Stuck in Downloading VS Code Server for Remote SSH Connection

[etkaar]

VS Code Version: 1.91.1
Commit: f1e16e1e6214d7c44d078b1f0607b2388f29d729
Date: 2024-07-09T22:08:12.169Z
Electron: 29.4.0
ElectronBuildId: 9728852
Chromium: 122.0.6261.156
Node.js: 20.9.0
V8: 12.2.281.27-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.5.0-45-generic

Remote - SSH Extension Version: v0.112.0

The issue #192564 with the Remote - SSH extension unfortunately is still present. Once I want to connect to a Linux SSH server (in my case Debian 12 Bookworm) I get stuck with the message "Setting up SSH Host: [Hostname] Downloading VS Code Server":

I then connected to the server and looked what happens there actually. It is this line:

wget --tries=1 --connect-timeout=7 --dns-timeout=7 -nv -O vscode-server.tar.gz https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:f1e16e1e6214d7c44d078b1f0607b2388f29d729/server-linux-legacy-x64/stable

When I tried to download it manually, it also gets stuck. It stays at Connecting ... connected. forever:

wget https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:f1e16e1e6214d7c44d078b1f0607b2388f29d729/server-linux-legacy-x64/stable
--2024-07-30 09:44:44--  https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:f1e16e1e6214d7c44d078b1f0607b2388f29d729/server-linux-legacy-x64/stable
Resolving update.code.visualstudio.com (update.code.visualstudio.com)... 13.107.246.45, 2620:1ec:bdf::45
Connecting to update.code.visualstudio.com (update.code.visualstudio.com)|13.107.246.45|:443... connected.

On my local Linux server at home though it works:

wget https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:f1e16e1e6214d7c44d078b1f0607b2388f29d729/server-linux-legacy-x64/stable
--2024-07-30 11:46:17--  https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:f1e16e1e6214d7c44d078b1f0607b2388f29d729/server-linux-legacy-x64/stable
Resolving update.code.visualstudio.com (update.code.visualstudio.com)... 13.107.246.45, 2620:1ec:bdf::45
Connecting to update.code.visualstudio.com (update.code.visualstudio.com)|13.107.246.45|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://vscode.download.prss.microsoft.com/dbazure/download/stable/f1e16e1e6214d7c44d078b1f0607b2388f29d729/vscode-server-linux-legacy-x64.tar.gz [following]
--2024-07-30 11:46:17--  https://vscode.download.prss.microsoft.com/dbazure/download/stable/f1e16e1e6214d7c44d078b1f0607b2388f29d729/vscode-server-linux-legacy-x64.tar.gz
Resolving vscode.download.prss.microsoft.com (vscode.download.prss.microsoft.com)... 152.199.21.175, 2606:2800:233:1cb7:261b:1f9c:2074:3c
Connecting to vscode.download.prss.microsoft.com (vscode.download.prss.microsoft.com)|152.199.21.175|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 57745503 (55M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘stable’

stable                                                      100%[=========================================================================================================================================>]  55,07M  27,9MB/s    in 2,0s    

2024-07-30 11:46:19 (27,9 MB/s) - ‘stable’ saved [57745503/57745503]

wget seems also to ignore the timeout, so something really awkward is going on as the connection seems not to be refused or aborted, but it hangs for unknown reason.

[travis-r6s]

Guessing there is a bigger issue, as when I just try visiting the insiders.vscode.dev site it either times out, or shows the below:

Edit: Just seen https://azure.status.microsoft/status

[roblourens]

Still an issue @etkaar? Maybe you can try wget with the -v flag

[etkaar]

Yes, still present. wget with -v flag doesn't change anything:

wget -v https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:f1e16e1e6214d7c44d078b1f0607b2388f29d729/server-linux-legacy-x64/stable
--2024-07-31 00:24:20--  https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:f1e16e1e6214d7c44d078b1f0607b2388f29d729/server-linux-legacy-x64/stable
Resolving update.code.visualstudio.com (update.code.visualstudio.com)... 13.107.246.45, 2620:1ec:bdf::45
Connecting to update.code.visualstudio.com (update.code.visualstudio.com)|13.107.246.45|:443... connected.

[etkaar]

Unfortunately this issue is still present, it's loading forever:

[pluveto]

Same issue since 9/11 update

[HoseynHeydari]

Unfortunately this issue is still present, it's loading forever:

VS Code Version: 1.95.1 Commit: 65edc4939843c90c34d61f4ce11704f09d3e5cb6 Date: 2024-10-31T05:14:54.222Z Electron: 32.2.1 ElectronBuildId: 10427718 Chromium: 128.0.6613.186 Node.js: 20.18.0 V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0 OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19041

Remote - SSH Extension Version: v0.115.0

I have this issue for the Xenial server and no problem for the Jammy server.

Edited: I'm using LOLINTERNETZ/vscodeoffline and this pull request solved my problem.

[roblourens]

And do you all see the same thing if you run the wget command manually? What is your network configuration like, are you behind a corporate proxy or something else that could mess with things?

[joshspicer]

If you get a chance to run the wget command manually, could you also try with and without the --read-timeout flag? If that helps we can look into incorporating it. On my machine that flag has a 900 seconds default timeout

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[etkaar]

This issue has been closed automatically because it needs more information and has not had recent activity. See also our issue reporting guidelines.

Happy Coding!

Excuse me?

[HoseynHeydari]

@etkaar While using the vscodeoffline project this happens to me. Then I downloaded vscode-server for xenial and manually uploaded it to vscarts folder. Remote-ssh extension used it and the problem was solved. Are you trying remote-ssh connecting to the internet?

[etkaar]

Yes, it was pointing to public IPv4 addresses, no local servers. I now use Geany instead in conjunction with SFTP.