Remote Explorer doesn't show SSH remotes when Remote-Tunnels Extension is uninstalled

[tim-lucera]

Type: Bug

1. installed Remote Developement pack (WSL, SSH, Tunnels, Containers)
2. set up some remote SSH hosts. Everything working great.
3. remove Tunnels extension as I don't need it
4. go to Remote Explorer, it doesn't show my SSH hosts

Notes

1. that if I re-install Remote Tunnels extension, the remote SSH hosts become visible again in the remote explorer
2. there is an error message at bottom right that says "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'name')"

Extension version: 0.2.0 VS Code version: Code 1.76.2 (ee2b180d582a7f601fa6ecfdad8d9fd269ab1884, 2023-03-14T17:55:54.936Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19044 Modes: Sandboxed: No Remote OS version: Linux x64 3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64

System Info

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canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_renderer: enabled_on
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
webgpu: disabled_off| |Load (avg)|undefined| |Memory (System)|31.30GB (18.29GB free)| |Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id db15b7bc-3436-45fc-86ba-26033a43acdd| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%| |Item|Value| |---|---| |Remote|SSH: lab02| |OS|Linux x64 3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64| |CPUs|Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz (44 x 2199)| |Memory (System)|251.65GB (192.92GB free)| |VM|0%|

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[tim-lucera]

Screenshot showing empty Remote Explorer and error message

[eleanorjboyd]

@connor4312, thoughts on this? Or do you know what logs might be the most helpful?

[connor4312]

Running the "toggle developer tools" command and opening the Console should show a (minified) stacktrace which should help pinpoint where the issue is.

[tim-lucera]

Thanks. This is what's shown in the developer Console:

notificationsAlerts.ts:40 TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'name')
    at f.getChildren (c:\Users\TM128936\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl-0.76.1\dist\extension.js:2:593307)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at async b.R (c:\Users\TM128936\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:117:18944)
    at async b.getChildren (c:\Users\TM128936\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:117:15363)

[tim-lucera]

OK I just noticed something else: I uninstalled the Tunnels extension so I could get the Developer Console output as you requested. Then I was just about to reinstall the Tunnels extension so I could get my ssh sessions back in Remote Explorer when I noticed that the Remote Explorer extension had the blue "install" button, even though i had not uninstalled it, but the Remote Explorer icon was still visible in the left column. I installed Remote Explorer extension and the ssh sessions were visible again. So it seems like uninstalling the Tunnels Extension does a kind of partial uninstall of the Remote Explorer extension.

[ThiefMaster]

This bug is pretty annoying, especially because the tunnels extensions shows the annoying message about logging in to a MS account - and I'm sure I'm the only one who REALLY cannot stand "unreads" labels I can't get rid of (without logging in to a MS account which I don't plan to use)...