vscode: Search does not work

If you go to the “Extension Host” channel instead of “Window” and do a search with trace logs enabled, do you see a line that starts with RipgrepSearchEH#search and if so, what do the surrounding logs say?

The Extension Host select value produces no useful logs during global search. The Extension Host (Remote) select value produces this log output: issue-179121.extension-host-remote-trace.log.

Also, if you see a path that directly follows RipgrepSearchEH#search that leads to a rg file, what happens if you invoke that executable directly?

Directly running the ripgrep command reproduces the above log file output (lines 9 & 11, respectively).

That’s very helpful, @andreamah, thank you. The summary for any folks whose fetish isn’t noodling through other people’s log files: the VSCode remote host uses @vscode/ripgrep under the hood for global file search. When searching, this flavor of rg complains about missing the GLIBC_2.29+ dependency, then packs up its ball and goes home. My remote system has libc6 2.28 installed, hence the package collision.

I’m having a similar issue. My global searches do resolve – just (incorrectly) with zero hits for any query. This behavior only occurs in a remote workspace (in my case, the Klipper repo) via Remote-SSH.

Of note:

• The remote workspace remains unchanged from when I last (successfully) tried to use global search a few weeks ago
• Unsuccessful attempted fixes:
  • Wiping remote ~/.vscode-settings
  • Trying a new workspace inside a fresh Klipper repo clone
  • Exhaustive permutations of toggling the Search only in Open Editors button, fiddling with include/exclude glob patterns, modifying various relevent Settings > Feature > Search parameters (e.g. Use Ignore Files), etc
  • Sacrificing a goat to Paimon to curry supernatural aid

None of this worked, and now I have to help my neighbor search for his lost goat. 😔 Hope someone has ideas. xoxoxo

All projects I open are in local directory, versioned with git. Everything is TS & node modules with package.json / yarn.

@andreamah , thanks to your advice, I did find something suspected in the Extension Host(Remote) channel.

2023-04-11 11:01:28.153 [debug] RipgrepSearchEH#search /home/tongyu/.vscode-server-insiders/bin/7f03ec6f7a48791d8027761b22773b454fc52478/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/bin/rg --hidden --ignore-case -g '!**/.git' -g '!**/.svn' -g '!**/.hg' -g '!**/CVS' -g '!**/.DS_Store' -g '!**/Thumbs.db' -g '!**/node_modules' -g '!**/bower_components' -g '!**/*.code-search' --no-ignore-parent --follow --crlf --fixed-strings --no-config --no-ignore-global --json -- 'hello' '.'
 - cwd: /home/tongyu/bitswiss
2023-04-11 11:01:28.161 [debug] RipgrepSearchEH#search <jemalloc>: Unsupported system page size
<jemalloc>: Unsupported system page size
memory allocation of 5 bytes failed

2023-04-11 11:01:28.220 [debug] RipgrepSearchEH#search No data from stdout
2023-04-11 11:01:28.220 [debug] RipgrepSearchEH#search No result from parser
2023-04-11 11:01:28.220 [debug] RipgrepSearchEH#search 

filed this under another issue in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/179907 since this is not related to the ripgrep issues on linux arm32

@mycraftmw this might be a different error if you’re on aarch64 and not arm32

Try this:

1. run Developer: Set Log Level in the command palette and set Trace
2. do a search
3. In the bottom panel, check logs in the Extension Host channel in the Outputs tab