code-server: 500 VS Code failed to load

Hello, I know that this issue has been reported a few other times, but I’m still having this issue and I’m not sure how to resolve. My node version seems to satisfy requirements.

OS/Web Information

Web Browser: Chromium (Raspberry Pi)
Local OS: macOS / iPad
Remote OS: raspbian
Remote Architecture:
code-server --version: 3.9.3
npm --version: 6.14.4
node --version: v13.14.0
code --version: 1.56.0

Steps to Reproduce

Install vscode with ~~apt~~ yarn -> yarn add code-server
Run with code-server

$ which code-server
/home/pi/.yarn/bin/code-server

Expected

VSCode should start up after entering my password.

Actual

I enter my password, then I get the 500 error, VS Code failed to load. exited unexpectedly with code 0.

Logs

code-server --log debug

$ code-server --verbose
[2021-05-08T21:53:14.959Z] info  code-server 3.9.3 fe2dc2deb08e378069891b622bb62ad1d261d1b1
[2021-05-08T21:53:14.961Z] info  Using user-data-dir ~/.local/share/code-server
[2021-05-08T21:53:14.963Z] trace Using extensions-dir ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions
[2021-05-08T21:53:15.040Z] info  Using config file ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml
[2021-05-08T21:53:15.042Z] info  HTTP server listening on http://0.0.0.0:8081
[2021-05-08T21:53:15.043Z] info    - Authentication is enabled
[2021-05-08T21:53:15.044Z] info      - Using password from ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml
[2021-05-08T21:53:15.045Z] info    - Not serving HTTPS
[2021-05-08T21:53:23.712Z] trace heartbeat
[2021-05-08T21:53:23.752Z] debug forking vs code...
[2021-05-08T21:53:25.747Z] error VS Code exited unexpectedly with code 0

Notes

This issue can be reproduced in VS Code: Yes/No

Hardware Info

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l)
BogoMIPS        : 108.00
Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32 
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xd08
CPU revision    : 3

processor       : 1
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l)
BogoMIPS        : 108.00
Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32 
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xd08
CPU revision    : 3

processor       : 2
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l)
BogoMIPS        : 108.00
Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32 
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xd08
CPU revision    : 3

processor       : 3
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l)
BogoMIPS        : 108.00
Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32 
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xd08
CPU revision    : 3

Hardware        : BCM2711
Revision        : c03111
Serial          : 100000003f8957b8
Model           : Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 15 (7 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Great work @sameetandpotatoes 🙌 Glad you figured it out (and found a bug!). Like Asher said, we’ll go make sure to fix that so others don’t run into the same issue. Thanks again!

jsjoeio on May 24, 2021

I opened https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/3458. I’ll go ahead and close this issue; nice find by the way!!

code-asher on May 24, 2021

Ahhhh I think we should make sure our documentation and checks all enforce the version of Node that VS Code ships with (was v12 but I think it’s v14 as of 1.56).

code-asher on May 24, 2021

I’ll wait for @jsjoeio to close the issue in case there are any learnings or documentation updates to be made with this.

sameetandpotatoes on May 24, 2021

Ah I ended up getting it working!

Here’s what I did:

$ yarn global add vscode
$ cd $(yarn global dir)/node_modules
$ yarn global add code-server
$ yarn --check-files

^ That told me the dependencies were messed up, specifically node 13.14.0 is not compatible. I thought it was since I read elsewhere that anything below v14 was going to work.

I lost the exact CLI output, but It said these were the versions that were compatible: 10^ || 12^ || >= 14.0

So, using nvm, I uninstalled that newer version: nvm uninstall 13.14.0 and installed 12.0.0 nvm install 12.0.0.

Then, I made sure code-server binary was pointing to the binary directory under yarn (it was), and it worked!

sameetandpotatoes on May 24, 2021

@jsjoeio I’d be curious to know what versions of node and any other core dependencies you have installed on your Pi, so I can try to replicate with the same versions.

sameetandpotatoes on May 24, 2021

I’m still getting the same issue. This is the version that was installed.

[2021-05-19T16:51:59.905Z] info  code-server 3.10.1 421237f499079cf88d68c02163b70e2b476bbb0d

sameetandpotatoes on May 19, 2021

Well, not quite - at the end of the day, it’s still the same issue, no matter how I install it.

sameetandpotatoes on May 17, 2021

Interesting, I did try it again and got an error saying the cloud agent failed to download so —link wouldn’t work.

I also get warnings saying that The engine “vscode” appears to be invalid, but it doesn’t look to be serious after reading elsewhere online.

To be clear, I’m still getting the same issue.

sameetandpotatoes on May 17, 2021

I’m still having the issue. I just globally installed code-server with npm install code-server -g, and then ran code-server again. Same issue. Any ideas @jsjoeio? Should I have uninstalled code-server completely before doing that?

Edit: I also tried globally uninstalling and re-installing, same issue 😦

sameetandpotatoes on May 15, 2021