Update fails without error, asks again at restart.

[rafalou38]

Type: Bug

I opened this issue some time ago (#168782), and reinstalling vscode did fix the issue, but now the same bug is back.

Steps: Click on "update now"

Vscode restarts

The same message appears again.

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.75.0-insider (b229eb5fa2ecadb8a5238ccb9f6f49f7ccba9d2b, 2023-01-27T22:17:10.413Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22623

Modes: Sandboxed: Yes

System Info

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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
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[rafalou38]

I don't know if that's related but I also don't have open with vscode in my context menu even after reinstalling and checking it.

[joaomoreno]

Can you reproduce the issue if you uninstall and reinstall VS Code?

[rafalou38]

I uninstalled and reinstalled vscode, and of course, the issue is gone because there is no update available. But I did the same as before, so I'm guessing the issue will come back again on the next update attempt.

Btw: It did not add the entry to the explorer's right click menu, despite checking "add to the context menu" in the installer.

[rafalou38]

Here it is, I reinstalled it the other day, Current version status:

Version: 1.77.0-insider
Commit: b60db78000bfa99d1b290194ed4651c4ceef02cc
Date: 2023-03-10T05:24:23.805Z (6 days ago)

Now that a new update is available, the restart popup appears, and it won't update.

So that means uninstalling and reinstalling did not fix the issue.

Is there update logs somewhere to check ?

[rafalou38]

@joaomoreno Any updates on this ? Sorry for the ping, but It's getting really annoying to have this popup every time I open vscode, and installing manually for every update is not really manageable.

[joaomoreno]

Does it reproduce if you try the System Setup?

[rafalou38]

By system setup, you mean the latest installer from the website ? If so, yes I reinstalled like this various times and it does not fix the issue as it doesn't automatically install the next version.

[joaomoreno]

No, I mean this setup package: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/?dv=win64

[rafalou38]

I installed with your link, and it works, I now have classic code installed and of course, no issue as I have the latest version. But on the next update available, it will probably fail again as it did before.

I installed like this many times the insiders version and the issue always comes back.

[joaomoreno]

@rafalou38 Did the issue occur with the March release?

[rafalou38]

On insiders: update to "April 2023 (version 1.78)" is not working Current version:

• Version: 1.77.0-insider
• Commit: b60db78000bfa99d1b290194ed4651c4ceef02cc
• Date: 2023-03-10T05:24:23.805Z
• Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code-Insiders/1.77.0-insider Chrome/102.0.5005.196 Electron/19.1.11 Safari/537.36

On normal VS Code: Updated from to 1.76.2 to 1.77 successfully.

[joaomoreno]

Did you enable the "Add to Context Menu" option in the setup, when you first installed Insiders?

[rafalou38]

Yes, I did and that did not work:

I first installed VS Code with Windows 10. Reinstalling does not register the context-menu actions.

[joaomoreno]

Could you maybe try this?

1. Uninstall VS Code
2. Reinstall, unchecking that option

And then wait for the next update to see if the same happens.

[rafalou38]

I noticed I had vscode insiders installed as User (broken) and classic vscode installed as system (working) so I tried installing insiders as system, the item now appears in the context menu 👍.

I'll come back on the next update to see if it worked.

[joaomoreno]

OK Let me know.

[rafalou38]

It successfully updated from 1.78.0-insider to 1.79.0-insider 🎉

So yes, that was it, to fix:

• Broken context menu
• Broken Update

> Install the administrator version.