vscode-powershell: PowerShell Integrated Console crashes upon startup

System Details

Operating system name and version: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
VS Code version: 1.25.1
PowerShell extension version: 1.8.1
Output from $PSVersionTable:

PSVersion 6.1.0-preview.2 PSEdition Core GitCommitId v6.1.0-preview.2 OS Darwin 17.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 17.7.0: Thu Jun 21 22:53:14 PDT 2018; root:xnu-4570.71.2~1/RELEASE_X… Platform Unix PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…} PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3 SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1 WSManStackVersion 3.0

Unable to get following information due to crash:

code -v
$pseditor.EditorServicesVersion
code --list-extensions --show-versions
$PSVersionTable

Issue Description

Upon startup of VS Code and loading of a PS Script the integrated console tries to start. Immediately the following happens:

PowerShell Integrated Console

stat: cannot read file system information for ‘%A’: No such file or directory

Permissions to the pipe file were not set properly. Expected: 600 Actual: File: “/var/folders/s0/4w848hkn4wj44s5gwc2pgsmh0000gn/T/CoreFxPipe_PSES_08e5bc47-6a7a-4bf0-a6d3-29382d684af4” ID: 100000400000018 Namelen: ? Type: apfs Block size: 4096 Fundamental block size: 4096 Blocks: Total: 61202533 Free: 29361808 Available: 28934011 Inodes: Total: 9223372036854775807 Free:9223372036853114215 for file: /var/folders/s0/4w848hkn4wj44s5gwc2pgsmh0000gn/T/CoreFxPipe_PSES_08e5bc47-6a7a-4bf0-a6d3-29382d684af4

With a message “The language service could not be started:”

Tested with both, PS 6.1.0 Preview 2 and 6.0.3

The permissions of the mentioned file above: srw------- 1 adrian staff 0 Jul 20 11:47 CoreFxPipe_PSES_08e5bc47-6a7a-4bf0-a6d3-29382d684af4

Attached Logs

EditorServices.log vscode-powershell.log

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 21 (9 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I just tried on Fedora 28… stat -f "%A" $pipeName gives exactly what your log says. That’s the problem.

I think for macOS we should add the path to stat ( /usr/bin/stat) to prevent the issue you’re running into.

TylerLeonhardt on Aug 1, 2018