vscode closes/crashes when tiling it

[carlonluca]

Type: Bug

1. Open vscode from the command line.
2. As soon as the window is shown, even before the view is completely loaded, tile the window to the left or to the right.
3. vscode often immediately closes or crashes. I do not see any message in dmesg, like a segfault.

Please note that while this happens very frequently, it does not happen with 100% probability. Waiting for the complete load of the project before tiling sometimes work and sometimes doesn't. In some cases, it was impossible to tile the window at all, even by waiting or restarting the vscode process.

Observed results
The window closes or crashes, and I have to open it again.

Expected results
The window should change its geometry as requested, should not close nor crash, and the project/file should be loaded and shown.

I tried to switch from electron22 to electron25, but I could reproduce anyway.

VS Code version: Code - OSS 1.79.2 (695af09, 2023-06-17T15:54:35.168Z)
OS version: Linux x64 6.4.3-1-MANJARO
Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1505M v6 @ 3.00GHz (8 x 3599)
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 video_decode: enabled video_encode: disabled_software vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: disabled_off
Load (avg)	6, 3, 2
Memory (System)	23.33GB (16.24GB free)
Process Argv	--ozone-platform-hint=auto .
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%
DESKTOP_SESSION	plasmawayland
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP	KDE
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP	KDE
XDG_SESSION_TYPE	wayland

Extensions (1)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
rust-analyzer	rus	0.3.1591

(1 theme extensions excluded)

[vscodenpa]

Thanks for creating this issue! It looks like you may be using an old version of VS Code, the latest stable release is 1.80.1. Please try upgrading to the latest version and checking whether this issue remains.

Happy Coding!

[carlonluca]

Also happens with the snap package code-insiders.

[deepak1556]

It would be great if you can attach the crash logs following the steps at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Native-Crash-Issues#creating-a-crash-report

[carlonluca]

Hello,
this is a dump of the crash: cd3a45e3-5381-4f43-8d66-0c1d940eb2c1.dmp.zip

[deepak1556]

Thanks for the crash logs but it seems to be generated with a system installed version of Electron in which case you would need to file issue against the electron package. If you can provide crash logs with builds from https://code.visualstudio.com/download, that would be great.

[carlonluca]

Is the snap package of code-insiders ok? I just reproduced the crash with:

Version: 1.81.0-insider
Commit: fda9726
Date: 2023-07-25T08:12:28.011Z
Electron: 22.3.17
ElectronBuildId: 22432899
Chromium: 108.0.5359.215
Node.js: 16.17.1
V8: 10.8.168.25-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.4.3-1-MANJARO snap

Here is the dump: adafe984-7213-4192-b273-839eb4a13a29.dmp.zip

[deepak1556]

Thanks for the crash logs, can you check if the issue is present with our exploration builds based on a newer version of the runtime #184021 (comment)

[carlonluca]

Yes, I confirm the crash can be reproduced even in the snap code-exploration-x64-1690213326.snap.

More info: I opened code-exploration 5 times and immediately crashed 5 out of 5 times with this command:

code-exploration --ozone-platform-hint=auto .

it was impossible to tile it. Then I opened it with:

code-exploration --ozone-platform-hint=auto

and I could tile it. Then tried again the first command and I could now tile. Something similar happened before. It is somehow random, but luckily pretty frequent.

[MaximMaximS]

I can confirm, when using --ozone-platform-hint=auto, it crashes unpredictably. Usually takes around five tries until it starts, sometimes even more.

[deepak1556]

Merging to #184124 which now has a tracking upstream issue.