I am trying to connect to Remote SSH through Remote-SSH extension, however it hangs at "Downloading VSCode Server" step for a long time after updating the vscode release. Please find the logs for the same as below
[17:55:58.394] Remote server is listening on port 44281
[17:55:58.394] Parsed server configuration: {"serverConfiguration":{"remoteListeningOn":{"port":44281},"osReleaseId":"ol","arch":"x86_64","sshAuthSock":"","display":"","tmpDir":"/run/user/1663455","platform":"linux"},"serverStartTime":70,"installUnpackCode":""}
[17:55:58.395] Persisting server connection details to /Users/skatpara/Library/Application Support/Code/User/globalStorage/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh/vscode-ssh-host-5d30b538-8b617bd08fd9e3fc94d14adb8d358b56e3f72314-0.106.1/data.json
[17:55:58.398] Starting forwarding server. local port 49696 -> socksPort 49694 -> remotePort 44281
[17:55:58.398] Forwarding server listening on port 49696
[17:55:58.398] Waiting for ssh tunnel to be ready
[17:55:58.400] Tunneled port 44281 to local port 49696
[17:55:58.400] Resolved "ssh-remote+node" to "port 49696"
[17:55:58.402] Initizing new exec server for ssh-remote+node
[17:55:58.402] Resolving exec server at port 49696
[17:55:58.414] [Forwarding server port 49696] Got connection 0
[17:55:58.415] [Forwarding server port 49696] Got connection 1
[17:55:59.362] Exec server for ssh-remote+node created and cached
[17:55:59.369] ------
[17:55:59.693] [server] Checking /home/uname/.vscode-server/cli/servers/Stable-8b617bd08fd9e3fc94d14adb8d358b56e3f72314/log.txt and /home/uname/.vscode-server/cli/servers/Stable-8b617bd08fd9e3fc94d14adb8d358b56e3f72314/pid.txt for a running server...
[17:55:59.735] [server] Installing and setting up Visual Studio Code Server...
I expect to resolve the issue and be able to connect to remote server through vscode Remote-SSH extension
There's a bug in version 0.106.1 of the Remote SSH extension used with VS Code 1.82: [Remote-SSH Bug]: Remote-SSH 0.106.1 gets stuck downloading the server #8926
The suggested workaround for version 0.106.1 is to set "remote.SSH.useExecServer": false. It is disabled by default in version 0.106.2. The default will be changed back to true when the bug is fixed- perhaps in the next stable VS Code release.
Before 0.106.2 was released, other users used other workarounds such as downgrading/rolling-back the extension to version 0.102.0, downloading and extracting the server files manually, downgrading VS Code to 1.81.