.1
2. see no extensions found

Might be dupe of #169808 or #170337, but I'm running on linux

Logs captured for both versions using shared trace (tho in older version the setting looks different than in newer one): , notice different Scanned user extensions - 35 vs 0

VS Code version: Code 1.74.2 (e8a3071, 2022-12-20T10:27:19.253Z)
OS version: Linux x64 5.10.0-20-amd64
Modes:
Sandboxed: No

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core Processor (24 x 2999)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_renderer: enabled_on video_decode: disabled_software video_encode: disabled_software vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: disabled_off
Load (avg)	0, 0, 0
Memory (System)	30.58GB (27.20GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id e4aa2530-b0be-4069-8355-e5851d07ffa0
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%
DESKTOP_SESSION	undefined
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP	KDE
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP	undefined
XDG_SESSION_TYPE	tty

Extensions: none

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[Nightenom]

/media/schimpet/progs/apps/linux64/vscode/data/extensions/extensions.json is full and looks correct, however, since I'm often switching Windows and Linux OSes, all the extension paths are in windows format and pointing to valid windows locations (when on Windows, obviously can't reach any of them on Linux)

[sandy081]

however, since I'm often switching Windows and Linux OSes, all the extension paths are in windows format and pointing to valid windows locations (when on Windows, obviously can't reach any of them on Linux)

Can you please explain how are you switching the platforms?
What are the locations of the extensions in the extensions.json file?

[Nightenom]

@sandy081

Can you please explain how are you switching the platforms?

I have two folders for binaries, one for Windows + one for Linux, which are updated manually from respective zip/tgz downloads. Then I have one data folder, which is linked to both binary folders as data directory (for Windows using junction link mklink /j, for Linux iirc using normal soft link). Start of vscode is then done by clicking respective code binary (and modifying shell environments for some other software to work correctly).

What are the locations of the extensions in the extensions.json file?

The answer is in the paragraph above - for both instances I use the same data folder (that is linked like said above). This setup is working since I use vscode (4 or 5 years).

edit: the linux path /media/schimpet/progs/apps/linux64/vscode/data/extensions/extensions.json is equivalent of windows drive:\apps\windows64\vscode\data\extensions\extensions.json, extensions themselves are located (as subfolders) in the same folder as extension.json

[sandy081]

Thanks for the explanation. I see that this bug is happening because of the absolute paths stored in extensions.json file. We fixed it in the current release here - #169006 This shall start working from the next release that will be available in 2 weeks. Meanwhile you can always use our insiders build that has the fix - https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/

Apologies for the bug.