Extensions not loading

[everdrone]

• VSCode Version: 1.9
• OS Version: Windows 10

None of the installed extension are reloading, the reload button won't disappear.

Anyway extensions are still on my machine, they just won't load.

[calebcartwright]

Ditto

[calebcartwright]

Might be a duplicate of #19685 (although that is 1.8.1) Mine was working just fine on 1.8.1, upgrade to 1.9 broke it

[tSte]

The same here... but on Windows 8.1.

[M0ns1gn0r]

The same for me, extensions broke after the upgrade (Win 8.1).

BTW, this is definitely not a duplicate of #19685, because now extensions do not work.

[sandy081]

@everdrone Sorry that you get this unexpected experience. I am not seeing this behavior but I am on Mac. I would try to reproduce this on Windows. Mean while can you help us in knowing how did you get into this state... Are you seeing all installed extensions in Reload state after opening VS Code? Or there any steps to follow to get into this state. Thanks

[everdrone]

@sandy081 There are no steps to follow to reproduce this behavior, i just opened VS Code and updated to 1.9 by clicking on the latest release popup message.

I also tried to start code with code --disable-extensions. tried to uninstall and reinstall some extensions but nothing changed.

[tSte]

@sandy081 It is very strange behavior, because:

• a colleague of mine did update right after me and she did not experience any problems at all (Win 10 x64)
• I tried to install back VSCode 1.8.1 and extensions did not have any "Reload" buttons, but they did not work. When I updated back to 1.9.0, extensions are still not working, and every one of them (except disabled ones) do have "Reload" buttons
• The settings.json does not recognize any extension-specific settings (it shows problems).
• Freshly installed extensions share similar behavior.

Edit:
I removed my .vscode/extensions folder, then started to install extensions again. They are working. Have you changed some references or something in 1.9.0?

[sandy081]

@tSte Thanks for sharing the information. Can you please open developer tools by doing

• Open command pallette (F1 or Ctrl+Shift+P)
• Look for the command Toggle Developer Tools
• Again open command pallette
• Look for command Reload Window

Look for any errors in the opened dev tools console, if there are please let us know.

[danielpunct]

In my case it was because of an extension named Angola, that could not be read properly. After I deleted the folder from extensions, from disk everything was ok.

[imaginarny]

I experienced the very same problem on WIN10. I tried to update two PCs with almost identical VSCode setup. Both ended up with the same result.

Then I realized I had modified one of extensions to my likings and renamed to my very own. So you can consider it as a private and unpublished extension. Extensions like this one don't appear in VSCode extensions menu. Deleting the extension solved this issue.

So you could try the following:

• Check if you have any extension in your %userprofile%\.vscode\extensions folder which doesn't appear in VSCode extensions menu
• Try to delete or move it from the folder and then restart VSCode

[tSte]

mainThreadExtensionService.ts:110Failed to parse C:/Users/.../.vscode/extensions/vsdarkmod/package.json:

mainThreadExtensionService.ts:110
TypeError: Cannot set property 'isBuiltin' of undefined
at t.validate (file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft VS Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/electron-browser/workbench.main.js:85:9146)
at file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft VS Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/electron-browser/workbench.main.js:85:9835
at Object.g [as _notify] (file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft VS Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/electron-browser/workbench.main.js:32:12333)
at Object.enter (file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft VS Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/electron-browser/workbench.main.js:32:16418)
at _run (file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft VS Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/electron-browser/workbench.main.js:32:17739)
at _error (file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft VS Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/electron-browser/workbench.main.js:32:17256)
at file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft VS Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/electron-browser/workbench.main.js:32:27555
at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\node_modules\graceful-fs\polyfills.js:284:29
at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (original-fs.js:123:15)

This is my old theme from legacy times - I did not even realize that it was still there. Removing it solved this issue. @sandy081 thank you for help!

Perhaps some better error handler for extension would be nice...

[sandy081]

@tSte Thanks for sharing the information, I will try to investigate why this is happening after upgrading to 1.9.

[sandy081]

@aeschli Do you think is it related to the change here ?

[sandy081]

@tSte Is it possible to provide the contents of package.json of that vsdarkmod extension?

[sandy081]

@aeschli Looks like, forgot to return null for invalid extensions description jsons and is returning undefined. Unfortunately, our validator is checking only for null.

[tSte]

@sandy081 I am sorry, but I can't :( Shift+delete-ed entire extension... I might have some backup on my external HDD though...

[sandy081]

@tSte No worries.. I got the steps to reproduce it

• Open package.json of any extension from the installed extensions folder
• Edit it to make it invalid json.

Open VS Code and you see this behavior.

[sandy081]

Pushed to 1.9 branch & master

[aeschli]

verified in 3e400cc

[gerane]

@aeschli I just upgraded to 1.11 and this is now happening on windows 10

[aeschli]

@gerane Can you file a new issue with more information?