NixOS-WSL Issues with Remote WSL Extension

hschaeidt commented 2 years ago

There is a issue when starting VSCode from within a NixOS. The node path does not resolve on NixOS systems. A known Workaround is to replace the /home/nixos/.vscode-server-insiders/bin/ed2619e11b68bec43b788486230b0c2afeb4672d/node binary with a symlink to a locally installed NodeJS:

https://github.com/msteen/nixos-vscode-server/blob/master/modules/vscode-server/module.nix#L26 I am wondering if we can figure a solution without this workaround.
VSCode Version: 1.66.2 and 1.67.0-insider
Local OS Version: Windows11 21H2
Remote OS Version: NixOS 21.11 (https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL)
Remote Extension/Connection Type: WSL
Logs:

[2022-05-02 10:07:32.226] Resolving wsl+NixOS, resolveAttempt: 1
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.318] Starting VS Code Server inside WSL (wsl2)
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.318] Extension version: 0.66.2
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.318] Windows build: 22000. Multi distro support: available. WSL path support: enabled
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.318] No shell environment set or found for current distro.
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.425] WSL daemon log file: 
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.426] Probing if server is already installed: C:\WINDOWS\System32\wsl.exe -d NixOS -e sh -c "[ -d ~/.vscode-server-insiders/bin/ed2619e11b68bec43b788486230b0c2afeb4672d ] && printf found || ([ -f /etc/alpine-release ] && printf alpine-; uname -m)"
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.520] Unable to detect if server is already installed: Error: Command failed: C:\WINDOWS\System32\wsl.exe -d NixOS -e sh -c "[ -d ~/.vscode-server-insiders/bin/ed2619e11b68bec43b788486230b0c2afeb4672d ] && printf found || ([ -f /etc/alpine-release ] && printf alpine-; uname -m)"
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.520] sh: line 1: uname: command not found
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.520] 
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.520] 
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.520] 桳›楬敮ㄠ›湵浡㩥挠浯慭摮渠瑯映畯摮
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.521] Launching C:\WINDOWS\System32\wsl.exe -d NixOS sh -c '"$VSCODE_WSL_EXT_LOCATION/scripts/wslServer.sh" ed2619e11b68bec43b788486230b0c2afeb4672d insider code-server-insiders .vscode-server-insiders --host=127.0.0.1 --port=0 --connection-token=1607784020-279903489 --use-host-proxy --without-browser-env-var --disable-websocket-compression --accept-server-license-terms --telemetry-level=all'
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.733] Setting up server environment: Looking for /home/nixos/.vscode-server-insiders/server-env-setup. Not found.
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.733] WSL version: 5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2 NixOS
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.733] Updating VS Code Server to version ed2619e11b68bec43b788486230b0c2afeb4672d
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.733] Removing previous installation...
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.733] Installing VS Code Server for x64 (ed2619e11b68bec43b788486230b0c2afeb4672d)
[2022-05-02 10:07:32.733] Downloading:     
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[2022-05-02 10:07:34.265] Unpacking:   0%
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[2022-05-02 10:07:34.942] Unpacked 2370 files and folders to /home/nixos/.vscode-server-insiders/bin/ed2619e11b68bec43b788486230b0c2afeb4672d.
[2022-05-02 10:07:34.942] WSL-shell-PID: 16953
[2022-05-02 10:07:34.942] Node executable: /home/nixos/.vscode-server-insiders/bin/ed2619e11b68bec43b788486230b0c2afeb4672d/node
[2022-05-02 10:07:34.942] Starting server: /home/nixos/.vscode-server-insiders/bin/ed2619e11b68bec43b788486230b0c2afeb4672d/bin/code-server-insiders --host=127.0.0.1 --port=0 --connection-token=1607784020-279903489 --use-host-proxy --without-browser-env-var --disable-websocket-compression --accept-server-license-terms --telemetry-level=all
[2022-05-02 10:07:34.942] /home/nixos/.vscode-server-insiders/bin/ed2619e11b68bec43b788486230b0c2afeb4672d/bin/code-server-insiders: line 12: /home/nixos/.vscode-server-insiders/bin/ed2619e11b68bec43b788486230b0c2afeb4672d/node: No such file or directory
[2022-05-02 10:07:34.943] VS Code Server for WSL closed unexpectedly.
[2022-05-02 10:07:34.943] For help with startup problems, go to
[2022-05-02 10:07:34.943] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/troubleshooting#_wsl-tips
[2022-05-02 10:07:34.944] C:\WINDOWS\System32\wsl.exe -d NixOS -e kill 16953
[2022-05-02 10:07:35.054] WSL Daemon exited with code 0

Steps to Reproduce:

Set up NixOS-WSL latest release: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL
Install Remote-Containers WSL Extension
code . from inside the WSL home directory (/home/nixos is the default username)

hypevhs commented 1 year ago

The unexpected CJK characters there 桳›楬敮ㄠ›湵浡㩥挠浯慭摮渠瑯映畯摮 when encoded as UTF-16 and then decoded as UTF-8 yields the text sh: line 1: uname: command not found.

hypevhs commented 1 year ago

After messing around with wrapping /bin/sh to always be a login shell, without much success, I've determined that the best workaround currently is to install https://github.com/msteen/nixos-vscode-server on the WSL NixOS.

This is just a workaround. Ideally VSCode remote should use the locally-installed NodeJS if it passes a basic smoke test.

microsoft / vscode-remote-release

NixOS-WSL Issues with Remote WSL Extension #6674