Terminal error The terminal process terminated with exit code: 4294967295

[CodingArcher]

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[Tyriar]

What do you did to produce this error?

[CodingArcher]

Hi @Tyriar
All i did is open up the terminal and it then states to press a key, which i did and then it closes it self and shows me that error

This is what its saying in the Terminal:
Windows Subsystem for Linux has no installed distributions.
Distributions can be installed by visiting the Microsoft Store:
https://aka.ms/wslstore
Press any key to continue...

[Tyriar]

The error message seems to tell it all. You're probably pointing to bash.exe in your settings file but you don't have it installed. Open the command palette (F1) and run the select default shell command and use cmd or powershell (or install a WSL distro).

[CodingArcher]

how do you install the bash distro for VS Code?

[Tyriar]

@CodingArcher the message is saying that you haven't installed it inside Windows. Follow the instructions in the message you saw:

Windows Subsystem for Linux has no installed distributions.
Distributions can be installed by visiting the Microsoft Store:
https://aka.ms/wslstore

[ghost]

I have this error message "The terminal process terminated with exit code: 4294967295" while opening the integrated terminal. How do i solve this issue. I didn't get it.

[iamjovani]

Modify User Settings in VS Code (File -> Preferences -> User Settings) and add the following within the settings.json pane:

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\WINDOWS\sysnative\bash.exe",
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "bash.exe",