vscode: VSCode blocked on loading

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

VS Code Version: 1.84.0 (d037ac076cee195194f93ce6fe2bdfe2969cc82d x64)
OS Version: Elementary-OS 6.1 Jolnìr

Steps to Reproduce:

Open VSCode (Just by opening VSCode, it seems like it’s stuck on loading, and can’t properly open. Happens everytime, no matter what i do)

Attaching Images to show how VSCode Windows look like after some time passes or even if i try to create new files, open new windows etc. Can’t do anything at all, and i’m stuck.

Image 1: Today at 20:20:55 (7 mins before writing this) Screenshot from 2023-11-05 20 20 55

Image 2: Yesterday at 17:17:33 (One day before writing this) Screenshot from 2023-11-04 17 17 33

The problem still persists even when i open a new window, or try to close VSCode, or even dump its cache or the computer’s whole cache.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 8 months ago
Comments: 19 (10 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

It looks like your state was corrupted. Try deleting workbench.activity.placeholderViewlets key from the state and retry

Shutdown VS Code
Install the tool - https://sqlitebrowser.org/ and Open the tool.
Open the folder where your VS Code settings are stored.
Open the state.vscdb file located under globalState folder using above tool
Look for above key and copy the value of the key and please share it here.
Delete the record, write the changes and close the database as shown in the following video
Restart VS Code

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/assets/10746682/71a43343-d5d3-4c86-89b7-fe02e82f27e0

sandy081 on Nov 23, 2023

Please see https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_82#_update-highlights-for-chromium for advice about clearing the GPU cache. I think this may need to be done after each VS Code update until the upstream issue gets fixed.

gjsjohnmurray on Nov 5, 2023