Adding tomcat server fails without any message

[Wimpje]

Issue Type: Bug

FYI I'm using WSL2 - Ubuntu 18.04

• Click the + button,
• Select tomcat folder (i tried with 6, 7, 8)

Nothing happens, no server is added, and no error message appears.

I've also made sure permissions are set correctly, so that should not be the problem...

Extension version: 0.11.2
VS Code version: Code 1.46.0 (a5d1cc28bb5da32ec67e86cc50f84c67cc690321, 2020-06-10T09:03:20.462Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19041
Remote OS version: Linux x64 4.19.104-microsoft-standard

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6600U CPU @ 2.60GHz (4 x 2808)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled flash_3d: enabled flash_stage3d: enabled flash_stage3d_baseline: enabled gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on oop_rasterization: disabled_off protected_video_decode: unavailable_off rasterization: enabled skia_renderer: disabled_off_ok video_decode: enabled viz_display_compositor: enabled_on viz_hit_test_surface_layer: disabled_off_ok webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	15.64GB (3.49GB free)
Process Argv
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Item	Value
Remote	WSL: Ubuntu-18.04
OS	Linux x64 4.19.104-microsoft-standard
CPUs	Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6600U CPU @ 2.60GHz (4 x 2807)
Memory (System)	12.20GB (7.61GB free)
VM	0%

[andxu]

Hi @Wimpje , this project is in maintenance stage, I cannot reproduce your problem, if you cannot solve your problem, I suggest you to try https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.vscode-community-server-connector (prefer download tomcat using the community-server-connector extension)

[WHYBBE]

Hi @Wimpje , this project is in maintenance stage, I cannot reproduce your problem, if you cannot solve your problem, I suggest you to try https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.vscode-community-server-connector (prefer download tomcat using the community-server-connector extension)

I have the same problem as what Wimpje has said. When I use this extension in WSL1 or WSL2, nothing happens(I can't add tomcat server). It makes me annoying. I try this extension in macOS and Fedora. Without doubt, they work very well. But I want this extension can be used in WSL1 or WSL2. Finally, using community-server-connector can work well in WSL, but it is not a universal way to install environment.

[MarkPetersonNW]

I have the same problem when adding a Tomcat 9 server. I can add Tomcat 8 just fine but nothing happens when I try to add Tomcat 9.2.13.0.
OS: macOS Catalina (10.15.7)
Extension Version: 0.11.3
VScode Version:1.50.1

[chengh3]

I meet the same problem. Nothing happens when adding tomcat server in vscode in wsl2.

[Marshal27]

I cloned down the project to debug this scenario... it would add the WSL tomcat consistently on non JAVA/maven projects when the tomcat server was not running (had to make sure tomcat was stopped).

but on a maven/JAVA project it would not want to add the server (not exactly sure why)... so I compiled a version with logging in the TomcatController.addServer function in an attempt to diagnose the issue.

First pass it appeared to get hung up on the await Utility.trackTelemetryStep section... once I added some additional logging in that array, it just started working, without explanation.

I suspect the fse library may be getting hung up somewhere in the WSL environment, moving all those items around like that... but it seems to be very intermittent and difficult to diagnose.

[Marshal27]

So far running the insiders build of VS-Code seems to have improved the behavior of this extension. Suspect this to be a factor.

microsoft/vscode-remote-release#2404

microsoft/vscode#89887

[frck006]

Did you manage to solve the problem?

[kawoki]

I did encounter this problem and found it annoying as well. I know this is not a fix to the problem but just a workaround, use the 0.11.2 version for now. Works for me.

VS Code

Version: 1.58.2
Electron: 12.0.13
Chrome: 89.0.4389.128
Node.js: 14.16.0
V8: 8.9.255.25-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19042

Tomcat for Java

Version: 0.11.2

Apache Tomcat

Version: 9.0.50

Java

openjdk version "11.0.11" 2021-04-20
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.11+9-Ubuntu-0ubuntu2.20.04)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.11+9-Ubuntu-0ubuntu2.20.04, mixed mode, sharing)

[lamadiab]

I have the same problem. Downgrading Tomcat for Java to 0.11.2 did not help in my case. I
m using Tomcat version 9.0.58 and Java 8. Before updating vscode to version 1.64.1, I got an error message
"The selected directory in not a valid Tomcat home". After updating vscode, nothing happens at all when I try to select the directory. I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS.