vscode-jupyter: VS Code extension causing crash when Python files are opened

Applies To

• Notebooks (.ipynb files)
• Interactive Window and/or Cell Scripts (.py files with #%% markers)

What happened?

I had been able to work with Python files normally in VS Code until the afternoon of 2023-04-03 when VS Code started crashing with user error window of “The window terminated unexpectedly (reason:‘crashed’, code:‘133’)”

and main.log of

$ cat ~.config/Code/logs/20230403T173249/main.log
2023-04-03 17:32:49.870 [info] [SharedProcess] using utility process
2023-04-03 17:32:49.929 [info] update#setState idle
2023-04-03 17:32:53.879 [info] [UtilityProcess type: shared-process, pid: <none>]: creating new...
2023-04-03 17:32:53.884 [info] [UtilityProcess type: shared-process, pid: 213637]: successfully created
2023-04-03 17:32:54.165 [info] [UtilityProcess id: 1, type: fileWatcher, pid: <none>]: creating new...
2023-04-03 17:32:54.170 [info] [UtilityProcess id: 1, type: fileWatcher, pid: 213677]: successfully created
2023-04-03 17:32:54.239 [info] [UtilityProcess id: 1, type: extensionHost, pid: <none>]: creating new...
2023-04-03 17:32:54.245 [info] [UtilityProcess id: 1, type: extensionHost, pid: 213695]: successfully created
2023-04-03 17:33:17.753 [error] CodeWindow: renderer process gone (reason: crashed, code: 133)
2023-04-03 17:33:19.292 [info] [UtilityProcess id: 1, type: fileWatcher, pid: 213677]: received exit event with code 0
2023-04-03 17:33:19.388 [error] [UtilityProcess id: 1, type: fileWatcher, pid: 213677]: crashed with code 139 and reason 'crashed'
2023-04-03 17:33:19.930 [info] update#setState checking for updates
2023-04-03 17:33:19.997 [info] update#setState idle
2023-04-03 17:33:20.927 [info] [UtilityProcess id: 1, type: extensionHost, pid: 213695]: waiting to exit...
2023-04-03 17:33:23.134 [info] [UtilityProcess id: 1, type: extensionHost, pid: 213695]: received exit event with code 0
2023-04-03 17:33:23.134 [info] Extension host with pid 213695 exited with code: 0, signal: unknown.

This is for VS Code:

Version: 1.77.0
Commit: 7f329fe6c66b0f86ae1574c2911b681ad5a45d63
Date: 2023-03-29T10:05:35.165Z
Electron: 19.1.11
Chromium: 102.0.5005.196
Node.js: 16.14.2
V8: 10.2.154.26-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 5.19.0-38-generic
Sandboxed: No

I have summarized my debugging experience to arrive at ms-toolsai.jupyter as being the offending extension in the following GitHub Gist: https://gist.github.com/matthewfeickert/8c3698bc5f64effdaf9f345e060c8b41

VS Code Version

1.77.0

Jupyter Extension Version

2023.3.1000892223

Jupyter logs

Visual Studio Code (1.77.0, undefined, desktop)
Jupyter Extension Version: 2023.3.1000892223.
Python Extension Version: 2023.6.0.
Workspace folder /home/feickert/Code/GitHub/pyhf
User belongs to experiment group 'jupyterEnhancedDataViewer'
User belongs to experiment group 'jupyterTestcf'
info 00:27:13.539: LSP Notebooks experiment is enabled
info 00:27:13.821: Process Execution: > ~/.pyenv/versions/3.10.4/envs/base/bin/python -m pip list
> ~/.pyenv/versions/3.10.4/envs/base/bin/python -m pip list

Coding Language and Runtime Version

Python v3.10.4

Language Extension Version (if applicable)

Python Extension Version: 2023.6.0

Anaconda Version (if applicable)

No response

Running Jupyter locally or remotely?

Local