When hitting Stop during Debug, it does not always kill debug process

[intdel]

I am running a web server in Go (1.6) with visual studio code and the most recent plugin:

func main() {

    http.HandleFunc("/data", htmlHandler)

    err := http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    os.Exit(0)
}

When I hit the stop button on the small debug window, it does not kill the webserver, because after I hit F5 again I get:

2016/08/16 15:34:13 server.go:71: Using API v1
2016/08/16 15:34:13 debugger.go:61: launching process with args: [./debug]
API server listening at: 127.0.0.1:2345
2016/08/16 15:34:13 debugger.go:393: continuing
2016/08/16 15:34:13 listen tcp :8080: bind: address already in use

So I will have to look manually for the PID and kill it. Then it works again.

[lukehoban]

What OS, and do you have a full precise repro? I tried a few times on Windows and OSX with the closest full example I could derive from the above and couldn't reproduce this.

Happy to reopen if you have more info to investigate.

[intdel]

Sure. I am using Debian Testing with Google Chrome Version 52.0.2743.116 (64-bit) and VS code Version 1.4.0:

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux testing (stretch)
Release:    testing
Codename:   stretch

Here is an example code that I used to successfully verify the issue:
web.go:

package main

import "net/http"
import "fmt"
import "log"

func welcomeHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {

    fmt.Fprintln(w, "hello")
}

func main() {

    http.HandleFunc("/", welcomeHandler)

    err := http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)

    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

}

launch.json:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Launch",
            "type": "go",
            "request": "launch",
            "mode": "debug",
            "remotePath": "",
            "port": 2345,
            "host": "127.0.0.1",
            "program": "${workspaceRoot}",
            "env": {},
            "args": [],
            "showLog": true
        }
    ]
}

Steps to reproduce:

1. Press F5 to launch the debug process
2. Open terminal and do pidof debug:

$ pidof debug                                                                                                                                                       
5441     

\3. Open browser and go to http://localhost:8080. You will see "hello
4. Hit the red stop button in VS Code
5. Refresh browser again and it's still hello
6. Pidof again:

$ pidof debug                                                                                                                                                       
5441    

\7. Hit F5 again and you will get error
:

2016/08/21 19:13:05 server.go:71: Using API v1
2016/08/21 19:13:05 debugger.go:61: launching process with args: [./debug]
API server listening at: 127.0.0.1:2345
2016/08/21 19:13:06 debugger.go:393: continuing
2016/08/21 19:13:06 listen tcp :8080: bind: address already in use

You can use pidof again and you will see that it is still the same process.

[jaylittle]

Can confirm this. Seeing this exact same behavior with go debugging using this vscode extension on Arch Linux.

[bsphere]

same behavior with Ubuntu 16.04 and vscode 1.5.1

[therox]

• vscode 1.5.2, Ubuntu 16.04

[d10r]

Same here. Ubuntu 14.04, vscode 1.6.0, vscode-go 0.6.44

[roblourens]

I can repro this, and confirm that it works correctly with delve. So maybe we can do whatever delve does.

[Polarbear2121]

Hi,

I'm getting the same messages

2016/10/22 13:37:09 server.go:71: Using API v1
2016/10/22 13:37:09 debugger.go:61: launching process with args: [./debug]
API server listening at: 127.0.0.1:2345
2016/10/22 13:37:09 debugger.go:393: continuing

Is there a way to clear the messages?

Thank you

OSX 10.12
GO 1.7.3
GO Plug-in 0.6.45

[intdel]

@jferrer21 As far as I can see, your messages are not "errors" but rather informative. It would be an error if it had the line 2016/08/21 19:13:06 listen tcp :8080: bind: address already in use. Maybe you omitted it when pasting it?

Otherwise you can get rid of those messages by setting "showLog": true to "showLog": false in launch.json

[Polarbear2121]

I didn’t get the last line. Thank you for the info, about setting the showLog.

[nezorflame]

Getting the same behaviour on Mint 18 with the vscode 1.7.1 and go 1.7.3.
"debug" process is not being killed after Stop button is pressed.

[cgroves3]

same behavior with ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS and vscode 1.8.1

[TobiEiss]

Same here. Ubuntu 16.04, vscode 1.8.0, vscode-go 0.6.51

[esomore]

Same here Ubuntu 16.04 vscode 1.8.0

[sysroad]

Same here Ubuntu 16.04 and VSCode 1.9.0 and Go Extension 0.6.53

[ramya-rao-a]

I can't repro the issue and so cannot test the fix. Can anyone on this thread volunteer to test this?
Steps:

• Clone the repo https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go
• cd into the repo
• Get the branch with the fix roblou/killProcs
• npm install
• If you don't have the vsce tool, then npm install -g vsce
• vsce package to get the vsix file for the extension
• code --install-extension Go-0.6.53.vsix to install the extension from the six
• now run vs code as you normally would

[intdel]

@ramya-rao-a I was trying out the steps you provided. However, at npm install I get:

npm ERR! 404 Not Found
npm ERR! 404 
npm ERR! 404 'types/fs-extra' is not in the npm registry.
npm ERR! 404 You should bug the author to publish it
npm ERR! 404 It was specified as a dependency of 'Go'
npm ERR! 404 
npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a
npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, or http url, or git url.

[ramya-rao-a]

@intdel Am not sure why you are seeing that error, I am able to npm install successfully on a freshly cloned repo. What is your version of node and npm?

Nevertheless, you can comment the line for @types/fs-extra from package.json and continue. It is just a dev dependency, and since you will directly be packaging the code into a vsix, you wont need it

[intdel]

@ramya-rao-a Thanks. Now I am getting

 vsce package

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vsce/node_modules/denodeify/index.js:40
                        return new Promise(promiseHandler);
                                   ^
ReferenceError: Promise is not defined
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/vsce/node_modules/denodeify/index.js:40:15
    at readManifest (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vsce/out/package.js:359:20)
    at pack (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vsce/out/package.js:523:12)
    at Object.packageCommand (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vsce/out/package.js:532:12)
    at Command.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vsce/out/main.js:62:31)
    at Command.listener (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vsce/node_modules/commander/index.js:301:8)
    at Command.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at Command.parseArgs (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vsce/node_modules/commander/index.js:615:12)
    at Command.parse (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vsce/node_modules/commander/index.js:458:21)
    at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vsce/out/main.js:110:13)

[ramya-rao-a]

wow, can you share what version of node, npm and typescript you have?

[intdel]

npm version { http_parser: '1.0', node: '0.10.29', v8: '3.14.5.8', ares: '1.10.0', uv: '0.10.27', zlib: '1.2.8', modules: '11', openssl: '1.0.1k', npm: '1.4.21', Go: '0.6.53' }

node --version v0.10.29

typescript@2.1.5

In package.json I had to remove all of the devdependencies with "@types" otherwise I could not run npm install. Not sure if this is the reason.

I am running this on Debian Jessie.

[ramya-rao-a]

Yay! Thanks @intdel !!

[YCF]

Getting the same behaviour on Manjaro with the vscode 1.9.1 ,vscode-go 0.6.53 and go 1.8.
"debug" process is not being killed after Stop button is pressed.

[ramya-rao-a]

@YCF Thanks for reporting, the fix will out in the next update of the Go extension early next week.

[cevn]

Any update on this? It's pretty annoying to use the debugger on linux right now.

edit: I see you are preparing to release this update now haha. Sorry for my impatience.

[ramya-rao-a]

Fixed in the latest update (0.6.54) to the Go extension.

@cevn This update was due for a while, sorry to keep you waiting :)

[YCF]

0.6.54 this fix not worked.
"debug" process is not being killed after Stop button is pressed.

I binding hotkey F4-> "killall debug"

[roblourens]

@YCF That would probably be a different issue. The debug process should have always been killed. This is for other processes spawned by the program.

Can you open a new issue and tell us your OS, vscode version, etc?

[kisPocok]

"debug" process is not being killed after Stop button is pressed.

Exactly the same error here.

vscode 1.10.1
go extension 0.6.54
macOS 10.12.3

@YCF Could you send me the binding code?
{ "key": "f4", "command": "killall debug"} doesn't work ofc :) Thanks!

[YCF]

@kisPocok I set it in windows manager not in vscode:
http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/keyboard

your OSX maybe here:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/24063/create-global-shortcut-to-run-command-line-applications

[YCF]

Fixed at go extension 0.6.55
@kisPocok have a try.

[hyacinthus]

ArchLinux still have this behavior.

[ramya-rao-a]

@hyacinthus Can you share sample code and repro steps?

Are you saying that using the same code in other platforms in VS Code, you don't see the issue?

[hyacinthus]

Yes，I use Windows 10, Mac OS, and Archlinux in different places, but same project. Only Archlinux have this issue. I must kill dlv and debug process every time.

When I arrive my office next Monday , I'll create a simple demo to try if this behavior appears in every golang project.

[ramya-rao-a]

@roblourens Can you think of any reason why this solution wouldn't work in just linux?

[roblourens]

It should work. The code that kills the processes is

 terminateTree() {
  	for cpid in $(/usr/bin/pgrep -P $1); do
  		terminateTree $cpid
  	done
  	kill -9 $1 > /dev/null 2>&1
  }

I don't know if there's something particular about archlinux that would make this not work.

[hyacinthus]

@ramya-rao-a After the upgrade 1.13, it no longer appears this morning.
I will continue to focus on it.

[ramya-rao-a]

Hello all,

We have revisited the fix to this issue by using the detach command from dlv instead of manually killing the processes from our end. I would appreciate it, if anyone here can give the fix a try. Please follow the below instructions to do so:

• Download https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go/blob/master/Go-latest.vsix
• Run code --install-extension Go-latest.vsix
• If the above fails with Error: end of central directory record signature not found, then clone this repo and use the Go-latest.vsix file from the cloned repo
• Reload VS Code