WSL - reinstall not working

[cvkmohan]

I uninstalled and reinstalled the extension. However, it shows executable not found. How do I force it to download it again? Any number of reinstalls is not helping.

[mhanberg]

Have you changed the installation directory of next LS in the settings?

[cvkmohan]

No. No change. In fact I found the nextls executable in ~/.cache/elixir-tools/nextls/bin - I deleted it and reinstalled - no use. Similarly, I found ~/.vscode-server/elixir-tools where the vscode installation. I tried removing that folder and reinstalling. In both cases the executable is neither downloaded nor could be located.

[mhanberg]

can you show what the permissions are on that directory? the cache dir one

[cvkmohan]

[mhanberg]

sorry, i meant on ~/.cache/elixir-tools and also the sub folders, I can't tell what they are from the screenshot

[cvkmohan]

All folders have the same permission. So, I thought names will not be necessary. My bad.

[mhanberg]

thanks, have you tried deleting ~/.cache/elixir-tools or have you just deleted the actual nextls binary?

[cvkmohan]

I deleted the entire folder. It is not getting created. So, I created - and - then downloaded the binary and kept in place. Still, vscode extension is not recognizing this.

[mhanberg]

Hmm, very odd.

I think based on the logs, it is basically hanging when it tries to make that directory.

Just covering my bases, have you completely quit vscode and reopened, and potentially restart your computer?

[cvkmohan]

Yes. Though it is WSL - belongs to Windows family. So, yes - tried that. In the screenshot - the force nextls download flag is false. Is there any way I can set it to true? Or not needed?

[mhanberg]

That is just for when the builtin auto updater inside nextls is buggy and i need a way to tell the extension to reinstall it.